Photo Credit: Parents as Emotional Competence Coaches Children can have BIG emotions that are challenging for us as adults to comprehend. I think we’ve all been perplexed as we observe a young child have

Photo Credit: Everyone loves hugs! Hugs are vitally important in bonding process, and hugs are also very soothing to the nervous system. Here is a brief offering on 3 rules of engagement for hugging children.

Meet Oliver, one of our Rotty Pups who just loves to run in our woods. He is a great tease to his older brother, hiding out in the ferns and colliding with him as Sherman runs by. I think he thinks he

Strewn like tiny poems, these sea gifts cascade from the ocean to the shore for us to observe, value or collect. Funny how a little bit of sun can warm the winter sand so much that it starts to feel like

I love the heart opening that happens during Fish Pose. Here I am supported by my #kurma yoga wheel. It is beautiful to feel supported in this life, and the wheel makes this pose so accessible to my body.

The Sun is spectacular and luminous in the winter months. There is so much clarity, amplified by the crispness of the air. I love walking along the edges of water when the sky is filled with clouds, reflecting

Photo Credit: Mabel Amber Parenting is a multitasking sport! There is always so much going on, and it seems like there is never enough time. A poverty of time can make life feel squeezy and contribute

In my head, my title is sounding like Tom Cruise quipping; "I have a need, a need for speed". I have a meme, a meme for Steem! I think another advantage of being an amateur photographer is that

Photo Credit: Aaron Carrion from Unsplash When our children are happy, calm, quiet and compliant, it is an absolute delight to be a parent. We may even feel successful at parenting. However, when we experience

Here on the West Coast, we've had an unusual amount of snow. As a former Ontarian, it is glorious to me to have snow! The temperatures have been unusually cold too, but I also like that as well. I believe

I created a course to help people understand and experience a deeper mind body connection. One of the tools in the course is this Body Scan meditation. It is a wonderful practice if you are interested

There are endless studies to validate the importance of meditation as beneficial for your health and well-being. Guided meditations are an easy way to relax, release, and let go of stress and tension in

This is a post from one of the blogs on my Website: A Deeper Well. I teach an Introduction to Yoga course in White Rock, British Columbia. This is some information from one of my sessions. In this session

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer" Albert Camus I've learned, rather late in my life, that attitude is everything. At least this is true

My daily walks through our old growth forest have me toggle between having a telescope in one eye and a microscope in the other. Materially, my contemplative photography swings wildly back and forth between

Movement Matters: Finding ways to move through Winter with Joy include being open to finding surprise and delight in our environments. That is easy for us here in the Pacific North West, as our lives border

Winter is a glorious time to enjoy nature, and to explore everyday activities in diverse ways. My partner built me a 'sound stage' from which to create yoga videos embedded in our woods. It is a lovely

One of my favourite winter photos is this over-exposed leaf. I'd been working with a new-to-me camera (Canon EOS Rebel T5i(hey... partenthesis within parenthesis warning... nice handle... "EOS

This is a photo of our backyard in the Vancouver Version of Winter. The Pacific West Coast offers moderate temperatures, which means not a great deal of snow. Our river is always flowing and never ices