IABA Owner’s Blog
Our Love Within
Several weeks ago I took you into my experience of recovering from disordered eating. I shared this experience with you at the request of my friends to show our connection as women in the struggle over body...
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The Body Issue
In starting my blogs I usually reference what I've written before to help guide you, my readers, through our journey together. In deciding to write this blog, I have nothing to reference because this is the first...
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Leading with a Spacious Heart
In my last blog (“D” is for Dysregulated), I wrote to you about staying present and as loving as possible with your children when they are dysregulated. How's it going, darling? Have you had a moment to...
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“D,” is for Dysregulated
Over the course of the winter, I've been writing to you about living in your presence and making decisions from your integrity. In these blogs, I've taken you back to your own heart repeatedly. It's warm there...
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Tiny Shifts to Integrity
A few weeks ago I wrote to you about the Gift of Time, in it I shared my newest perspective on time and how time allows me to live in my presence. I wish I had gained...
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The Gift of Time
Over the last month, I've written to you about staying in presence and through this practice radically loving yourself. How's it going, darling? Have you been able to sink into the glorious space that is you? If...
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Let Love In
Two weeks ago I wrote to you about quieting your own mind and welcoming in a wise presence to cultivate self-love. How has it gone, darling? Have you been able to slip away from your thoughts and...
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A Wise Presence
Two weeks ago I wrote to you about An Application of Love. How at the core of each wound is a deep need to be heard, held, and loved. Since it's been a few weeks, have you...
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An Application of Love
Over the past several months I've been writing to you about uncomfortable emotions from children, parenting, and the bruises in your heart. In reading these blogs, you're thinking, "Okay, we get it Eeyore! Negative shit happens." I've...
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What’s in the Wound?
Over the course of the past month, I've been writing to you about, well, the not-so-popular emotions. We've taken a journey through toddlerhood, parenting, and the danger of disconnecting from our emotional world. I've encouraged you to...
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Witnessing Pain
A few weeks ago I wrote to you about the danger of disconnecting. In it, I guided you to look at how disconnecting from our own emotional world can bring harm to ourselves and our world. Over...
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The Danger of Disconnecting
Last week I wrote to you about the importance of taking care of your emotional well-being during the rocky road of parenting. In the blog I noted how we all experience big, negative emotions and how that...
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Strategies for Parents Through Big Emotions
Last week I wrote to you about seeing your children's tantrums and difficult emotions through their eyes. In it, we walked through the perspective of toddlers and young children. I offered some strategies, not all my own,...
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Through a Child’s Eyes
With Christmas just around the corner for those of us who celebrate (my anxiety reminds me daily), I bet you are thinking I am writing a darling tribute to their innocence. I would love to, there is...
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What Are We Putting Down?
Last week I wrote to you about “The Importance of Not This." In it, I shared the unearthing of our way of life that the pandemic brought, at least to my friend group and I. After reading...
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The Importance of Not This
I've written to you before and I am confident I will write to you again about society's impact on our lives. My own lived experience, professional research, and the work of others have brought me to one...
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Raising Good Humans
Sometime in September, I was introduced to the best-selling author Dr. Becky who recently authored the book "Good Inside." I am trying to remember if it was on a podcast from one of my soul teachers or...
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Honoring Your Peace
Waiting for Life to “Go Back” Somewhere this fall I realized that we've all been waiting for life to "go back" to the way it was before COVID-19. That our country and world are so inundated with...
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Lessons from a Farm
Growing up my grandparents lived on a farm in northeast Ohio about an hour from my parent's home. During my childhood, the farm was my happy place for so many years. As a child fitting in was...
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Listening & Control
A few weeks ago I wrote to you about the power of listening to each other. This week I'd like to dive more deeply into how to navigate the multifaceted ways of listening, being listened to, or...
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