IABA Owner’s Blog

And a Happy New Year

As I sit to write to you this morning, it might in fact be the first time I've sat in a week. Well, sat without the echo of "Mom!!!" ringing in my ears or sat without shuffling...
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An Offering of Love

The last several blogs I have written to you have been about lighting up your life and world by letting go of everything that separates you from your love. In these blogs, I implore you to look inward...
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Strike a Match

In my last blog to you I wrote to you about lighting up the world with your love to burn down the fear that surrounds you. In this blog I implored you to detach yourself from beliefs...
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Light Up The World

In my last blog, I wrote about Pledging Allegiance to Self Love. In that blog, I implored you to pledge to love yourself. Have you done it, darling? Spent time with the dark corners of your life...
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Pledging Allegiance to Self Love

Several weeks ago I wrote to you about the busyness of life. In reading my blog did you feel connected as you reflected on seasons or moments when your life was packed with too much? Sometimes just...
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When Busy Takes Over

It's been almost two months since I've written, that's a record for me since I began these blogs nearly three years ago. It has always been my deep hope that my writing brings you a little closer...
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The Depth Beneath Our Protectors

In my last blog, I wrote to you about our darling protectors. I taught you about how our emotions and the “protectors” in our internal system are there to protect us. Our protectors quickly stand on high...
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Darling Protectors

Over the past several months I've taken you through a series of blogs with a deep hope to bring you back to your loving presence. Has it worked darling? As the sun opens her sleepy eyes alongside...
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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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