The cat is still extremely skeptical. The first time I heard about mindfulness and meditation, I thought it was BS. I thought it was for people who didn’t have their sh*t together. I was super type-A and I didn’t need that hippie baloney. And then I had kids. And everything changed.
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Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger January 25, 2018
My daughters have abandoned their meditation cushions, so the kitty moved in. In my last post, I wrote about why I started teaching my kids to meditate. In this post, I’ll share how I taught them, and what I did when they lost interest. I want to start out by
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Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger January 22, 2018
Teaching my girls to meditate wasn’t one of my resolutions for the new year. I’ve got a ton of tricks up my sleeve for practicing mindfulness with them; so many, in fact, that I wrote a book about it. But formal seated meditation can be hard for little ones, especially
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Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger January 2, 2018
Keepin’ it real here, folks. Here’s our Hanukkah celebration from a couple of years ago – one kid grumpily lighting candles while the other one has a fit. Good times! Today is Giving Tuesday, hot on the heels of Cyber Monday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Melt on The
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Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger November 27, 2017
Some days I earn my pin. Some days I don’t. That’s ok. Awesome swag by Emily McDowell. You guys! I have big news, and I am SO excited to tell you about it. I just sold my third book! This is the book I was born to write. It’ll be
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Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger November 6, 2017
“If you do that again, I’m going to be pretty unhappy.” I made that bold and daring threat to my younger daughter this morning. Ok, it’s not officially a threat. It was more like a fairly accurate description of what was likely to happen if she continued to be annoying,
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Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger February 16, 2017