How often do you feel nervous, worried, angry, or anxious? I feel these often, however they are FAR less debilitating now than they have been most of my life. Early on, I learned to suppress my health...

Journaling is a wonderful way to enrich an experience, something you learn, or a feeling you have. A significant amount of evidence shows us the healing power of writing, including emotional regulatio...

In every workshop I offer for early childhood educators and children’s librarians, I invite folks to sing several extended vowel sounds together. 

Inevitably, someone yawns.

I don’t see this a...

Setting expectations with our kids and students while also giving them space to explore, is always a tricky balance, for me anyway. I constantly toggle between wanting them to have the freedom to expr...

Kind Mind began with one practice, the Kind Mind Compass. This evidence-based compassion practice was taught to me at the Applied Compassion Training.  It was the first time I was able to truly touch ...

Kind Mind is built on a framework and understanding of compassion cultivation as the core of social-emotional learning, health, and well-being. When we take time to exercise the muscle of compassion i...

From the start, I have been personally invested in creating an impact on the short and long-term mental and emotional health of our world. Creating Kind Mind is my way of doing that, by sharing powerf...

Talk talk talk. I LOVE to talk but have learned the importance of silence, so I can listen better and really connect. Our world is getting more and more full, and stress is increasing by the minute. T...

Bullying is a serious problem in our schools and our culture as a whole. At the root of bullying is a deep sense of disconnection from yourself. This CAN lead to fear of losing control (racism, sexism...

Self-love is the focus this week, with Valentine's Day having just passed. Speaking of love, I have had a love/hate relationship with this holiday throughout my lifetime, as I am sure many of you have...

 February marks Black History Month. 

Social-emotional learning and anti-racism go hand in hand. The more I learn about how racism shows up in our culture and the world, the more I see this connec...

February marks Black History Month (more on that as we move through the month). 

We are on a VERY exciting and long-awaited journey of applying to be a CASEL SELect accredited social-emotional lea...