Making Your Moments Count

In a short, one-minute, film, Elvis de Leon gave me a new perspective on the way I look at every day of my life. He asks the viewer to imagine that every day you wake-up with $84,600.00 in your bank account.  This is not something you need to hold on to and save, but rather…

Your Own Personal Meditation

Wholeness and your connection to your authentic self always exist within you, but when you become stressed that inner clarity can become clouded leaving you feeling unhappy, lost, and unsure of yourself. When this happens it is time to stop, quiet your mind, open your heart and reconnect with your soul and the Divine. I…

Water

I recently had the opportunity to attend a writing group. For a couple of hours we spontaneously wrote and shared the thoughts, and images that sprung in our mind from a single word. This painting of words was a very uplifting and inspiring experience, because it fed my soul in a very deep way. One…

ATTENTION all preschool teachers!

Nancy Marie is teaching a four-part I Create What I Believe!(ICWIB) workshop for preschool teachers in Medford, Oregon. The training begins October 2, 2014 and is funded through the Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities Inclusive Child Care Program. See attached Flyer for details of this amazing opportunity to receive the ICWIB training for FREE. To…

Head Start Teachers’ Stories

Earlier this year, I had  the opportunity to teach the I Create What I Believe!(ICWIB) program to 22 wonderful Head Start teachers who teach at nine different schools in Shasta County, California. They did a remarkable job of adapting and implementing the program into their classrooms in a very short period of time.  They said…

Finding Your Rudder

When I was a teenager my father, a man of very few words, once said to me, “There is only one person in the world that you need to care about what they think of you—make sure you can look at them in the mirror every morning.” At the time, I thought he was telling…

We Have a Choice

There has been an explosion of research over the past decade that shows how important the first few years of a child’s life are in terms of social, emotional, and cognitive development. For many years, preschool and infant toddler care providers have focused on helping children compensate and overcome traumatic experiences and home life deficits.…