Category: General
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Excavate Self Care
Dear community, We hope your fall season has been full of harvest and togetherness! If there has been struggle for you, we hope you are finding the support you need. How are you feeling now as we are beginning our journey through the darkest season in the northern hemisphere? Throughout fall Angela Carolina and I…
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The Healing Helix
Dear community, Angela Carolina and I have been working quietly this summer, like spiders, weaving ideas into a web that is just now ready to be seen. And here it is… The first news is that my book, Tiny Humans, Big Emotions: How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children, has…
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Flow
The word “flow” keeps coming to both Angela Carolina and I this winter. It’s an interesting time for this word to surface since where I live the water is frozen right now, and where Angela lives it’s very dry. But in both places, there is water flowing, it’s just deep underground or it’s moving very…
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Epizoochory
First of all, Happy Labor Day everyone! I’m feeling gratitude for the ancestors who fought for child labor to become outlawed and for legal rights to safe working conditions for all workers. Mary Harris ”Mother” Jones, an activist for children’s and women’s rights in the mid-1800’s was one of these ancestors and she was known…
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Anemochory
2023 has been a momentous year for us at Engage, starting with Angela Carolina joining the team in February. We launched the Sacred podcast in May and Lauren’s book (co-written with Alyssa Blask Campbell), Tiny Humans, Big Emotions, came out in October. We’ve spent this year deepening our Healing-Centered Education practices and networks, and this…
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Mycelium
We were at a conference last week, presenting and learning. We got to meet Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett whose Theory of Constructed Emotion helped to refine the Collaborative Emotion Processing method! We met folx who are doing overlapping work with ours in other parts of the state, particularly with coregulation and caring for caregivers. And…
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Equilibrium (and THBE discount!)
Water lilies play a vital role in the equilibrium of a wetland’s ecosystem. Their shade keeps the water temperature down in the summer and prevents algae from taking over. Their shadows and stems give shelter and protection to the fish that live there, and they keep the water clear and clean-looking. Teachers are like water…
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Bonus Blog: Tiny Humans, Big Emotions
I’m excited to offer you a conversation that Alyssa Blask Campbell and I recorded a few weeks ago for her podcast, Voices of Your Village! This conversation is a sneak peek into our work together – specifically our book, Tiny Humans, Big Emotions: How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children.…
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Medicine
Echinacea (or coneflower) is good medicine. It helps us stay healthy and it’s a popular pollen source among bees. Where we live, every winter the visible plant dries out and hardens, becoming a perch for the birds who stick around through the frost and snow. Each spring the plant comes back stronger. When you plant…
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Eclosion!
It is with joy and gratitude that I’m reaching out to the Engage community today for our first blog in a loooong time! Among other things, the pandemic sent me (Lauren) into a chrysalis-stage-kind-of-darkness for some deep reflection, writing, and relocating the center in my work. Most of that writing, which was done in partnership…