How to Train a Wild Elephant — Week 2

Posted on August 16, 2021

Happy Mindfulness Monday! A warm hug to each of you on Mindfulness Meditation Monday. It is my intention to send out good vibes in the universe as often as I can. It’s a difficult time (again!) globally, and we need each other’s positive frequencies to build our collective resilience to traverse this time together. This morning, layered on top of today’s COVID-19 update, I watched the news of yesterday’s Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. My attention became focused on one scene…

Welcome back to MINDFULNESS MEDITATION MONDAY!

Posted on August 6, 2021

  Welcome back to MINDFULNESS MEDITATION MONDAY! I hope the summer months went well for you and your families. It was refreshing for me to take a few weeks off, but life has pulled me back in with a bang! Last week I was honored to be a keynote speaker at TIAA ‘s Total Worker’s Health Conference. There were approximately 250 sign-ups and more than 100 parents attending in person. Mindful Parenting is truly in demand at this point. I’ve been…

On Choice

Posted on June 14, 2021

Happy Mindfulness Meditation Monday! It’s true that our choices define us and our experiences. Life IS all about choices. Some online articles even claim that each person makes more than 35,000 choices per day! I’m not so sure about that number but we can all agree that we make hundreds of choices per day— from turning the sound off on our mobile devices when we are pinged in the middle of a meeting to not picking our nose when we…

On Work-Life Balance

Posted on June 6, 2021

Mindfulness is key in creating work-life balance. Yes, we’re never going to find this balance — we have to create it. Let’s explore the how … Register here… https://bit.ly/mmmwithroma

On Identities and Motherhood

Posted on May 7, 2021

Over the course of my lifetime, I have shouldered many different identities with those closest to me. I still do. First I was a daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin. Going to school I became a friend to many. In the second decade of my life I collected more identities—wife, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, mother. And then I spent the next few decades honoring those identities and roles—sometimes well and other times not. As a child, being a daughter or a sister or…