When teachers, principals and school counselors first show up to learn the Nurtured Heart Approach, they are often focused on a “micro” level of change. They want to help certain at-risk children to follow the rules instead of challenging authority at every turn. They want to increase teaching time and gain tools for interacting with students to promote individual success.

Please know that I am not a fan of video games but there is a secret

As a therapist, I was trained to the gills to believe that investigating the reasons “why” a fellow

If you can feel one single spark of magnificence in yourself or another, nothing stands in the way of your fanning that flame. Nothing stands in the way of creating a new and brighter flame of magnificence, that then begins to have a life of its own.

Everyone gets to listen in and hear what Spirit uniquely conveys to them. The wisdom that I would pass along if I were down to my last 500 words would be about what I heard when I asked about an expression that kept floating into my consciousness.

In the work I’ve done for the past many years, I’ve enjoyed opportunities to introduce people publicly in a way that shines light on their greatness. One imaginative day not long ago, a barrier opened up for me to a more magnificent way of singing these songs.

So many treatment colleagues have shared that prior to finding an approach that really works to turn a child’s intensity to greatness, they felt no recourse other that to look for ways to moderate the accelerating poor choices that children they worked with were
Yes, there are kids with symptoms that are of great concern, symptoms that drive parents and teachers crazy, but I have found that the very same “intensity” that has gone awry can be the very fuel for a child who comes to use that “life force” in successful ways.

I want to share my experience of the diagnosis and treatment of Bipolar Disorder in children. This is simply my truth and it clearly will contrast with the truth of many in the medical community as well as the truth of many consumers, however I will hope that it casts a

Many people today struggle with the intensity of a challenging child and, unfortunately, wind up

Adults love to give kids warnings when a rule is broken. We would love to believe warnings are a highly compassionate facet of