Join Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn for a conversation on bringing greater mindfulness to the challenges and joys of parenting. - Click here to listen now free of charge

Mindfulness is a way of being present in our lives that can help us develop greater balance, empathy, and clarity.  Research is showing mindfulness practices can reduce stress and have profound affects on physical and mental well-being.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and founder of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society and of its world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic. He and his wife, Myla Kabat-Zinn, are co-authors of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting.  

Myla Kabat-Zinn, BSN, was trained as a nurse and assisted at births both in the hospital and at home.  She taught childbirth education classes based on mindful awareness. She is the co-author, together with her husband Jon, of Everyday Blessings:  The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting.  They lead workshops on mindful parenting in the U.S. and abroad.

Hear API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian talk with world renowned author of Simplicity Parenting, Kim John Payne in honor of API's AP Month. Click to listen now free of charge

To list a few of the nuggets of wisdom that you'll glimmer from this teleseminar are: * Understanding the power of less is so important in our families. * Make sure your base camp of connection with your children is broad and not just based on one thing for our children. * When our kids really act out and we tell them that's not how we do it in our family, we are defining family values. * When our children are little we have to be Governors of the estate by putting limits in place. * and so much MORE! You can support API’s mission and take advantage of the knowledge and experience Ask API Live’s special guest by signing up today. Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need. Once you sign up will receive a link to download the MP3. About Kim John Payne Kim John Payne, M.ED, is the author of the #1 Best Selling book,Simplicity Parenting©. Kim John Payne outlines in Simplicity Parenting© simple, orderly, and effective pathway to simplify four realms at home, which reduces stress on children and their parents, and allows room for connection, creativity, and relaxation. Kim John Payne’s message helps families recognize the importance of parental presence, even more so in this day and age when so many pressures are taking the focus away from connected parenting. By listening to Kim John Payne’s teleseminar you’ll walk away with a renewed focus for yourself and your family.

API + NVC = Growing Your Peaceful Family - Click here to listen now free of charge

Harness Your SuperPower of Combining Compassionate Parenting & Nonviolent Communication with special guest Ingrid Bauer, co-moderated by Lu Hanessian and Barbara Nicholson

We’ll explore:

• The story of unmet needs: in our kids and ourselves
• The powerful intersection of AP and NVC
• The practice and purpose of nonviolent communication: what is NVC?
• Making NVC a natural part of your parenting
• Balancing and nurturing an AP marriage with NVC
• The heart of nonviolent communication
• Common misconceptions and (therefore) challenges
• The benefits of API + NVC in your family…

…and more!

Don’t miss this opportunity to understand why and how you and your family get bogged down with painful conflict,

and learn the power you already have to shift your family from resentment and defense to empathy, understanding and forgiveness.

About Ingrid Bauer 

Ingrid Bauer has been teaching and writing about compassionate parenting for over two decades. She first began working with children with emotional and developmental special needs 35 years ago, and turned to working directly with parents after she herself became a mother in 1985. Ingrid is tri-lingual and although she has an Honours degree in Languages, Literature and Theatre, she considers life, relationships, travel, nature, and parenting to be her primary teachers.

An activist for unhindered birth and breastfeeding, Ingrid authored a book on meeting infants’ needs in 1999 (Diaper Free!), as well as numerous published articles. When she discovered NVC in 2000, she was thrilled to find a practice that supported her in her desire to live compassion and grow world peace from the roots by addressing how we raise and interact with children, and how we practice peace in creating communities that nourish and care for each individual. For this reason and as a mother of four children aged 5, 11, 15 and 27 years, she is dedicated to sharing Compassionate Communication with parents and families, and much of her work addresses this arena.

Ingrid embraces living NVC as her spiritual practice, as well as her grassroots social change work. She is particularly interested in exploring NVC within the context of family, community, interdependence, and the whole web of life. Ingrid offers workshops, teleclasses, retreats, and family camps, with a special focus on parenting, as well as leadership training. She has a strong interest in nature connection and wilderness awareness and how this impacts children, communities, and cultural repair, and sometimes collaborates with her husband, Jean-Claude Catry to offer training or camps related to this.

Ingrid has been leading or co-leading the international Parent Peer Leadership Program since 2007 (assisting in 2006). Ingrid works with individuals, educators and schools, community organisations, peace groups, parenting and homeschooling groups, First Nations (Aboriginal) communities, and more. She also offers private mentoring, consulting, and parent coaching. Ingrid lives with her family on an island on Canada’s west coast.

Hear API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss parenting in the school-age years with Hold On To Your Kids author Dr. Gordon Neufeld. - Click here to listen now free of charge

Dr. Neufeld returns for another illuminating, powerful, and hope-filled discussion on how to connect with our growing children and teens while we honor their burgeoning independence.

About Dr. Neufeld

Dr. Neufeld is a Vancouver-based developmental psychologist with over 30 years of experience with children and youth and those responsible for them. A foremost authority on child development, Dr. Neufeld is an international speaker, a bestselling author (Hold On To Your Kids) and a leading interpreter of the developmental paradigm.

Dr. Neufeld has a widespread reputation for making sense of complex problems and for opening doors for change. While formerly involved in university teaching and private practice, he now devotes his time to teaching and training others, including educators and helping professionals. He appears regularly on radio and television and is currently developing a series of video-courses for parent education. He is a father of five and a grandfather of three.

"The Joy of Partnership: Parenting that Works for Everyone" with Scott Noelle - Click here to listen now free of charge

Listen to this API Live! special Teleseminar as API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Lysa Parker and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss partnership parenting with Scott Noelle. Topics to be discussed include:

* Partnership Parenting;

* Unconditionality;

* What to do when your child pushes your buttons;

* Transforming anger;

* And MORE!

About Scott Noelle

Scott Noelle is a parenting coach and the author of The Daily Groove: A Creative Parents' Guide to the Art of Attraction Parenting. Through his website, EnjoyParenting.com, Scott offers a variety of tools and support for leading-edge parents. He lives near Seattle with his partner, Beth Noelle, and their two children.

Peaceful Parenting: Understanding our children’s emotional needs with Robin Grille - Click here to listen now free of charge

Parents moving societies toward peace

Hear Lu Hanessian and API co-founder Barbara Nicholson talk with Robin Grille about:

• Eye-contact, when breastfeeding is not working, parents’ moods and babies, relationships and community – What does it all have to do with attachment and our happiness?
• Connecting with my toddler and child – How does it differ from early childhood attachment?
• My parenting, it shapes the world?

About Robin Grille

Robin Grille is an Australian psychologist, author and parenting educator. His articles on parenting and child development have been widely published and translated in Australia and around the world. Robin’s first book: Parenting for a Peaceful World (2005) has received international acclaim and led to speaking engagements around Australia, USA and New Zealand. His second book, Heart to Heart Parenting (2008), is published in Australia by ABC Books. Robin’s work is animated by his belief that humanity’s future is largely dependent on the way we collectively relate to our children.

Robin’s experiential, skills-based and informational parenting courses have helped many people to embrace parenting as a transformative, personal growth journey. Drawing from over 20 years’ clinical experience and from leading-edge neuropsychological research, Robin’s seminars and courses focus on healthy emotional development for children as well as parents; while building supportive, co-operative parenting communities.

In June-July this year Robin visited the USA and delivered a series of workshops in California and Austin, Texas. He is hoping to release an American edition of Heart to Heart Parenting in USA in 2012.

Listen in as API Co-Founders Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker talk with Lu Hanessian about using our mistakes, conflicts and fears to raise our kids. - Click here to listen now free of charge

* Are you enjoying the ride with your children…or feeling burdened by vicious circles, self-doubt and guilt?

* Do you feel regretful of your reactions and exasperated by the dynamics with your child?

* Do you wonder if you’re messing up with your kids?

On this call, API founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson talk with Lu about how:

* our “flaws” are actually pathways to raising resilient, secure, connected kids

* without an awareness of how our story drives our fears, our kids re-enact it

* without self-understanding and empathy, parents then tend to manage rather than engage, control rather than connect, in a chronic practice of “defensive parenting”

* we can turn our old wounds to new wisdom and teach our children resilience

* we can use the gift of our anger, fear, doubt, chaos, anxiety, struggles, and conflicts to “heal” our inner conflicts both in brains, minds and relationships

* understanding the brain science of attachment can give us our roadmap for reconnection even if we came from a painful past with insecure attachments

* we can create or “earn” a secure attachment so we can offer this to our kids

About Lu Hanessian

Lu is an award-winning journalist, author of acclaimed book Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New Motherhood (2004), Joyride (2010), and Thrive: How the New Brain Science Can Help Us Raise Whole-Minded, Whole-Hearted Kids Who Thrive (2011). Lu is former NBC anchor/host and Discovery Health Channel host of “Make Room for Baby,” parent educator and sought-after speaker. For five years, she hosted The Science Show, syndicated in 110 countries.

Lu is the founder and director of a unique online ‘parent growth’ series of educational webinars called Parent2ParentU featuring cutting-edge science, interviews, insights and real-life videos for the 21st century parent. www.parent2parentu.com

In Spring 2009, Lu founded and launched WYSH Wear Your Spirit for Humanity. www.wearyourspirit.com a socially conscious brand of inspirational t’s and products that promote authenticity, empathy and connection.

She is currently working toward completing her certification in the Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) Integrative Program with Dr. Daniel Siegel (Mindsight Institute), and is excited about the profound and far-reaching applications of IPNB to parenting and education in the 21st century.

Her articles have been published in The New York Times, Mothering, and Fit Pregnancy, and she has been interviewed on NPR, MSNBC, FOX News Channel, The View and The Today Show.

She is the grateful mother of two boys, ages 8 and 11 at the time of this recording.

You want to co-sleep, but your partner says it’s unhealthy. You want to respond to your child’s needs, but your partner says that’s coddling. What does an AP parent do when a partner resists? Is it really about AP… or an underlying issue?

Hear API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Lysa Parker and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss marriage and parenting with Dr. Laura Markham. - Click here to listen now free of charge

About Dr. Laura Markham

As both a mom and a Clinical Psychologist trained in Attachment Theory at Columbia University, Dr. Markham offers a unique perspective on raising kids. Her relationship-based parenting model has helped thousands of families across the U.S. and Canada find compassionate, common-sense solutions for everything from separation anxiety and sleep problems to sass talk and cell phones.

Dr. Markham is the founding editor of AhaParenting.com, where she offers hundreds of free articles, as well as ebooks and audio downloads to support parents in connecting with their kids and creating a richer family life. Her daily parenting inspirations reach an ever-growing email list.

Dr Markham hosts a weekly internet radio show, where she regularly takes on a wide range of challenging questions from parents of infants through teens. In addition, she serves as parenting expert for Mothering.com, Pregnancy.org, Storknet.com, ParentingBookmark.com, and HipSlopeMama.com. Her articles are widely published online. In private practice, and as a speaker and presenter at parenting workshops and seminars, she enjoys connecting face-to-face with parents to help them transform their relationships with their children, regardless of age. Dr. Markham lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two terrific teenagers.

 Listen to guest Dr. Laura Markham along with hosts Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker as they discuss how to get kids cooperating without yelling, bribes, threats or punishment. Click here to listen now free of charge

API has invited Dr. Laura to share with us about how we can stop yelling and start connecting, including:

• Why attachment is the foundation of your child’s ability to manage herself, from babyhood right through the teen years.
• Regulating your own emotions so you can help your child.
• Why kids misbehave — and how to help them WANT to cooperate.
• What the last thirty years of research tell us about the kind of discipline that helps kids turn out great.
• How to set effective limits — and when it’s ok to “give in.”
• Why your relationship with your child is the most important factor in effective discipline.
• Helping kids process their emotions.
• How to use play to get better behavior from your child.
• Why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is more important to your child’s success in life than IQ

About Dr. Laura Markham

Dr. Laura Markham is the author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How To Stop Yelling and Start Connecting. She combines her PhD in Clinical Psychology, her mom in the trenches experience and the latest research into a highly effective relationship-based approach that raises resilient, emotionally intelligent kids. Dr. Laura, as her readers call her, serves as an expert for Mothering Magazine, Pregnancy.org and a number of other web sites. Her free Daily Inspiration and Weekly newsletters reach a list of over 35,000 parents. You can find her online at http://AhaParenting.com, home of Aha! moments for parents of babies through teens.

THE MYTH OF PERFECT MOTHERING WITH SPECIAL GUEST MARTHA SEARS - Click here to listen now free of charge

The Myth of Perfect Mothering is so pervasive that it even affected mothering maven Martha Sears. A touching and intimate discussion of the real challenges of motherhood awaits.

Getting Real with Ourselves–and Our Kids with special guest Peggy O’Mara - Click here to listen now free of charge

Listen in as API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian join in a frank discussion of why it’s so difficult for parents to be real with their children, and each other, with Mothering Magazine Editor-in-Chief Peggy O’Mara.

Topics include:

• authentic parenting: obstacles to living our truth and modeling it
• all wired up but disconnected: can you hear me now?
• how we learn to doubt our authentic needs as early as infancy
• reclaiming our intuitive voice and trusting it in a sea of misinformation and naysayers
• learning to enjoy our own presence in order to truly embrace our children

Hear API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss parental depression with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett. - Click here to listen now free of charge

They discuss signs and symptoms, the “Blues” to the “Blahs” and beyond, and prevention and self-preservation.  Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D. is a health psychologist whose work involves helping people cope with the stresses and strains of everyday life–at home and in the office. A Research Associate Professor of Psychology at the Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, she is also a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

About Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett

Dr. Kendall-Tackett is widely published in the fields of family violence, maternal depression, perinatal health, and disability. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is a board-certified lactation consultant, La Leche League leader, La Leche League Area Professional Liaison for Maine and New Hampshire, chair of the New Hampshire Breastfeeding Taskforce, and is a member of the La Leche League Board of Directors.

Dr. Kendall-Tackett is author or editor of 12 books including Breastfeeding Made Simple, The Well-Ordered Home, The Hidden Feelings of Motherhood,Child Victimization and Treating the Lifetime Health Effects of Childhood Victimization, The Health Consequences of Abuse in the Family, andDepression in New Mothers.

Full of Love: Giving our children a foundation for lifelong health through attachment parenting with special guests Dr. Bill Sears and Dominique Hodgin M. Ed.c., NE - Click here to listen now free of charge

API Live! Teleseminar on Attachment Parenting with special guest Mayim Bialik - Click here to listen now free of charge

​Hear hosts Lu Hanessian and API cofounder Barbara Nicholson talk with attachment parenting mother of two and actress Mayim Bialik.

• Hear about Mayim’s personal AP parenting experiences
• Find out about her new projects, including an AP book she’s writing on what babies need (and don’t need) and why she feels so compelled to spread the word.

How to lighten up your parenting because it’s fun, loving, and effective! - Join us for the fun with special guest Dr. Larry Cohen - Click here to listen now free of charge

Hear this API Live! teleseminar event with hosts Lu Hanessian, author of the new playful book for parents and children: Picnic on a Cloud, and API co-founder Lysa Parker talk with Dr. Larry Cohen about:

• What is Playful Parenting and what does it have to do with attachment security?
• Will my children know how to take life, or take me, seriously if we’re playful?
• What does playful parenting have to do with confidence building and helping children resolve problems?
• What is the impact of parent playfulness on my child’s development and emotion?
• Can being playful make me a better parent?
• Can it make parenting more satisfying, more fun for me?
• I’m not so playful naturally. What do I do?
• When roughhousing, how do we help it end on a happy note?

And Larry Cohen’s favorite playful parenting ideas you don’t want to miss

About Larry Cohen

Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., the author of PLAYFUL PARENTING, is a licensed psychologist specializing in children’s play and play therapy. In addition to his private therapy practice, he is also a speaker and consultant to public and independent schools, and a teacher of parenting classes and classes for daycare teachers. Dr. Cohen is also the co-author, with Michael Thompson and Catherine O’Neill Grace, of Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Friendship, Popularity and Social Cruelty in the Lives of Boys and Girls, and Mom, They’re Teasing Me: Helping Children Solve Social Problems. His regular column in Nick Jr. Magazine was the winner of the 2003 Golden Lamp award from Education Press, and he also answers parents’ questions online at NickJr.com.

His new book is The Art of Roughhousing.

Dr. Cohen is the author of numerous published articles in professional journals and popular magazines, and he has presented his work at professional conferences, workshops, classes, and public appearances.

Dr. Cohen attended Haverford College and received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Duke University. After an internship at Tulane University, he began a research and private practice career in Madison, Wisconsin. His treatment innovations have included the first groups in the country for husbands and boyfriends of sexual abuse survivors, as well as one of the first therapy groups for male survivors of sexual abuse. All of his work — with children, parents, couples, abuse survivors, and families — has pointed him towards writing about human connections.

Dr. Cohen lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Hera API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Lysa Parker and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian stable caregiving with Dr. Isabelle Fox. - Click here to listen now free of charge

Topics discussed include:

* Bonding and Attachment

* What Happens when Caregivers Change

* Parental versus Substitute Care

* Separation and Custody

* and MORE!

About Dr. Isabelle Fox

Dr. Isabelle Fox is the author of Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-home-Parent. She has degrees from Radcliffe College and University of California Los Angeles and has been a Clinical Psychotherapist specializing in Child Development for over 30 years. She is also an Associate at the Western Psychological Center in Encino, California. She is also the author of From Diapers to Diplomas and Goodbye Diapers, Goodbye Bottle, Goodbye Blanket. She has three children and seven grandchildren and was a Stay-At-Home Parent for 10 years.

Join us as we talk with Ina May Gaskin on API Live! - Click to listen now free of charge

Hear API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss natural birthing with Ina May Gaskin. They delve into:

* Knowing your body and your rights;

* How to have your baby with no regrets;

* What you won’t hear in your birthing classes;

* Why we get stuck in the perfect portrait of birth and how it’s not our true goal;

* Why things don’t always turn out the way we wanted them to (and that’s OK too);

* and MORE!

About Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin, MA, CPM, is founder and director of the Farm Midwifery Center, located near Summertown, Tennessee. Founded in 1971, by 1996, the Farm Midwifery Center had handled more than 2200 births, with remarkably good outcomes. Ms. Gaskin herself has attended more than 1200 births. She is author of Spiritual Midwifery and Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth. For twenty-two years she published Birth Gazette, a quarterly covering health care, childbirth and midwifery issues. She has lectured all over the world at midwifery conferences and at medical schools, both to students and to faculty. She was President of Midwives’ Alliance of North America from 1996 to 2002. In 1997, she received the ASPO/Lamaze Irwin Chabon Award and the Tennessee Perinatal Association Recognition Award. In 2003 she was chosen as Visiting Fellow of Morse College, Yale University.

Playing for Keeps: Play that Keeps - Click here to listen now free of charge

Love, Creativity, and Belonging First

Want to know:

• How can “play” solve discipline problems?
• Eliminate power struggles?
• Restore our relationships with our kids to peace and ease?

featuring international play expert

Fred Donaldson

Dr. Fred Donaldson has played with thousands of people all over the world.

He has changed the lives of children and families, students and teachers, and touched the lives of hurting children, gang members, prisoners–even made a charging rhino stop and turn around.

How?

Don’t miss this interview with a rare and wise man who knows how power of play can heal us all.

Listen to guest Fred Donaldson along with hosts Lu Hanessian and Lysa Parker as they discuss Original Play®. API has invited Fred Donaldson to share with us about “Original Play”® and how it:

• Presents an alternative to aggression and violence without the use of force, while maintaining self esteem for oneself as well as others

• Provides choices of possible reactions to aggression, violence and fear without the need for revenge

• Transforms deep-rooted negative habits and patterns of behaviour into new habits based on feelings of love, belonging and safety

• Creates a safe space for the transformation of physical or verbal aggression

• Promotes the feeling of belonging as the best alternative for fear and competition

• Creates a foundation for the optimal conditions for learning, creativity and self-development

• Increases the possibility of adaptation to new environments in life’s ever changing conditions.

About Fred

O. Fred Donaldson, Ph. D. - the author of an innovative programme called Original Play® , a world-famous specialist in the use of play as an alternative to aggression, violence and abuse, and an international consultant in the field of education. The Original Play® programme is the result of thirty years of research on children’s, adults’ and wild animals’ play behaviour. Fred Donaldson coined the term „Original Play”® and was the first to describe the process. He wrote a book entitled „Playing by Heart: The Vision and Practice of Belonging”, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of The Sanctuary Alliance – a project which is introduced and practised in many countries.Fred Donaldson is a former professor at The University of Washington and The California State University, Hayward and The California School of Professional Psychology. Currently he gives lectures and workshops for organizations and institutions throughout the world. He has worked with special needs children, culturally diverse communities, gangs and children living on the streets.  In play he shares with them a different world, without fear, aggression, and persecution.

“SEPARATION ANXIETY:YOUR CHILD’S AND YOURS” 

with special guest Elizabeth Pantley - Click to listen now free of charge

Hear host Lysa Parker and guest host Gena Kirby talk with Elizabeth Pantley about:

• If you work so hard at creating attachment, why encourage separation?
• Do AP children have more separation anxiety than others?
• If you have a baby who won’t let you out of her sight without crying how do you handle that?
• Should an AP parent ever leave their child with a babysitter?
• What do you do if your child cries when you leave him with a sitter?
• Is it normal for a parent to suffer separation anxiety?
• What are your tips for parents who have a hard time separating from their children?

Parenting Without Power Struggles Raising Joyful Resilient Kids While Staying Cool Calm and Connected with Susan Stiffelman - Click here to listen now free of charge

Hosts Lu Hanessian and Barbara Nicholson speak with special guest Susan Stiffelman. 

You’ll discover how to:

• Transform frustration and aggression into adaptation and cooperation

• Keep your cool when your kids push your buttons, talk back or refuse to “play nice”

• Nourish deep attachment with young and older kids

• Help your ADD’ish child survive and thrive, even if you’re ADD’ish yourself

• Inoculate your kids from negative thinking and peer pressure that lead to anger, anxiety, depression, or behavior issues

• Help children manage the emotional challenges of divorce

About Susan

Susan Stiffelman is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor, an Educational Therapist, Parent Educator and Professional Speaker. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Developmental Psychology from Johnston College/ University of Redlands, a California K-9 Teaching Credential, a Masters of Arts degree from Antioch University in Clinical Psychology, and a California Marriage and Family Therapist licensesince 1991.

Susan works with children, teens, adults, couples and families with academic, circumstantial, and/or emotional challenges, including anxiety, depression, relationship problems, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, AD/HD, explosive behavior, and communication problems.

She helps parents of young and grade school-aged children learn how to manage meltdowns, childhood anxiety, challenges with friends and siblings, academic bumps-in-the-road, and the various array of other typical childhood issues.

Susan also works extensively with teens and their parents, guiding them to reconnect with one another, move out of depression, resistance and the many other stumbling blocks of adolescence, and get back on track emotionally, academically and in their relationships.

Perhaps of most importance is the fact that everything Susan teaches has been “tested” as she has raised her now 17-year old son, who is still joyful, resilient, authentic…and appropriately cool with his Mom!