by stephen@kraindm.com | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
I just finished a group Zoom with some of my fabulous Moms of adolescents. They’re heading into December swamped and exhausted. One of them just laughed as she told me, “I still have skeletons from Halloween hanging on my front door!” The notion of kids being home for...
by stephen@kraindm.com | Nov 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
As the holidays approach, I notice my clients start to voice some dread. Anticipation is a nicer word. They anticipate hosting certain family members. They anticipate the work involved in serving multiple, fancy meals around which people have ridiculous expectations....
by stephen@kraindm.com | Feb 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Compassion is defined as empathy in action. Empathy is when we understand the feelings of another when we can stand in their shoes. We have to have empathy before we find compassion. Once we feel stirred by empathy, we tend to look for ways to help; that’s our...
by stephen@kraindm.com | Sep 13, 2022 | home 3blog, Uncategorized
Time stands still. You hang on every word the doctor utters. All the noise and chatter of life falls away and things get very quiet. My daughter woke up with acute stomach pain a few days ago. I was in Miami and she was in her apartment in NYC with her roommate. Thank...
by stephen@kraindm.com | May 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
“There’s some unpleasant work that needs doing. It might as well be me who does it.” This is a quote by author Julie Lythcott-Haims. She wrote an excellent book in 2015 called How To Raise An Adult. I’ve been thinking about this quote so much that I wrote it down and...
by stephen@kraindm.com | May 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
I like to think of mantras as words or sayings that can anchor us when we’re feeling unsure or nervous. Technically, mantras are defined as a word or sound repeated to aid concentration in meditation. Sometimes we are hijacked by our feelings: they startle us into...
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