Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It: Kitchen Projects to Help You Break Away From Factory Food | TakePart - Inspiration to Action

Here's a great article for parents wanting to get back to the basics, learn more about canning and get away from factory food. Nutrition plays a very important role in our daily health and is especially important for raising intuitive children.

Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It: Kitchen Projects to Help You Break Away From Factory Food | TakePart - Inspiration to Action

I Love You And I Love Myself By: Alexandra Folz

“I love you, and I love myself,” she says with a smile. I heard these empowering words from my eight year old daughter this week. I thought to myself, how awesome! She is harvesting her OWN love.

How often do we hear children talk about self-love? How often do kids express self-love without feeling embarrassed, bashful, or afraid of sounding arrogant?

Not enough in my opinion!

More importantly as a parent, can we say to our child, “I love you, and I love MYSELF?” For some, this may sound corny. I get it, trust me. But let’s step over this obstacle and see the writing on the wall. If we can’t say those words, how can we expect our children to become self-aware, self-confident and love themselves?

Crystal Children Parenting Discussion

In our Blogfrog Parenting Community one of our readers Shena started a great conversation surrounding Crystal Children.

"I had heard lots about indigo children, yet very little about crystal children. While shopping at Trader Joe's, I met a woman (possibly an angel). She seemed to come out of nowhere. She came straight to me, as if on a mission. She was a 90 something woman with a thick German accent. She grabbed my cart and pushed it to the wall. "I have to talk to you." Read the rest of Shena's post and join in the discussion.


A few characteristics of crystal children.

• They are very gentle, intuitive and have deep insights to themselves and others.
• In an open environment they are more than willing to tell you about their past lives
• Easily connect with the spirit world, seeing spirits, angels, guides or ghosts
• They may not want to speak with their voice and prefer to think their thoughts to you, sometimes needing to be reminded to use their voice.
• Crystals like the Indigo's tend to have a deep connection to nature and feel compelled to clean up our planet.

What are you angry about? What are you worried about?

Just in case you missed the law of attraction quotation from June 16-2011


Daily Law of Attraction Quotation
Think about that little smear that starts out as the human body, and then there's a nose and a liver and a gizzard, oh, not a gizzard... All that stuff that is present and knows how to become this. There's so much knowledge within the human body. You're wanting to free the human body's knowledge to be well from the resistance that has been picked up along this physical trail. The very best approach to medicine is,"Well, I see your physical body is sick, what's been bothering you? What are you worried about? What are you angry about? What are you frustrated about?" Because that is what is at the root of all of this. And then say, "Let it go, let it go, let it go." That's the message, and if they could hear you and do that, then they would all be well right away. 
--- Abraham

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On SocialMoms you can meet other moms, join in live twitter chats, participate in paid blogging opportunities, share your life experiences, blog posts, events and more. SocialMoms is another outstanding opportunity to connect with MOMS!


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Showing Off Or Showing Up By: Alexandra Folz

Last weekend I took my girls roller skating at the local roller rink. I wanted mom/daughter bonding time, AND a date with my inner child.

These past few years I’ve peeled off stifling layers of adulthood, and the illusion that I am my past, my parents, my enemies, my friends, my stuff, my occupation, my children, and my future. I believe this is why “she” showed up! Yes, my inner child met me at the skate counter as I traded my Dansko’s in for sassy, hard-leather skates with frayed laces and orange wheels.

You’d think since I wrote Indigo’s Bracelet, I have a great relationship with my inner child. But that’s just not the case. In fact, I actually believe writing the story helped me find her (most of you already figured that out).

Before I go on, here are a few definitions for inner child.
1. The child you once were…(www.whatisholistic.com)
2. The childlike aspect of a person’s psyche especially when viewed as an independent entity (www.Dictionary.com)
3.(MY FAVORITE)…The essential, or original self, regarded as a child, existing within the shell of an adult
(www.wiktionary.org)

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Zen-Sational Living ~ A perfect gift!

I recently had the opportunity to read a delightful little book called.
Zen-Sational Living A Simple Guide To Finding Your True Self And Maintain Balance 
By: Sheila M. Burk 

"Zen-Sational Living is a delicious informing, enlightening book that feeds the soul with tidbits of advice. Perfect for reading first thing in the morning or right before bed. Zen-Sational would make the perfect inspirational gift." ~ Carol Lawrence


The copy I received of Zen-Sational was a traveling book through bookcrossing.com 
I have passed my copy onto Alexandra Folz at Indigo Books. 

Visit Sheila Burk to learn more about her, her book and her wonderful Zen-Sational products.
http://www.zensationalliving.com/

Happy Father's Day and ICP Updates

Happy Father's Day to all you wonderful Fathers who read our blog. Your role is vital and we salute you. Enjoy your day. We'd love to hear about your Father's Day stories.


Thank you to everyone who participated in our live chat with Jeff Brown Tuesday June 14th. We all had a lot of fun connecting and growing our Soulpods! If you missed the chat that's OK because all our chats are available to be read at your leisure. All prize winners will be notified by email.


1. There is a brand new page added at the top of our blog: "Live chat recaps."  We've listed all our chats so they are accessible at any time.

2. We've also updated our "Book Review" page so you can easily look over the books we've reviewed and find our more information about the authors.

Live Chat Line Up: There are no scheduled chats for the month of July. We are taking this time to work on our submissions and begin our second children's book and to play outside as much as possible. In Montana Summer's are short so you need to make the most of it. Mother Nature is calling. Our blog will still be as active as ever so be sure to tune in. 


Chats will start up again in August.
August 2nd. ~  Caron Goode ~ Raising Intuitive Children
August 23 ~  Gina Otto ~ Cassandra's Angel
September 27th ~ Cathy Cassani Adams returns to tell us about her new book. 
We will have more information about these wonderful authors, their books and live chats coming soon.


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Thank you for supporting us and for reading our blog!

~ Carol Lawrence and Stacy Toten

Are you an author who's vision, expertise, book, articles, etc fit in with Intentional Conscious Parenting? We would love to share your content during the month of July. Email articles to Carol at intunedparenting@gmail.com

 Movies for the soul!



Radio for the soul! Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue, Abraham Hicks, Cheryl Richardson, Debra King and so many others. If you haven't heard of Hay House Radio you are missing out!

Parenting Responsively For Connection ~ Book Tour ~ Day 9

Day 9 ~ 
Parenting Responsively For Connection Book Tour

Today we have the great pleasure of being the hosts of the Virtual Book Tour for the E-Book Parenting Responsively for Connection Written by ACPI Parenting Coaches for parents to deal with the most difficult task of maintaining connection with the growing child whose behavior changes and shifts.

Yesterday, the book tour stopped by our wonderful friend Leigh Harris's awesome blog Metaphysical Mom and Dad. Feel free to stop by and read the excerpt, The Intention to Connect.

Visit now if you haven’t had the opportunity to meet all the authors.

In the meantime enjoy this book excerpt written by Alan Carson.

Parents as Leaders

Many parents are familiar with Dr. Dorothy Law Nolte's inspirational poem, 

Children Learn What They Live.  The first few lines begin with:

If children live with criticism, They learn to condemn. 

If children live with hostility, They learn to fight.  

If children live with ridicule, They learn to be shy. 

If children live with shame,They learn to feel guilty.

Regardless of which of the three parenting courses I am facilitating, 

I always begin by emphasizing that parents are leaders. As parent leaders we:

                • Influence our children to do what we want them to do

                • Realize that we cannot influence our children unless we are in a connected                                                    relationship with them.

                • Have a vision

                • Focus on what we want, not what we do not want; we are positive

                • Listen

As a parent, I can most influence my child's self-esteem by realizing that I do shape my child's self-concept and self-worth because my child becomes what I believe she can become. Self-concept refers to all of those traits and abilities that my child believes she possesses. Praise and recognition play a major role in shaping my child's self-concept because I am constantly sending messages to my child. Since kids largely spend the first four years of their lives with us, our children internalize our verbalized observations:

"You are such a hard worker."

"You are a very unselfish friend."

"When something is difficult for you, you really become determined."

"I always enjoy asking for your opinion because you have lots of good ideas."

"You are a very thoughtful girl."

When we see behaviors that concern us, parent leaders focus on what they want:

Instead of saying "You're lazy," they say, "You need to work harder."

Instead of saying, "You won't be able to do that," they say, "If anyone can do it, it is you."

Instead of saying, "Boy, were you lucky," they say, "You worked hard for that."

Instead of saying, "Are you ever going to learn? " they say, "I trust you won't make that mistake again."

Instead of saying, "You are very selfish," they say, "You are a more considerate person than this."

Leaders encourage, motivate, communicate, bring out the best in people and give them hope. I will share with you a true story from my days as a guidance counselor. Mrs. White asked me to help her 7th grade daughter Anna with her schoolwork, as Anna's grades had been on a serious decline. Within two weeks of beginning to work with Anna, Mrs. White emailed me:

                "I think I know what is causing Anna's stress—my mother. She moved into our neighborhood recently and has been giving Anna a hard time ever since. She has been criticizing her—asking her if she is stupid because she forgets things, and asking her if she is on drugs, etc."

                This is not only an example of poor leadership, but also an example of how an influential adult can severely hurt a child's self-concept. How are kids going to believe in themselves if their loved ones don't have faith in them? We want our kids to feel they are very capable and possess a multitude of abilities. They will develop a strong self-concept if we love leaders and role models.

                Parents are also crucial to the formation of their child's self-worth.  Self-worth refers to the extent to which the child sees herself as being worthy— worthy of love, success, friendship, and respect. If we want our children to make good decisions in life, we better instill in them a strong sense of self-worth. As actor Christian Slater said, "It doesn't matter how famous you are if your head is telling you, 'You stink.' All you ever do is try to escape from that."

                A scene from the movie about Johnny Cash's life, Walk the Line, will forever be imprinted in my brain.

Live chat TONIGHT with Jeff Brown author of SoulShaping A Journey Of Self-Creation

Are you ready? 

Live chat with Jeff Brown Tonight!

SPONSORS AND PRIZES~

A lucky chat winner will be winning a copy of Jeff Brown's book SoulShaping.
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All chats take place at this time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific

Date: June 14th

Author: Jeff Brown is the author of SOULSHAPING and many articles. Jeff writes for Good Morning America.

Book: SoulShaping A Journey Of Self-Creation

Topics: We will be talking with Jeff about his compelling new book SoulShaping, spiritual health, inner growth, how to look for answers within yourself and more. Here's your chance to ask Jeff all your questions!

Here's just a few of the awe inspiring reviews of Soulshaping. Be sure to also read our review and tell us what you think! We want to hear from you.

Next live chat update ~ Guest Author: Jeff Brown

~ LIVE AUTHOR CHAT WITH JEFF BROWN COMING UP TOMORROW TUESDAY JUNE 14TH 

SPONSORS AND PRIZES~

A lucky chat winner will be winning a copy of Jeff Brown's book SoulShaping.

Join in for a chance to win a handcrafted necklace by Grace from Blessed Elements.

More prizes to be listed on the day of the chat!