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Nothing to see here folks!

Nothing to see here folks!

Welcome! Thank you for finding your way to The Bodhi Tree and Stacey and for wanting to make a difference in the world, by sharing the audio meditation and mindfulness with children. It's a fast paced unpredicatable world, we click a button and all we need, want,...

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I saw you…

I saw you…

I saw you… They are Facebook posts, created as an acknowledgement of the fact that I am looking at you and smiling from a place of love, not of judgement. Keep smiling at one another, keep acknowledging, its the best gig in the world, but it's tiring and hard and SO...

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Holding Hands

Hold your own hand Interlock your hands, do it now without even thinking about it. Now take them apart and interlock them again this time with the opposite thumb on top and the fingers all moved. Experience the sensation, it’s different.  To me it feels as though I’m...

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Hey you!

Hey you!

Ya you, your bathtub’s full! “I don’t want to yell at my children.  It doesn’t work and I feel awful after”  I have heard this over and over again.  I have felt this same way, many a time. There are plenty of resources sharing alternatives that you could choose...

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Little mind shifts, creating big impact.

Little mind shifts, creating big impact.

Simple, just change our minds! Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, that’s not simple at all. 44 years I’ve been creating this mind. Growing up, learning, listening, being and creating meaning for every single part of it. Changing my mind, seems way too hard, in fact not even possible....

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Curiosity replaces boredom while having to wait

Curiosity replaces boredom while having to wait

We take our children to many different places and often worry that they will be bored, restless and then exhibit behaviours that we do not wish to see or manage in these places. Spending time getting them to be curious about the whole environment they are in and...

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Raising children like gardeners grow gardens

Raising children like gardeners grow gardens

If we looked at parenting like we were tending a garden, we would see many types of gardeners and gardens. The trailing vine garden, where the gardener engages simply and consistently. Providing water and general provisions for growth and well being. The gardener also...

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Take off the itchy sweater!

Take off the itchy sweater!

You know, that behaviour, or those behaviours that our children exhibit. Here’s the thing, it’s not you. The behaviours are not yours. Please don’t own them, don’t take them on, don’t wear them like an itchy course knitted woolen sweater. Look at the behaviour, stop...

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Get there early

Get there early

Before anything else we are human beings. As we move through our lives we collect stories about ourselves and right, wrong or indifferent, they come into play a lot! Here

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