An organically grown systems approach to meet the social & emotional needs of students, parents & sc
06/04/2022
Grateful to return to the most important conversations-Our families emotional well-being. Grateful to for helping make this happen. Join us as we collaborate with .ramonafriedman .in.slo and many more! We asked the students to take an anonymous survey about what they’d really like their parents to understand about what it’s like to be a teen. We share those results along with 100’s of write in responses. So grateful to have a professional panel help all of us do better at supporting. Our kids/students want us to listen to them as we ask them to listen to us!! Please join us April 26@6 SLOHS and May 4@6 MBHS -Resource fair, light appetizers, and drinks, but most importantly, we will be in person.
12/11/2021
Be curious…The fear often creeps up from within. An uncomfortable feeling arises within your body. Feel and then be curious and let it pass on by.
14/01/2021
Inauguration Day- Let’s GO TO OUR STEPS with music, art, and poetry and celebrate the spaces where we build our future together. We’ll go to our places of worship, our libraries, our schools, our porches, our access ramps, or our metaphorical steps – any time between 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (Eastern).
15/05/2020
Join us today for an informal conversation with .ramonafriedman on Emotions! We welcome all as we learn new ways to connect with and talk about our feelings. leadership team wanted to have a conversation about different emotions and feeling all the feelings that have come up as they’re virtually learning “at home.” We want to continue our learning and growing as a whole family system. We want to normalize the multitude of emotions that ALL of us are feeling. Ask questions privately or just sit back and listen as we have a casual conversation on emotions. Thank you .ramonafriedman.
24/03/2020
Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act. ~Dr. Seuss
20/03/2020
20/03/2020
As hard as this is for everyone with our own individual stories of struggle, the only way our world can heal is if our “I” can love beyond itself, to “we.” ❤️
21/02/2020
When they go low, we go high!
17/11/2019
"Where To Begin"
The heart of the home, the intersection of heartbeats and minds wanting to connect and find emotional and physical nourishment. 🙏❤️ 🤗
13/11/2019
Do good today! Have the courage to see beyond yourself.
08/11/2019
Never give up!
08/11/2019
Shouldn't this be what it's all about?! Letting our students "teach" us!❤️🍎 Happy Friday!
03/11/2019
01/11/2019
Let us extend the invitation to Brave Space! Happy Friday! 💛🎗☀️💪🏼👊🏽🤙🏽🤟🏻
31/10/2019
Let the day begin!
20/10/2019
Smile Sunday🍂
11/10/2019
Gentle Conversations on the Relationship Between Perfectionism & Anxiety &kerriloveletterstoparents
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"One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people" -John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: The Book of Celtic Wisdom
We are both works in progress, each moms of three and partners to one. We are both oldest daughters and sisters to brothers. We are recovering perfectionists and people pleasers. We are lovers of food, family and conversation, seekers of knowledge, and researchers of life. We both strive for balance, crave adventure, run on love, and share a passion for helping others make the world a better place. We’ve each taken a different path: One of us married while in college, the other after work experience and obtaining a PhD in Educational Psychology. One of us started a family right after college, and continued the learn by doing philosophy, applying her developmental psychology as the CEO/CFO of her family. One of us was juggling being a full-time professor in education and working parent for fifteen years. Our friendship began as two people who's lives intersected raising our children. One day our friendship experienced the "unsayable between two people," an unimaginable and unthinkable tragedy occurred.
In 2016, Ana’s 16-year-old son took his life. Kerri was there when she found him and she knew at that devastating, life-altering, and most tragic moment, that she would not let Ana go through this alone. Kerri has walked along side of Ana as a friend, parent, woman and human, knowing that Ana being alone was not a possibility.
Great loss propelled us and lead us to research and better understand. Grief has given us an opportunity to reflect, learn, and connect with others. We have chosen to learn from heartache and to face it head-on with compassion, realizing there are so many others struggling.
Our journey has connected us with people from all over the world. We've been listening and gaining new understanding, resources and tools. We have identified needs and gaps and are working to figure out how we can fill them with new understanding- bringing information to others and beginning important conversations. (Our Triad of Support)
Everyone has a story. We all struggle and experience hardship and loss, but many do so alone. Sometimes we choose to be private about our struggles and other times we reach out to others- it’s a choice we make. It is always validating to realize that we are not alone in our challenges.
We’ve been learning to navigate the waves of life and tides of parenthood with transparency and vulnerability. We’ve realized that the best we can do is accept and love our imperfect selves and support each other in the process. We are choosing to celebrate being perfectly imperfect and to encourage that in others.
We’ve learned that the stresses many of us feel are universal and come with the times. We want to offer resources and tools that students, parents and communities can use and are dedicated to providing guidance, hope and inspiration for when you need it.
Connect, be well, and know that you are not alone.
