Please Invite My Kid to a Birthday Party!
When your kid has autism, the social skills are the last to come and the hardest to teach. Every behavior and every social skill had to be directly taught to Ryan. This was one of the hardest part of autism for me. We had to directly teach my son how to do things other kids…
Communication
Instead of putting your energy out to diverse places inside and outside of yourself, invest your energy through your intention and through your invisible energy. Invest this energy into a space that becomes creative. Language then becomes like a song and you are not just speaking, which is very boring, conversely, you are communicating. You are…
The Story Stopped Where It Had To Stop
For two days I printed out all the postings to the blog, collected all the drawings that belonged to them and placed them all together in a box. I thought that the blog would be a book one day. I planned to do this printing and collecting in a slower pace, but something got into…
Contracts, Agreements and Energetic Beacons
We all make agreements, all the time. We make agreements with ourselves, the people around us, and the larger world/universe/reality/ god. As in literature, where there are 3 basic themes, man v self, man v nature, man v man. So too, we have contracts, or agreements that govern, or rule-create those different sorts of engagements….
Book Lover
I love books. It comes with the territory of being a writer, I reckon. My fondest childhood memories involve visits to our local library and afternoons spent curled up on the sofa or in my bedroom, devouring the pages of my beloved books. I even used to imagine I could be like Matilda from the…
Step Into the World
“Step into the world and share gifts for the benefit of one and all” – Rasheed Ogunlaru, Coach-Speaker-Author. A funny thing can happen in life; that we play shy, that we step aside, that we are far too quiet.. that we wait until ‘the perfect time.’ As a coach I meet so many talented people…
Reading Comprehension and Making Friends Seemed to be a Constant Issue
Because language comes later for children with autism, many of our kids struggle with reading comprehension. Even though my son is now an engineer, his weakness in this area was one of my main concerns when he was in elementary school. This worried me, since reading comprehension was part of almost every school subject. Ryan…
The Bridge to your Heart
We have reached a point! There is so much out there that is holding onto the old structure and wanting that structure to survive, because of fear, because of negativity and because of a sense that there is something evil out there. There is nothing evil, we’re just human beings. Of course, some people are…
Shifting to a More Loving Perspective
On the one hand I am starting to teach the method, which has been so good to me and to many others, and this activity feels very good, as you saw. On the other hand everything else crumbles. I don’t have enough patients to sustain a practice. Almost every single patient that I have ever…
Death, Regret and Living Fully
Death and death rites, and how Death and transition can keep us honest, and show us what we really value. I remember when I was younger, I used to comment that we send flowers when someone dies, as a guilt message. To me, then, it seemed to be saying- I didn’t really value you enough…
My Spiritual Journey: Walking Between Worlds
After returning to school following the half-term holiday here in the UK. I was looking forward to a break from routine, and even hoped that I might find time to rest with my daughters as we prepared for the wedding of my sister and brother-in-law. As it turned out, I spent most of the week…
Magical Imperfection
“It does not need to be perfect – or technically correct – to be magic” Rasheed Ogunlaru Sometimes in the strive for perfection we miss out on it being real, honest, authentic. It can be true of our own growth and the things we turn our hands to. Of course it’s important to do things…