Last Friday, to segue out of summer mode and back into workshop mode, we held a Mama’s Five Hour Fill Up from 9:00-2:00. It was an awesome day with time for introspection, visualization, questions, crafting and pie! The theme was joy and we focused on ways to find more of it and to give space to the joyous things in life. It was a great day and one of the moms commented that it was like “preschool for moms”. I love that because it implies that not only are you getting your needs met, but there’s some creative outlet as well.

Carrie and I love those fill ups and have decided this fall to offer them monthly – each with a different theme: back to school, tending the partnership, setting intentions, finding joy, creating the holidays, and more. Our first one of the fall season will be on Friday, August 28^th – the first week of school! And the theme will be Back-to-school and making sure that the transition into it is smooth sailing. We’ll have writing exercises, guided meditation, crafting, time to rest, relax, fill your cup, and, of course, PIE!

We lare really looking forward to creating more of these workshops and to providing mamas with the time and the space to get in touch with their joy, their partnership, their family life, and with their own self. All who have attended our past fill-ups will agree that spending 5 hours to fill your cup, is definitely 5 hours well spent. And as one mama pointed out, “I didn’t think I had time for this, so I knew it was essential that I make the time.”

We’re also putting a few other workshops on the calendar such as the Slow Family Living workshop, babysitter’s workshop and Creating a Family Mission Statement. Fall is such a time of change, we’d love to help you find ways to make that change for your family as smooth, satisfying and connected as it possibly can be.

There was an article in Sunday’s Newark Star Ledger about the move toward Slow Parenting and Slow Family Living. I am excited to get the nod from my beautiful motherland where I still have great attachment and many friends and family. You can read the article here…

The one thing that was missed in the story is the fact that Carrie and I are not two moms, as was stated. Rather we are one mom of four kids and one pre- and perinatal psychologist. I say this because I think this combination is really the heart of our collaboration. This blending of our experience and training offers the collective knowledge we hold of both the scientific and the practical sides of childhood development and family life. From our passion for all our work encompasses, came the formation of Slow Family Living.

When we sat down together to determine just what it was we were offering with Slow Family Living we came up with this…

We are offering a way of thinking about, seeing and implementing family life. We provide the science, the practicals and the lens for understanding, believing and appreciating the richness of building and maintaining lifelong family connections. We want people to see that family life can be the well where members can go to fill up and to have fun. We offer tools, support and inspiration that guide people in slowing down, connecting and enjoying life as individuals and within the family.

If this is your first time on our site, we hope you will browse around and see what we are offering and why. If you are interested in finding out more about your own Slow Family Living, please download our free Slow Family Living workbook or our Family Mission Statement workbook – both available by clicking the buttons in the sidebar.

If you need guidance or inspiration in working through the Slow Family Living workbook, please join us Monday night, April 20th from 8-10 pm central time via teleclass. We’d love to have you.

We are both extremely passionate about helping families truly find the goodness in family life. We strive to help families live an intentional family living that resonates with how they envision a connected family life to be. We could not imagine more heartfelt work. We are grateful you are here and we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways you have found to slow down, connect and enjoy your own family life.

**Slow Family Living Workshop: Slow Down, Connect and Enjoy Family Life***

Lots of folks have said how excited they are for the information and ideas presented in the Slow Family Movement. Many of those same folks though, and many others too, have said they want to slow it down, but they don’t know how or where or when to begin. Things are too busy, too crazy, or too chaotic, to even begin the process of slowing down, connecting and enjoying family life the way they truly want to enjoy it.

If ever there was a time though to slow it down, now is it. You can’t turn around without hearing news or conversation or implications of our need to put on the brakes. This one-night workshop will teach you how to slow things down for your own family – emotionally, physically and even financially.

We will cover ways to figure out which aspects of your family life feel too fast, expensive and out of control. We’ll offer some useful tips on reigning it in with both your time and your wallet. We’ll cover the material in our free Slow Family workbook in addition to offering some practical ideas for other methods of beginning your family’s journey into “slowing”.

In this class you can finally find the time for ways you and your family can find more time.

To register click here.