I AM…
Dear World,
I’ve been thinking about the weight of words. As children, we live curiously. We feel love and joy as we communicate through smiles, laughter, tears, clapping, and touching. We hear sounds all around, not knowing words are words with meaning. We consistently record and see images of life, books, objects, EVERYTHING!
Along the way, we are gradually taught to parrot sounds, leading to “mama, dada, dog.” Our internal videographer continues 24/7/365, observing sounds, tones, volume, body language, and a myriad of other observations that adults may easily ignore or dismiss.
While adults would love to control the impact of all surveillance brought into their child’s life, science continues to prove the only control we have is actually over our PERSONAL behaviors, choices, thoughts, conscious breathing, AND view of oneself.
Interestingly, the conscious desire to control unfortunately may cause subconscious actions and behaviors learned from your own childhood and personal experiences. During your personal early development, you recorded the world, too, soaking in the light and heaviness of words and actions. Depending on the lens you wore, context, volume of voice, body language, self expression, and multitudes of other verbal and nonverbal communication were absorbed and employed . . . subconsciously.
As children, we are rarely taught to create our own meaning of words, events, and experiences. Thus, reaffirming and solidifying others' hardwiring and perceptions firmly in the gray matter beneath our skull.
Imagine a world where WE ALL RETURN TO CURIOSITY!
🤔 What ignites curiosity within you?
🧐 What wonderings would you explore?
🤗 What would YOU tell yourself about YOU?
Choosing to shift your internal dialogue starts with YOU! Reframing how you show up in the world starts with YOU! Most critically, purposefully designing and fostering spaces for ALL to organically access starts and stops with YOU!
IMAGINE hearing, feeling, seeing, and believing:
💫 I BELONG!
💫 I am a change agent!
💫 I am love!
Guess what, you CAN! Print and share the image below! Your intentional action will promote collective curiosity, compassion, and courage today and all of the tomorrows!
Love,
Dana💛
Do a good DEED, and pass along my email!
WHAT PARENTS ARE SAYING ABOUT DEED!
I just wanted to reach out and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your incredible talk at The Liberated Child Homeschooling Summit! I kept yelling “YES!” at my screen, I felt like everything you said resonated with me so much. As a woman in my thirties just starting to unpack some childhood trauma and realizing how my conditioned responses shape my life, I’m hoping to break that cycle with my six year old son. We’re planning on homeschooling him this year for first grade and I am really looking forward to being more aware about incorporating social emotional learning in our daily lives. He is a very sensitive child (just like his mama) and I worry that I don’t always have the tools to respond to him the right way, so I’m going to hop on your website and learn as much as I can. Thank you again so much, the work you have done with all of your students is just absolutely inspiring!
~MM