Self-compassion unlocked something in me. A medical doctor turned psychotherapist, I carried a writer inside me for years before I found the confidence to let her out. Today I write in two languages and my work continues to grow. That same transformative power is at the heart of HeartMinded Parenting. Most of us parent the way we were parented — unconsciously reproducing fear-based, punishment-driven patterns we rarely stopped to question. Transforming our mental schemes, our behavioral patterns demand more than the application of new techniques. It requires looking honestly at what we absorbed as children: how we were

The story Qué será, será — the lilting refrain Doris Day sang, a song my mother and I used to sing together when I was nine, in a playful, carefree way. The uncertainty made me smile. The future is not ours to see? To me, it felt like a bag full of promises and possibilities. Then, one day, I woke up to sorrow. I climbed lazily out of bed. Through the windows, a gray day loomed — a promise of rain. As I peeked through the door, I saw my dad, still wearing the suit and overcoat from

When Anger Turns Fatal: Our Collective Responsibility You may remember this case. In 2007, the world was shaken by devastating news: Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year-old South Korean English major, killed 32 people and then took his own life at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. It remains the deadliest shooting rampage by a single gunman in modern U.S. history. As that tragedy reminded us, unchecked anger has the power to destroy families and drive human beings to commit unthinkable acts. In the aftermath of killings like this one, enormous WHYs hammer our minds. Cho killed his fellow students

WITHOUT BORDERS She has lived in the mountains and by the Colombian Coasts, in Montreal, and in Southwest Florida. She has been a physician, a psychotherapist, a Reiki healer, an educator, and a writer — never for long content to stay within a single frontier. Not restlessness, but a deep curiosity about what lies on the other side of every boundary: geographic, professional, and personal. A Florida resident since 2000, Silvia Casabianca has put into poetry the vicissitudes of leaving. Not all departures are chosen. In these pages she shares with others who are on the same crossing