by minh-hai | May 10, 2022 | General
A few summers ago, our family was finishing up dinner outside, everyone done eating except my then 4-year old son. I remember this exchange with him: Levi: Mom, what’s that feeling called? Me: What feeling? Levi: That feeling when you’re full but you...
by minh-hai | May 10, 2022 | General
It’s 10:45 AM and I have one of my favorite meals on the planet in front of me: a steaming hot bowl of bún bò huế, a spicy noodle soup that originates from Central Vietnam. I’m sitting outside, overlooking the parking lot of this family restaurant,...
by minh-hai | Oct 1, 2021 | General
In those early weeks and months of parenthood, I felt a new, unfamiliar vulnerability in my bones that I didn’t have language for, and coped by reading endless parenting books. I tried to resist this new vulnerability by taking refuge in Dan Siegel books the way that...
by minh-hai | Aug 30, 2021 | General
I saw this on social media recently and can definitely relate to the sentiment with the new school year approaching: I have two kids, ages 6 and 4, and when they’re having a meltdown or fighting with each other, one of my go-to parenting mantras is...
by minh-hai | Aug 30, 2021 | General
I’ve been thinking about something Krista Tippett said on her On Being podcast (episode on the pandemic’s impact on our nervous systems): “We need to take in what it has meant, this year, that we have become a danger to each other by virtue of our...
by minh-hai | Apr 14, 2020 | General
I spotted this on my walk today: An excerpt from a poem by Rilke: Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Seeing this made me want to write you. So many are struggling right now. Prolonged uncertainty, stress,...
