Developing compassion is critical when working with children and families, for when we are able to put ourselves in another’s shoes, we understand them better and are more able to validate their emotions. 

I invite the reader… to get to know yourself better… to learn about how you became who you are, what and who influenced and affected you, but most of all, how the interactions with adults in your childhood made you feel… [I invite you again and again] into a space we often leave unexamined, because we might have put aside emotions that were too uncomfortable to deal with when we were children. When I become more aware of how I tick emotionally, I am able to be more intentional, and have more options in choosing how to behave–not only with children, but, in fact, with everyone in my life