Finding the Floor - A thoughtful approach to midlife motherhood and what comes next‪.‬ Camille Johnson

Hi friends! June is proving to be pretty busy. So this month I will be posting some older episodes for you to enjoy. This one from the Book, I don't have to make everything all better and I think a great review. Enjoy!! “All of us want to be listened to and understood.” This episode I begin sharing principles from the book “I Don’t Have to Make it All Better” By Gary B. and Joy Saunders Lundberg. The first two principles that I shar...

“What time is it? Summertime!!” Summer is here for us and now what? This episode I share a few of our plans for the summer and a few reflections on my favorite time at the pool with my kids when they were all small. I also reflect on how I am doing with the concepts from The Anatomy of Peace book. I share an experience that I can’t decide if it’s a failure or simply me not correcting very compassionately. I then share how this podcast will go this summer, s...

“Peace – whether at home, work, or between peoples – is invited only when an intelligent outward strategy is married to a peaceful inward one.” This episode is the last one of the series talking about the book, The Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute. In these last chapters we learn about the rest of the Pyramid of Change that was mentioned in the first episode. It is with this pyramid that we can finally learn how to help things go right. We learn how after our heart is at...

“While you are correct that a heart at peace alone won’t solve your complex outer problems, those problems can’t begin to be solved without it.” Another part talking about the book, The Anatomy of Peace by the Arbinger Institute. This week I share the chapters that help us identify how to get out of the box and go from a heart at war to a heart at peace. I share more about Yusuf’s background and the person he met that helped him get his heart to peace. In these chapter...

“Joining the youth in their hardships helps them because it helps us not to invite their hearts to go to war.” We continue learning from the book, The Anatomy of Peace by the Arbinger Institute. This week I begin to talk more about the process of getting our hearts to peace. I also tell of the metaphor of taking off our shoes; a way to allow space for others to help their hearts get to peace, thanks to the camper Jenny. Then I also share more about Avi’s story an...

“It will serve neither ourselves nor our loved ones to think that we are better.” This week I share more about The Anatomy of Peace by the Arbinger Institute. We are in part 5 and going over a review of what the book has shared so far. In the story the parents are finishing their first day and I share a list of all of the things that the parents have learned so far. With a little more clarification I share the importance of our way of being even if the behavior is the ...