Monday, October 22, 2012

Embracing Your Energy....And Parenting With Respect For It.

Okay, that was a long kind of weird title.

But this has been some thing on my heart for the past year or so. It has been a huge part of keeping my eyes on my own work. A key to my ultimate daily goal of being present.

INTROVERT? EXTROVERT?
Most of my life I thought that introverts were "shy" and "quiet" people and that extroverts were "friendly" "loud",  and "out going".. 

I thought I was an extrovert until about 5 years ago. I love people  I consider myself a fairly friendly person and I can be very outgoing in the right situations.

It wasn't until I read Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka that I had the light bulb moment: I am an introvert!

In her book Kurcinka explains that introversion and extroversion have nothing to with shyness or friendliness.