Why Is Explaining Child Spirit So Complicated?

Over the years, I have found that talking about Child and Family Spirit, spiritual approaches and nurturing the hearts and souls of those we serve bring about hesitancy, inner unrest, skepticism and fear in many of my educator and other interventionist colleagues.

I have yet to perfect a way to share what I call a spiritual approach that can be well-received by mainstream teachers and other professionals.

Yet I know for a fact that we are missing the mark in our educational systems and intervention services when we disregard the spirit aspect that exists in all of us and when we neglect to nurture that beautiful mysterious something.

We hear to care for the whole child…but we rarely do. We say to heal our own inner child…that’s a rare occurrence, too, in the big picture of things. Physical life has become too distracting.

I have stayed connected to the work in our schools and our communities. It’s a mixed bag out here. I witness the spirits of our kids being beaten down every day. But I also witness educators and providers who, even when exhausted and overwhelmed, lift up our kids and nurture that beautiful uniqueness inside of them that I call spirit.

There’s so much hope. There’s so much love.

Injecting spirit, heart and soul into mainstream modalities is not religiosity. Nurturing spirit means lifting up the part inside of us and those we serve that is deeply human. Extraordinarily kind. Perfectly real.

And I am hopeful that by talking about it enough, and in showing by example, we can multiply the numbers of children whose spirits can thrive in our world exponentially. Let’s get started!

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