What We Nurture

A few years ago, Krista Tippett hosted an event in Detroit -- a city in flux -- on the theme of raising children. The conversation that resulted with the Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist Sylvia Boorstein has been a companion to her and to many from that day forward. Here it is again as an offering for Mothers Day in a world still and again in flux, and where the matter of raising new human beings feels as complicated as ever before. 

Sylvia gifts us this teaching: that nurturing children's inner lives can be woven into the fabric of our days and that nurturing ourselves is also good for the children and everyone else in our lives.

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