How to create the space for others to grow around you
A guest post by Shelly Lefkoe As most of you know my beloved husband Morty has been through quite a journey. He was diagnosed with lymphoma some time ago and a few months ago became very, very ill. At that time our daughter Blake flew in from Hawaii for an indefinite stay to help care for him (she stayed three weeks); my other daughter Brittany came in from San Francisco where she now lives to spend a few days with us; my best friend of 50 years came from Nashville to stay with us for a week. During the week [...]
I have loved being a dad
I knew I didn’t want to have children. I could see why other people wanted children; I could understand how enjoyable they could be. But there were too many things I wanted to do with my life and there was no time for children in my life. I had been married twice and hadn’t had any children. When I married Shelly 32 years ago I still didn’t want children. And then just a few months after Shelly and I were married we kept running into a friend of ours, Patricia Albere, who had just had a son, Alexander. He was [...]
Don’t Take No For An Answer
This week’s post is written by my wife, Shelly Lefkoe, who has been a Certified Lefkoe Method Facilitator for about 25 years. Although it was originally written for parents, her message is extremely valuable for all people. This is a really important post. Please read it. * * * * * * We work so hard to teach our kids to take “no” for an answer. We get annoyed when they don’t [...]
A father's fear for his daughter
I’m writing this on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my wife Shelly and I are visiting our 29-year-old daughter Blake. Shortly after she arrived in Hawaii almost 11 years ago she started surfing. She now surfs waves as big as 20 feet and she has progressed to the level where there are some real risks in what she is doing. If surfing big waves wasn’t enough, earlier this year she told us that she had started skydiving. She fell in love with jumping out of airplanes and in no time had completed her 100th jump. Hanging out at [...]
