Energize Your Heart » Rare Conversations: Audio Interview with Susanna Bair

Rare Conversations: Audio Interview with Susanna Bair

November 14th, 2007

An exclusive interview with Susanna.

Entry Filed under: The Heart

1. Patrick Baum | November 17th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

“I don’t know if you know how much a challenge it is to do step-parenting? But because as a step-parent, you are asked, you are challenged, to be really a mother, to give all and to understand deeply, and to be available…At one point I had four boys living with me from the age of two to eighteen…and my heart was really stretched to the edge
2. Patrick Baum | November 17th, 2007 at 3:50 pm

Susanna,

Thank you for sharing this interview with us. I marvel at your life story and appreciate so the model of your living from the heart. I am particularly moved as you recounted the challenge of step-parenting:

“I don’t know if you know how much a challenge it is to do step-parenting? But because as a step-parent, you are asked, you are challenged, to be really a mother, to give all and to understand deeply, and to be available…At one point I had four boys living with me from the age of two to eighteen…and my heart was really stretched to the edge…So I think you really need to have a heart, you really need to be there with your full heart, you need to feel and you need to be there, and there is not much that you can expect back.”

I am finding these practices of energizing the dimensions of my heart useful in helping me to “parent” my aging parents more generously and effectively.

Patrick

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