Helena Karchere

Some People May Hurt You

By HelenaAnn On April 4, 2024 · Leave a Comment

Parenting for emotional intelligence and psychological safety

When I picked my 10 year old up from Spring Break day camp last week, he told me another boy had purposefully kicked his leg, which was a more severe safety issue given that they were on an ice rink, with ice hockey skates on at the time. […]

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Interior Design for your Enneagram Type

By HelenaAnn On March 27, 2024 · Leave a Comment

The Enneagram is an ancient understanding of personality types that helps people improve their relationship to self and others. Read on to learn how to design a space that helps you best express yourself and live your healthiest lifestyle…

Type One: The Moralist, The Reformer

The Personality: Ones are purposeful, with a high degree of […]

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Nathaniel Rateliff with the Colorado Symphony: Inspiring, Challenging, Innovating

By HelenaAnn On March 6, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Nathaniel Rateliff at the Colorado Symphony, March 4, 2023

I really love music– having grown up in a musical family and singing and dancing being a favorite way to connect with people and myself. I listen to a wide variety– though folk, indie rock, showtunes, soul/R&B, House and world music are some favorites. This […]

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Tales of a Working Parent in 2020: The 3 Spheres of Attention

By HelenaAnn On September 15, 2020 · 1 Comment

I used to be able to separate my work life from my family life pretty easily–divided by a commute and hours of the day. And my care for global issues (the environment, social justice, societal issues) were always with me, but I could generally compartmentalize them during my work day. Now, all of these three […]

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Driving in Emotional Weather

By HelenaAnn On August 13, 2019 · 1 Comment

Last weekend as I was white-knuckling my steering wheel, going 45 in a 60 mph mountain stretch of I-70 E back towards Denver, and shrieking as a truck splashed a puddle over my windshield, I thought–this is a really good metaphor for the emotional ride of life… If I survive this (dramatic, I know), I […]

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Keep Your Labels To Yourself, Thanks

By HelenaAnn On September 20, 2016 · 1 Comment

I found myself snapping at a cashier the other day. She was trying, like well-intentioned strangers do, to engage with my three year old. Which is great. But it ends up coming all wrapped up in expectation, and judgement, like so many of our adult interactions. So my telling of this story and reflections on […]

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Empowering Children to Care for their World

By HelenaAnn On March 22, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Our role as parents is to take care of our children. And their role is to be taken care of. Simple, right? But never easy. And that’s only the beginning.

Being a mom has shown me a depth of care and compassion that I’ve never know before. And I’m so grateful to be in touch […]

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How to Not Take Anything Personally–with the Enneagram

By HelenaAnn On March 2, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Understanding and accepting our differences actually helps us to see how we are the same. Does that sound strange? It is the best way I can describe how this reality has been coming to me lately. And has inspired this second post in my series on the agreement to “not take anything personally“.

The […]

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How to Not Take Anything Personally—with Self-love and Forgiveness

By HelenaAnn On February 10, 2016 · 5 Comments

Perhaps you have encountered The Four Agreements—a book and guide for achieving personal freedom. One of the agreements is “do not take anything personally” by which Don Miguel Ruiz means that nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality. I’ve always seen this […]

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