Angela Moonan
  • Home
    • About Angela >
      • Corporate Storytelling >
        • You as The Hero >
          • Corporate Storytelling Workshop
        • WORKSHOPS >
          • Privacy Policy
          • Terms of Use
  • Beauty, Brains & Banking
  • The Mindful Leader
    • Executive Coaching
  • Blog
  • TESTIMONIALS
  • Contact
  • kensho
  • satori
  • Home
    • About Angela >
      • Corporate Storytelling >
        • You as The Hero >
          • Corporate Storytelling Workshop
        • WORKSHOPS >
          • Privacy Policy
          • Terms of Use
  • Beauty, Brains & Banking
  • The Mindful Leader
    • Executive Coaching
  • Blog
  • TESTIMONIALS
  • Contact
  • kensho
  • satori

Balancing between Mom & Mentor

1/2/2019

1 Comment

 
Picture
It's not always easy balancing between being a mom and mentor for your child.
​But it's a worthwhile pursuit.

It's amazing to me that I recorded this video one year ago. So much has changed. 2018 was an interesting year for all of us. Particularly for my daughter McKenna who made her own big transition from high school to college. For awhile there, we weren't so sure college was going to be a part of her path. Not due to academics, but to interest and appetite. One year later she's doing magnificently at college. And while it hasn't come without its' natural highs and lows, like with any change, she's blooming forth into her next chapter beautifully.

At each turn I was summoned to be discerning about where I stood in my role with her - confidante, mentor, supporter, mother, and in what the video below describes as knowing when to be a "non-mom." Which simply means, tending to my OWN life to allow her to tend to hers. 
I've learned that trusting McKenna means trusting myself - that I've done a good job raising her; doing the best that I can with the resources I had at the time. All that we wish to impart to our children may not always be the best for THEM. Trust that they will adopt what works, and drop what doesn't. That's their right. It's their path. I can nudge, and I can cheer lead, and I can disagree, but I wish not to judge. And I wish to invest the bulk of my energy in doing ME. That's the best gift a parent can ever grant to their children. Letting them choose, letting them become, allows them to learn the Art of Blooming their own life. 
Picture
1 Comment
    Bloom with Angela Moonan
    View my profile on LinkedIn
    Angela Moonan Executive Coach Forbes Coaches Council

    Angela Moonan, Author

    Are you ready to move UP?

    The world is providing us with the right stage to use new language, new connections and collaboration to take our companies to the next and necessary level of engagement - for both employees AND for customers and patients alike.

    From this higher vantage point, and looking through this new lens with heightened empathy, care, and alignment of your heart and head requires cultivating your mindfulness, your connection. Long gone are the days of meaningless transactions. Making meaningFULL connections and inspiring new conversations that take us somewhere we've never been before... that is the journey we embark upon now.

    A believer in truth, trust, beauty, and leading your company with an authentic heart, I help illuminate the path, shining a light in a dark room and guiding you toward finding alignment with the beauty and brains within your own, and your organizations' walls.

    Angela Moonan Bloom Executive Coach Forbes Coaches Council
    Bloom with Angela Moonan Corporate Storyteller
    Angela Moonan Bloom Executive Coach Forbes Coaches Council

    Archives

    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    September 2020
    August 2019
    January 2019
    June 2018
    April 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

forbes angela moonan

Services

SCHEDULE A MTG
​Beauty, Brains & Banking
Executive Coaching
​Mindful Leader
Storytelling 
Envisioning    
Digital Marketing
Media
​UP!  BLOG

UP! with Angela Moonan

About
Testimonials




Support

Contact
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Picture
© COPYRIGHT 2022. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Photo used under Creative Commons from VisitLakeland