Archive - Growing Humans

April 2025

When Terror Takes the Stage: Facing Fallback in a World on Fire

A personal reckoning with fear, responsibility, and the developmental demand to stand up even when falling silent feels safer.

Apr 23 •

Valerie Livesay, PhD

November 2024

September 2024

How Educators Grow

The impact teachers have on children's becoming can be profoundly transformative. But is teaching about just transfering knowledge or much more? And…

Sep 27, 2024 •

Alis Anagnostakis, PhD

,

Dr. Daniel Kaufman

, and

Valerie Livesay, PhD

1:20:16

Raising Kids or Raising Ourselves?

Where does the Child within us end and and the Grown-Up begin? And how can our own kids become mirrors in which we can truly see ourselves and gauge how…

Sep 9, 2024 •

Alis Anagnostakis, PhD

August 2024

The Journey Matters as Much as the Destination

How my kid taught me a precious lesson about staying present and awake to the path, instead of fixated on outcome, particularly when the path gets hard…

Aug 28, 2024 •

Alis Anagnostakis, PhD

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts