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Heather Schlessman
Heather Schlessman

Heather Schlessman, PhD is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who has spent her career either working with or teaching about families. She is also a mother who, like so many other parents, spent years muddling her way raising 3 wonderfully different children, one who happens to be experiencing a disability. Fortunately she has a life partner who muddled along with her. Spending most of her time trying to be perfect, as that would be the safest way to live, she became aware of a desire to be able to see people in a more compassionate way. Little did she know that the person she needed the most compassion for was herself. There is a saying that when you are ready to learn a teacher will appear, and so it was for Dr. Schlessman. She was introduced to the work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, the developer of Nonviolent Communication, and her world completely changed. She learned a way to have an intimate connection with herself and others, a way to truly contribute. Her passion now is to help others find their way to a more compassionate life. You can find more of Dr. Schlessman’s empathic expressions along with her husband’s, Rev. Mark Schlessman on their website.

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Blogs The Giraffe Life 

Saturday Night Live is doing well and here’s why

April 16, 2017April 16, 2017 Heather Schlessman 267 Views

“We don’t do anything that isn’t for good reasons. The serial killer did that for good reasons, to serve life.

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Racism: Can we be the home of the brave once again?

July 10, 2016July 10, 2016 Heather Schlessman 291 Views

Like many other people today I am angry and fed up. In the last 48 hours we have seen videos

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Parenting: Children can learn to make good choices

February 9, 2016February 9, 2016 Heather Schlessman 508 Views

This week I saw some examples of parents who didn’t appear to understand that there was another choice to parenting

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Life has possibilities so be open

January 28, 2016January 28, 2016 Heather Schlessman 381 Views

Setting intentions isn’t a popular thing to do anymore. To many it sounds like wishing on a star. You envision

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Fear doesn’t have to control our lives

July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 Heather Schlessman 278 Views

Like many of us, my goal in life is to be happier. This is so difficult when I read the

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Children and manners: Teach them well

July 23, 2015July 22, 2015 Heather Schlessman 312 Views

When children come to see me for a checkup I give them a book. It’s part of a program our

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Relationships: What we want

July 15, 2015 Heather Schlessman 277 Views

Our family is in the process of moving from one house to another. I’ve counted, and we have moved 13

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Child vaccinations: Intentions are important

July 8, 2015July 7, 2015 Heather Schlessman 313 Views

Photo above: A child receiving a typhoid vaccine in the 1950’s. (Wikipedia) Recently I had an experience while working with

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Marriage Equality: Compromise is wrong approach

July 1, 2015July 1, 2015 Heather Schlessman 311 Views

The definition of  a compromise is “…a way of reaching agreement in which each person or group gives up something that was

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Toddlers: Peace in the house

June 28, 2015 Heather Schlessman 502 Views

I recently saw in my Facebook feed a picture of a 2 1/2 -year-old child laying on a bathroom floor

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