Unmasking Your Helpful Self

It is SO hard to remain somewhat sane and productive when every day is the same as the day before. Talk about Groundhog's Day! It was great fun to watch on the screen but not so fun to experience it in real life. To help...

An Even Greater Light

Even in the greatest darkness there is an even greater light. This truly helpful Wisdom came to me years ago. It was truly helpful because it gave me HOPE. Sometimes if we cling to the present moment because it’s so good we fear it might...

Teacher Blazing A Pause Trail To The Moon

  National Outstanding Educator and Project Green Tree Trailblazing Teacher, Kathy Rusert, is blazing a trail teaching students, parents and teachers the practice of "Pause For Your Helpful Self". Ms. Rusert is using our new book, Kids Can Pause and Parents Too! Get to Know Your Helpful...

Annual Day of LOVE – Roosevelt High School

The Mentor Within told me 16 years ago, "Speak to the crowd." Why sit back? Go forth, be with, share the light and see the light within others. If people won't come to the LOVE, I am trekking out with LOVE to Love the people!...

Youth In Need Educators Learn Pause Dance To Share With Families

 Up on their feet rockin' a PAUSE DANCE taught by Eileen Wolfington, Coordinator of Health & Wellness for Kingdom House. Open Minds, Open Hearts as The Pause Crew joins with educators to share the gift of Pause! These teachers work in childcare centers and go...

St. Louis Public Schools Transition for Life Fair

The transition from high school to adult life can be tricky business to say the least. I remember feeling totally lost after high school graduation. I had a job at McDonald's Hamburgers, but where do I go from here? The Pause Crew had a blast being...

Immigrant Women Pause

I don't have time to pause. I get it. Women often feel, and I imagine men too, who will do the dishes, make dinner, go to work, help the homeless, volunteer, pray, hope, love? Who? Women can feel pushed to do more, go faster,...

Tennis Player from Venezuela On Love

"You start loving you when you start pausing. We have to be in touch with ourselves. How do we find a way through our problems? Pause. Your Helpful Self will make good decisions for you - we think too much," Danny Bandres volunteered to...