About Me


Betsy Henry is a mom, wife and a teacher.  She grew up in the Chicago area with two amazing parents and three wonderful siblings.  Betsy was always writing as a child and was told all the time she should be a writer.  She knew that the writing would come when it was time.


She moved to Colorado after attending Indiana University.  She wanted to come back after having spent wonderful family vacations in the winter and the summer.  Colorado is more wonderful than she even dreamed!


Betsy first taught third grade.  She then stayed home with her three boys for 10 years before being given the opportunity to teach preschool.


She loves to read, garden and travel with her family.  She wrote this book in the hope that other mothers will be able to let go and live happier lives.  She lives with her husband and three boys in Littleton, Colorado.


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How To Be A Zen Mama


 
 

Why I Wrote The Book:  How To Be A Zen Mama


The idea for this book was conceived on a trip to Boulder, Colorado.  My husband and I had just finished a challenging year with our children; grades had fallen and limits were being tested.  The teenage years are not easy, as anyone with even one teenage child will tell you.  Being a positive and optimistic person I tried to find the lessons in all of our experiences and understand where we had made mistakes.  I couldn’t continue to be the person I’d become over the summer and the new school year.  I was a frantic, nagging mother worried about my kids in this modern world with text messaging and Facebook and our demanding culture that wants them to be volunteers, super athletes and ivy league students.  Yet at my job as a preschool teacher I felt more Zen-like, giving out pearls of wisdom to those overly concerned parents of my 3-5 old year kids. I decided at that point that I had my own life to live and I needed to let my children live their life.  If I let go, maybe we’d all be happier.  I decided to combine the two, the frantic mother and the Zen like teacher and become one, become a “Zen Mama”.



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How To Be A Zen Mama - 13 Ways to Let Go,

Stop Worrying and Be Closer to Your Children