Shauna Niequist on Practicing Self-Compassion

My husband, Aaron, and I and our boys, Henry and Mac, are lifelong Midwesterners, but a few years ago we moved to Manhattan.We made the move from a house in the suburbs of Chicago to an 825-square-foot apartment on the third floor of a beautiful neo-Gothic redbrick building in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. A few days later, the kids started school—Mac at a primary school just a block away, and Henry at a middle school down in the West Village. These were great schools, and our kids