

Aware Parenting Stories with Joss Goulden
Aware Parenting Stories with Joss Goulden
The Aware Parenting Stories podcast explores the world of parenting through conversations with people who are passionate about parenting and supporting others to parent in this beautiful way. Each week I interview inspiring parents to discuss the joys and challenges of parenting that we all face in our families. The aim is to inspire us all on our parenting adventures and to bring more compassion, connection and community to our lives.
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Apr 19, 2024 • 51min
Episode 76 - Connection and Cooperation with Ellie Gut-Silverman
Ellie Gut-Silverman is an Aware Parenting Instructor who lives with her husband Gideon, their beautiful daughter Zeva, their Irish Wolfhound Alfie, three bulls and three goats just outside Bellingen in NSW. She is an aware parenting instructor, dedicated to supporting families throughout pregnancy and in early parenthood, and is passionate about supporting others on their paths of reparenting, repatterning, and healing so that they can live and parent with more presence, compassion, ease and joy.
In this conversation, Ellie shares how she discovered aware parenting and started listening to feelings and what she has learnt to support herself to listen. We talk about learning to trust our children, through the on-going practice of listening to some of the many feelings our children have. Ellie shares how interconnected we are with our children and how important it is for us to offer ourselves these same practices of loving listening and meeting our needs in order to be able to support our children. She shares how aware parenting practices have supported a deepening in her relationship with her daughter, herself and her husband, and how she supports her daughter to be more willingly cooperative using attachment play.
To learn more about Ellie, please visit www.awarevillage.com.au, and follow her on Instragram at aware_village.

Apr 8, 2024 • 60min
Episode 75 The Power of Listening Partnerships with Belynda Smith
Belynda Smith is mother to two beautiful boys are now in their tweens/teens, a single mum living in Perth WA. She has been a Certified Hand in Hand Parenting Instructor (since 2017) and built on this solid foundation with a Certification as a Level 1 Aware Parenting Instructor in 2023. She is passionate about parenting with connection, supporting parents in the many roles she has, sharing particularly about the importance of listening for us all and reading, connection and books.
In this episode Belynda shares her journey with Aware Parenting. She describes how receiving listening for herself transformed her early parenting journey from struggle and overwhelm to being able to be the parent she wanted to be. She shares how aware parenting has given her a nuanced understanding of each of her children’s unique needs and what lies underneath behaviour in the difficult moments. We talk about all the ways getting regular, consistent listening for ourselves, ideally in multiple different spaces, supports us in ways that make aware parenting possible. We describe our current set ups for listening and we reassure listeners that having struggles is a normal part of being human and needing support is a natural need for us all. Belynda also shares her love of books and why books bring so much value and joy to her life.
If you would like to learn more about Belynda please visit her website https://belyndasmith.com.au/ and follow her on Facebook: ParentingwithBelyndaSmith and Instagram: @belyndasmithparenting Her podcast is called Tales from the Toolbox Podcast

Apr 3, 2024 • 52min
Episode 74 - Creating a Family-Centred Life with Helen Marshall
Welcome back to a new episode where I talk with one of my best friends, Helen Marshall. Helen is an inspiring speaker on real food, value-based business in wellness, and creating a life you love. She is the founder of Primal Alternative, a company that empowers people to run their own home-based baking business through the Primalista Licence. She has over 30 years of experience in the health and wellness industry. Based in Albany WA with her husband and 2 children, Helen enjoys Body Balance, meditation, walks in nature, and champagne in the spa.
In this episode Helen shares her motherhood story and how she came to practising Aware Parenting when her children were teenagers. She shares some of the ways that she incorporates Aware parenting into her family, how she has learnt to listen to feelings and offer special time. She shares how she has learnt to meet her own needs and take care of herself. She shares how she set up her business Primal Alternative to help over 290 Primalistas in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and the UK create successful grain-free food businesses from home.
To learn more about Primal Alternative, please visit www.primalalternative.com and follow her on Facebook and Instagram at Primal Alternative.

Mar 22, 2024 • 1h 3min
Episode 73 - Healing Stress & Trauma with Loving Listening
Welcome back to a new episode where I talk about healing from stress and trauma through loving listening. I talk about what trauma is, what some of the sources of stress are for children and how these experiences affect children. I share how our children’s bodies respond to stress and how the expression of feelings with loving support is a natural healing process. I talk about creating the necessary sense of emotional safety for healing to occur and what is not supportive for our children in this process. I share some very helpful quotes and descriptions from Dr Aletha Solter’s book Healing your Traumatized Child. I also share lots of tips and advice about how to listen to our children in a way that supports healing and how to get that for ourselves too and how to explore and process what comes up for us when listening to feelings.
If you want support to listen to your children and help them to heal from stress and trauma or if you want support to explore and release your own feelings, I am here for you.

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Feb 14, 2024 • 1h 6min
Episode 72 - I'm Here and I'm Listening with Marion Rose
Marion Rose, a best-selling author and Aware Parenting instructor, shares her insights on connection and healing in parenting. She discusses her new book, 'I'm Here and I'm Listening,' emphasizing emotional bonds and the need for parental self-awareness. The conversation dives into strategies for navigating children's aggression, the importance of attachment play, and fostering trust in parent-child relationships. Marion also touches on the transformative journey of re-parenting and supporting children's innate wisdom, making it a powerful dialogue for all parents.

Feb 7, 2024 • 58min
Episode 71 - Facilitating our Children's Learning with Leah McDermott
Welcome back to a new episode where I have a conversation with Leah McDermott. Leah is an unschooling advocate and mother of three. After over a decade spent in the world of education, two Masters of Education degrees, and multiple teaching certifications, Leah slowly began to realize that the way we are teaching our children in public schools went against everything that we knew to be true about learning acquisition and child development. Her passion for helping other children and families led to her developing a child-led learning curriculum, creating a supportive space online for parents, and opening Bridge Academy - a private umbrella school for homeschoolers, Leah continues her life’s work of encouraging adults to unlearn what they’ve always believed to be true as they lean fully into trusting their children as natural, capable learners. Leah currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, Brian, their three boys, and a collection of pets.
In this episode we have a powerful conversation about some of the damaging long-term effects of schooling and the pressure that children often face at school. We share many of the benefits we have seen of supporting children to learn in their own way, in their own timing, relaxed and self-connected at home. We talk about cultivating trust in our children and dealing with the judgements and questions of others so that we can truly enjoy facilitating our children’s learning at home.
If you want to learn more about Leah’s work, please follow her on social media at Your Natural Learner or her website https://www.bridgeacademy.us/. If you want to learn more about Natural Learning from me, I have a series of articles on my website here https://awareparenting.com.au/articles/?_select_a_category=homeschoolingandnaturallearning. I also offer workshops on Natural Learning here https://awareparenting.com.au/my-courses/parenting-workshops/ and run an online natural learning and aware parenting community together with Marion Rose https://awareparenting.com.au/parenting-coaching/community/. We also have a podcast series together The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast, that you can find on all podcast platforms.

Jan 18, 2024 • 58min
Episode 70 - Healing for Ourselves with Danni and Joss
I am so excited to share this latest conversation with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. It is my favourite of our conversations so far! In this episode we explore how we are invited time and time again in parenting to do our own inner work. We talk about why this is often so painful and difficult and share some of the things that can get in the way of us doing our own healing. We share some of the many ways we have supported ourselves and the clients we work with to heal stress and trauma in order for us to be able to offer Aware Parenting to our children. We talk about how doing our own healing work is such a powerful gift to our children too. We end by talking about what we would have loved to have known at the beginning of our Aware Reparenting journey to have made the process so much less painful.
Stay tuned for more details about the new online monthly circle that Danni and I are offering soon. If you would like to learn more, please email me support@awareparenting.com.au.
If you want to know more about Danni, please follow her on social media at Danni Willow or visit her website www.thewayofthewoman.com.au.
If you would like to learn more about my offerings and courses, please visit www.awareparenting.com.au.

Jan 13, 2024 • 1h 1min
Episode 69 - Navigating the Challenges with our Partner/Co-parent
Welcome back to a new episode where I respond to a listener’s question about how to navigate the challenging, messy moments we have with our partner/co-parent. In this 3rd episode about partners, I talk about how to bring more compassion and connection to our partnerships using the Aware Parenting framework and how the aspects and principles support us to have better relations. I talk about cultivating trust in our families and supporting our children at times of conflict and disconnection. I talk about how to reduce conflict and tools for bringing more empathy and connection between us and the other parent of our children.
If you want to learn more about this, my course Aware Partnering in Parenthood dives into all this in depth. To learn more, please visit https://awareparenting.com.au/my-courses/aware-partnering-in-parenthood/. At the time of recording this is January 2024, there is a 20% off sale on this course. I also offer joint sessions with both partners to support more ease and connection in parenting. I invite you to get in touch if you would like more support.

Dec 14, 2023 • 54min
Episode 68 - Thriving in the holidays with Danni and Joss
I am so happy to share this final conversation for 2023 with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. This episode explores how to bring the framework of aware parenting to the holiday times to bring more ease, joy and harmony to what can be a really challenging time of the year. We discuss why it’s often so hard to navigate the expectations and pressures of holiday times and share how to use all the beautiful tools of aware parenting to support ourselves and our children with the big feelings that come up at these times. We share how we have approached Christmas and holidays in our families and share some invitations to support you through it too.
If you want to know more about Danni, please follow her on social media at Danni Willow or visit her website www.thewayofthewoman.com.au.
If you would like to learn more about my offerings and courses, please visit www.awareparenting.com.au.

Dec 7, 2023 • 1h
Episode 67 - Aware Partnering in Parenthood with Danni and Joss
This episode is another in the series of conversations with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. This episode explores how to navigate parenting together with the other parent of our child/ren. We discuss the impact of becoming parents on our relationships and how to navigate parenthood when we have different perspectives on how to parent. We share some things we have found helpful to support conscious connection and respectful communication with our partners. We talk about how to navigate it when our inner children show up for us and our partners/co-parents and how to model more conscious and healthy relationships to our children, having not received that ourselves. We share how to support our children and ourselves at times of conflict, disconnection or separation.
If you want to know more about Danni, please follow her on social media at Danni Willow or visit her website www.thewayofthewoman.com.au. If you would like to learn more about my new Aware Partnering in Parenthood Course, please visit https://awareparenting.com.au/my-courses/aware-partnering-in-parenthood/