Aware Parenting Stories with Joss Goulden

In this episode I am speaking with Katie Parker. Katie is a social worker, postpartum doula, parenting educator, women's circle facilitator and mentor for mums in business, passionate about supporting women to find their most authentic and resourced experience of motherhood and business, without the guilt, overwhelm and depletion. She loves supporting parents to build connected and respectful relationships with their children, through listening to feelings, play, and exploring their own childhood imprinting. Katie provides perinatal counselling, parenting and motherhood support through one-on-one sessions, workshops, local mothers' groups and retreats both online and in Gippsland, Victoria. She is also a mother of two beautiful children who have been her biggest teachers in life. Katie shares how she discovered Aware Parenting and all the different supports that she benefitted from as she started to practice it in her family. We discuss the deconditioning process from the cultural conditioning of the selfless mother as we learned to take care of ourselves as well as our children, to ask for help and to drop the guilt, the shoulds, the comparisons and the self-judgment. We talk about how we all need to have support in our lives for the role of motherhood and finding places where we can be authentically ourselves. We talk about how to intentionally slow down and having the space to receive listening ourselves in order to then hold space for our children. If you want to learn more about Katie, please visit her website www.katieparker.com.au and follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/katieparkerparenting/?hl=en. If you want to learn more about the Exploring Aware Parenting Community with Danni Willow, please visit www.awareparenting.com.au/community/

In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with Charlotte Pointeaux. Charlotte is a Menstrual cycle coach, speaker, entrepreneur and mother. She empowers children and parents on the transformative journey of puberty and the menstrual cycle. Her First Moon Circles school, trains global menstrual cycle educators to foster period positivity and open communication. In this powerful conversation, we talk about how Charlotte came to be doing this work and why it is that our collective cultural awareness about the menstrual cycle is so limited. She describes the seasons of our cycle and how we can live so deeply connected to the rhythm of our flow. We talk about how I supported my daughter as she approached puberty. Charlotte shares the profound impact of how we experience our first cycle on all the other rites of passage we experience as mothers, because it teaches us how to relate to and trust our bodies and cycles. She shares the importance of healing our parts around our menstrual cycle and what we have learnt about being a woman, in order to start to really embody the changes that we want to pass on to our children and experience for ourselves in the next chapters of our womanhood. We discuss the impact on the wider culture and the future of the world of increased awareness, understanding and connection to our bodies and our power, in order to bring change to the current capitalist, patriarchal system. Please note, this episode is not specifically about Aware Parenting. If you would like to learn more about Charolotte’s work, please visit www.thefirstmooncycle.com and www.charlottepointeaux.com and follow her on Instagram at charlotte.pointeaux.coach. If you want to learn more about my Aware Parenting and Natural Learning workshop on the 17th September 2023, please visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au/aware-pareting-workshops/ If you want to hear more from me, please Sign up for my mailing list here .

This conversation with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow, explores how we can make Aware Parenting a way of life. We talk about how Aware Parenting is an on-going way of being with our children and with ourselves. We share how we have learnt, and re-learnt and deepened our knowledge and understanding of Aware Parenting over and over again, to learn new nuances and layers. We talk about how we are invited to be exploring our thoughts, ways to meet our needs and our own stress and trauma. We highlight the need for support and community in this process and describe how our Exploring Aware Parenting Community is such a powerful way to dive deep into this approach and how to bring it to our families. We end with some invitations, suggestions and reflections for the listeners to live Aware Parenting more fully in their families. If you would like to learn more about the Exploring Aware Parenting Community with Danni and Joss, the doors open on the 28th August and will only be open for a month. The doors will then close again on the 22nd September, ready for the community to start again for another year on the 25th September. If you would like to join this amazing group of parents, deeply committed to this way of life, please go to my website www.awareparenting.com.au/community/ 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 from me please use this link to sign up for my mailing list https://awareparenting.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b0f3fda38d97c32be4d00a4aa&id=0c0521fedd

I am so happy to be releasing another powerful conversation with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. In this episode we talk about how to practice Aware Parenting with our partner/the co-parent of our children. We share different ways that we can support our partner/co-parent to come on board with Aware Parenting. We discuss how we can often become a source of suppression for our children through breast-feeding control patterns and how we can encourage our partner/co-parent to create connection with our children, to be able to support them to release and heal too. We share some powerful words from the "Aware Baby" by Dr Aletha Solter and share how we have supported our partners and ourselves on this journey. If you would like to learn more about the Exploring Aware Parenting Community with Danni and Joss, please go to my website www.awareparenting.com.au/community . 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 from me please use this link to sign up for my mailing list https://awareparenting.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b0f3fda38d97c32be4d00a4aa&id=0c0521fedd or visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au and follow me on social media at Aware Parenting with Joss.

In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with one of my favourite authors, Robin Grille. Robin is a psychologist in private practice, international speaker, trainer and parenting educator. He is the author of three internationally acclaimed books: ‘Parenting for a Peaceful World’, ‘Heart to Heart Parenting’ and ‘Inner Child Journeys’. His books, seminars and courses focus on healthy emotional development for children as well as parents; while building supportive, co-operative parenting communities. His work is animated by his belief that humanity’s future is largely dependent on the way we collectively relate to our children. In this conversation, Robin shares how the way we raise our children is so influential in terms of how our culture is shaped. He describes the impact on children of intentionally delivered, culturally normalised trauma on the resting baseline of the stress response of our children, and how this impacts us all at a cultural level. He describes some of the key ingredients necessary for promoting our children’s wellbeing, particularly the healing power of receiving listening and connection. He offers so much compassion to parents and shares how to do our own inner child healing, at the invitation of our children, so we are better resourced to then be the parent we want to be, and can reclaim our right to enjoy parenting. Please note this episode is not specifically about Aware Parenting. If you would like to learn more about Robin Grille, his website is www.robingrille.com and he is on Facebook and Instagram at Robin Grille. I highly recommend his books Parenting for a Peaceful World, Heart to Heart Parenting and Inner Child Journey’s – How our Children Grow us Up. If you would like to learn more from me please Sign up for my mailing list.

In this episode, I have the pleasure of talking with Marianne Littlejohn. Marianne has been a midwife for 40 years, an Aware Parenting Consultant for 30 years, and is a home-birth midwife. She has a Psychology degree and is currently studying through the school of Infant Mental Health in London. She has 3 sones and a grand-daughter. Marianne shares her powerful story of healing in motherhood, learning to bring authenticity to her relationship with herself and her relationships in her family. She describes how Aware Parenting has supported healing for herself and her children by teaching her how to give space to her children to express their feelings with loving, safe support. She shares her journey with compassion and kindness, for herself, for her mother and for her children. She shares how she now supports parents to develop attuned relationships with their babies, understanding the rich communication of babies so their needs can be met. She gives a beautiful example of how her son and daughter-in-law have practised Elimination Communication with her grand-daughter. If you would like to learn more about Marianne Littlejohn, please follow her on Facebook and Instagram @ Marianne Littlejohn and visit her website www.spiritualbirth.net If you would like to learn more from me please use this link to sign up for my mailing list https://awareparenting.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b0f3fda38d97c32be4d00a4aa&id=0c0521fedd

This episode is part 4 of a series of conversations that I am sharing with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow about supporting sibling relationships and navigating the challenges of having more than one child. We share how we have approached the parallel process of healing and processing our wounds from our sibling relationships as well as how to prepare our first born child for the birth of another child. We share how we have supported harmony between our children and how to listen to feelings of more than one child at once. We give examples of attachment play that we have found particularly helpful and we talk about the need for us to get support and listening in order to support and listen to our children, particularly at times of conflict between them. If you would like to learn more about Danni, please follow her on social media at Danni Willow or visit her beautiful brand new website www.thewayofthewoman.com.au. If you would like to learn. More from me please use this link to sign up for my mailing list https://awareparenting.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b0f3fda38d97c32be4d00a4aa&id=0c0521fedd or visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au and follow me on social media at Aware Parenting with Joss.

I really enjoyed this conversation in today’s episode with Linde Lambrechts. Linde is a psychologist, psychotherapist and aware parenting instructor in Belgium. She is training in the Marion Method and is mother to 2 boys aged 7 and 5. She is really passionate about supporting families with Aware Parenting and is deeply committed to preventing mental health problems in the next generation by supporting parent in their parenting and showing them that they can thrive in parenthood. In this episode we discuss how Linde has learnt to listen to feelings, the immense power of Aware parenting for both parents and children and how she uses loving limits with her children. She shares how she ensures that offering play to her children is enjoyable for everyone. She describes how Aware Parenting moves us from huge challenge and barely surviving, to a different way, where everyone gets their needs met, so we can thrive as a family and prevent mental health problems for our children. If you would like to learn more about Linde, I invite you to follow her on Instagram at lovinglimits. If you would like to learn more from me please use this link to sign up for my mailing list https://awareparenting.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b0f3fda38d97c32be4d00a4aa&id=0c0521fedd

In this episode I have the pleasure of talking with Yaelle Grinberg. Yaelle is a Child Psychologist, Montessori Educator and mother of one beautiful son. She supports parents in changing and shifting the family dynamic by translating children’s behaviours in order to have their emotional and developmental needs met. In this episode Yaelle shares how she came to work as a parenting specialist, how she supports parents and how she applied her knowledge of Montessori principles to her work and her family. We discuss the importance of us doing our healing work. She shares the impact of our early childhood experienced and having our emotions dismissed as children on the adult we become. She talks about the significant power of receiving acknowledgement in healing our individual trauma, our cultural trauma and inter-generational trauma. Yaelle describes how we attune to our children so we can meet their needs, see them for who they truly are and develop close and loving foundational relationships with them. We talk about how we can support ourselves through parenthood. If you would like to learn more about Yaelle, her website is www.llcrparenting.com.au and follow her on Instagram at llcr.parenting.specialist. If you would like to join the workshop I am hosting by Dr Aletha Solter on Discipline without Punishments or Rewards, the link is here https://awareparenting.com.au/discipline-without-punishments-or-rewards-workshop/ If you would like to learn more from me please use this link to sign up for my mailing list https://awareparenting.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b0f3fda38d97c32be4d00a4aa&id=0c0521fedd #consciousparenting #awareparentingstories #parentingpodcast #supportforparents #compassion #motherhoodjourney #listeningtofeelings #respectfulparenting #healing #trust #montessori

This episode is part 4 of a series of conversations that I am sharing with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow about the lists of 3 in Aware Parenting and how to connect the theory to practice. In this episode we talk about the 3 things our children (and ourselves) need in order to sleep. We share the 3 steps that we can use when there has been rupture or conflict with our children in order to rewind, reconnect and repair so there is deepening of our connection. We also share the 3 aspects of offering compassion – to our children, to ourselves and to others. It is a really beautiful conversation and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. If you would like to learn 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 from me please use this link to sign up for my mailing list https://awareparenting.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b0f3fda38d97c32be4d00a4aa&id=0c0521fedd