Aware Parenting Stories with Joss Goulden

I so enjoyed this episode, which is a conversation with Jai Singh. If you are a father or you have a father in your family, I highly recommend listening. Jai is a men's coach who works with fathers on their relationship with themselves, their partners, their kids and their sense of purpose in life. His work is inspired by his own humbling and growth-inspiring experience with marriage and fatherhood, and from seeing how deeply but silently most men struggle through the journey of fatherhood. He began offering coaching in 2016 and started running men's groups specifically for fathers in 2019. He is based in Richmond, Virginia in the U.S. and runs online and in-person men's programs. In this episode, Jai shares some of the challenges of fatherhood and how mothers can best support their partners to come on board with conscious parenting. We discuss how parenthood is an incredible opportunity for growth and healing and the impact of our childhoods on how we respond to our children. He shares strategies that he finds helpful when he is activated by his children’s behaviour. We talk about self-compassion for fathers and how we navigate the many messy moments of parenting and use our mistakes as a path to where we want to go and a sign that we need to take care of ourselves. Jai shares some strategies for nurturing our relationship with our partner or co-parent and how we learn to listen deeply and profoundly. We talk about how to move away from harsh and authoritarian styles of parenting to more conscious, aware approaches that focus on relationships and connection. To find out more about Jai’s work, please visit https://www.awakened-masculine.com/ and follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.awakened.masculine/. Jai has generously offered listeners the opportunity of a free to explore working together 1:1. Please use this link to book in your Free Call: https://www.awakened-masculine.com/call

This episode is a conversation with Dr Suzanne Zeedyk. Suzanne is a Developmental Psychologist and Research Scientist with an honorary post at the Univeristy of Dundee, Scotland. She is fascinated by baby’s innate capacity to communicate and is passionate about sharing the Science of Connection. She is the founder of Connected Baby, an organisation that shares the latest discoveries on infant communicative capacities, brain development and the parent-infant relationship with the wider public. Her goal is to increase awareness of the decisions we take about caring for children, because they are integrally connected to our vision of the kind of society we wish to build. Please note that this conversation is not specifically about Aware Parenting. In this episode, Suzanne shares her expertise about babies and the gap between what science now understands about the capacities and needs of babies and what is understood about that in our wider culture. She shares that babies are born already able to recognise the voices, the laughter and the songs of people who have been around them in utero. She shares that the way babies are treated in the early years has an impact on their biology. And she reassures listeners by explaining the positive impact on attachment of the rupture–repair process - that repair matters more than rupture. We discuss the need parents have for support and information if we are going to be able to meet our baby’s needs. She reassures parents that us being imperfect is exactly what our babies need and we discuss the impact of the wider economic and social context in which we are trying to raise our families. To find out more about Suzanne’s work, please visit www.connectedbaby.net, read her book Sabre Tooth Tigers and Teddy Bears, watch her film The Connected Baby and her many videos on YouTube. You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter @drsuzannezeedyk

This episode is a deep conversation with Dr Sophie Brock. Sophie is a Motherhood Studies Sociologist and Mother living in Sydney, Australia. She provides analysis of Motherhood in our culture, exploring the ways individual experiences of Mothers are shaped by broader social constructs. Sophie’s work contributes to changing the cultural conversation on Motherhood and the individual experiences of Mothers, to create a world where Mothers feel empowered, supported, and valued. Sophie’s offerings include self-study courses for Mothers and mother-supporting practitioners, mentoring for mother-supporting professionals, The Motherhood Studies Practitioner Certification online training, and her podcast The Good Enough Mother. In this episode, Sophie translates some complex theoretical ideas into accessible information and provides resources and ideas for mothers to understand these concepts, to explore them for their own unique lives and to bring compassion to themselves in the journey to “good enoughness”. She describes how our culture shapes and impacts us as mothers and how we can also shape and impact that world. She describes the concept of patriarchal motherhood and the myth of the perfect mother and how this impacts our experience of motherhood. We talk about what it means to parent our children against patriarchal norms and she shares some reflection exercises that we can use to start to gently explore, unpack and challenge this for ourselves. If you want to learn more about Sophie’s work please visit https://drsophiebrock.com/ and follow her @drsophiebrock on Instagram and Facebook or email info@drsophiebrock.com. If you want to learn more about the Exploring Aware Parenting Community with Danni Willow, please visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au/community/

This episode is a powerful conversation with Marion Rose about her new extraordinary book The Emotional Life of Babies, which has just been released. Marion is a level 2 Aware Parenting Instructor and the regional coordinator for Australia and New Zealand and has a background in developmental psychology, pre and perinatal and post-natal psychology. She is an author and speaker and offers courses, workshops and mentoring for parents. In this episode, Marion, shares so generously from this incredibly beautiful book. She shares the wisdom of babies, how to distinguish between needs feelings and healing feelings and what to observe in our babies in order to get clarity about what they need. We talk about the support that parents need in order to offer loving listening in arms. She clearly describes the difference between mild dissociation and relaxation, how babies heal and how to offer the balance of attention. She shares information and compassion in relation to sleep, listening to feelings, attachment play and the effect on our babies and ourselves and our culture of receiving loving listening. I highly recommend this book for all parents and for anyone who wants to understand their own experience of being a baby. To buy this book, please visit Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CJ4DLB4V US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ4DLB4V UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJ4DLB4V Germany: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CJ4DLB4V France: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0CJ4DLB4V Italy: https://www.amazon.it/dp/B0CJ4DLB4V Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CJ4DLB4V Marion is on Instagram at _marion_rose_ and on Facebook at Marion Rose PhD. If you want to know more about the Exploring Aware Parenting Community, please visit www.awareparenting.com.au/community/

In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with Eliza Parker. Eliza’s work helping babies sleep, move, and feel better revolves around her respect for babies and toddlers as whole people who enter the world aware, desiring to communicate and learn, and with the ability to process and self-heal within relationship. Her Conscious Baby practice employs unique approaches to non-cry-it-out sleep, baby-led milestone development, healing birth trauma, and parental attunement to non-verbal cues and crying. She is a certified Aware Parenting Instructor, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, Body-Mind Centering®Practitioner, and trained Feldenkrais® practitioner. Her life-changing perspectives and respectful solutions toward common parenting challenges transcend “typical” parenting advice. In this episode, Eliza shares how she discovered Aware Parenting and what she most loves about this approach. We talk about the need to treat babies as people and to recognise that they are born with awareness, consciousness, and understanding emotion, as well as how to heal from stress and trauma and how to communicate with us. We discuss how to learn to tune in to the communication of babies and young children’s behaviour and to understand the meaning of their crying. Eliza describes how this often reflects their birth stories and how we can support babies to sleep by allowing them to release and heal the stress of their early experiences. We talk about how to offer the balance of attention to support healing of stress and trauma. If you would like to learn more about Eliza’s work, please visit www.consciousbaby.com or follow her on Facebook and Instagram at Consious baby with Eliza Parker. If you want to learn more about my Exploring Aware Parenting Community with Danni Willow, please visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au/community/. If you want to hear more from me, please Sign up for my mailing list here .

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.