Aware Parenting Stories with Joss Goulden

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

In this episode of the podcast I have the pleasure of speaking with Lainie Liberti. Lainie is a mother to her 24 year old son, Miro. She is an author, international speaker, alternative education advocate and spearhead of the World Schooling Movement. She is the founder of the Teen Mentoring Program, a TEDx speaker and the author of “Seen, Heard and Understood – Parenting and Partnership with Teens for Greater Mental Health”. Please note that this episode is not a conversation about aware parenting, but rather Lainie’s approach of partnership parenting. In this episode Lainie shares her extraordinary story of conscious partnership parenting and supporting her child’s learning outside of school through adventure and exploration. We discuss what it means to raise children with consciousness and in partnership. She shares how she designed with Miro an intentional family culture. We talk about how we can do our own healing work in parenting. She shares what their world-schooled, self-directed education was like and how they created community for their family. Please note this episode is not specifically about Aware Parenting. To learn more about Lainie’s work, please visit www.partnershipparent.com, www.projectworldschool.com, www.weareworldschoolers.org, www.worldschoolfamilysummit.com. Her book is available here1. 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 Genevieve Simperingham. Genevieve is a psychosynthesis counsellor, the founder of the Peaceful Parent Institute, a Parenting Educator, writer and was an Aware Parenting Instructor for 14 years. She regularly contributes articles to publications and is a feature contributor to the Natural Parent Magazine. She offers workshops and courses in parenting, relationships, self-healing, meditation and personal development. In this episode, we talk about how she discovered Aware Parenting and the dual process of our continued healing journey and the journey of supporting our children to heal, with connection and compassion for us all. She describes in detail how we can bring the tools of Aware Parenting to repair with our children. We discuss listening to feelings, both with young children and our adult children and we describe the impact of raising our children this way on who they become as adults. If you would like to learn more about Genevieve, her website is www.peacefulparent.com or follow her on Instagram at Peaceful Parent Institute or Facebook at The way of the peaceful parent. 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 talking with Kirsty Fernandes. Kirsty is mother to 2 children and is an Aware Parenting Instructor from New Zealand. She is passionate about supporting mothers in the post-partum period and is a certified Sacred Mother Roaster, and a certified Sacred Pregnancy Instructor. Her business to support mothers is Honouring Māmā. In this conversation, Kirsty shares how she found Aware Parenting how she learnt to listen to feelings and build capacity to hold space. We talk about the opportunities that parenting brings for our own healing. She shares how she has developed a deep trust for the process and timing of her healing and her children’s healing too. We discuss the power of attachment play and the challenges of practising Aware Parenting. If you would like to learn more about Kirsty, please follow her on social media at Kirsty Fernandes Honouring Mama or visit her website www.honouringmama.com. 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.

This episode is part 3 of a series of conversations that I am sharing with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. In this episode we continue our conversation that connects the theory to the practice. We talk about responding to painful feelings. We share the 3 responses that our children (and ourselves) can have when we have painful feelings – expression, repression and aggression. We also share the 3 things that we can focus on to support our children when they are upset. We give lots of examples of how we have done this to support our children’s healing and to support ourselves when we have big feelings too. 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 or visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au and follow me on social media at Aware Parenting with Joss.

This episode is part 2 of a series of conversations that I will be sharing with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. In this episode we talk about connecting the theory of Aware Parenting to the practice. We discuss the 3 core aspects of Aware Parenting, the 3 things that are always underneath challenging behaviour. We also discuss the 3 main central nervous system states that our children (and ourselves) go into and how to support them back to balance. We talk about the uniqueness of each child and how aware parenting theory can be applied in practice for the individual needs of each child, and for us as adults too. 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 or visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au and follow me on social media at Aware Parenting with Joss.

This episode is part 1 of an exciting new series of conversations that I will be sharing with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. We co-run the Exploring Aware Parenting Community and work closely together in many spaces about Aware Parenting and felt called to share some of our many beautiful conversations about this paradigm, that we are both so passionate about. Danni is an Aware Parenting Instructor and mother to 2 gorgeous girls aged 6 and 4. She has been on the podcast before sharing her wisdom in episodes 5, 14 and 31. In this episode we talk about our backgrounds and lives before Aware Parenting and how these experiences have informed our understanding and practice of this approach. We describe the contrast between our early years and the early years of our children and some of the ways that we see the powerful impact on them of Aware Parenting them and re-parenting ourselves. We share honestly about some of the struggles from our past and how that shaped us in ways that were really challenging, both at the time and to unpack and heal from as adults. We talk about how grateful we are to Aletha Solter and to Marion Rose for this work and the impact it has on our children, on us and on the wider culture. 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 or visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au and follow me on social media at Aware Parenting with Joss.