I’m taking a course right now on Somatics and Regulation (somatics refers to the body and regulation is about supporting the nervous system when there’s overwhelm- nerd stuff, as my husband would say) and that always gets me excited. I love to learn and I love to find new ways to express my work and provide support for individuals, couples,
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Once upon a time, there was a mother who wanted a child more than anything. She wanted to break patterns and do things differently from her family growing up. She had grown up in a cold family without a lot of nurturing and she wanted so much to nurture her own child and make sure the child felt the love
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Identify What’s Working and Shift What’s Not… Is your relationship healthy? How do you know? If your relationship isn’t feeling good, how do you know where to put your energy to support it? Relationships are complicated. Each person brings their own history into present time interactions, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Even a newborn comes in with a
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Have you ever wondered if your birth is impacting your present-day relationships? Every one of us came into the world and were born. And each one of us has a different story in our bodies about what happened for us during our birth. You see, birth isn’t just a one and done kind of experience, as most of us have
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Join us as we explore honoring endings and ways we can stay connected and even heal our relationships with our dead. Because it’s Never too Late to Heal… We’re kicking off our new Consciously Connected Village with healing your relationship with your departed ones (beloved or complicated), your relationship with endings, and grief/loss (for yourself or a loved one) whether
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We’re excited to announce the launch of our new space to connect consciously with yourself and with others at all stages of life. Are you a growth and holistically minded person? Do you have a relationship challenge? (Could be with yourself, or with a particular person in your life. Or maybe you want to better your relationship skills…) Are you
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Hello dear ones, Holy cow! 16 years ago, The Consciously Parenting Project launched its first website and courses in September 2007. We started by offering online courses (online then was a conference line that I used a landline phone to dial into!) for families who had children join their families through adoption. It was a 4 week course for $40
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When I was first learning about attachment, I was really confused about what really mattered for a healthy relationship. While baby wearing, extended breastfeeding, and co-sleeping are biological expectations and deserve attention (and were things that I did with my own children and would do again), I think sometimes focusing on a strict adherence to these principles overshadows the message
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I was talking to a mom about her holidays, and she was really feeling discouraged about how things had gone. Her kids had been fighting a lot and the image she had about how their time together would go didn’t match what actually happened at all. She felt really discouraged. I think so many of us hold ourselves and our
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Time to Connect to Our Self and Our Inner Guidance System In her book Connection Parenting, Pam Leo has a wonderful explanation for why it is so important to take this time to recharge ourselves, and it involves our brain-wave states. When we are alert, active, and thinking, we are in the beta brain state. Many parents spend time in this state
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