Transform Your Parenting Approach: The Power of Connection Over Rewards and Punishments Do punishments and rewards seem to create more disconnection than growth for your child, but you don’t know what else to do? You’re not alone. Many parents and caregivers grapple with how to foster a healthy, trusting relationship while guiding children’s behavior. Most of us grew up steeped
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Today, we celebrate the anniversary of Consciously Parenting, which began in 2007. However, the story of Consciously Parenting truly began five years earlier, on September 21, 2002—a day I had no idea would become so significant in my work. [Trigger warning- pregnancy loss] The idea for Consciously Parenting first emerged during my pregnancy with my first child in 1998. However,
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Anniversary Celebrations in September! Launching with Love: What Your Child’s Birth has to do with How They Leave Home (or not) What does the way a child comes into the world have to do with how they navigate leaving home? And how can that information support you to support your child? Don’t miss this fascinating conversation about birth imprints
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I often see three groups of parents who are on an unconventional parenting path. (There are probably more, but this is what I’m sharing today…) The first ones are parents who know they want to do something different than how they were raised. These are the cycle breakers. These are the parents who grew up with abuse or neglect, or
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I wanted to share an excerpt from my latest book, It’s Never too Late to Heal: Transforming the Relationship Stories of Our Lives. We’re going to be exploring parts of the book in the Castellino Training mini-series. This excerpt will help you to know if your relationship is connected or not. See how it feels to you. Connection “Connection in
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Unbroken wholeness begins with ourselves. We are told we are broken, not enough, not thin enough, too short, too loud, that we have a diagnosis and we hold that as evidence that we are broken. But what if we are not broken? What if you are not broken? What if your child isn’t broken? What if that’s not true? This
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Safety, Protection, and Play- Saturday, February 8, 2025 Safety, Protection, and Play don’t seem like they go together, but it turns out they’re all keys to resilience, connection, and growth! How do we support ourselves and our families when things don’t feel safe? From the destructive fires in California, plane crashes, political chaos, to ICE raids in schools, I’m hearing
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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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