Episode 43: Bringing Safety and Awareness to Our Feelings
In this week's episode, I chat with Emma Rogers Dumas. She is an Aware Parenting Instructor of almost 10 years, the founder of Expanding Minds and a Mum of 2.
Emma shares how she discovered Aware Parenting and how it transformed her daughter's sleep.
We also discuss:
- control patterns and what they are
- releasing our own feelings, crying, raging and laughing
- supporting our children at school drop off
- becoming aware of our own feelings and how they can impact others
- meeting our own needs so we can show up better for our children
- challenges in motherhood and re-parenting ourselves
- plus so much more
Where to Find Emma:
Website: Expanding Minds Australia
Facebook: Emma Rogers Dumas
Instagram: @expandingmindsaustralia
Resources:
The Aware Baby by Aletha Solter
Episode 27: The Power & Freedom of Expressing Our Authentic Self with Nic Wilson
I’m so excited to share this conversation Nic Wilson and I had a few weeks ago. Nic is an Aware Parenting Instructor, Psychospiritual Parenting Mentor with the Marion Method (founded by Marion Rose), creator of Peaceful Parenting and Mum to a beautiful daughter.
Nic shares her journey and how she came to find Aware Parenting when her daughter was 3 years old, and how it saved her.
We also discuss:
- How blame and shame can show up one our parenting journey
- Listening to, and expressing feelings
- Sleep
- Re-parenting ourselves
- Unconditional acceptance, even through challenging behaviours
- Tantrums when out in public
- Attachment play games for all situations
- Plus so much more
Where to Find Nic:
Website: Peaceful Parenting
Facebook: Peaceful Parenting
Instagram: @peacefulparenting
Resources Mentioned:
Nic's course: The Parent Alchemy Journey - An Introduction to Aware Parenting
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg Ph.D
Steph's Episode on The Aware Parenting Podcast: Each Child is Unique
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Episode 23: Co-Parenting with Awareness & Play with Abbey Stanbrook
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In this week’s episode I chat with Somatic Wellness Coach, Aware Parenting Coach and Mum of 2, Abbey Stanbrook.
Abbey shares her journey, and experience co-parenting her two children. Including dealing with the separation from her children, as a mother, during shared custody; supporting herself through coparenting and how to support your children.
We also discuss somatic experiencing and somatic wellness; nervous system regulation and why being calm all the time is not good for us; and play to counteract feelings of powerlessness.
Plus so much more.
Where to Find Abbey:
Instagram: AbbeyLove
Facebook: Abbey Stanbrook
Resources:
Existential Kink by Caroline Elliott
ABOUT ABBEY
Abbey has been on a journey of over 20 years of delving into the Language of the Body and Somatics. In the more recent years- she has found her passion and compassion for Somatic Wellness, Aware Parenting, Nervous System Balance, and Integration. In 2017 Abbey experienced many Physical side-effects of Trauma, not just from the Births of her children, but from the Stored Survival energy within her body from her Life so far. She then found a Portal for healing via Aware Parenting and Reparenting herself, and receiving support and reciprocity through various Practices, Supports and Resourcing.
These Somatic and Aware Portals weaved around her Soul’s Through-Line and Values of Health and Healing. Abbey has been Coaching mostly Women via Aware Parenting and Somatic Wellness via Circle Facilitations, Individual Coaching sessions, Online and InPerson Courses, and Guest Speaking at Events/Presentations. For the past 2 years Abbey has experienced a Unique Home-Life of Co-Parenting her 2 children 50/50. Learning and Living a Feminine Style of Business Leadership is also a strong Core Value of hers. Abbey has made a Sacred Vow to Notice and Track her own Body and Somatic States – and request and receive support so that she has the Capacity and Bandwidth to Support and Guide Women in their own journey of Somatic Wellness and Aware Parenting.
ABOUT STEPH
Steph Fleeton is the creator and founder of Spirited Hearts™ Natural Learning & Healing Haven and Mamas Sacred Circle® She is also a Parenting Support Counsellor, Aware Parenting Instructor and Early Learning Educator.
Steph has spent the better part of two decades, dedicated to child development, trauma and providing support to children, their families and early childhood educators.
She created her Natural Learning & Healing Haven to provide the strongest emotionally supportive environment in the industry, which is trauma-informed, and where children have the space and freedom to be their beautiful, unique selves.
In 2023, Steph will be launching the very first live round for her Certification Program for the Spirited Hearts Approach to Early Learning. This is for teachers, educators and anyone wanting to create their own natural learning haven from home.
Steph has two children; one with Autism and the other who suffered from an extremely rare and life-threatening medical condition for the first 5 years of his life. Steph is extremely passionate about assisting parents with children who have special needs and medical conditions. She provides 1:1 support, providing a space filled with unconditional acceptance, compassion, empathy and deep listening.
To find out more about Steph please visit her website https://spiritedhearts.net or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spirited_hearts
Episode 20: Self-Compassion & Meeting Everyone's Needs with Vivian Viester
In this week’s episode I had the pleasure of chatting with Vivian Viester, an Aware Parenting Instructor from Europe and a Mum to an 11 year old boy. Vivian shares her parenting journey, and how she discovered Aware Parenting.
We then discuss:
- Self-compassion
- Attending to our own needs and parts of ourselves that need to be heard
- Our journey together as parent and child
- How our children help us heal from our own childhoods
- Attachment play
- Open and honest communication with your child
- Meeting everyone’s needs
- What we both found most challenging about Aware Parenting
- So much more
Where to Find Vivian:
Instagram: Vivian Viester Aware Parenting
Facebook: Vivian Viester, Aware Parenting
Resources Mentioned:
Aware Parenting books by Aletha Solter Ph.D
ABOUT VIVIAN:
Vivian Viester was born in the Netherlands, and travels between several European countries. She is the mother of an eleven year old boy and has been an Aware Parenting Instructor since 2016. Vivian is passionate about self-compassion and meeting our own needs as parents, on our parenting journeys.
Episode 17: The Power of Saying "Yes" and Bringing More Dance into Our Life
In this week’s episode I have a beautiful conversation with Kate Dillon who is a Women’s Circle Facilitator, and offers Kahuna and Lomi Lomi massage and relaxation, Embodied dance circles and is trainng in Shakti Yoga.
Kate shares her journey through early parenting and the need to turn inwards to support herself and her children.
She discusses how the power of saying “yes” has really helped her to meet her needs and desires.
We also explore bringing more dance into your life, having family dance parties and how Kate created her Embodied Dance Circles for women.
And we chat about finding the sacred in the mundane and being in alignment with our own wisdom.
Where to Find Kate:
Website: www.katedillon.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingAnEmbodiedJourney
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate_dillon_doula/
Resources Mentioned:
Red Hot and Holy by Sera Beak
ABOUT KATE:
Kate Dillon is a Women’s Embodied Circle Facilitator and a massage therapist. Kate’s deep belief in the wisdom of the body to hold story, create life, birth life and intrinsically reach for the nourishing is the foundation of her calling to deeply support women to come home to their body. Through Embodied Dance Circles, Kate facilitates the meeting of women’s physiology with mystery in an artfully guided journey of reconnection to the body and its innate wisdom. Kate offers Ka Hana & Lomi Lomi Massage, which, with its long flowing rhythmic strokes, helps release tension from the muscles, soothes the body and assists the receiver to enter into a state of relaxation and peace. Kate is currently immersed in a 9 moth Shakti Yoga Teacher Training, diving into the feminine mystery of Body and is excited to see what will birth after its completion! Located in southern Canberra, Kate lives with her 2 children, dog, chickens & ducks, and loves offering people the opportunity to come home to their body through massage and the medicine of Circle.