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 42: Creating Healthier Homes with Sam Webb
I am incredibly excited to bring you this episode with the lovely Interior Designer, Sam Webb founder of The Paradigm Room. Sam has so much wisdom, knowledge and experience in providing sustainable and healthy homes to the community, and she is also my sister.
Sam shares her journey into interior design, as well as the health challenges and environmental illnesses she has faced, which led her to where she is today.
We also discuss:
* common toxins found in our homes
* bringing awareness of what has happened in the past, so it can inform the present
* differences between building standards around the world
* the nuances of scientific research in all industries
* creating energy efficient and sustainable homes
* plus so much more
Where to Find Sam:
Website: The Paradigm Room
Facebook: The Paradigm Room
Instagram: @theparadigmroom
Resources:
* From Brief to Build by Jennifer Hudson
* A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
ABOUT SAM:
Sam is a qualified interior designer with 15 years industry experience, locally, domestically, and internationally. Despite the utmost privilege to work on such a vast array of projects with amazing clients, she had the increasing desire (a higher calling perhaps) to delve into the physical and environmental health perspective of design. Sam has also since spent the past 8+ years researching the health implications of the built environment, through a post-graduate research-based degree and an upcoming book collaboration, to truly bring her clients interior architecture and design services that support the wellness. She is now the founder of The Paradigm Room, a Toowoomba-based interior design studio that specialises in sustainable design that prioritises health & wellbeing, through every step of the design process.
Episode 41: Understanding Trauma & How to Heal with Megan Kate Clinton
I am so delighted to introduce you to the lovely, Megan Kate Clinton in this week's episode. Megan is extensively trained as a Relational Gestalt Psychotherapist, Energy Psychologist, Gestalt Play Therapist and is an Aware Parenting Instructor.
In this episode Megan generously shares her wisdom and knowledge of trauma, and the journey that led her to this point.
We also discuss:
- trauma, which is broken down into individual, collective and generational/lineage traumas
- how our trauma is activated by our children
- how working with another person is important to heal our trauma
- trauma in the therapy world, and the struggle many therapists/coaches/mentors experience in holding the tears/crying of clients
- confusing calming down versus listening to heal
- our children come here to voice what we could not
- the inner wisdom of children
- plus so much more
Where to Find Megan:
Instagram: @megankateclinton
Facebook: Megan Kate Clinton
Resources:
Hold on to Your Children by Dr Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Mate
ABOUT MEGAN:
Megan Kate Clinton offers healing, integration and transformation to women seeking to change the world, be that through parenting, business practice, or relationships of any nature. She is extensively trained as a Relational Gestalt Psychotherapist, Energy Psychologist, Gestalt Play Therapist and is an Aware Parenting Instructor and has been practicing for nearly two decades. This training and experience includes a particular focus and understanding of trauma. She brings all her training, learnings and understandings into all aspects of her work
Episode 40: Aware Parenting Children with Special Needs with Aletha Solter PhD
In this week's episode, the founder of The Aware Parenting Institute, developmental psychologist, Aletha Solter PhD provides answers to questions from the community. Aletha briefly shares how Aware Parenting came to be, before we dive into this episodes topic discussing insights, experience, research and our personal stories.
In this episode you will discover:
- can we differentiate between accumulated feelings/trauma and genetic factors
- defining neurodiversity
- why Aware Parenting can support all children
- observing our children is a key component in Aware Parenting
- tantrums and meltdowns
- when children are "stuck" with their feelings - Aletha shares 4 reasons
- the balance of attention and its role in healing
- how a diagnosis can be helpful
- plus so much more
Where to Find Aletha:
Website - Aware Parenting Institute
Facebook - Aware Parenting Institute
Books by Aletha Solter PhD:
The Aware Baby
Cooperative & Connected
Tears & Tantrums
Raising Drug Free Kids
Attachment Play
Healing Your Traumatized Child
ABOUT ALETHA:
Aletha Solter is a Swiss/American developmental psychologist who is recognized internationally as an expert on attachment, trauma, and non-punitive discipline. She studied with the Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget, at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she obtained a Master's degree in human biology. She then earned a PhD in psychology from the University of California . She has 2 adult children and 2 grandchildren.
When her first child was born in 1977 (following a traumatic birth) she did not find any parenting books that advocated attachment-style parenting and non-punitive discipline while taking into account the impact of stress and trauma on children's development. Her 6 books have been translated into many languages, and she has also written numerous articles for parents and professionals.
In 1990 she founded The Aware Parenting Institute, which now has certified instructors in over 20 countries. Her goal is to help create a nonviolent world in which all children are allowed to attain their full potential. With the tools of Aware Parenting, she is confident that parents can raise their children to be competent, compassionate, nonviolent, and drug free. She also knows that parenting is a difficult job and that parents deserve recognition, information, and support.
Episode 38: Supporting Our Children with Potty Learning with Maru Rojas
In this episode, I invited Maru Rojas - an Aware Parenting Instructor and EC & Potty Learning Consultant - to share her experience and knowledge on something many parents find challenging: potty/toilet learning.
Maru shares her journey into Elimination Communication (EC), potty learning and Aware Parenting.
We then discuss:
- what is EC and how it looks for different families
- how to start EC with your baby
- the difference between EC and potty learning
- how older children can have more feelings around potty learning than younger children
- cultural differences in potty learning
- plus so much more
Where to Find Maru:
Website: Parenting Together
Instagram: @_maru.rojas_
Facebook: Maru Rojas - Parenting Together
Online Course: Potty Mastery
Resources Mentioned:
The Darkness Manifesto by Johan Eklof
Attachment Play by Aletha Solter PhD
ABOUT MARU:
Maru is an Aware Parenting instructor from Mexico and currently lives in London where she co-parent 2 young children. She has a keen interest in Elimination Communication and Potty learning as a way to help children be aware and learn about their bodies. Maru also loves looking at Aware parenting as a holistic philosophy for raising children and re-parenting ourselves and it is through AwP that she's come to understand that children are inherently good and whole and that our role as parents is to trust their own perfect wisdom.