Parenting is without a doubt one of the most challenging things you will ever do in your life. It is also one of the most rewarding!
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Throughout my own life as a parent and as a professional I have seen many changes in how we as a society view parenting. Unfortunately I have also seen the rise of adult, adolescent and childhood anxiety, which I believe is strongly connected to our view of parenting.
My goal is to support parents to live more mindfully. Mindful parenting will enable you to relax and parent with less stress, less confusion, less overwhelm. It will enable you to relate more with your child calmly, creatively and with curiosity and mindful parenting will help to renew your energy, your interests and your vitality!
To be a mindful parent you first need to look after yourself. After all if you are not on your game the whole parenting thing becomes overwhelming.
No parent can support a growing child if they themselves are highly in need themselves.
Ultimately our role in parenting is to nurture a child to grow to be resilient, adaptable, independent, confident, creative, curious and of course connected to their world around them.
You may notice that I never said your role is to make them happy. That is because our role is not to make our children happy. We should never want our child just to be happy. Happiness is one emotion and it is a fleeting one at that. Happiness will come when they are resilient, confident, capable and connected.
When we work to be parents who can set boundaries, support growth and independence, look after our own emotional state and step back to let our children become the person they are meant to become, then we are successful parents.
I support parents to do just that. To look after themselves, or to fix your own oxygen mask first, so that you can care for your growing child.
My goal is to reduce the growing rates of anxiety and other mental health issues in children by working with parents, not on what you do to children but how you are with them.
Your resilience and wellbeing will be reflected in their resilience and wellbeing.
