Aware Parenting
Hello and welcome to this space. I would love to know what brings you. Are you new to Aware Parenting? Are you curious? Would you like to know more? Have you been practising for some time? Are you interested in some extra 1-1 support?
Firstly I would like to acknowledge the founder and director of Aware Parenting, Aletha Solter. Aletha is a developmental psychologist, the Author of 6 books, an international speaker and the mother of 2 children. Aletha is recognised internationally as an expert on attachment, trauma and non-punitive discipline.
I also acknowledge Marion Rose (level 2 Aware Parenting Instructor and the regional coordinator in Australia and New Zealand). I worked with Marion closely via her in-depth Aware Parenting Instructor mentoring program.
I am grateful for Aletha and Marion, for all they have shared with us; for their abundance of research, knowledge, experience and wisdom.
Aware Parenting offers practical and emotional support for parents and families all over the world. It is a deeply compassionate and transformative parenting paradigm (deeply supportive of our new earth).
The foundations of Aware Parenting are; attachment, non punitive discipline and healing from stress and trauma.
Aware Parenting aims to respond with connection through the parent-child relationship, with the meeting of the whole child and their beautiful needs and feelings, before their behaviours.
If you are newer to Aware Parenting, feeling a sense of resonance or would like to know more, you can find more information via the Aware Parenting website, along with all the other instructors, guides, facilitators listed etc. The Aware Parenting podcast and Facebook page are also two wonderful resources.
I would love to share that I am the mother of 2 precious soul’s, a 5 year old daughter and a 3 year old son and we’ve been practising Aware Parenting since our daughter, Grace was 1 and a half years old. Before this we were practising classic attachment-style parenting and found some family supportive differences between the two; ‘crying in loving arms’ to release accumulated feelings for one and another, a deep listening to the needs/feelings of the parents too.
Within Aware Parenting, my deepest areas of interest and passion are: deeply trusting our children (especially their timing) and listening to their feelings. Parent-child attachment and helping support parents to connect with their own hurts, needs and feelings and how this impacts our time with our children.
I would love to hear what is happening for you, your family and your children. I would love to support you with any challenging parts of family life. I would love to support you in having all of your beautiful needs met and feelings heard.
If you are in the space of consciously conceiving, expecting or have children (birth to 6 years) and are in need of some 1-1 Aware Parenting support, l would love to work heart-to-heart with you.
I offer 4 online support sessions over 4 weeks.
*Please note, I no longer offer single support sessions.
The 4 sessions (are to be booked over 4 weeks if possible) are 1 hour each and they are online via zoom.
I will send an email to organise our session times within 24 hours of your sessions purchase. They can be booked once a week for 4 weeks on a day/time that suits you and your family.
Along with this email will be a questionnaire so I can learn more about you and your family, ultimately to make the most of our time together in sessions.
The benefit of the 4 sessions over 4 weeks is time. There is more time for connection, reflection and integration with yourself and with your children. There is more time for listening and exploring the big feelings that will likely surface. There is more time to unpack family dynamics, patterns, behaviours, challenges… implement and reflect. There is more time to sit heart-to-heart together.
Here are some of the areas I can offer support:
Conscious conception.
Bonding with your baby during pregnancy.
Preparation during pregnancy for your mothering/parenting/rebirth journey.
Unpacking your birth story and early days/years with your baby. Listening for you and listening to your baby.
Bonding with your baby and identifying their needs.
How to meet your babies needs and your needs.
How to respond to your baby’s crying and understanding the causes of crying.
How you can help your baby release their tensions through crying.
Helping our children become securely attached.
How to help support your baby to sleep through the night.
How to listen to your children’s feelings as they grow.
Practical things; such as safe co-sleeping/bed sharing, prolonged breastfeeding and tandem feeding.
Alternatives to punishments, bribes and rewards.
Helping children heal from stress and trauma.
Sleep support for your children as they grow.
Support with why your baby/children might have trouble falling asleep and or are waking up during the night.
Control patterns; ways our babies and children (us too!) disassociate/numb/avoid feeling our feelings and how to move through these spaces. For example I work with mothers to who no longer wish to feed to sleep, or for their children to be using dummies.
Trusting our children’s innate wisdom and developmental timing with things like using the toilet and how to gently navigate these spaces.
How to respond to our children’s crying and raging as they grow.
Support with understanding your babies/children’s sources of stress/tension and how you can help them release.
Nurturing approaches to support these releases of accumulated feelings through crying, raging and or laughter.
Deeply understanding your role in Aware Parenting and how ultimately the more you listen to our own feelings, the greater your capacity will be to listen to your children’s.
How to begin listening to your children’s suppressed feelings (at any age - particularly up to 6 years old as this is where I have direct experience with my own children) and how to support yourself in the process by listening, understanding and feeling your own feelings.
Inviting a big picture and generational awareness around how we have passed on the suppression of feelings and how we can be the change for our family.
Support with emotional safety and how to deeply connect with our children, to help them feel secure and loved.
Supporting you to help support your children to understand their emotions.
How to set loving limits and how these can be used to support a release of accumulated feelings.
How to understand the reasons why children might behave in ways we might not enjoy and how to support these spaces for you and your children.
How we can help prevent the more challenging behaviours.
How we can deeply, compassionately and loving repair when we have reacted/responded in ways that we and our children might not enjoy. How this reparation can lead to a deeper re-parenting and healing for us.
How to navigate all the big feelings that come with parenting. How we can let go of guilt and shame and respond to ourselves in more loving, compassionate and gentle ways.
How we can understand and build a deeper and more connected and loving relationship with ourselves and our children.
How to help support our children behaviourally through play. How to connect with play and build the parent child-relationship/attachment/connection.
How to use play for all areas of challenge: gaining cooperation, sibling rivalry, aggressive behaviours, bedtimes, fears, separation, traumas, illness, preparation for events and increasing joy and laughter around the home.
I can help with and suggest different play ideas, matching a type of play with the area of challenge.
I can support you with specific ideas that require much less energy too, especially if you are pregnant and or tired/worn out yourself!
I am here to support You as the mother of your precious children.
I am here for the fullness of you and your children.
If you have any questions at all, please ask or if you know you would like to go ahead with the sessions, please make the upfront payment and then contact me to arrange your session times via email.
With love,
Anne
