If you are Parenting with Peace…
You are a Revolutionary
Imagine being a child and feeling deeply respected. Knowing in your bones that you are not just loved, but also fully seen, heard, and truly allowed to be ALL of who you are.
Imagine deeply knowing your worth, deeply trusting your caregivers, and having a palpable sense of genuine trust in yourself.
This…is our birthright.
Now, imagine a world where all of our teachers, leaders, healers, and community members were brought up with this kind of deep, unequivocal respect and nurturing of their souls.
In our modern world, in the midst of what Clarissa Pinkola Estes calls the “over-culture”, with an alarmingly high number of parents reporting feeling ongoingly stressed and overwhelmed, finding a way to bring this experience into sustainable practice can feel like we are paddling up-river.
As parents, we are being called to hold a kind of sacred and solid space for our children. We are here to foster their innate sense of goodness: something that is already in tact. Our children are good at their core. They are whole human beings, regardless of the behaviours they may exhibit, or challenges we face with them.
Our job as parents then…is to be stewards of this inherent wholeness.
Dominant culture, with all it’s pathological systems of patriarchy, capitalism and colonial framework makes that job feel like a daunting task. It is my whole-hearted belief that at this time in history, parenting with mindfulness and deep respect for our children…is revolutionary.
Parenting with Support ~ Answering the Call
The job of parenting was never meant to be done in isolation. And yet, more and more, I hear parents speak of how lonely the job sometimes feels. How hard it feels.
There is such pressure on parents these days to do it SO WELL.
The truth is, we CAN do it well…however, parents often come to face with the conditioning we were basing being a “good parent” on (hyper-independance and perfectionism for a start).
Those who hold such revolutionary gentle space for others, deserve to be held gently, and fully seen.
This call towards parenting with consciousness is not one that every parent will answer. If you are like a growing number of parents who resonate with the truth that children are innately good…the call will be heard in some form…
For most people, it takes a particular kind of courage to answer the call to continue to show up for our children, for ourselves, and the relationships that matter to us.
I invite you to take this courageous step.
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