The potential gifts of Aware Parenting

Feb 15, 2025 | Uncategorized

Clarifications and requests: Differentiating The Marion Method from Aware Parenting

Jan 16, 2025 | Aware Parenting, The Marion Method

Dissociation, relaxation and sleep

May 1, 2023 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Sleep and Aware Parenting

Stress, trauma and sleep

Apr 26, 2023 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Babies, Colonised, Crying, Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Dissociation, Relaxation

Why a baby, toddler or child won’t sleep

Apr 20, 2023 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Sleep and Aware Parenting

Does your child get really playful before bed?

Apr 13, 2023 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Sleep and Aware Parenting

Trusting the innate wisdom of babies and children in relation to sleep

Apr 7, 2023 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep

My journey with reclaiming my power

Jun 29, 2022 | Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Neo No, Non-violent Communication, Outrage, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Rage, True Power, Will, Will-Hurts

Some of the words I don’t say to children

May 4, 2022 | Conditioning, Consciousness, Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Language

Some of the words I don’t say related to birthing

May 4, 2022 | Conditioning, Consciousness, Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Language

How I see the ego differently to many other people

May 4, 2022 | Consciousness, Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Language

Why I don’t speak or write the words ‘deadline’ and ‘strategy’

May 4, 2022 | Consciousness, Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Language, Uncategorized

Why I don’t speak or write the phrase “I feel like”

May 4, 2022 | Conditioning, Consciousness, Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Language

Why I value awareness and choice with words

May 4, 2022 | Conditioning, Consciousness, Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Language

Why I don’t say or write the terms ’emotional regulation,’ ‘co-regulation’ or ‘dysregulation.’

May 4, 2022 | Colonised, Conditioning, Consciousness, Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Language

Why I don’t speak or write the word ‘boundary’ to refer to saying “no.”

May 4, 2022 | Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Language

Why I don’t speak or write the word ‘trigger’ to refer to feelings

May 4, 2022 | Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Language

The DDC infiltrates consciousness through language

May 4, 2022 | Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Language

Stages of Aware Parenting

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Evolving Through Parenting

Feelings are not our enemies

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Feelings

Suppressing feelings

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns

Nose picking

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns

What we can think loving limits are

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Loving Limits

Loving limits

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Loving Limits

Tantrums are like therapy for kids

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Feelings, Tantrums

Intergenerational responses to feelings

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Connected Crying, Control Patterns, Feelings

Feelings accumulate

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Feelings

Aware Parenting, stress and trauma

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Feelings

Accumulated feelings lead to agitated behaviours

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Feelings

Children, stress and behaviour

Apr 20, 2022 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Control Patterns, Feelings

Toothbrushing!

Apr 20, 2022 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting

Cooperation!

Apr 20, 2022 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Cooperation

Hitting

Apr 20, 2022 | Aggression, Aware Parenting

Playing Before Bed

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Fear

Babies feel during birth

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Babies, Feelings

The Continuum Concept and The Yequana People

Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Baby carrying and carriers, Colonised, Conditioning, Crying, Culture, Decolonisation

Why Attachment Play is the opposite of behaviourism

Apr 20, 2022 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting

The balance of attention and the healing power of tears

Mar 16, 2022 | Aware Parenting, The balance of attention

Grief, loss and tears

Feb 6, 2021 | Colonised, Connected Crying, Crying, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Gaia, Non-violent Communication, Psychospiritual Emergence

Are you and your child/ren connected with your true lovingness and your true power?

Jan 21, 2021 | Inner Feminine and Masculine, Inner Loving Father, Inner Loving Mother, Inner Loving Presence Process, Love, Love and Will, Parenting Paradigm, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Emergence, Psychospiritual Parenting, ReParenting, Social Change, The Marion Method, The Willingness Practice, Transformation Through Mothering, Unwillingness, Will, Will-Hurts, Will-Needs, Willingness

Compassion and Will, feelings and the body, discernment and the mind – Consciousness, screens and ‘The Social Dilemma.’

Jan 18, 2021 | Compassion, Conditioning, Consciousness, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Inner Loving Presence Process, Neo No, Neo Yield, Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Parenting, The Willingness Practice, Will, Will-Hurts, Will-Needs, Willingness

Love and Will in Parenting and Politics

Jan 9, 2021 | Love and Will, Loving Limits, Neo No, Psychospiritual Development

The Neo Yield and the Neo No

Jan 6, 2021 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Consciousness, Conversation with Life, Domination Culture, Fear, Inner Loving Father, Inner Loving Mother, Love and Will, Loving Limits, Neo No, Neo Yield, Psychospiritual Development, Terror, The Marion Method, The Willingness Practice

Does shame help us be more loving?

Nov 17, 2020 | Colonised, Compassion, Conditioning, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Inner Loving Mother, Inner Loving Presence Process

My Learning Lineage

Nov 12, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Decolonisation, Non-violent Communication, Psychosynthesis, The Willingness Practice

Spiritual Bypassing and Repression of the Sublime

Nov 6, 2020 | Compassion, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Feelings, Non-violent Communication, Psychospiritual Development, Rage, Repression, Repression mechanisms, Soul

Why I don’t say, ‘boundaries’ and what I do say instead

Nov 6, 2020 | Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Language, Loving Limits, Neo No, Psychospiritual Development, Rage, The Marion Method, Will, Will-Hurts

Transforming relationships with parents

Oct 20, 2020 | Compassion, Healing From the Past, Inner Loving Presence Process, Love and Will, Neo No, Psychospiritual Development, ReParenting, Soul, The Marion Method, True self

Why I value awareness and choice with words

Oct 9, 2020 | Language, Love and Will, The Marion Method, Willingness

Using The Marion Method in our relationships with our bodies

Oct 8, 2020 | Inner Loving Mother, Inner Loving Presence Process, Love and Will, Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Emergence, The Marion Method, The Willingness Practice, Will, Willingness

Ego as a container for our Soul

Oct 8, 2020 | Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Emergence, ReParenting, The Marion Method

Why I don’t use the phrase, “I manifested it.”

Oct 5, 2020 | Decolonisation, Messages from Life, Own your Feelings, Desires and Aliveness, Psychospiritual Development, The Marion Method, The Willingness Practice, Will, Willingness

Transforming jealousy into willingness with The Marion Method

Oct 2, 2020 | Compassion, Feelings, Feelings, Inner Loving Mother, jealousy, Love and Will, My paradigm, The Marion Method, The Willingness Practice, Will, Willingness

The Three Types of Feelings

Oct 2, 2020 | Compassion, Connected Crying, Consciousness, Feelings, Inner Loving Mother, ReParenting, Self-Compassion for Parents, Tantrums

Agency, autonomy and choice: understanding Will-Needs and Will-Hurts in these powerful times

Aug 9, 2020 | Psychospiritual Emergence, The Marion Method, Will, Will-Hurts, Will-Needs, Willingness

A psychospiritual perspective on masks

Jul 20, 2020 | Domination Culture, Love and Will, Planet, Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Emergence

Consciousness and The Room

Jul 5, 2020 | Conditioning, Conversation with Life, Conversations with Life, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Messages from Life, Noosphere, Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Emergence, Will, Willingness

The Conversation with Life is like playing Charades

Jul 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Conversations with Life, Decolonisation, Messages from Life

“I want to show you what I’m capable of”

Jul 1, 2020 | Conversation with Life

Matter is a miracle

Jun 24, 2020 | Colonised, Conditioning, Consciousness, Conversation with Life, Conversations with Life, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Messages from Life, Psychospiritual Development

Not coercing, but listening and trusting

Jun 22, 2020 | Colonised, Conditioning, Conversations with Life, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Messages from Life, Psychospiritual Entrepreneurship, Respond Lovingly to Your Calling, Will, Willingness

Do you feel a deep sense of belonging?

Jun 18, 2020 | Conversations with Life, Decolonisation, Love and Will, Messages from Life, The Marion Method, Will

How an ink blot helped me change the direction of my life

Jun 17, 2020 | Babies, Birthing, Conversation with Life, Messages from Life, Unassisted birth

It’s through the conversation that things get to be seen

Jun 15, 2020 | Conversation with Life, Psychospiritual Emergence

All things and beings are connected

Jun 15, 2020 | Conversation with Life, Inner Loving Presence Process

People will fight for the very system that tethered their own soul

May 5, 2020 | Claim Your Feminine Power, Colonised, Conditioning, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving Through Parenting, Parenting Paradigm, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power Portal Process, Power-with in Parenting, Psychospiritual Emergence, Social Change

My Journey with Will

Apr 30, 2020 | Colonised, Conditioning, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving Through Parenting, Healing From the Past, Love and Will, Neo No, Outrage, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Psychospiritual Development, Rage, Repression, Social Change, The Willingness Practice, Transformation Through Mothering, Unwillingness, Will, Willingness

Reclaiming our sacred power as mothers

Apr 29, 2020 | Aggression, Colonised, Conditioning, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving Through Parenting, Get Free From Guilt, Neo No, Outrage, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Psychospiritual Development, Social Change, Tantrums, The Willingness Practice, Unwillingness, Will, Willingness

My journey of reclaiming my power

Apr 27, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Birthing, Choice, Claim Your Feminine Power, Colonised, Conditioning, Consciousness, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving as an Aware Parent, Evolving Through Parenting, Get Free From Guilt, Healing From the Past, Honouring Mothers, Inner Loving Presence Process, Love and Will, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Neo No, Non-violent Communication, Outrage, Parenting Paradigm, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Parenting, Psychosynthesis, Purpose, Rage, Respond Lovingly to Your Calling, Sharing Your Gifts with The World, Social Change, Tantrums, Tantrums, The Marion Method, The Willingness Practice, Transformation Through Mothering, Unassisted birth, Valuing Mothering, Will, Willingness

Supporting our children to stay connected with their sacred power

Apr 27, 2020 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Conditioning, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Outrage, Parenting Paradigm, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Rage, Tantrums, Tantrums, The Willingness Practice, Unwillingness, Will, Willingness

Are you being called to speak your Neo NO?

Apr 23, 2020 | Aggression, Choice, Claim Your Feminine Power, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Love and Will, Neo No, Outrage, Parenting Paradigm, Planet, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Psychospiritual Emergence, The Willingness Practice, Will, Willingness

We are being invited to change the paradigm

Apr 17, 2020 | Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving Through Parenting, Gaia, Parenting Paradigm, Planet, Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Emergence, Psychospiritual Entrepreneurship, Psychospiritual Parenting, Respond Lovingly to Your Calling, Sharing Your Gifts with The World, Social Change, Transformation Through Mothering, Will

What if we were being invited to co-create the noosphere?

Apr 7, 2020 | Consciousness, Decolonisation, Gaia, Noosphere, Planet, Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Emergence, Psychospiritual Entrepreneurship

Love, separation, grief and the lungs

Apr 3, 2020 | Compassion, Consciousness, Decolonisation, Gaia, Planet, Psychospiritual Emergence

Are you highly sensitive?

Apr 3, 2020 | Highly Sensitive, Psychospiritual Emergence

Is Gaia setting Loving Limits?

Mar 22, 2020 | Colonised, Conditioning, Consciousness, Control Patterns, Conversation with Life, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving Through Parenting, Fear, Feelings, Feelings, Gaia, Healing From the Past, Inner Feminine and Masculine, Inner Loving Mother, Loving Limits, Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Parenting, Repression, Repression mechanisms

The three causes of fear

Mar 18, 2020 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Compassion, Connected Crying, Crying, Culture, Fear, Feelings, Feelings, Healing From the Past, Highly Sensitive, Highly Sensitive Child, Inner Loving Mother, Terror, The balance of attention, Will

The three types of feelings

Mar 18, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Connected Crying, Crying, Feelings, Psychospiritual Parenting

Seeing our child’s repression mechanisms

Mar 6, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns, Repression, Repression mechanisms

The history of feelings

Feb 28, 2020 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, Colonised, Conditioning, Control Patterns, Crying, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving Through Parenting, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Parenting Paradigm, Repression, Repression mechanisms, Sleep and Aware Parenting, Tantrums, Tantrums

I’m so grateful for Aware Parenting

Feb 27, 2020 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, Crying, Evolving Through Parenting, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Repression mechanisms, Sleep and Aware Parenting

Sleep and Aware Parenting

Feb 25, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Loving Limits, Presence and Present Time, Sleep and Aware Parenting

Some numbers

Feb 25, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings

Children’s feelings and repression mechanisms

Feb 23, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns, Feelings, Repression, Repression mechanisms

Aware Parenting Conversations

Feb 23, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, Aware Parenting Stories, Introduction to Aware Parenting, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings

Reducing repression, aggression and agitation in children

Feb 21, 2020 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Breast-feeding, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Compassion, Connected Crying, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Control Patterns, Cooperation, Feelings, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Loving Limits, Parenting Paradigm, Repression, Repression mechanisms, Screens, Self-Compassion for Parents, Sleep and Aware Parenting, Tantrums

Playing before sleep

Feb 15, 2020 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connected Crying, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Crying, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Sleep and Aware Parenting

Children and cooperation

Feb 14, 2020 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Choice, Connection, Cooperation, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Unwillingness

Comparing the domination paradigm with Aware Parenting

Feb 11, 2020 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Joy and Attachment Play

Some elements of The Marion Method

Feb 9, 2020 | Conversation with Life, Love and Will, Psychospiritual Parenting, The Marion Method, The Willingness Practice

Do you take responsibility for the feelings of others?

Feb 8, 2020 | Culture, Domination Culture, Feelings, Get Free From Guilt, Shame

Loving Limits with physical symptoms

Feb 5, 2020 | Loving Limits, Neo No

Helping children be part of changing the domination culture

Feb 1, 2020 | Colonised, Decolonisation, Domination Culture

How outrage becomes courage

Feb 1, 2020 | Outrage, Will

The domination system in parenting, reparenting and social change

Feb 1, 2020 | ReParenting, Social Change, The Willingness Practice, Unwillingness, Will, Willingness

Loving Limits in parenting and the rest of life!

Feb 1, 2020 | Loving Limits

Supporting Willingness in Ourselves and in Our Children

Jan 21, 2020 | The Marion Method, Understanding our children, Unwillingness, Willingness

Conversations with Life

Jan 21, 2020 | Conversation with Life, The Marion Method

Individual and Cultural Disconnection and Powerlessness

Jan 11, 2020 | Psychospiritual Parenting, Transformation Through Mothering, Willingness

Self-resourcing and self-compassion

Oct 15, 2019 | Inner Loving Mother, Inner Loving Presence Process, Self-Compassion for Parents