by Marion Rose | Jul 19, 2019 | Psychospiritual Entrepreneurship, Respond Lovingly to Your Calling, Sharing Your Gifts with The World, Soul, The Willingness Practice, Willingness
Would you like to respond to procrastination with judgment, giving up and coercion or with compassionate curiosity, understanding and willingness? This time 5 years ago, I was longing to do things that I wasn’t doing. I had more than 25 years of...
by Marion Rose | Jul 16, 2019 | Respond Lovingly to Your Calling, The Willingness Practice, Willingness
Do you ever procrastinate on doing something you really want to do? When you’re procrastinating, do you judge yourself for procrastinating or try to coerce yourself into taking action? Do you ever enquire deeper, into why you are procrastinating? ...
by Marion Rose | Jul 16, 2019 | Aware Parenting, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting
1. Remember that our children naturally want to cooperate. If they aren’t cooperating, there’s something important going on for them that we need to understand and address before they can return to their natural willingness to cooperate. 2. Listen to what you...
by Marion Rose | Jul 11, 2019 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power Portal Process, Power-with in Parenting
How many of your most painful parenting moments involved you feeling powerless? Powerlessness is deeply painful and can come from thoughts, present moment needs or past feelings. 1. Thoughts ~ Were you telling yourself things like, “I can’t do this...
by Marion Rose | Jul 5, 2019 | Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Self-Compassion for Parents
We are at the tail end of a long long time of power-over in parenting, and a new paradigm of power-with is coming into the world. In this transition phase, most of us are at the intersection of these two paradigms. In the old paradigm, parents, who have...
by Marion Rose | Jul 4, 2019 | The Willingness Practice, Willingness
When we are not truly willing for our child to cooperate with us, even though we WANT them to cooperate with us, we may find ourselves blaming them for both their unwillingness to cooperate AND our frustration (or powerlessness or anger). We can tell if we’re...
