How babies and children learn to repress their feelings and our choices to respond

How babies and children learn to repress their feelings and our choices to respond

Hello! I’d like to start with:   My journey with feelings and repressing feelings. I’d love to share my own journey with this over the years.  When I trained as a psychospiritual psychotherapist in the 1990’s, I learnt all about feelings and addictions and...
How are you with screens?

How are you with screens?

I wonder what your relationship with screens is like? I often find it helpful to ask these kinds of questions below, either during or after I’ve been on a screen. Asking them helps me make clearer and more aligned decisions. I wonder if they are helpful for you?...
Our parents and our sweet spots and our child/ren and their sweet spots

Our parents and our sweet spots and our child/ren and their sweet spots

Hello again! If your parents are around, when you spend time with them, do you ever have big feelings come up? The day before yesterday I spent a lot of hours with my Mum, and at the time I noticed myself doing an old repression mechanism that I haven’t done for years...
How I helped my son heal from some of his birth experiences as a newborn

How I helped my son heal from some of his birth experiences as a newborn

Hello again! I am so grateful for Aware Parenting for so many reasons. One that jumped out at me today, when I was making a meme about babies healing from their birthing experiences, was after my son was born. My son was posterior. My daughter had been posterior too,...