Do you know the three levels of attachment play?

Do you know the three levels of attachment play?

by | Nov 16, 2017 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Cooperation, Crying, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Presence and Present Time, Present Time, Rage, Siblings

Hello! If attachment play is new to you, you might like to look at my free ebook on it HERE. If you’re already familiar with it, I wonder if you’ve thought about it operating at three different levels. This is how I think of it. CONNECTION AND CHOICE LEVEL...
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

by | Oct 9, 2017 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Breast-feeding, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Babies, Control Patterns, Crying, Feelings, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Loving Limits, Mirroring, Needs and Control Patterns, Nourish Your Needs, Repression, Repression mechanisms

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...
Three things that babies and children need for restful sleep

Three things that babies and children need for restful sleep

by | Sep 12, 2017 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Babies, Connected Crying, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Sleep and Aware Parenting

Hello again! I did a FB live on Saturday, all about sleep from an Aware Parenting perspective. You can watch it HERE. (I’m going to do a sleep Q and A FB live soon too; so if you have sleep and AwP questions, come along and ask on my FB page HERE.) I’ve also made a...
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

by | Apr 24, 2017 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Breast-feeding, Babies, Connected Crying, Crying, Feelings, Healing From the Past, Introduction to Aware Parenting, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings

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,...