by Marion Rose | 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...
by Marion Rose | Sep 8, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Get Free From Guilt, Needs and Control Patterns, Screens
Hello! I’ve been playing with finding clarity and peace of mind around screens for myself and my children for years. A few years ago, I went through a phase of having Facebook as a control pattern, and checking it many times a day. A couple of years ago I played with...
by Marion Rose | Aug 18, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Control Patterns, Getting Our Needs Met, Honouring Mothers, Needs and Control Patterns, Nourish Your Needs
Hello! How are you? So many of us as women turn to food to avoid feeling our feelings. I wonder whether you ever do? We want sweetness, nourishment, nourishment, and fulfillment, and food can be a way we try to get that. Or we want to escape feelings of sadness,...
by Marion Rose | May 17, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Control Patterns, Needs and Control Patterns, Present Time
Recently, I’ve started practicing what I call ‘Present Time’ again with my children. How I practice Present Time First, I make sure that I’ve done anything that I might otherwise keep thinking about – such as making a phone call, or doing the washing up. I put on a...
by Marion Rose | Dec 21, 2014 | Needs and Control Patterns
Like many parents, I keep learning about my own and my children’s relationship with computers and devices. At times, the learning is tumultuous! I’d love to tell you a bit about my own relationship with the Internet, and how it interweaves with my life as a mother...
