by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | 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
As parents, when we have access to a compassionate understanding that all children have feelings to express as a result of daily stresses and bigger challenges, and we have enough emotional capacity to listen with loving presence to their feelings,...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Nov 17, 2017 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Connection, Control Patterns, Crying, Repression, Repression mechanisms, Tantrums
Hello! I did a FB live on this today. You can watch it HERE. So, repression mechanisms! Pretty much anything can become a repression mechanism, but common ones in children are things like: thumb sucking eating when upset hair twirling nose picking sucking on...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | 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 lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Apr 19, 2017 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Breast-feeding, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Babies, Connected Crying, Crying, Feelings, Repression, Sleep and Aware Parenting
Hello again! Here are PART ONE and PART TWO. I want to preface part three with a reminder that listening to a baby’s feelings is not for everyone. AND we can listen to...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Apr 14, 2017 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Babies, Connected Crying, Control Patterns, Crying, Feelings, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Repression
Hello! I remember the first time that I wondered whether babies have real feelings that need to be heard, just like us. I in my late twenties and was finishing 6 years of psychotherapy training, where I’d spent years learning about babies and...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Nov 9, 2016 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Compassion, Evolving Through Parenting, Healing From the Past, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Repression, Screens, Self-Compassion for Parents
Hello! Have you read The Velveteen Rabbit? “Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become...
