by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Nov 6, 2020 | Compassion, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Feelings, Non-violent Communication, Psychospiritual Development, Rage, Repression, Repression mechanisms, Soul
I’d like to start by offering us all compassion. The majority of English-speakers grew up in a domination, colonised culture, where only a very narrow band of feelings and experiences are deeply welcomed and valued. This isn’t just a recent phenomenon. The...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Mar 22, 2020 | Colonised, Conditioning, Consciousness, Control Patterns, Conversation with Life, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving Through Parenting, Fear, Feelings, Feelings, Gaia, Healing From the Past, Inner Feminine and Masculine, Inner Loving Mother, Loving Limits, Psychospiritual Development, Psychospiritual Parenting, Repression, Repression mechanisms
If you’re familiar with my work, you know I talk about the power of Loving Limits. We can set Loving Limits with a child when they are hurting others or themselves, or when they are using repression mechanisms to distract themselves form painful...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Mar 6, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns, Repression, Repression mechanisms
When you see your child’s repression mechanisms, does this help you see yours more clearly and compassionately? Seeing our own repression mechanisms can help us be compassionate with the younger parts of us who didn’t grow up in a culture where feelings...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Feb 28, 2020 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, Colonised, Conditioning, Control Patterns, Crying, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving Through Parenting, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Parenting Paradigm, Repression, Repression mechanisms, Sleep and Aware Parenting, Tantrums, Tantrums
If you experienced not being heard, or not being understood, or not being loved just for being you as a child, you probably remember how painful that is. Remembering how we felt as a child can be powerful to help us put ourselves in our child’s shoes and...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Feb 27, 2020 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, Crying, Evolving Through Parenting, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Repression mechanisms, Sleep and Aware Parenting
I’m so incredibly grateful for Aware Parenting. I feel moved as I look at old photos and reflect back on 18 years of parenting (this picture is from 10 years ago). When I came across Aware Parenting when I was pregnant with my daughter 18 years ago, I...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Feb 23, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns, Feelings, Repression, Repression mechanisms
If you’ve looked at the map, the first and most important thing I’d like to say is that I invite you to refrain from self-judgment. I value deep and wide compassion for ourselves as parents around this whole topic of feelings. I also want to say...
