by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Apr 27, 2020 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Conditioning, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Outrage, Parenting Paradigm, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Rage, Tantrums, Tantrums, The Willingness Practice, Unwillingness, Will, Willingness
I believe we are being invited to shift the domination paradigm of the past 2000 years. As mothers (and fathers), there are two key ways we can do this – to reclaim our sacred power, and to support our children in staying connected with their...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Apr 23, 2020 | Aggression, Choice, Claim Your Feminine Power, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Love and Will, Neo No, Outrage, Parenting Paradigm, Planet, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Psychospiritual Emergence, The Willingness Practice, Will, Willingness
Hello dear friends, I have been noticing something in the field in the past few days… I have suddenly felt a really strong calling to stand up and speak a big NEO NO to power-over and coercion – in particular, towards children and in the...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 10, 2019 | Planet, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Unwillingness, Willingness
I love the power we have as mothers to transform fear into not-willingness. This isn’t for all types of fear. This is for when we are feeling fear because we’re thinking of something that we don’t want to happen. For example, I was feeling some...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Jul 16, 2019 | Aware Parenting, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting
1. Remember that our children naturally want to cooperate. If they aren’t cooperating, there’s something important going on for them that we need to understand and address before they can return to their natural willingness to cooperate. 2. Listen to what you...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Jul 11, 2019 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power Portal Process, Power-with in Parenting
How many of your most painful parenting moments involved you feeling powerless? Powerlessness is deeply painful and can come from thoughts, present moment needs or past feelings. 1. Thoughts ~ Were you telling yourself things like, “I can’t do this...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Jul 5, 2019 | Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Self-Compassion for Parents
We are at the tail end of a long long time of power-over in parenting, and a new paradigm of power-with is coming into the world. In this transition phase, most of us are at the intersection of these two paradigms. In the old paradigm, parents, who have...
