I wrote an article with this title a couple of years ago.
I have written this new version because I believe that the call for a radical shift in consciousness is vital right now and that parenting is an important part of that shift.
1. When we help our child be securely attached with us, this deep sense of connection, trust and embodied intimacy transfers to their relationships with others and the wider world. As Pam Leo said, “However we treat the child, the child will treat the world.”
We need a radical shift of human consciousness away from separation and division to understanding our deep interconnectedness with all human beings and all of Life. Your securely attached child helps with that.
2. When we respect your child’s “no,” give them choices, and avoid using power-over and coercion, our child feels far less powerlessness. Children who are brought up in power-over paradigms can either become adults who use power-over others or who comply even when harsh things are being done.
We need more humans who feel a true sense of power-with other humans and the natural world and fewer humans who use power-over others. We need a lot of people who are willing to work together to help turn around the radical issues that humanity faces.
3. When we listen to our child’s feelings of frustration and powerlessness, their outrage and tantrums with loving compassion and hear their experiences of being coerced or overpowered (including by us); they release feelings of powerlessness and rage which can otherwise show up as aggression.
We need a lot more adults who can respond to differences of opinion and belief without turning to aggression.
4. When we provide a loving and compassionate environment to our child and help them know that they are unconditionally loved, loveable, and ARE love, they feel a deep sense of fulfilment in their bodies. Children who feel shamed and learn to believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with them can often go through life trying to fill up that sense of a hole within.
We need more people in the world who know that they are love, and who can BE loving to other humans, whatever their age or race or religion or beliefs; and who feel deep love for other animals, plants, place and our planet.
5. Children whose painful feelings are heard with loving compassion, including their tears and rage and tantrums, have less need of repression and dissociation. One of the major repression mechanisms in our culture is to buy things that we don’t really need, and to keep wanting more and more.
We need more people to buy with loving consciousness and from true choice and values, rather than to repress feelings.
6. The more we see who our child really is, and mirror that back to them, the more their personality reflects their Soul. That means that their true self and their personality are congruent.
We need more humans who know who they really are who can bring about radical change from a deep sense of Soul.
7. The more we see and support our child’s interests, passions and gifts, the freer they are to share those gifts freely with the world.
We need a lot of humans who can think clearly and creatively in new ways to bring about change in the world.
8. The more we see our child’s true Loving nature, the more they know that they are love and see the world through eyes of Love.
More humans who are deeply connected with Love help the shift in consciousness to see ourselves as planetary citizens who are divinely connected with each other and all of Life.
9. Children who grow up receiving fewer judgments and instead speak the language of feelings and needs are less likely to judge others and more likely to try to understand them.
We need more humans who are able to compassionately understand and connect with each other and our shared humanity rather than judge each other.
10. Children with fewer accumulated feelings and less family lineage baggage have more emotional and physical capacity to contribute to others, make a difference, and attend to our pressing planetary issues.
All ten of these require more compassion for ourselves as parents and how hard these things can be to put into practice, as we come up against our cultural conditioning and childhood hurts.
We cover all of these things and more in my Psychospiritual Parenting Course.
I have created the Psychospiritual Parenting Course to:
Help you really get in your bones how profoundly valuable and important your parenting is.
Close the gap between the parent you want to be and the parent you are.
Increase your capacity to love your child so that they truly know that they are unconditionally loved.
Reduce your guilt and comparison as a parent and become much more self-compassionate.
Deeply understand Soulful and Psychological principles that translate into your day-to-day parenting.
Help you help your child stay deeply connected with their true Self or Soul.
Support you in reconnecting with who you really are.
Understand our true nature as Love and Will in ways that transform your parenting.
Support you in really understanding will, willingness, choice, coercion, power-over, frustration and outrage.
Help you feel a deep sense of meaning and purpose in your parenting.
The course isn’t for:
A parent who values spirit and soul but not feelings.
A parent who wants a cookie-cutter approach to parenting.
A parent who wants to be told what to do in parenting.
A parent who wants to stay with punishments and rewards, coercion and guilt.
A parent who isn’t willing to look at their own Soul, feelings, willingness and inner children.
If you do want to:
Fully honour the psychospiritual invitation that parenting offers;
See your child’s true self, wisdom and messages;
Help your child stay deeply connected with who they really are;
Increase your capacity to be with your child’s painful feelings;
Learn to love your Inner Children and your protective mechanisms;
Release old hurts from your own childhood;
Let go of old internalised beliefs about yourself;
Help your child have a personality that reflects their Soul;
Know that your true nature and your child’s true nature is Love;
Have tangible parenting practices that are embedded in deeply profound paradigms;
Really understand the Will and its relationship with choice, power, cooperation, tantrums and coercion;
Help yourself free up your willingness channel so that you’re more willing to do what you really want to do and freer to say “no” to what doesn’t serve you;
Help your child stay deeply connected with their capacity for consent, and to be able to say “no” when their body has a no, and “yes” when they feel a yes;
Understand the messages from Life that your child/ren are giving you;
Be a part of an unconditionally loving and supportive community,
then this course is right up your street!
I send loving intentions to everyone in the course that:
All the participants will feel more deeply connected with their true Lovingness;
All the participants will experience a next level valuing of their parenting and the parenting journey;
Everyone will feel held in a space of unconditional love;
Everyone will have more capacity to respond lovingly to their children and themselves in tangible ways;
Everyone will take steps on their journey of will and willingness, deeply understanding what they are;
All the participants will honour the beauty and power of their child’s will and willingness even more;
Children and inner children will be held with unconditional love;
Beautiful and miraculous shifts will happen;
Collectively, the power of the group will affect more people and the world.
Past participants said of the course:
You have such a gift in offering really deep wisdom and translating it into simple clear and practical terms.
~ Vanessa
This has been everything I’ve needed and MORE already. I’m only through the introduction and Psychospiritual Parenting has been SO incredibly helpful, more than I could have ever imagined possible. It is exactly what I need. The information alone, just having that context and understanding, is life changing for my daughter and I. Thank you. SO much for sharing your soul’s calling and gifts with us the way you do. I am forever grateful.
~ Kylie
Your approach & gifts deeply resonate with me & for that I’m truly grateful. From the very bottom of my highly sensitive heart, THANKYOU Marion for doing what you do & creating a space for me to continue to heal & grow. Much love & excitement for what lies ahead xxx
~ Naomi
I feel as though none of this information is new to me, yet it was information that I was previously unable to put into words to describe to someone… Marion, you’re clearing up the muddled “downloads” in my head and making them all make sense! I’m excited to start sharing these things with my husband and kids, when the time is right.. as I felt before I just couldn’t explain what I meant!
~ Cherie
Thank you, Marion! Thank you for this work, it has opened so many doors of awareness to help me re-parent myself, so I may support my son in his true essence.
~ Vicky
Do you want your life as a parent to be:
Deeply meaningful;
Full of compassion for yourself and your child/ren;
Full of clarity about what is really going on for yourself and your child/ren;
Soulful and connected;
Clear around “no’s”, Loving Limits and Loving Encouragement;
An increasing divine marriage between Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine;
A psychospiritual workshop full of growth and learning.
This course is about all of those things and more.