This week let’s continue to expand on the topic we were working with last week- about how the ways you were parented had, and most likely still do have, a profound effect on how you parent. It’s SUCH a big piece to look closer at, to examine in the present,...
Hey Mama… are you at the point of no return? Have you been there recently? You’ve probably been there before, yeah? Me too. I was the one catching all the hot potatoes of feelings from my kiddos. I was taking all of their unresolved emotional energy into my...
Attunement- what does it even mean? This word is used a lot in conscious and attachment parenting- and I admit, on several occasions, over the last few years, I googled the meaning as I’ve practiced the Purejoy view. What does attunement feel like? What does it mean...
This week we are talking about the inner workings of the mom-guilt cycle. It’s building on the last few blog topics so let’s review! First, you have a big desire for cooperation from the kiddos- and yet you are not sure how that looks so use your young strategies to...
Picking up where we left off last time- powerlessness. For me, it often comes up when I just can’t get what I want, which is usually some kind of cooperation- then the powerlessness I feel inside triggers rage, and that’s when I behave in ways that don’t...
My girl, she’s 9, said to me the other night as we were winding down for bed… I’m sad- and I don’t know why. It struck me- that she was just willing to be with the feeling of sadness. I asked her- how is that for you? She said- sad. So we just sat there, with...
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