The Conscious Parent

This enables us to alter the energetic space we inhabit during our interactions with others, which is the ...

prepare to be disappointed in the long run. There are no tidy answers in parenting. So-called “tough love” ...

Our adult ability to tolerate frustration takes root in our childhood. More precisely, it involves our paren ...

react in a traditional me-versus-you way, we lose our power, and with it the ability to be creative in o ...

truth.” Invested in being “the parent,” he was coming entirely from fear. When I was able to demons ...

throw ourselves on the floor and scream till we are blue in the face. Of course, we know we can’t do s ...

long ago robbed us of the right to expect respect. Self-respect must come ahead of respect from others. ...

So impoverished was Suzanne’s self-authority that she simply didn’t think to claim respect from her daughter. ...

independent, but also stubborn, willful, and even hotheaded. In these cases, parents have to be more fo ...

frustration, and neither do I want to. But I can be with you while you work through it.” The way to work ...

you need to respond in this way, I would like to suggest several ways in which you need to say an u ...

them. My daughter didn’t want to leave a play date because she was having so much fun. Of course, she ...

behavior. It’s in ways like this that the parenting journey holds the potential to be a spiritually reg ...

T AFTERWORD Understanding Our Shared Unconsciousness he only way to effect authentic, enduring change is to gain ...

Becoming a conscious parent requires us to recognize how our unconsciousness, bequeathed to us by the coll ...

down the rules and mean business when we do It is we who teach our children to know shame by shami ...

with their inner being, they will be at peace within themselves, which is the key to a life that’s r ...

Do I honor my body? Do I live my passions? Do I love my imperfect life? Am I able to be one with ...

now. Instead of seeing everything through the veil of polarizing thought, we enter into a state of pure ...

APPENDIX The Consciousness Compass Questions to Ask Ourselves What is my life’s mission? How do I manifest m ...