The Conscious Parent

Ask any mother of a child who refuses to go to sleep at three in the morning, while she has another on her ...

These months of gestation render the mother-child bond particularly unique in its intensity, leading to a com ...

In the course of raising our children, many of us become almost unrecognizable to ourselves when we look i ...

perfection, we would discover a kinship with other parents and realize we aren’t at all unusual for having such ...

Whether we like it or not, every one of us is destined to be triggered by our children in some profo ...

SURRENDER TO A DIFFERENT PACE Learning to surrender to the nature of our life with children takes some ...

of calm. When our children aren’t following “the plan,” we are wise to remind ourselves they aren’t mea ...

W CHAPTER 10 Parent from Wholeness Instead of Your Wounds hen parents are so wrapped up in their own pain th ...

meant that Samantha spent her childhood taking care of herself. Feeling guilty for even suggesting to ...

as far as I can from the circumstances of my childhood, yet I still hurt as if I were five. Inside, I ...

dabbled in professions ranging from corporate positions to private businesses and teaching children, nothing prov ...

persona of grandiosity, as Jonathan did, in an effort to overcompensate for not feeling good enough. As a r ...

coddled and praised beyond what was appropriate. Or perhaps we felt as if we were our parents’ puppet, here ...

and want more of it?” In the clutches of unrelenting fear, anxious about where her next meal would co ...

THEIR APPROVAL Children who are raised by parents who sidestep their authenticity, camouflaging their true fe ...

“no” to us. Consequently, they develop a grandiose sense of themselves. Anita grew up as the youngest ...

effortlessly until the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer. With no more fight in her, Anita broke ...

Like Anita, many of us find ourselves contouring ourselves to earn another’s approval. In our bid for acc ...

pain I am “bad” for having caused my parents discomfort. Children who are raised with such an imprint grow ...

they take on the role of a martyr, leaving their children feeling guilty for doing nothing more than ...