Conscious parenting is a sacred spiritual journey, bringing together teachings from western psychology and eastern philosophy. Through conscious parenting, you will be empowered to understand your past, to live in the present, and liberate your future. Creating bridges from your past to your present, you can map patterns that are blocking growth and connection.

The coaching journey is focused on empowering parents to evolve. Conscious parenting is not a quick fix. It is a transformative process.  During the coaching process, you’ll gain insight into how your inner landscape impacts your relationships and life, enabling you to show up more authentically in the world.

In the parent-child relationship, it can sometimes feel like you and your child are speaking different languages. While you as the parent are bringing your past experiences and all the stories and associations that come along with them into your daily interactions, your child is not. Young children especially are masterful at living in what I call a “real reality”, from a pure, in the moment experience of life. This can lead to a gap between us and our children, and causes conflict. Conscious parenting aims to eliminate this gap, replacing it with a deeper, more authentic connection with our children.

Conscious parenting is a revolutionary way of parenting. It turns the traditional way of parenting on its head. Traditional parenting is hierarchical, where a parent is seen as superior to the child and their role is to ‘fix’ the child or their behaviour. The focus in traditional parenting is on control. In conscious parenting, the relationship is seen as a partnership between the parent and child, a journey where they each look to each other to grow. The focus in conscious parenting is on connection.

As you embark on this path, you’ll uncover opportunities for personal healing and growth. Children serve as awakeners, mirroring aspects of ourselves that require introspection. By understanding and addressing these triggers, conflicts become invitations for growth and transformation. Unless we raise ourselves to a higher level of consciousness, we are unable to raise another human being.

Conscious parenting is not about raising a “perfect” or “happy child”. It’s about raising authentic children who are connected to themselves and their loved ones, allowing them to thrive as individuals.

As parents, there is a lot to manage. Between demanding school schedules, activities, homework and our own commitments, we can feel stretched thin. Practicing mindfulness regularly can assist us in dealing with the big emotions that naturally arise as we juggle so much in our daily lives.

Take the example of firemen – they practice drills multiple times a day. Why? So that when there is a fire, they are ready, they don’t panic, they know what to do. A fireman can’t wait until a real fire to practice their firefighting skills. That wouldn’t work. He wouldn’t have the experience or the skill. In the same way, practicing mindfulness activities daily can assist parents to show up in a conscious way when emotions (theirs or their children’s) become disregulated. Otherwise the parent can get caught up in a whirlwind of emotions that prevents them from meeting the current moment with what it truly needs.

Conscious parenting is a beautiful journey and can support families of children of all ages. There’s a Chinese proverb that says “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.”

Contrary to what we used to believe, today brain science tells us that our brain is always rewiring and is open to change throughout the lifespan. New experiences shape changes in the brain’s structure. So any child or family can benefit from conscious parenting! 

If you are keen to explore conscious parenting and empower yourself to grow, it is common that you will face resistance.  Change is scary for others and this is common.

Navigating a different or new way of parenting while feeling you are being challenged, judged or ridiculed by others (especially a partner) can be frustrating. If this is your experience, you are not alone. Furthermore, if your child has one parent raising consciously, that’s already a blessing.

My advice is to embrace conscious parenting as a journey. Conscious parenting is a beautiful journey, it is a courageous journey. As Dr Shefali Tsabary says in her book, The Conscious Parent;

“This path isn’t for the faint-hearted, but for those courageous souls who wish to experience kinship with their children. Our children come to us so we may recognize our psychic wounds and call up the courage to transcend the limitations these wounds place on us. As we uncover the ways in which our past drives us, we gradually become capable of parenting consciously. Until then, try as we may to bring awareness to the way we parent, unconsciousness seeps into our interactions with our children at the least provocation.”