Support for Parents & Families

Parenting is beautiful. And hard.
We innately understand what our children need. And we have no freaking idea.
We love these amazing kids. And they can drive us crazy.
We know we're in charge. And we're helpless.
There are a million paradoxes in the practice of parenting, and there are no simple answers.

I offer parents simple orienting practices as a foundation to work with the many issues that come up over the course of a day and a week and a child's development, including:

• connection skills that allow us to build healthy connection and come back to it again and again,
• leadership tools so we can build a healthy, helpful family structure our kids can relax into,
• mindful practices to remember the wise center at our core (It's there!),
• curiosity to understand things that don't seem to make sense,
• emotional tools to sit with big feelings--ours and our child's--without being controlled by them.
• compassion for ourselves and our families,

Together we can uncover the foundations of family struggles without blame, shame, or judgment (toward you or your kids!). I can help you to see challenges in new ways that empower you and your child. By creating some simple, practical changes, we can help you to break unhealthy/unhelpful patterns and build a more connected and healthy life at home.

Expect a meeting to:

• investigate underlying issues rather than focus on controlling symptoms,
• support you to develop the big 3 parenting superpowers--connection, leadership, and clarity--in your own way,
• make sense of your child's developmental stage and personality, your own personality and conditioning, and how they work together.
• help you let go of the myth of perfect parenting and embrace mistakes.

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A New Summer Series!
Mindful Parenting Mornings

Wednesday mornings at 10 am
at my home in Middletown

It's not parenting that's so hard, really. It's parenting in a way that's out of sync with the world around us and our own conditioning, and without the cultural support that parents need. We all deserve the support of a loving community as we raise kids in this complicated world!

Join me for that loving support. We will gather to practice mindfulness in a way that's accessible for even the busiest parent and that can be useful in the challenging moments in your life. We will integrate gentleness and honesty--seeing ourselves and our children as we truly are with acceptance whenever possible. And we will explore what it is to be the leader our kids need, which isn't the same as being perfect, always strong, in control, or staying out of conflict!

Interested? Please email me to register or with questions.

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Links and Resources

Parenting Resources--book recommendations and more

Guided Mindfulness Practices--Gloria's guided practices to use at home

Gloria's Teaching Videos--lots of teachings!