The Aware Parenting Podcast
The Aware Parenting Podcast explores the principles and practices of Aware Parenting, a philosophy created by Aletha Solter, PhD. Hosted by Marion Rose, PhD, a level two Aware Parenting instructor, the show covers various aspects of parenting and reparenting from this perspective. Each episode offers insights and guidance for parents seeking a deeper understanding of their children's emotions and behaviors. Listeners can expect thoughtful discussions aimed at nurturing secure and loving relationships within families.
Episodes
Episode 237: An end and a beginning
Episode 237: An end and a beginning by Marion Rose, PhD.
Episode 236: How to help children cooperate with Maru Rojas
I'm so delighted that Maru Rojas, an Aware Parenting instructor in London, originally from Mexico, is back on the podcast again.
Maru was on episodes 129 and 184.
Maru and I discuss the nuances of helping children cooperate and understand the world around them.
Maru shares examples of how providing information to babies and children can make everyday tasks like hair brushing, nail cutting, and ap
Episode 235: Calm Down Bob, Before Bed
In this episode, I read my second Aware Parenting children's book, "Calm Down Bob, Before Bed!"
I love this book, which was illustrated by Linda Valere!
You can buy a copy of the book here:
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Episode 234: Embodying loving limits
In this episode, I dive into the concept of embodying loving limits: a term I coined to describe the process which is integral to the Aware Parenting approach created by Aletha Solter, PhD.
I share my experiences and challenges that I faced in practicing loving limits, both with my daughter and son. I also emphasise how the practice of loving limits contrasts with typical authoritarian or permis
Episode 233: The secret wisdom of crying and raging
In this episode, I take a meander through the surprising beauty of welcoming children's crying and raging.
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Episode 232: Help your child stop hitting
There are many different beliefs about why children hit, and based on those beliefs, what the most helpful response to a hitting child is.
Old religious paradigms believed that children were innately evil or bad and needed to be shamed and punished into being 'good'.
Behaviourism believed that children needed to be taught through punishments, or removal of rewards, to teach children to stop hitt
Episode 231: How Aware Parenting creates transformation with Linde Lambrechts
Join me as I welcome Linde Lambrechts back on the podcast! Linde is an Aware Parenting instructor, Psychotherapist and Psychologist.
Linde was a guest on episode 210, where she shared an experience that I found deeply moving.
In this episode, Linde shares her profound journey with Aware Parenting, discussing the transition from mainstream parenting to understanding the true causes of behaviours
Episode 230: My first children's book ~ 'I Love You, However You Feel'
Welcome to The Aware Parenting Podcast! In this special episode, I celebrate the launch of my first children's book, "I Love You, However You Feel," by reading it aloud.
I highlight the unique nature of the book, which uses flower photographs to help convey nuanced feelings.
Emphasising the importance of deep presence and unconditional love, I invite you to connect deeply with your child or chil
Episode 229: Why crying is so important
In this episode, I talk about why I believe crying is so important in children (from an Aware Parenting perspective) and for adults (from a Marion Method perspective).
I emphasise that in Aware Parenting, crying is a vital natural healing response for children, enabling them to release stress and trauma.
I connect emotional disconnection in adults to societal issues and suggest that many violen
Episode 228: Separation anxiety
In this episode of the Aware Parenting Podcast, which is part of the Foundations of Aware Parenting series, I discuss separation anxiety.
I delve into the history and current usage of the term and I contrast Aware Parenting's understanding of separation anxiety with Classical Attachment Parenting's understanding.
I explore various causes of separation anxiety, including developmental stages, a n
Episode 227: Helping children cooperate with toothbrushing
In this episode, which is the second in my series of the foundations of Aware Parenting, I talk about helping children cooperate with toothbrushing.
I share about my own journey with my teeth and mouth, and how I passed down some of that trauma to my children, and how that affected their willingness with toothbrushing.
I talk about the three reasons why children may not be willing to cooperate w
Episode 226: The long-term effects of attachment play with Alex Letham
In this episode, I talk with Alex Letham, who is the mother of a 12 year old son, Miles.
Alex did my Attachment Play Course 10 years ago, when I first created it, and I still share her testimonial and the games she and Miles made up, all these years later.
In the episode, Alex shares about the conversation where she asked about tantrums and her dear friend shared about Aware Parenting.
Then we
Episode 225: A Clinical Psychologist and Aware Parenting instructor with Dr. Jessica Klug
In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Jessica Klug, who is a Clinical Psychologist and an Aware Parenting instructor.
Jess shares her journey of being deeply passionate about understanding parenting. Her doctoral research was on the impact of parental exposure to to traumatic and stressful life events on parenting practices and child psychological wellbeing and outcomes.
Then she became
Episode 224: A Social Worker also becomes an Aware Parenting instructor with Meg Rankin
I'm so delighted to welcome Meg Rankin on to the podcast.
Meg has been a Social Worker for 20 years, and still works in a tertiary hospital setting. She also has her own business offering Aware Parenting support, general counselling, birth debriefing, and supervision for care and health professionals. She also offers women's circles and mother blessings.
Meg shares about how she'd known about Aw
Episode 223: I'm celebrating 20 years as an Aware Parenting instructor
In this short episode, I invite you to join me in my celebrations of 20 years as an Aware Parenting instructor!
I'm so grateful to Aletha Solter, PhD, for creating Aware Parenting, and for her ongoing guidance and support.
Thank you to everyone who has ever read any of my posts, listened to any of my podcast episodes, done any of my courses or trainings, come to any of my workshops, read any of
Episode 222: A birthkeeper also becomes an Aware Parenting instructor with Daniela Ekman
I'm so delighted to welcome on to the podcast Daniela Ekman, who is an Aware Parenting instructor and birthkeeper.
Daniela shares about how she uses a lot of ancestral traditions and wisdom from South America in her work as a birthkeeper. She is from Venezuela.
Daniela shares about her calling to become a birthkeeper, and the deep connection that she has with babies. This deep connection with ba
Episode 221: "The journey to becoming myself" with Carly Facius
I'm so delighted that Carly Facius has returned to the podcast for the 6th time. She was also on episodes 149, 154, 159, 199, and 202.
Carly is a mother of three, Registered Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, holds a Master of Primary Maternity Care, and is an Aware Parenting instructor.
Carly shares about the very beginning of her journey to becoming an Aware Parentin
Episode 220: From sleep deprived mum to Aware Parenting instructor with Nic Wilson
In this episode, I welcome back Nic Wilson, who was also in the last episode.
This marks the return to talking about Aware Parenting, and is the first episode in a mini-series about people's journeys to become Aware Parenting instructors.
Please note that Nic shares about going through a very tough time of three years of her daughter waking up every 45 minutes and feeling desperate and in her ow
Episode 219: The power of reparenting with Nic Wilson
This is the last episode in the series about reparenting with The Marion Method.
In this episode, I welcome Nic Wilson, who is a Marion Method Mentor and Aware Parenting instructor.
Nic shares about how she first came to The Marion Method 7 years ago, in a 1:1 willingness mentoring session with me.
She talks about the power of reparenting with The Marion Method, including how our relationships
Episode 218: I'm sending you love on Valentine's Day
This is another episode about reparenting with The Marion Method. It's not about Aware Parenting.
In this episode, which I recorded on Valentine's Day 2025, I share how you can use the Inner Beloved Practice or connecting with the Soul Version of your partner or ex-partner.
I also picked a card from my Loving Presences Oracle Cards for you, and spoke some Inner Beloved phrases to you.
If you wa
Episode 217: How the Marion Method can help our relationship with our partner or ex-partner
This is another episode of the reparenting series, which is based on The Marion Method, not reparenting.
As parents, our relationships with our partners and exes can have a huge effect on our children.
I love supporting my mentees, either in 1:1, or them as a couple, to use The Marion Method maps and practices to bring about deeper connection, harmony, and healing in their relationships.
In thi
Episode 216: There's nothing wrong with you! with Katie Fusco
In this episode, I talk with Katie Fusco, who is an Aware Parenting instructor in the UK.
Katie also works in perinatal mental health, and speaks a disclaimer that everything she shares on the episode is her own, based on her own experience.
We'd also love to say, before you listen, that Katie shares some of her experiences during and after giving birth that were extremely traumatic, so please l
Episode 215: Differentiating The Marion Method from Aware Parenting
In this episode, which continues the reparenting series, I describe terms and concepts from the Marion Method that are NOT used in Aware Parenting.
These include:
Soul
Messages from Life
Conversations with Life
Reparenting, Re-culturing
Disconnected Domination Culture
Love-Needs, Will-Needs, Love-Hurts, Will-Hurts
Needs-feelings, Healing-feelings, Thoughts-feelings
Inner Loving Mother, In
Episode 214: Instead of New Year's resolutions, there's the wonder of willingness
This continues the reparenting series (and reculturing too). It's part of The Marion Method, not Aware Parenting.
In this episode, I talk about the process of change from Marion Method perspective, and how getting freer from Disconnected Domination Culture conditioning, and instead embracing lovingness and willingness, supports us to say no to what we don't want, and yes to what we do want.
I s
Episode 213: Saying no and yes during the festive season
This is another episode of the reparenting and reculturing series, and is based on The Marion Method, NOT Aware Parenting.
I talk about why many people find it hard to say yes to what they have a yes for and no to what they have a no for, having grown up in The Disconnected Domination Culture.
I share why this is particularly the case at this time of year.
And I offer tangible suggestions for
Episode 212: The tangible effects of having our needs met as mothers with Caitlin Jaspers
I love this episode with Caitlin Jaspers, who has been doing mentoring with me for the last 4 months.
This episode includes both her practice of Aware Parenting, and also The Marion Method and Nonviolent Communication.
Caitlin starts off sharing her journey with Aware Parenting, which started when her 4-month-old son was waking very frequently.
Once she started practicing Aware Parenting, his s
Episode 211: An excerpt from my latest bestselling book, 'All of Your Feelings are Welcome!'
My latest book is a bestseller already! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
It's available at an introductory price of AUD $13.95 (or equivalent, wherever you buy it from in the world!)
HERE ARE THE LINKS:
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Episode 210: Embodying loving presence in our parenting with Linde Lambrechts
I absolutely LOVE this episode with Linde Lambrechts, who has a Masters in Clinical Psychology, and is a Psychotherapist and Aware Parenting instructor.
You may recognise her from my trilogy of Aware Parenting books, where she shared her beautiful stories.
Linde talks about all kinds of topics in this episode, including reclaiming the beauty of our needs as parents.
However, it's the stories she
Episode 209: Reclaiming the power, beauty, and safety of our yeses and noes
In this episode, I talk about why our yeses and noes are so important, how we disconnect from them growing up in The Disconnected Domination Culture, and how we can reclaim their power and beauty, and the safety that they bring to our lives.
I'd love to emphasise again that this is NOT Aware Parenting. This reparenting series is based on The Marion Method.
Our yeses and noes are our slug wisdom.
Episode 208: Thank you for the THREE MILLION plays!
When I added up the listens this morning, there were 3,033,364!
Woohooo!
Thank you SO much to everyone who has listened, whether that was to 1 episode, or all of them!
And a very big thank you to Lael, who was the co-host for the first 123 episodes.
I'm also so grateful to Aletha Solter, PhD, the Founder and creator of Aware Parenting.
In this episode, I talk about the past episodes, the diff
Episode 207: Reparenting ourselves with the three types of feelings
I'd love to emphasise again that this is NOT Aware Parenting. This reparenting series is based on The Marion Method.
I came up with the concept and practice of the three types of feelings by integrating two philosophies:
Aware Parenting, which includes what I call needs-feelings and healing-feelings.
Nonviolent Communication, which includes what I call needs-feelings and thoughts-feelings.
I'l
Episode 206: It really is possible to get free from guilt!
It really is possible to get free from guilt!
I'd love to emphasise again that this is NOT Aware Parenting. This reparenting series is based on The Marion Method.
I'm so grateful to Marshall Rosenberg, who created Nonviolent Communication.
It was from him, back in 2002, when my daughter was 9 months old, that I learnt about the true origin of guilt, and how it is simply a form of cultural condi
Episode 205: An introduction to reparenting with The Marion Method
I'm so delighted to be starting the reparenting series.
I'd love to make it very clear that this is NOT Aware Parenting. It's The Marion Method.
However, it was profoundly influenced by Aware Parenting, and in some ways is like practicing Aware Parenting with ourselves.
Aware Parenting of course includes the importance of honouring our own needs, having community, and listening to our own feeli
Episode 204: Crying, grief, and loving presence with Michael Rose
I'm so delighted to have Michael Rose, the father of our children, back on the podcast. He was a guest on episode 49. Michael is an Aware Parenting instructor, Tai Chi teacher, and RiverKeeper.
In this episode, we share about Aware Parenting, and also about The Marion Method for reparenting. Michael includes perspectives from Tai Chi and from counselling adults.
Also in this episode, there is mo
Episode 203: Sleep, neurobiology, and self-compassion with Joss Goulden
I'm so grateful to have my dear friend and Level 2 Aware Parenting instructor colleague, Joss Goulden, for this final episode in the second sleep series.
Joss shares in detail about the neurobiology of stress and trauma, and how that relates to sleep.
We talk a lot about why it's so essential to be doing our own inner work and getting lots of support, so we can understand this information and y
Episode 202: Ending the nighttime breastfeeding journey with Carly Facius
I'm so delighted that Carly Facius has returned to the podcast for the 4th time. She was also on episodes 149, 154, 159, and 199.
Carly is a mother of three, Registered Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, holds a Master of Primary Maternity Care, and is an Aware Parenting instructor.
Carly shares about her journey of stopping breastfeeding at night with her first and se
Episode 201: Quick sleep suggestions and my sleep book is a bestseller!
As this very long sleep series draws to a close, in this episode, I share some quick sleep suggestions for parents of a baby, toddler, child, or teen.
Babies, children, and teens need to be both tired and relaxed to sleep restfully.
Relaxation is created in two ways:
~ through a sense of safety (which is met by having closeness, especially in the early years),
~ and by releasing any pent-up
Episode 200: Belynda Smith and I talk about my sleep book
Woohooo! It's the 200th episode!
Thank you to everyone who has listened to this podcast, whether this is the first time you've listened, or the 200th!
I'm celebrating with Belynda Smith, who is not only the Editor of my trilogy of books, but also an Aware Parenting instructor and Hand in Hand Instructor.
We chat together about all different aspects of the book.
I loved this conversation so muc
Episode 199: Restful sleep with a baby and two young children with Carly Facius
I'm so delighted that Carly Facius has returned to the podcast for the 4th time. She was also on episodes 149, 154, and 159.
Carly is a mother of three, Registered Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, holds a Master of Primary Maternity Care, and is an Aware Parenting instructor.
Carly starts off by sharing her own journey with sleep with her first baby, and how surprised
Episode 198: The power of play before sleep with Vivian Viester
Episode 198: The power of play before sleep with Vivian Viester by Marion Rose, PhD.
Episode 197: Supporting sleep from infancy to the teen years with Belynda Smith
I'm so delighted that Belynda Smith is back on the podcast, after she interviewed me about The Emotional Life of Babies in episode 151.
Belynda is an Aware Parenting instructor and a Hand in Hand Parenting Instructor. She is also the Editor of my trilogy of books.
In this episode, Belynda shares about her passion for – and deep experience with – the vital importance of receiving lots of listening
Episode 196: From sleep training & Classical Attachment Parenting to AwP with Kim Cousins
I'm so delighted that Kim Cousins came back on the podcast again. Kim was on episode 136 and 176 and I so highly recommend listening to those episodes if you haven't already.
Kim is an Aware Parenting instructor who used to work in a perinatal mental health unit and has an abundance of experience of working with mothers and babies and families in general.
In this episode, she also shares her ow
Episode 195: The first chapter in my upcoming sleep book
In this episode, I share the first chapter in my upcoming sleep book:
Sound Sleep and Secure Attachment with Aware Parenting:
Transform sleep for your baby, child or teen with this compassionate, trauma-informed approach to deep relaxation.
There is still some more editing to go, but I don't imagine anything huge will change!
I'm so loving this book, that I wanted to share this first chapter wi
Episode 194: Highly Sensitive Children and sleep
In this episode, I talk about the differences Highly Sensitive Children can experience with sleep.
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Episode 193: The power of laughter to release fear for us as parents
In this episode, I talk about the power of laughter to help us release fear from our bodies as parents. In it, I include a two minute segment of me laughing, in case that helps you laugh too!
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Episode 192: Healing a rupture with our child after years have passed
In this episode, I share about how it's possible to heal a rupture with our child, even if that happened many years ago.
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Episode 191: Trusting the invitations to grow through the sleep journey with Laura Pires Brammer
We recorded this episode a few weeks ago.
I'm so delighted to share this episode with Laura Pires Brammer.
Laura is an Aware Parenting instructor in Germany, and she shares about her experience with Aware Parenting and sleep.
She talks about the powerful connection she had with Aletha Solter's book 'The Aware Baby', and now she started to listen to her baby's healing-feelings after only reading a
Episode 190: My experiences with sleep as a mother
In another episode in the second sleep series, I share about my own experiences with sleep as a mother.
I talk about the way I changed thinking about sleep before becoming a mother.
I share about how I helped my daughter sleep for longer chunks when she was about 9 months old.
I tell the story of the two challenges I had with sleep - one when my daughter was a toddler, and one when my son was in
Episode 189: Special retrospective episode with Chiara Rossetti
This is a special episode that was recorded three years ago and that was on my Psychospiritual Podcast, about Aware Parenting and homeschooling.
If you know Chiara Rossetti and haven't heard the news yet, I invite you to pause and have a friend close before reading more.....
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Chiara is no longer with us.
If you knew her, I'm sending so much love to you, however you're feelin
Episode 188: Toddler and child sleep Q & A
In this episode, I share listeners' questions and my answers, for toddlers of one year old to children who are seven years old.
The questions include:
"How can I help my one year old release big feelings before and during sleep without making her feel powerless? Is me holding her helpful?"
"I'd love to hear you talk about breastfeeding to sleep and night wakings and night weaning. (My little on
Episode 187: Baby sleep Q & A
In this episode, I share listeners' questions and my answers, for babies 3 months to 12 months old.
The questions include:
"Can babies get nightmares/night terrors as young as 3 months?"
"How do I support my baby when he gets the wriggles?"
"Should I be putting my 9 mth old In her own cot?"
"Do we have to co sleep?"
"Do you think the whole family should sleep together?"
"For day time naps
Episode 186: Early bird, night owl, or accumulated feelings?
In this episode, I talk about the chronotypes of the early bird and the night owl.
I also explain how you can differentiate each of these from the effects of accumulated healing-feelings.
I also share about the possibility that both chronotypes and accumulated feelings can be happening, and what you can do it this is the case.
If you'd like my free PDF to learn more about sleep, secure attachment
Episode 185: Why mild dissociation is the main cause of restless sleep and frequent night waking
In this episode, I talk about the most common reason why babies and toddlers:
wake up with the slightest noise or movement;
wake up after one sleep cycle;
wake up crying;
are restless at night;
wake frequently;
appear to resist sleep;
take a long time to go to sleep.
If you're walking on eggshells to make sure they don't wake up, this might interest you.
I explain how quiet and stillness can ind
Episode 184: Night waking and night weaning for toddlers, with Maru Rojas
In this episode, I talk to Maru Rojas again. Maru is an Aware Parenting instructor in the UK and is originally from Mexico. She was a guest on the podcast on episode 139, also talking about sleep. If you haven't listened to that episode, I highly recommend listening to it after this one.
Maru shares her journey of sleep with her daughter and son, as she gradually increased the depth of her unders
Episode 183: Why terms such as 'overtired', 'wake windows', & 'sleep regression' aren't used in AwP
In this episode, I share why Aware Parenting doesn't include the terms 'overtired', 'wake windows', and 'sleep regression', and what we perceive is going on when these terms are used.
Because Aware Parenting has such different ways of understanding what's going on with sleep, it doesn't use a lot of terminology commonly used in other parenting paradigms.
If you'd like my free PDF to learn more a
Episode 182: The three ingredients for relaxed, restful and restorative sleep
In this episode, I talk about the three ingredients for restful sleep.
The first is well-known, the second is less well-known in this culture, and the third is often not recognised at all.
I also explain the three different ways to bring about calmness before sleep, and why two of those only lead to superficial calmness, which often leads to babies and children waking up easily and frequently.
Episode 181: Sleep, cultural contexts, and Aware Parenting
This little mini episode continues on from the last episode on cultural beliefs in relation to sleep.
I talk about how looking at sleep practices all around the world helps us understand biological needs and cultural practices.
Babies and children vitally need sleep, so it's adaptive for there to be many ways to support them to be able to go to sleep in whatever climate and culture, but these diff
Episode 180: Sleep, cultural beliefs, innate needs, and body wisdom
I love looking at how cultural beliefs and practices affect parenting, and in this episode I explore this in relation to sleep for babies and children.
I talk about The Continuum Concept book about the Yequana people, by Jean Liedloff, and how reading it affected me back in 1992.
I explore how Classical Attachment Parenting was deeply influenced by Indigenous cultures in hot climates, and how pare
Episode 179: To mothers on Mothers Day
Hello again!
This is a very different episode, and it's for mothers, to mark Mothers Day in some parts of the world.
Please note, that this is based on The Marion Method, rather than Aware Parenting.
In the episode, I share three things:
~ An invitation to see what shows up for you on Mothers Day.
~ Me appreciating you as a mother.
~ Me standing in for Divine Mother / your Inner Loving Mother / th
Episode 178: Introducing the second sleep series
I'm so delighted to be starting this second sleep series, in tandem with editing my book, Sound Sleep and Secure Attachment with Aware Parenting, as well as offering a live round of the course of the same name, and my first Aware Parenting children's book, on rambunctious play before bed.
This episode is an introduction to what me and my guests will be talking about in this series.
I include:
T
Episode 177: The differences between Aware Parenting and Classical Attachment Parenting
I'm grateful to one of my lovely mentees, who requested this episode, where I talk about some of the differences between Aware Parenting and Classical Attachment Parenting (a term created by me and adopted by Aletha Solter, the founder of Aware Parenting).
Classical attachment parenting (CAP) refers to the original attachment parenting paradigm, which was first described by William and Martha Sea
Episode 176: Learning to trust ourselves and our children with food with Kim Cousins
I'm so delighted that Kim Cousins is back on the podcast! Kim is an Aware Parenting instructor as well as a registered nurse who works on a perinatal mental health unit. She is also studying a graduate certificate in family therapy.
She was also on episode 136 with her colleague, Erin.
Please note that this episode talks about painful experiences in relation to food and feelings. As always, I in
Episode 175: Food and feelings - a child's perspective
This is the last episode in the series related to my latest best-selling book, 'I'm Here and I'm Listening', before I return to finish the food series, so this episode is a kind of bridge back to that!
Then I'll be starting the second sleep series!
Today, I share a story from my book, again from a child's perspective.
Before that, I talk about how in Aware Parenting, one of the core aims is to
Episode 174: Why children aren't fighting sleep
In this episode, I talk about why children aren't fighting sleep, and why we're often fighting their natural relaxation response.
I share concisely about how we can trust children and follow their lead and can then cooperate with their natural relaxation response.
I explain the power of play before bed, and why we can look at the "it'll all end in tears" phenomenon in a very different light.
A
Episode 173: Screens, play and loving limits
In this episode, I share about how we can stay connected with children in relation to screens, including with attachment play.
I offer some information that I wish I'd had when my children were younger, about loving limits.
I also share a touching story at the end from my new book, 'I'm Here and I'm Listening', from the perspective of a child.
Putting ourselves in our child's shoes can really h
Episode 172: Helping a hitting child
In this episode, I share about what's going on when a child is hitting. I talk about them being in the fight or flight response, and how we can help them move out of that state of hyperarousal, through feeling physically and emotionally safe, to return to homeostasis through healing raging and crying (or laughing and playing) with our loving support.
I mention ways we can prevent hitting from hap
Episode 171: Blankets, bunnies and other control patterns
In this episode, I talk about when children use have a soft toy, blanket or other object as a control pattern. This might be something they use to suppress their feelings when going to sleep or during the day when feelings bubble up.
I explain about how they used to be known as 'transitional objects' in Winnicott's work, and how we see them differently in Aware Parenting.
I also share my own exp
Episode 170: Loving limits Q and A
In this episode, I respond to questions about loving limits that parents asked on my social media accounts.
They include:
What happens when loving limits don't seem to work – eg, the child moves on to something else and doesn't express any feelings;
When loving limits aren't actually the most apt response;
When our own feelings come up;
When we find it hard to be with the crying and raging that ha
Episode 169: Loving limits update
In this episode, I share an update on loving limits, after gaining lots of new clarity through the process of editing my latest best-selling book, 'I'm Here and I'm Listening'. and having conversations with Aletha Solter, PhD, the Founder of Aware Parenting.
The update includes:
The importance of giving information when offering a loving limit;
The language we might use when offering loving lim
Episode 168: Melting a child's freeze
This is part of a series of episodes where I refer to topics in my new best-selling book, 'I'm Here and I'm Listening', and I read a story shared from a child's perspective.
In this episode, I talk about the process of helping a child move out a freeze state (which in Aware Parenting we tend to refer to as dissociation, or a control pattern) and back into connection with their body and feelings.
Episode 167: Leaving the park
Long gone are the days where parents who wanted to leave the park were told to just walk away and say "bye!" to their child.
However, it can be so common for us as parents to feel really powerless when we want to leave the park and our child doesn't want to. This can often correspond with times when we're hungry or tired, and our own feelings can easily bubble up and out into responses we later r
Episode 166: When a crying child says "Go away!"
There is an episode called 'Go away" from early on in The Aware Parenting Podcast, AND I felt called to record another one. That's partly because one of my favourite parts in my new best-selling book 'I'm Here and I'm Listening' is where we see this from a child's perspective.
In fact, when parents ask about helpful responses to their crying child saying "Go away!" I often ask them to reflect bac
Episode 165: My new book is out!
My new book is out!
It's called 'I'm Here and I'm Listening' and is for parents of 1-8 year olds.
In this episode, I read the first couple of chapters of the book.
The audiobook won't be available for a few months, so I thought I would give you an audio taster!
The paperback of 'I'm Here and I'm Listening' became an immediate best seller – reaching number 1 in the Child Development and the Emo
Episode 164: Returning to our innate body wisdom with food in adulthood
Welcome back after the festive season!
This episode is informed by Aware Parenting, but includes a lot of The Marion Method in terms of our reparenting and reculturing journey.
I talk about what may be getting in the way of our deep connection with our innate body wisdom in relation to food:
Our thoughts and beliefs and understanding about food and eating;
Needs we may be meeting with food;
Ways w
Episode 163: The opposite of overwhelm over this festive season
Hello again! This is a pause in the food, feelings and trust series for a festive season special, all about the opposite of overwhelm.
I share about:
The importance of connection with yourself and your values;
How to prevent overwhelm in the first place (saying no is a big factor here);
How you can recognise overwhelm in yourself and your baby/child/teen;
How to release overwhelm.
I'm sending y
Episode 162: Supporting children who have learnt to eat to suppress their feelings
In this episode, I talk about how to help children who have learnt to eat to suppress their feelings. This follows on from the last episode about helping babies who have learnt to suppress their feelings, and the one before that, about how babies and children learn to feed and eat to suppress their feelings in the first place.
If you haven't already listened to episode 160, I recommend listening
Episode 161: Supporting babies who have learnt to feed to suppress their feelings
In this episode, I share about what you can do if your baby has learnt to suppress their feelings with feeding.
If you haven't already, I invite you to listen to the previous episode, where I talked about how babies and children learn to suppress their feelings with food.
I said I was going to talk about babies and children in this episode, but I'm separating them into two episodes - so the next
Episode 160: How babies and children learn to suppress their feelings with food
In this episode, I talk about how babies and children learn to suppress their feelings with food and how we can prevent that or lessen those effects.
I share about:
The importance of self-compassion;
Reassurance that this is one of the most common ways that babies and children suppress feelings;
Whatever age your baby or child is, it's possible to help them relearn how to distinguish between hung
Episode 159: Breastfeeding and listening to ourselves and our babies with Carly Facius
I'm so delighted that Carly Facius is back again! Carly is a Registered Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and holds a Master of Primary Maternity Care and is an Aware Parenting instructor.
Carly has already been on two episodes of The Aware Parenting Podcast: Episode 149 on Communicating with babies and Episode 154 on Reclaiming our power through birth.
I absolutely lo
Episode 158: What gets in the way of children's innate body wisdom with food
After the last episode, I felt called to share more details about how things get in the way of children's innate body wisdom.
If our aim is wanting our child to make the most optimal food choices based on their bodily sensations as well as information from us and from their own prior experience about whether they enjoyed the food and how they felt afterwards, then knowing what can get in the way
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