Trudy Goodman explains the healing power of mindfulness in helping adults be authentically present with children—fully entering their creative, playful world.

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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Trudy Goodman talks about:

• Trudy’s own life as a mother and grandmother, witnessing many stages of growth from different perspectives
• Becoming inspired by the playfulness, openness, and curiosity of children
• Approaching the world with beginners mind: approaching all experiences as if they are new
• A sonar for presence: how children can tell when we are present and when we are not
• How the capacity to meet ourselves often goes back to the parent-child relationship 
• Striving to be ‘good enough’ as a parent rather than perfect
• Ordinary devotion and maintaining a sense of routine care for our children
• Learning to be alone and getting acquainted with our inner lives 
• Resting in presence and allowance rather than always trying to ‘fix’ our children or ‘correct’ their play and creativity
• Trusting the insubstantial nature of that which bothers us 
• How our own expectations, concepts, and ideals, affect children for better and worse

This episode was originally published on Dharmaseed

About Trudy Goodman:

Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats, engages in activism work, and teaches workshops worldwide and online. She is also the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian in the Netflix series, The Midnight Gospel. You can learn more about Trudy’s flourishing array of wonderful offerings at TrudyGoodman.com

"Our mindfulness practice really offers us a way to know deeply what's going on with children and this knowing often comes in nonverbal moments of just seeing, just realizing. It's such a powerful way of staying present with what's happening with all the strange and wonderful creatures that emerge both in ourselves and in our kids." –Trudy Goodman

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