Parenting Paused

This week's episode explores the difference between exploring and explaining.

Do you find yourself exploring with your child what's going on- their experience, showing up for them to explore their world, how they see things, the conclusions they're coming to, the meanings they're concluding?

Or do you explain how the world works, how they're supposed to think, what they're supposed to do, and how they can be 'right' depending on how you experience the world? There is a strong tendency, especially when feeling powerless and uncomfortable with their actions, to fall back on explaining how things are.

Tune in to hear alternatives to explaining and encouragement for how to be more curious with your child and their experience.

Are you a student of Parenting?

If you are here, you probably had an inspiration to research "how to parent".

Maybe you wanted to do things differently from your parents.

Maybe you found that what you were doing was not working.

Maybe after all the conscious parenting books, podcasts, lectures... you still perceive that the way you parent isn't "working".

Do you hear the internal judgment there?

In this week's Parenting Paused podcast, you will explore the secret sauce... kindness to self!

What would it be like to be kind to yourself when you just don't know?

Starting anew is the focus this week in Purejoy.

What does that even mean? How do you enter your days by stepping into the intimacy of the moment?

Especially with parenting it often feels easier to fall back on book knowledge and conditioned thinking to guide you forward.

Tune into this week's episode to hear more about trusting in your capacity to enter each moment and to parent from your heart.

It is a mighty task especially if you were trained to doubt yourself and your wisdom.

What does it mean to be happy? This is the question we are taking a look at in this week's episode of Parenting Paused. As you wind down the end of 2022 consider- what is your view of what it means to be happy.

Often we get locked into happiness being about everything coming easy and comfortable and so then when discomfort arises you wonder, can we truly be happy? Tune into this week's episode to hear what else might be possible and hear about an opportunity coming right up to support you to be truly happy in the new year!

Most parenting advice focuses on the relationship between you and your child.

Of course, this makes ALOT of sense! That's why you are here, right? It is so important to you to have a solid parent-child relationship!

Have you considered that the 🎁 secret sauce 🎁 to having a loving relationship with your child is having a loving relationship with yourself?

Check out this week's Parenting Paused Podcast to find hot more!

Parenting is SERIOUS! Scary, infuriating, and nerve-racking! When you perceive it that way it is easy to focus on the serious side when things feel so, well... SERIOUS!!!

However, how do your children respond to your seriousness?

Life to them is often playful and filled with delight.

What would it be like to speak to them in their high value of play?

Listen to this week's Parenting Paused Podcast to discover why play and laughter enhance your relationship with your child.

Stuck in the guilt cycle?

Stuck feeling annoyed by your child's behavior?

Stuck feeling frustrated by your response to your child's behavior?

Do you find yourself repeating:

"Why is my child so... (lazy, disrespectful, rude, entitled)!?!"

OR...

"Why can't I get this whole Peaceful Parenting thing RIGHT???"

Check out this week's Parenting Paused Podcast to discover a practice that expands how you look at being STUCK and a tool to use to get UNSTUCK.

Have you ever been so certain that you were communicating to your kids (or partner) in a calm and peaceful manner, just to hear them respond, 💥"Why are you so mad?"💥

Or vice versa, have you ever noticed when your partner or children are having internal experiences that do not match what they are saying?

In this week's Parenting Paused Podcast, you are invited to explore an awareness practice of paying attention to when your words do not match your energy.

As a parent, you probably believe that you must set limits and boundaries on your child in order for them to behave.

There IS another WAY!

Imagine how it would be to hold a healthy personal boundary in relation to your child. How do you treat yourself when your child doesn't do their homework, won't get off the computer, or won't eat healthy?

Check out this week's Parenting Paused Podcast to discover a new definition of boundaries!

Your stories are EXCITING! Entertaining! Gripping! But…. are they true?

Children, like adults, experience life through the filters of their perception. It is SO important for your children to be heard, but what is more important? Listening to the details of the story? Or listening to the feelings that are being provoked?

In this week's podcast, we explore what it is like to TRULY talk to the feelings that are wrapped in the stories your children weave.