The Aware Parenting Podcast

By Marion Rose, PhD.

What's The Aware Parenting Podcast about?

The Aware Parenting Podcast is based on Aware Parenting which was created by Aletha Solter, PhD. Marion Rose, PhD is a level two Aware Parenting instructor and the regional coordinator for Australia and New Zealand. The podcast explores all aspects of parenting and reparenting from an Aware Parenting perspective.

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The Aware Parenting Podcast episodes:

05.01.2024
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...
04.28.2024
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...
04.17.2024
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...
03.28.2024
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...
03.27.2024
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...
03.26.2024
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...
03.25.2024
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...
03.24.2024
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...
03.06.2024
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...
03.06.2024
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...
02.28.2024
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...
02.28.2024
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...
02.28.2024
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...
02.12.2024
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...
01.19.2024
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...
12.19.2023
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...
12.13.2023
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...
12.10.2023
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...
12.06.2023
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...
12.05.2023
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...
11.26.2023
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...
11.05.2023
Episode 157: Food and feelings: an evolutionary perspective with Clare Louise Brumley
I absolutely love that Clare Louise Brumley, PhD, has returned to the podcast. She was on episode 135 about an evolutionary perspective on sleep. She is an Aware Parenting instructor as well as registered nutritionist and Integrative Medicine Practitioner and...
10.31.2023
Episode 156: Trusting children's innate body wisdom in relation to food
In this episode, I talk about the self-connected approach to eating, which is officially called the self-demand approach to food or self-regulated eating in Aware Parenting. I talk about children's innate body wisdom in relation to food, and the interplay...
10.28.2023
Episode 155: Food, feelings and trust
Hello and a big warm welcome to the next series, this time about food, feelings and trust. In this episode, I offer an overview, sharing some information about trusting children's wisdom in relation to food and helping them stay connected with...
10.15.2023
Episode 154: Reclaiming our power through birth with Carly Facius
At the end of this series on the effects of birth, I wanted to share an episode about how wonderful birth can be, and the effects of that on a family. In The Aware Baby, Aletha Solter talks about doing...
10.09.2023
Episode 153: Helping older children heal from their birth with Shelley Clarke
In this episode, Shelley Clarke returns to the podcast. Shelley is an Aware Parenting instructor, Hand in Hand Instructor, Marion Method Mentor and CranioSacral Therapist. Shelley was on the podcast in episode 146, talking about helping babies to heal from...
09.11.2023
Episode 152: Helping mothers heal from a traumatic birthing experience with Kirsty Fernandes
In this episode, I talk with Kirsty Fernandes, an Aware Parenting instructor who focuses on postpartum care (or 4th trimester care) and who is mother to a 4 year old and a 6 year old. In the rest of the series...
09.07.2023
Episode 151: Marion Rose & Belynda Smith talk about Marion's new book, The Emotional Life of Babies
This is a very special episode, with a lot of laughter, where I talk with Belynda Smith, who is an Aware Parenting instructor and Hand in Hand Instructor and also copy editor. Belynda shares about her journey to Hand in...
08.22.2023
Episode 150: Helping children heal from their birth through play with Adrienne Harper-Pike
In today's episode I talk with Adrienne Harper-Pike, who is an Aware Parenting instructor who also works in the deaf/blind community as a social worker, works with queer people and their families, and works with families with multiples, including twins,...
08.21.2023
Episode 149: Communicating with babies with Carly Facius
In this episode about communicating with babies, I talk with Carly Facius who is a Registered Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and holds a Master of Primary Maternity Care and is an Aware Parenting instructor. Carly starts off sharing about...
08.15.2023
Episode 148: The potential link between physical symptoms and our birth
As a preface I'd like to say two things about this episode: Firstly, this is about The Marion Method rather than Aware Parenting, although it is inspired and informed by Aware Parenting and I do talk about Aware Parenting in...
08.06.2023
Episode 147: Birth themes
In this short episode, I talk about birth themes - these are themes that we can experience during or soon after our birth and that can get repeated during our childhood and then during our adult life, each time being...
07.26.2023
Episode 146: Helping babies heal from their birth with Shelley Clarke
In this episode, I talk with Shelley Clarke, who is an Aware Parenting instructor, CranioSacral Therapist and Marion Method Mentor. Please note that neither CranioSacral Therapy nor The Marion Method are Aware Parenting. Shelley shares about her experience of practicing Aware...
07.12.2023
Episode 145: It's never too late to heal from our birth with Nicole Moore
In this episode of the podcast, I talk with Nicole Moore, international facilitator and trainer of Birth Into Being. We discuss how we met many years ago through Elimination Communication, which Nicole went on to make a film about. She...
07.03.2023
Episode 144: Healing from birth trauma as an adult
In this episode, a P.S. from the last one, I share about my journey of healing from being premature in an incubator for 5 weeks and the modalities, practices and choices I've found helpful, including: Psychosynthesis ~ Roberto Assagioli, Rebirthing,...
06.24.2023
Episode 143: A conversation between two premature babies as adults with Roma Norriss
This is one of the most powerful conversations I've had! In this episode, I talked with Roma Norris, a Hand in Hand Parenting Instructor who was born at 32 weeks and was in an incubator for 5 weeks. I was...
06.17.2023
Episode 142: The effects of our birth
In this episode, I introduce the new series on the effect of the pre and perinatal period of us as babies, children and adults. This fits alongside the upcoming publication of my book, The Emotional Life of Babies. In future episodes...
05.30.2023
Episode 141: Nightmares and feelings
In this short episode, I talk about the relationship I've observed between accumulated feelings and nightmares. I offer two hypotheses and share some observations that parents and Aware Parenting instructors have shared with me about feelings and nightmares. My Sound Sleep...
05.30.2023
Episode 140: Adults, stress, raging, crying and sleep
In this episode, I talk about my own recent experiences of lots of little stresses accumulating, the raging and crying that followed, and how it affected my sleep. I compare it to when I didn't get to complete the expression...
05.25.2023
Episode 139: Toddlers and sleep with Sarah Mason
I'm so delighted that Sarah Mason came back on the podcast. Sarah is an Aware Parenting instructor and came to talk about babies and sleep in episode 132. This time she shared about toddlers and sleep. She talked about how...
05.08.2023
Episode 138: Feelings, unconditional love and sleep
In this episode, I talk about how our own capacity to be present in our bodies with each particular feeling affects our capacity to be present with our baby or child as they feel and express that feeling. I share...
05.04.2023
Episode 137: Mild dissociation, relaxation and sleep
In this episode, I talk about mild dissociation, how to differentiate it from relaxation, and why that makes a difference to sleep. I describe what mild dissociation is, why it happens, what the experience of it is, how we can tell...
04.27.2023
Episode 136: Supporting mothers and babies through all of their feelings with Kim and Erin
In this episode I was so delighted to talk with Erin Dee and Kim Cousins, who are registered nurses who specialise in perinatal mental health. I LOVED the conversation so much and was in tears several times. They both share about...
04.26.2023
Episode 135: Sleep, stress and trauma: an evolutionary perspective with Clare Louise Brumley
I so enjoyed this episode, in which I talked with Clare Louise Brumley, an Aware Parenting instructor who has a background in nutrition and integrative medicine, whose PhD was on Evolutionary Medicine and Optimal Human Health. Clare Louise share about...
04.21.2023
Episode 134: Supporting sleep in daycare settings with Steph Fleeton
In this episode, I talk with Steph Fleeton, Aware Parenting instructor and early childhood educator, owner of Spirited Hearts Natural Learning Day Care with her husband Lucas. She shares about her own experience of practicing Aware Parenting with her children, and...
04.19.2023
Episode 133: Parents as researchers
In this episode, I share about how parents can be the researchers with Aware Parenting. I invite a process where you first listen in to whether something resonates with you, and if it does, then to experiment and to observe...
04.17.2023
Episode 132: Baby sleep with Sarah Mason
In this episode of The Aware Parenting Podcast, I talk with Sarah Mason, an Aware Parenting instructor and mother of an almost three year old. She shares the journey of Aware Parenting that she's been on and all the intricacies...
04.08.2023
Episode 131: Trusting babies and children in relation to sleep
In this episode, I talk about how Aware Parenting's overall approach to trusting babies and children in relation to everything also applies to sleep. That instead of them fighting sleep, we are often fighting their natural relaxation processes. And hat these...
04.04.2023
Episode 130: From exhaustion to restful sleep with Helena Mooney
In this episode, I talk with my dear friend and colleague, Helena Mooney, who is an Aware Parenting instructor and Hand in Hand instructor. She shares about her experience of starting off with Classical Attachment Parenting with her daughter, and...
03.30.2023
Episode 129: From no sleep to plentiful sleep with Maru Rojas
In this episode, I talk with Maru Rojas, an Aware Parenting instructor in the UK who shares about her very different experience with sleep with her first child and second child. The first time around, her baby was very restless...

What's The Aware Parenting Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Aware Parenting Podcast episodes:

Episode 178: Introducing the second sleep series

Episode 177: The differences between Aware Parenting and Classical Attachment Parenting

Episode 176: Learning to trust ourselves and our children with food with Kim Cousins

Episode 175: Food and feelings - a child's perspective

Episode 174: Why children aren't fighting sleep

Episode 173: Screens, play and loving limits

Episode 172: Helping a hitting child

Episode 171: Blankets, bunnies and other control patterns

Episode 170: Loving limits Q and A

Episode 169: Loving limits update

Episode 168: Melting a child's freeze

Episode 167: Leaving the park

Episode 166: When a crying child says "Go away!"

Episode 165: My new book is out!

Episode 164: Returning to our innate body wisdom with food in adulthood

Episode 163: The opposite of overwhelm over this festive season

Episode 162: Supporting children who have learnt to eat to suppress their feelings

Episode 161: Supporting babies who have learnt to feed to suppress their feelings

Episode 160: How babies and children learn to suppress their feelings with food

Episode 159: Breastfeeding and listening to ourselves and our babies with Carly Facius

Episode 158: What gets in the way of children's innate body wisdom with food

Episode 157: Food and feelings: an evolutionary perspective with Clare Louise Brumley

Episode 156: Trusting children's innate body wisdom in relation to food

Episode 155: Food, feelings and trust

Episode 154: Reclaiming our power through birth with Carly Facius

Episode 153: Helping older children heal from their birth with Shelley Clarke

Episode 152: Helping mothers heal from a traumatic birthing experience with Kirsty Fernandes

Episode 151: Marion Rose & Belynda Smith talk about Marion's new book, The Emotional Life of Babies

Episode 150: Helping children heal from their birth through play with Adrienne Harper-Pike

Episode 149: Communicating with babies with Carly Facius

Episode 148: The potential link between physical symptoms and our birth

Episode 147: Birth themes

Episode 146: Helping babies heal from their birth with Shelley Clarke

Episode 145: It's never too late to heal from our birth with Nicole Moore

Episode 144: Healing from birth trauma as an adult

Episode 143: A conversation between two premature babies as adults with Roma Norriss

Episode 142: The effects of our birth

Episode 141: Nightmares and feelings

Episode 140: Adults, stress, raging, crying and sleep

Episode 139: Toddlers and sleep with Sarah Mason

Episode 138: Feelings, unconditional love and sleep

Episode 137: Mild dissociation, relaxation and sleep

Episode 136: Supporting mothers and babies through all of their feelings with Kim and Erin

Episode 135: Sleep, stress and trauma: an evolutionary perspective with Clare Louise Brumley

Episode 134: Supporting sleep in daycare settings with Steph Fleeton

Episode 133: Parents as researchers

Episode 132: Baby sleep with Sarah Mason

Episode 131: Trusting babies and children in relation to sleep

Episode 130: From exhaustion to restful sleep with Helena Mooney

Episode 129: From no sleep to plentiful sleep with Maru Rojas