Identify What’s Working and Shift What’s Not… Is your relationship healthy? How do you know? If your relationship isn’t feeling good, how do you know where to put your energy to support it? Relationships are complicated. Each person brings their own history into present time interactions, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Even a newborn comes in with a The post Is Your Relationship Healthy? appeared first on The Consciously Parenting Project ..read more

Have you ever wondered if your birth is impacting your present-day relationships? Every one of us came into the world and were born. And each one of us has a different story in our bodies about what happened for us during our birth. You see, birth isn’t just a one and done kind of experience, as most of us have The post Are Your Birth Imprints Impacting Your Present-Day Relationships? appeared first on The Consciously Parenting Project ..read more

Join us as we explore honoring endings and ways we can stay connected and even heal our relationships with our dead. Because it’s Never too Late to Heal… We’re kicking off our new Consciously Connected Village with healing your relationship with your departed ones (beloved or complicated), your relationship with endings, and grief/loss (for yourself or a loved one) whether The post Never too Late to Heal Your Relationship with Your Dead (workshop and online event series) appeared first on The Consciously Parenting Project ..read more

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new space to connect consciously with yourself and with others at all stages of life. Are you a growth and holistically minded person? Do you have a relationship challenge? (Could be with yourself, or with a particular person in your life. Or maybe you want to better your relationship skills…) Are you The post Introducing the Consciously Connected Village! appeared first on The Consciously Parenting Project ..read more

Hello dear ones, Holy cow! 16 years ago, The Consciously Parenting Project launched its first website and courses in September 2007. We started by offering online courses (online then was a conference line that I used a landline phone to dial into!) for families who had children join their families through adoption. It was a 4 week course for $40 The post 16th Birthday of Consciously Parenting! appeared first on The Consciously Parenting Project ..read more

When I was first learning about attachment, I was really confused about what really mattered for a healthy relationship. While baby wearing, extended breastfeeding, and co-sleeping are biological expectations and deserve attention (and were things that I did with my own children and would do again), I think sometimes focusing on a strict adherence to these principles overshadows the message The post Attachment Myths and Facts appeared first on The Consciously Parenting Project ..read more

I was talking to a mom about her holidays, and she was really feeling discouraged about how things had gone. Her kids had been fighting a lot and the image she had about how their time together would go didn’t match what actually happened at all. She felt really discouraged. I think so many of us hold ourselves and our The post Can’t we all just be regulated all the time? appeared first on The Consciously Parenting Project ..read more

Self-care Few people disagree with the notion that taking care of ourselves is important. In fact, most of us usually get excited when we start talking about meeting our own needs. But most people don’t take the time to actually do it. There are too many other demands that need to take precedence. I suggest that we don’t have the The post What it Really Takes to Raise Emotionally Healthy Families Series- Day 29 appeared first on The Consciously Parenting Project ..read more

Principle 8: No man is an island. We need to create communities of support for ourselves and for our children. We need to take care of ourselves so that we can take care of our children. We simply cannot do everything that is on our list of things to do and care for the children in the way they need to be The post What it Really Takes to Raise Emotionally Healthy Families Series- Day 28 appeared first on The Consciously Parenting Project ..read more

Awareness of Ourselves When we are calm, well rested, and fed, we are probably pretty good parents. We are able to handle the little bumps in the road—the lost shoes, the dawdling child— without much trouble. But when we’re not on a green light ourselves, we may lose patience during the minor challenges of parenting. And when we are overwhelmed The post What it Really Takes to Raise Emotionally Healthy Families Series- Day 27 appeared first on The Consciously Parenting Project ..read more