Aware Parenting - a game-changer for families like ours.

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What is Aware Parenting?

Founded by Dr. Aletha Solter, a respected Swiss-American developmental psychologist, speaker, consultant and author, Aware Parenting is grounded in the latest child development research. It offers a holistic approach that nurtures healthy attachment, builds emotional resilience through natural healing processes and encourages willingness and cooperation through a relationship-based, democratic approach without the use of rewards and punishments. 

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Is this attachment style parenting? Or another form of gentle/conscious parenting?
Yes and no.  As a family, we were already committed to attachment-style parenting, but struggled to work out how we were meant to get our own needs met amongst it all.  Exhaustion and resentment started to build.  Aware Parenting provided the answers to the piece that we were missing - where do we, as the parents fit in here? How do we also get our needs met? It was a total game-changer for us. It has helped us to connect with ourselves, each other and our children more deeply, to foster secure attachment, to begin healing our own past hurts. It's provided the tools to navigate tricky parenting challenges and heal stress and trauma, to guide us in creating and holding boundaries, gaining cooperation and genuine willingness from our kids, engage in play and create more fun and lightness in our family. 
 

What are we hoping for?

To raise children who are empathetic, intrinsically motivated, and emotionally resilient - without the need for rebellion or suppressing their feelings as they grow older.  AND, we are also human. We will not get this right all of the time, and that's actually a super important part of this process - of learning about ourselves, of repairing our relationships when we do or act in ways that we don't enjoy and of growing a sense of self-compassion.  

Where does Aware Parenting support come in?

Just knowing this approach isn't enough - we need deep support to be able to parent in this way, especially if it is very different to how we were raised.  As one of just two certified Aware Parenting coaches in Aotearoa, NZ, I'm here to share these powerful tools with you, and give you a space to feel heard and held so that you can continue to show up for your kids in the ways that you want to as often as you can. We can't give what we don't receive. I want you to feel deeply supported in your parenting and to grow the connection you have - not only with your children, but also with yourself. You are so worthy of being supported. We are not supposed to parent in isolation.