Courageous Parenting Synopsis

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• Manage your Energy Source
  Understanding how your temperament affects your parenting style, strengths and limitation.
   

• Re-claiming Space

• Understanding your relationship with space - both emotional and physical and how that impacts pregnancy and parenting.
   

• Setting Boundaries: The undercover word for discipline

• Understanding how your ability and inability to set boundaries as an individual vitally impacts your child’s development and growth.
   

• Self-soothing

• Understanding your ability to watch and not fix — A skill needed for the task of self-soothing during the toddler and teen years.
   

• Practicing Powerlessness 

• Embracing the space of powerlessness, a task that needs to be completed by the teen years. A practice that starts in toddlerhood and ends in adolescence.
   

• Celebrate Good Enough Parenting 
  Understanding the ever present emotion of being a “not good enough parent” and how that impacts our care. Relinquishing any residual guilt from the past so we can parent guilt free.
   

• Deserving Self Care
  Understanding if you are a receiver or a giver and the essential need for a robust self-care for present and happy parenting.
   

• Letting Go
  Letting go of your pre-conceptions, dreams and ideals of parenting.
  Embracing reality and being present to what you do have.
   

• Find your identity 
  Ensuring that they do not become a core part of our identity and idea of success.
   

• Detach with Love 
  Understanding how we use our emotional relationship with our children. The detrimental impact on them when we use them to fulfill our own inadequacies, relationship needs and dreams.
   

• Earning not Demanding Respect
  Understanding your history of disrespect, resolving past history of injustice and unfairness.
   

• Containing our Anxiety, embracing theirs
  Understanding the roots of our and how to anxiety-proof your child.
   

• Embracing imperfection 
  Embracing our own failures and imperfection, so they can embrace theirs.
   

• Giving and receiving comfort 
  Learning the core necessity for comfort, understanding our own “comfort history” and learning the skills to bring relief.
   

• Nutritious Praise 
  Understanding the importance and power of positive reinforcement and what blocks us from leveraging its power. 
   

• Emotional intelligence
  Understanding the role of feelings in relationship, intimacy and bonding and identifying any hidden aversion in our history and upbringing.
   

• Empathy 
  Understanding the role of empathy in connection. Modeling it for our children.

• Tuning in
  The importance of seeing, matching and containing our children’s joys and pain so that we don’t project our own trauma onto them
   

• Building Rapport
  Understanding the role of temperament in the ease and comfort of parenting multiple children in the family. 
   

• Trading compliance for Influence
  Understanding the true treasure of parenting — connection, influence and legacy.
   

• Portable love 
  Understanding how object permenance plays a huge role intimacy and relationship.

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