intentional-parenting
Honestly, it’s like our bodies are intelligently designed or something. They are AMAZING. It is through action God has designed our nervous system to respond and rewire. As I do new things, as I take small steps, as I inch forward, I make a realisation: I am not sinking.
intentional-parenting
Faced with the challenge of a VERY spicy daughter, my old parenting paradigm was not holding up. I felt it was all my fault. Through therapy and wrestling with hitherto unacknowledged parts of me, I have come to realise I was operating from an insecure, anxious, and thoroughly disempowered mindset.
intentional-parenting
You’ve paused, listened, stepped aside. You’ve employed meaningful intent and responded according to how you feel, but the same behaviours just keep happening. Perhaps it's time to design a reasonable, related and respectful consequence that teaches them a healthier way to take responsibility.
intentional-parenting
Unlocking the interpretation of how we feel enables us to intentionally choose how we respond, when the chaos ensues, and afterwards in the calm.
intentional-parenting
Unbeknownst to me, I’ve been speaking a language of rupture. Once I saw it, it was hard to un-see. The tones we use, the words we choose, all have an impact. How do they make our children feel? What is the atmosphere they create? What is the world we are manifesting?
intentional-parenting
This new way of seeing changes everything. Come with me on a journey into seeing our children, our families, ourselves in the bigger picture...