How to Understand Your Child’s Experience You may have heard me say that in order to understand your child’s experience, you must understand what is defining their experience. To help make sense of this, ask yourself: do you and your spouse express sadness in...
Self-Expression and Freedom In order to better understand our children’s perceptions, it helps to understand our own, by understanding our minds. All human beings have a subconscious mind and an ego mind. Our subconscious mind is our natural mind, the mind we are born...
The Truth Liberates Us I’ll share a personal story of how my own ego mind formed, when I wasn’t validated or connected to my parents. I grew up in an environment where my parents unintentionally were only aware of the one-size-fits-all traditional education model of...
Curiosity of the Ego or “I” The pain we feel with our children is often the ultimate level of pain. It’s nature’s way of asking us to wake up, so that our children don’t nurture our worst habits. Nature knows a child’s well-being is at stake. That’s why...
Fight, Flight, or Freeze From the point of view of our true self, we don’t need to get love, because we are Love. we don’t need to seek truth, because we are Truth. we don’t need to be free, because we are Free. we don’t need to be curious, because we are Curious. we...
Pain is the Portal A lot of emotions may come up as you explore all the areas in which you feel traumatized: your feelings, thought patterns, and bodily sensations. It’s okay to feel these emotions. Be gentle with yourself. This is new information, and anything new is...
Connect to Your Body Young children absorb the trauma of their mothers. They are aware of their own bodies and can feel our tension, rigidity, and pain. If we suffer, they internalize and inherit the suffering. It’s why oftentimes we can see our children mirroring our...
The Origin of Foundations of Conscious Parenting: An Opening into Clear Communication Let’s now understand what the term Conscious Parenting means. To me, the word conscious is associated with curiosity, and parenting is associated with nurturing. Curiosity is a value...
I Am Not a Guru Welcome. My name is Jilna. I’m so excited and to be honest, nervous about this venture. I am a Certified Conscious Parenting Coach and a parent, just like you. I’ve done an immense amount of self-study to understand who I am. I’ve developed a...
Finding Your Truth We will be covering the 3 fundamental concepts of this Program: The Foundations of Conscious Parenting: An Opening into Clear Communication. Authentic vs. Attached ways of being: Every moment is an opportunity to create your intention and the way...
Learning How to Co-Create the Realities We Desire with Our Child, Using Our New Awareness That’s the logical and practical part of understanding the importance of awareness. If you’re still on the fence about why this is the only way through, allow me to share the...
What is Awareness? And why does understanding it matter, in getting our children to ‘listen’? When our 4 year old pushes our 11 month old… When our 7 year old forgets something for the 10th time…. When our 5 year old lies about how much screen time...
Are our WORRIES the TRUTH? Giving our children choices understandably comes with many fears. We worry that: …if we give our child a choice on what to eat for breakfast, they will eat the same thing every day. …if we hold space for their anger or...
5 Core Life Lessons and Values I Desire for Myself and Jian Choice is the most important of the 5 core life lessons and values referenced below that I desire for myself and Jian. Choice: so he remembers that he is in control of his creation and freedom. Confidence: ...
What Does Choice Mean to Me? …and why is choice necessary to build your courage and confidence? Every time I form a concrete belief in my mind, I look to see how nature does it. Because aren’t we from nature, after all? Nature doesn’t choose who gets sunshine or...