This week we will be talking about what to expect during the program and getting everything on the table in regards to what's going on with you. Each week you will receive videos, bonus readings, and worksheets that you'll complete before your weekly private coaching session.

This week we're looking at how we want to intend our energy and focus throughout the program and as a parent in general. We'll also look at the ways that you'd like your child or children to benefit from you being in this process, because it does have a ripple effect. What happens here, radiates outward into the home, into the child. 

This week we'll go through the 10 core pillars of empowered parenting with a fine tooth comb, so you're very aware and you have a great understanding of what I am offering you and inviting you to practice. We're going to highlight what power over parenting is and what power under parenting is. You will be learning how to parent in a way that sets up your children for success, security, and resiliency.

Learning about attachment science is brand new in the field of parenting and it is unequivocally the most important understanding that we have as parents.

It has been shown that a secure attachment within a parent to themselves and to their past, indicates the quality of security you create with your child or children. If your child does not feel safe, unconditionally loved, accepted, like they belong, a sense of deep connection that they feel, then the 10 pillars of empowered parenting won't "work". 

This week we'll be looking at how our nervous system operates to keep us safe. We will practice several tools to help you and your child find your calm as well as how to repair the relationship when things go awry.

This week we'll begin to understand what is happening inside your child's body, brain, heart, and in their desires that is creating their behavior and the way that they are showing up in this moment. We'll discover how to truly make your child feel seen, heard, and understood.

We'll be practicing empathy and diving into feelings, needs, and beliefs. Building your emotional intelligence will serve you and your child for the rest of your lives.

We'll learn about nonviolent communication and having conversations that empower, versus having conversations that are rooted in blaming, shaming, and dumping our feelings onto our children. Hint: it's not our children's (or spouse's!) behaviors that trigger us and make us feel a certain way. Let's unpack that.

This week we'll learn how our boundaries are fueled by our values. You'll create those boundaries specific to your family's priorities. We'll also begin implementing your new go-to parenting tool, the PEACE process. 

This week we're going to discuss how anger and aggression is very connected to boundaries. A lot of our anger comes up when we are met with a "no", or our child is met with a "no", a limit, a boundary, or any kind of punishment or enforced consequences. Our children are going to get angry when we parent them in the power over or under parenting paradigm. The more that we're bringing our judgments, fear, control, coercion, manipulation, consequences, and all of the stuff that we dump onto our children, they're going to fight it. Let's explore a new way!

We'll learn that the intention behind playful parenting and storytelling in your parenting isn't about being a wild baboon and jumping off the walls and being able to keep up with your child necessarily.

Imagine being able to be on the floor with your children, with chaos everywhere, messes everywhere, dishes, and a bazillion things on your list, and to be in a grounded trust. To be able to look around and think, "This is crazy. How lucky am I to be here? This is absolutely a wild mayhem, and it's temporary. I can see myself in 20 years looking back at this time and thinking, I wish I would have sat down on the floor and played more. I wish I would've let the laundry go for a day and slumped down into the couch and watched a show with my child, and asked them questions and entered their world, and met my child in their joy".

We'll explore the balance of the real world and play, plus the importance of being present. 

In our final week we are centering in celebration and appreciation for how you have grown as a person throughout this process, how you have grown in your skillset as a parent, your awareness of yourself as a parent, as a person, and checking in on how you have met your intention. We'll re-commit to empowered parenting and outline your clear plan moving forward.