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Blogs & Birth Stories

A collection of inspiring birth stories from past students and insightful blogs written by Tracey.

Parenting

Holding big feelings for ourselves as parents

Holding big feelings for ourselves as parents

How do you do feelings? Especially big ones? Do you fly off the handle, or shut
down?

Do you ring a friend and blurt it all out or write about it? Do you pretend it isn’t
challenging, and when your partner asks how you are – you say, “fine!”
 
You probably do all these things, I know I do. So how can we hold big feelings for our
children when we can’t always do it for ourselves?

The Issue of Sleep

The Issue of Sleep

I was living in a block of units, with my new baby. He was a cat napper, waking after only 30 minutes of sleeping. He seemed to be sensitive to sound and so I did my best to make everything quiet, even though I had been told to get my baby used to noise while...

The Ingredients of a Rich Childhood

The Ingredients of a Rich Childhood

Mealtimes as a sacred time Mealtimes can be a sacred family tradition, and a time to catch up with everyone after a busy day. Even with babies, having meals at the table is a moment of role modelling of what it is to be a family, and the importance of good food for...

Installing Healthy Habits Into Our Children

Installing Healthy Habits Into Our Children

What are habits? Habits are programs of the subconscious. They are automatic responses to our environment.  When we enter certain conditions, our minds are triggered into that particular program and bring forth our habits of thought, feelings and behaviours for those...

Building Children’s Self-Esteem

Building Children’s Self-Esteem

As parents, our job is to help our children cultivate self-esteem. In order to do that, they need to know and become connected to the self. If children are not connected to who they are, they will not develop self-esteem. We live in a world that is quick to teach us...

How Children Learn

How Children Learn

..and what we need to know as parents   Knowing how children learn can ultimately unlock their blueprint of potential. Think of your child, as the seed of a tree. Inside every tree lies a blueprint of creation that is there to guide the growth of that tree. Our...

Parenting as a Spiritual Practice

Parenting as a Spiritual Practice

Did you know that we learn to parent, by the way we were parented, at least subconsciously. That may or may not be good news. What is helpful to know, is that our reactive thoughts and feelings come from our subconscious programs. Our job as we grow, is to upgrade the...

It Takes a Village

It Takes a Village

They say it takes a village to raise a child – and yet we don’t often have much of a village these days. Sometimes we need to look outside of our own extended family to create extra support and bring a richness that comes from having many different people as part of...

The Importance of Play for Young Children

The Importance of Play for Young Children

As an only child of a single mother, I grew up entertaining myself. When mum got home from work, she didn’t have the time or space to entertain me. I knew from an early age that my own fun came from me, and what I could make, create, discover and imagine. If ever I...

Creating Family Rituals

Creating Family Rituals

My son gazes lovingly into my eyes one night as I put him to bed. This has always been an important time of connection for us. I have sung him his own song since he was a baby. This song signals the words I want to deeply instil within him, that he is loved and he is...

Cultivating Emotional Intelligence

Cultivating Emotional Intelligence

It was one of those days where everything felt hard. Getting up was almost human torture, feeling like I must have had a 10-minute sleep, not the 7 hours the clock reported. Getting the boys breakfast was mundane and nerve wracking as every disgusting noise and...

Understanding Your Child

Understanding Your Child

I get to coach parents and listen to their stories and I have to declare – loudly from the mountain tops – parenting is a tough gig! The more I work with parents and their struggles, the more I see that the changes that need to happen, need to start within the minds...

Having Another Baby at Age 40

Having Another Baby at Age 40

Have you ever wished you could go back and have another go at doing something important again? I’m sure every parent feels that way at some stage, where they wish they could go back and do things differently. “I wish I had known this when I was younger.” Common words...

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