Blogs & Birth Stories
A collection of inspiring birth stories from past students and insightful blogs written by Tracey.
Personal Development
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?
Reflections on a 30-year-old marriage
Is our job to make our children happy?
How often do we hear the words – “I just want them to be happy?”
What happens when we continually are trying to make our children happy?
Is this the right goal in parenting?
Happy Kids? Is it our job?
Is our job to make our children happy?
How often do we hear the words – “I just want them to be happy?”
What happens when we continually are trying to make our children happy?
Is this the right goal in parenting?
Parent Grief
Guilt is not something you get rid of, in fact you wear it always – it’s another way of saying, ‘you
care!’
Learn how to put guilt into your pocket and use it to motivate you to grow and get better.
Parent Guilt
Guilt is not something you get rid of, in fact you wear it always – it’s another way of saying, ‘you
care!’
Learn how to put guilt into your pocket and use it to motivate you to grow and get better.
How Birth Sets Us Up For Parenting
Does a pregnant woman wake up in the morning, and say to her partner,“Darling, get me a cup of tea - today I am growing an eyeball!” No, she doesn’t – well maybe she asks for a cup of tea 😊 She doesn’t need to set to work to make a baby, her body just does it. Think...
Stress & How it Affects Children
"I’m stressed and worried about how it affects my children" We’ve all been there. Overwhelmed by life and its demands. Snappy, impatient at best – yelling like a maniac at worst. Parenting has a way of bringing out the best and the worst in us. That’s the deal ok, so...
Working On Your Limiting Beliefs
How do we get limiting beliefs? It starts in childhood when we are at our most vulnerable. Experiences, moments in time that were intense, that involve people close to us, and usually comes with strong emotions. This leads us to create meaning from those experiences,...
The Developing Mind, Ours and Our Children
I have a deep fascination for children, particularly in how they develop and what can we do to help them reach their full potential. Much of their development starts at the beginning in those foundational years. When survival needs are met through the responsiveness...
Looking After Your Relationships As Parents
It was about 8 weeks after Sam, my first son was born. I was storming around the house, slamming doors and packing my bags. I told Peter I’d had enough, and I was leaving. We then argued about who was taking the baby. I couldn’t even fathom that he thought he could...
Moving Forward in a World With COVID
Reclaiming Our Community and ConnectionHello my dear, thanks for tuning in. I had my first in-person class over the weekend, since the lockdown. It was so lovely to have people back in the training room. I was acutely aware of the fear levels of people in the room, as...
Communication – listening and talking is a skill to develop
The biggest superpower we have as humans is our ability to communicate – both talking and listening - and very few of us are taught how to do this. My husband often quotes the saying, we have two ears, one mouth – use accordingly. In other words, listen twice as...
Rapid Transformational Therapy to Help You Grow as a Parent
“I can’t help it, I fly off the handle at the most ridiculous things.” “I’m not the parent I want to be, I seem to have this pent-up anger, and my daughter triggers me.” “I’m sick of feeling anxious all the time. I have this continual fear that something bad is going...
Breathing Better Is Not That Hard
I am blessed to see my families again after they have had their babies, and I do get some beautiful compliments about how my course changed their labour. But during a birth debrief with a couple, I received one of the most wonderful and confusing compliments I have...
From Calmbirth Canberra to Transform Your Birth and Transform Parenting – An evolution story
It’s close to a year since I first decided to leave my beloved Calmbirth community. To further my experience of working with new families and act on creating the vision of transforming not only birth experiences, but the parenting experience. When you teach something...
Reflections on my Personal Meditation Practice
It was the first day of my training, over 14 years ago, when I was listening to Peter Jackson, the founder of Calmbirth, talk about the role of the subconscious in childbirth. I was smitten, not only with Peter's lovely kind manner and his relaxing voice but also his...
Choose Your State of Mind
Have you ever just stepped back and listened to your mind? “Oh god my bum looks huge in these jeans.” “I’m just so over this work, come on 5 o’clock.” “Are you kidding me, why did you say that?” If you take a step back, you will notice that you can observe your...