In this episode of the podcast I talk to Danni Willow again, this time about how to use the tools and strategies of Aware Parenting to heal ourselves. Danni has already been on the podcast twice and is an Aware Parenting Instructor. She is the founder of The Way of the Women which supports families to practice Aware Parenting in their families. She offers one to one sessions, she runs the Exploring Aware Parenting Community with me and she runs women’s circles online and in-person. She is the mother of 2 gorgeous girls.

In this episode we discuss why it is necessary for us to do our own healing work if we want to practice Aware Parenting in our families. This comes up so often in our sessions that Aware Parenting is as much about doing our work as it is supporting our children and this episode shares in detail how we support our clients to do this. We share why it is hard to do this healing work and reparent ourselves whilst also raising our children. We give detailed explanations of the tools that we use to support ourselves in these ways and why we all need support to do this work. We outline the different components of Aware Reparenting and we discuss how to bring more compassion to our lives.

We both acknowledge the amazing work of Aletha Solter, the founder of Aware Parenting, as well as the extraordinary work of Marion Rose in supporting healing for parents. We also highly recommend Lael Stone and Marion Rose’s new book, Raising Resilient and Compassionate Children.

To learn more about Danni, please visit www.thewayofthewomen.com.au and follow her on Instagram and Facebook at Danni Willow. Marion’s courses can be found at www.marionrose.net and the needs inventory from Marshall Rosenberg can be found here www.cnvc.org