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Conscious Parenting - Could this be the new norm?

  • Jess Newton
  • Oct 16, 2017
  • 3 min read

I remember the first time I heard about conscious parenting, I was fairly new into my journey of self discovery and felt like everything I was learning was getting a little bit too much to take on board. Looking back on those days, most of the time I felt like I was carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders and finding out that this was a thing just added to my load.

Ok, so first off let me just say, I am definitely not here to tell you how to parent your children. I am purely sharing a natural progression that I found flowed beautifully with my journey through spirituality. I realised whilst working on myself, that the relationship I had with my children was going through a transformation also, old ways of communicating and living life weren't working for me or for them anymore. I sat down with my older 2 and we had a chat about the changes happening with my own life and how I would like to work on our relationship in a more positive way. Of course for my youngest, this would be something she would just grow up with as she is still only 2!

So what is conscious parenting I hear you ask? Let me share my opinion on it...

To me conscious parenting is leading by example, so for me leading a more conscious lifestyle and being more open about why I am doing what I am doing with my children, having an even more open relationship with them ( we already had a pretty good open communication with each other but it is something we have worked on even more so lately). By doing this, it gives my children an opportunity to experience new ways of living, of communicating, of interacting. It deepens our relationship with each other, especially when they want to join in with an activity such as meditation, yoga, journaling or whatever it is that I am doing at the time. It supplies them with knowledge that they can pass onto others and adds to their own personal interests.

Conscious parenting is holding space for them when they are working through struggles. Now sometimes, especially whilst children are still young they find it hard to express what emotion they are feeling, and as a parent all they need you to do is name the emotion, so they can understand why they feel like they do, then they can sit with it until they feel ready to let it pass. Of course this results in positive effects on mental health and equips them with tools they can carry through life.

Conscious parenting is guiding them to make informed choices, but letting them create their own path and learn from anything that comes up that wasn't part of their plan. It is giving them the ability to see themselves as their own hero, but also knowing they have someone to be there for them who has their back. It is letting them find their own identity, their own style, interests, hobbies, their own truths.

Conscious parenting is looking at your children as mirrors. Anyone who is on their own conscious journey, knows that every being on the planet is a mirror to yourself. How you see the world is a reflection of you. Having children helped me see so much healing that I needed to do, they brought out the worst and best in me, shined the light on my shadows and with that I knew I had to do work on myself. They broke down my wall I had built up over the years and taught me how to love unconditionally again. They helped me dig deep and find my natural way of being under all the layers that had formed on top.

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