Is this you?

You're dedicated to parenting gently... 

but you find it difficult to communicate your limits to your child in a way that resonates with you?

You feel the impulse of your "no" but something holds you back from speaking it -

So you don't?

Perhaps you stretch yourself so far that you feel resentful and catch yourself snapping even at little things? 

Perhaps you have vowed to speak your limits with loving calm, but instead what happens is that you suddenly loose patience and speak harshly - again and again? 

I know how painful this can be because I've done it myself. And the first thing I want to tell you is that there's nothing wrong with you. 

INTRODUCING:

The Saying No and Staying Close 

Workshop

In this workshop, we’ll explore:

🌿 Why saying no can feel so difficult, even when you know all the reasons it matters

🌿 The two types of situations when we feel the need to speak our no and why they challenge us in uniquely different ways

🌿 What happens in you when your child is unwilling to cooperate

🌿 The link between your own early experiences and how you relate to limits today

🌿 Why anger and powerlessness can show up so quickly—and what they’re trying to tell you

🌿 How to begin honoring your no in ways that deeply resonates for you and which support the connection between you and your child

What you will leave with:

• A deeper understanding of what’s happening inside you and compassion for your reactive responses
• A first step toward saying no in a way that feels more aligned with what you really want for yourself and for your child
• Knowing how to turn these every day challenges into opportunities for healing, growth and deeper connection
• A taste of what it means to have support on your parenting journey from others who see and appreciate you without any judgement. 

Who this is for

You’re drawn to aware parenting, but still feel stuck or powerless in situations when you want to communicate a limit

You notice yourself saying yes when you actually feel a no

You feel torn between staying connected and holding a limit

You recognize the moments where your child resists — and something shifts inside you

Perhaps anger, powerlessness, resentment

You recognize that your reactions are sometimes out of proportion with what is happening in the present

You sometimes walk away from situations thinking, “does it have to be this hard?”

You care deeply about how you parent — and that sometimes makes it even harder

You want to feel more steady when you say no — not harsh or distant, but clear and grounded

You long to stay connected to your child without abandoning your own needs

This workshop might not be the right space for you if you’re mainly looking for strategies to change your child’s behaviour, or quick tools to make things easier short term.

This is a space to slow down and go deep. One where you are invited to turn inward, and gently begin to understand and nurture what's there so that lasting transformation can happen.

You’re very welcome here if that feels like something you have a yes for.

No one is to blame.

The old paradigm has made many of us associate saying no with harshness, loss of connection and safety. 

And yet, it is in our role as parents that we become painfully aware of any harshness that we have absorbed from growing up in that paradigm because we see ourselves acting it out. When we're tired and having big feelings of our own, we have less capacity to respond with compassion. We say and do things that we don't really want to, - least of all toward our beloved child. Or we make a big effort to keep our reactions inside, and become exhausted by it.

We are not to blame, nor are our parents. We can take responsibility for this hesitance by freeing ourselves from it and creating a new paradigm from the inside out. 

With the Aware Parenting approach we can offer our child a chance to heal from stress and trauma when it's fresh in their experience, and nurture deep, loving connection in our relationship with them. So much of the potential to do that lies in our capacity to honor and speak our noes peacefully and with love in our hearts. And that capacity becomes available when we free ourselves from the harshness we've internalized and heal what was hurt in relationship to communicating and receiving a no. This workshop is a first step in that direction.