I Spent 6 Months Learning A Parenting Method Oprah Calls “Revolutionary & Life Changing.”

Last month I completed my certification as a Conscious Parenting Method Coach from Dr. Shefali Tsabury. Oprah has endorsed her work as revolutionary and life changing… Based on my intensive 6-month training with her, I whole-heartedly agree!

Dr. Shefali’s worldview and Conscious Parenting Method is very much in line with the Mindful Balanced Life Method I created and coach my client’s through. So I was eager for a deeper level of learning from her, specifically in relation to parenting, as I’m always looking for ways to be a better mom to my boys.

Through the certification, I obtained an even richer understanding of:

• Western psychology’s view on becoming self-actualized human beings.
• Childhood emotional and psychological development and trauma.
• Eastern mindfulness philosophy on alleviating personal suffering by living in the present and releasing attachment to form.
• True parenting tools that ensure our children blossom into their whole, beautiful, authentic selves.
• And much, much more! It was quite an exhaustive training.

I’m so excited to have another layer of expertise to offer my coaching clients, and I’ll be sharing more parenting-specific blogs and workshops in the near future.

For now, here are a few takeaways I experienced with my boys:

My heart is cracked wide open. While I’ve always been very intentional about being present with my boys, this program helped me see where my own baggage was blocking my perceived presence, especially with Mav, my oldest. I’m so heart-wrenchingly grateful to finally see him through an unfiltered lens. Be willing to bust your heart open and see clearly – it’s so worth it.

As I’ve gotten more comfortable with Kyen’s big feelings and have let him have and express them whenever they arise (even in public in front of lots of judging eyes), he’s learned that big feelings are ok. That they move through us and don’t last forever. That all parts of him are welcome with me. (And what he experiences with me creates his worldview, which means, he believes all parts of him are welcome in this world.)

As I’ve helped give him words for his feelings, he now says things like “I’m so upset. I’m frustrated. You are making me angry.” I couldn’t be a prouder mom — and conscious parenting coach. 🙂

My first step, of course, was to shine the light back on me, to get comfortable with my own big feelings, to learn to ride the wave of them and to express them rather than hold them in. Conscious parenting is about first learning how to parent yourself.

With Love,

Sara

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