Becoming the Parent Your Children Will Need
"You know you are face-to-face with the unfinished business of your own childhood when you respond with strong negative feelings to your child's behavior... Disproportionate levels of fear, sadness, anger, or, conversely, elation or relief are signals to the parent that he has just activated an old wound and might do well to investigate further." ~~Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen Hunt, PhD... Giving the Love that Heals: A Guide for Parents
No matter how good our intentions, it can be hard to nurture our children emotionally if we were hurt badly or our own needs weren't met when we were children.
We may have thought we put it all behind us but are likely to find those memories or the emotional echoes of them coming back to us when we least expect them as we try to parent our own children. Becoming aware that we have those wounds is the first step on the journey to healing them.
"I know the kind of parent I would like to be. I also know the kind of parent I do not want to be. Many times I am proud of how we value our children's nature and avoid doing what was done to us. There are times (more frequent than I'd like to admit) that I feel hopelessly adrift and I don't know where I lost my way. I don't want to do what was done to me, but the power of that programming is there and it's not easy to ignore." ~~Macall Gordon, API News
I created this community for moms who identify with that quote, with the desire to create a strong, nurturing attachment with your children and the realization that sometimes you fall short of your parenting goals.
"Until we come to terms with how we were treated as children, we will continue to perpetuate the same attitude and treatment with our own children." Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker, Attached at the Heart
My mission is to help moms identify the wounds from the past that need to be healed, empower them to heal those wounds and to develop and sustain the deep, heart-open-wide connection with their children that they want and their children need.
But there is a larger picture and a process that will get us on the path of healing...
By the time many of us reach adulthood, we have become completely disconnected from who we are at the core and have separated ourselves from the intuitive guidance available to us. We develop blocks and barriers and filters and they keep frpm our awareness the insistent messages that would urge healing, that would show us the way back home to ourselves.
So part of the path toward healing involves awakening and re-connection to ourselves and to our intuition. Ultimately, connecting with the essence of who we are and with intuitive guidance will make possible a deeper heart connection with others, especially as we begin healing the wounds that get in our way.
Knowing how to heal our own wounds will mean we can heal our children's heart wounds as well. We can help them heal any unfinished business they arrived with, any negative legacies they inherited from us, from our parents, from ancestors. And using intuitive guidance, we can anticipate problems that may come up and head them off at the pass.
But there's more...
I believe that we are all here for a reason. We all came here with a detailed spiritual blueprint that shows us what we came here to do, how we came here to help. And that is also true for our children.
Connecting with intuitive guidance will make it possible to know why we are here and what we came here to do. And we can know our children's purpose, too. Imagine being able to heal your children's wounds, prevent others and gently guide them in the way they are meant to go, the unique path fashioned and created just for them.
Are you with me?
I am writing a book about this process of discovery but also will be writing blog posts here and would love to know your thoughts as you read.
Thanks for visiting!
Jeanine
Want help with healing? Here's what's available...
If you would like a companion on your journey, there are several ways I love to help!...
Beginner Package: Intuitive Reading & Distant Healing
Find out what's going on for you right now, what may be coming up for you, and what needs healing.
Life Purpose Package: Intuitive Reading, Hand Analysis & Distant Healing
Find out what you came here to do and be, how not living fully in your life purpose is affecting you. And have a healing session for the life lessons and issues we discover.
Family Package: Intuitive Reading, Hand Analysis & Distant Healing for each family member
When you're ready, we'll take a look at the whole family and discover the story that was created by putting you all together and work on healing for the family relationships and the issues we identify. This package is a bit more expensive but I am discounting it because I think it is so important for each family to do.
For more information about these packages, send me a message and we'll set up a complimentary consultation.