Waking up (is the path to freedom/is hard to do)

Waking up is our path to freedom. Freedom to choose our relationship with ourselves and others; to experience our lives in new ways; to respond (to our children) in new ways. Waking up means to wake up from the unconscious and habitual patterns that keep us locked in automatic ways of being.  It's our path to freedom, but it's not easy to do. The promise of neuroplasticity tells us that change is always possible.  And though it takes dedication and courage, no singular path (to me) is more worth cultiva

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Parenting can lead us to a threshold in life we hadn’t known before. We're bringing into the parenting dynamic with our kids the momentum of our previous experiences - our resources and resilience, as well as our disconnection and disembodiment due to trauma (individual, familial, cultural, historical & intergenerational).  Beyond the challenges we face to parent in ways we may not have been parented, there is a deep love for our children that wants to be expressed and known in presence with them. There's also a yearning in us to experience that deep love ourselves; to feel our power and to live authentically, just as we yearn to protect that for our kids, too. The urgency to heal what's still alive within us might come up with a force because of them, and yet it's ultimately a reclamation of our life force, vitality, joy, connection and creativity we're most hungry for. It’s sometimes a desire bold as love that fuels our courage to meet what we fear to face.