Episode 23: Co-Parenting with Awareness & Play with Abbey Stanbrook
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In this week’s episode I chat with Somatic Wellness Coach, Aware Parenting Coach and Mum of 2, Abbey Stanbrook.
Abbey shares her journey, and experience co-parenting her two children. Including dealing with the separation from her children, as a mother, during shared custody; supporting herself through coparenting and how to support your children.
We also discuss somatic experiencing and somatic wellness; nervous system regulation and why being calm all the time is not good for us; and play to counteract feelings of powerlessness.
Plus so much more.
Where to Find Abbey:
Instagram: AbbeyLove
Facebook: Abbey Stanbrook
Resources:
Existential Kink by Caroline Elliott
ABOUT ABBEY
Abbey has been on a journey of over 20 years of delving into the Language of the Body and Somatics. In the more recent years- she has found her passion and compassion for Somatic Wellness, Aware Parenting, Nervous System Balance, and Integration. In 2017 Abbey experienced many Physical side-effects of Trauma, not just from the Births of her children, but from the Stored Survival energy within her body from her Life so far. She then found a Portal for healing via Aware Parenting and Reparenting herself, and receiving support and reciprocity through various Practices, Supports and Resourcing.
These Somatic and Aware Portals weaved around her Soul’s Through-Line and Values of Health and Healing. Abbey has been Coaching mostly Women via Aware Parenting and Somatic Wellness via Circle Facilitations, Individual Coaching sessions, Online and InPerson Courses, and Guest Speaking at Events/Presentations. For the past 2 years Abbey has experienced a Unique Home-Life of Co-Parenting her 2 children 50/50. Learning and Living a Feminine Style of Business Leadership is also a strong Core Value of hers. Abbey has made a Sacred Vow to Notice and Track her own Body and Somatic States – and request and receive support so that she has the Capacity and Bandwidth to Support and Guide Women in their own journey of Somatic Wellness and Aware Parenting.
ABOUT STEPH
Steph Fleeton is the creator and founder of Spirited Hearts™ Natural Learning & Healing Haven and Mamas Sacred Circle® She is also a Parenting Support Counsellor, Aware Parenting Instructor and Early Learning Educator.
Steph has spent the better part of two decades, dedicated to child development, trauma and providing support to children, their families and early childhood educators.
She created her Natural Learning & Healing Haven to provide the strongest emotionally supportive environment in the industry, which is trauma-informed, and where children have the space and freedom to be their beautiful, unique selves.
In 2023, Steph will be launching the very first live round for her Certification Program for the Spirited Hearts Approach to Early Learning. This is for teachers, educators and anyone wanting to create their own natural learning haven from home.
Steph has two children; one with Autism and the other who suffered from an extremely rare and life-threatening medical condition for the first 5 years of his life. Steph is extremely passionate about assisting parents with children who have special needs and medical conditions. She provides 1:1 support, providing a space filled with unconditional acceptance, compassion, empathy and deep listening.
To find out more about Steph please visit her website https://spiritedhearts.net or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spirited_hearts
Episode 22: Healing Trauma & Inner Child Wounds to Embody Our True Self
In this week’s episode, I chat with the lovely Tamika Rose, who support people in healing core wounds, trauma, and embodying the soul and returning to love.
This episode is full of insight, wisdom and personal stories. Some of the many things we discuss is:
- Tamika’s own journey of numbing her feelings and coping mechanisms
- The healing journey
- Tamika recounts 2 healing journeys from 2 of her clients
- Conception and the prenatal period and how it imprints on our lives
- Our body as a barometer for what’s going on within us, and how we can heal
- Inner child healing
- Repairing our relationship with our own children when there is a rupture
- Plus so much more
Where to Find Tamika
Website: www.tamikarose.love
Instagram: @tamikarose.love
Facebook: Tamika Rose - Emotional Healing, Inner Child & Soul Embodiment Guide
Resources:
Sacred Wounds by Padma Aon
The Secret Language of Your Body by Inna Legal
Books by Gabor Mate
ABOUT TAMIKA
Tamika Rose has been supporting others in transformational emotional healing since 2007 and sacred feminine soul embodiment work since 2016. During this time, she has impacted over 7,000 people in her 1 on 1 sessions, seminars, retreats, webinars and online courses. Tamika's healing journey has been one of very deep emotional healing and the reclamation and embodiment of her soul. Her journey has shown her that it is possible to completely heal, find wholeness and step into your true self no matter what you have endured in your past. After coming home and connecting with her own soul and the Divine, she now supports others on this Sacred Journey Home.
Episode 21: Valuing Each Child's Learning Journey with Sally Haughey
I had the absolute pleasure of having this beautiful, meaningful conversation with Sally Haughey. Sally is the founder of Fairy Dust Teaching also known as Wunderled, she is the creator and founder of the annual Play Summit, an author, speaker and Educator.
We discuss so much in this episode, and it is jam-packed with passion, wisdom and knowledge:
- Sally shares her own journey as a child in the education system and then a teacher
- How the education system is failing us and our children
- The #1 goal of the system is compliance, and not attending to each child’s unique needs
- The history of the education system, and how it is outdated
- How beneficial changes come from families
- A child’s identity in the school system
- Executive function development through play-based learning
- Conflict resolution and negotiation in early childhood
- Support children’s natural desire to problem-solve
- Plus so much more
Where to Find Sally
Website: Fairy Dust Teaching
Facebook: Fairy Dust Teaching
Instagram: @wunderledteaching
Twitter: @WunderledEd
Resources Mentioned
* Jane Austen novels
* Alfie Kohn books
ABOUT SALLY
Sally Haughey is the CEO and Founder of Fairy Dust Teaching, also known as Wunderled. Fairy Dust Teaching is built on the passion for the wonder and magic of early childhood, the idea that young children have the right to play, to be collaborators in learning, and to dream.
Sally has spent over three decades in the classroom in various school settings. During time in the classroom, she was influenced by many different people and approaches, the two biggest being Waldorf education and the Reggio Emilia Approach.
Her journey took an unexpected turn when she started a blog in 2010. She was in the middle of one of her toughest years yet, and sharing her story opened a whole new world of possibilities: empowering and inspiring educators, and so Fairy Dust Teaching was born.
That blog transformed into our current community of over 220,000 educators from 114 countries. Her focus is to provide a deeper level of service and training that help educators own their true teaching self.
Since founding Fairy Dust Teaching, she has authored 3 books, one being The Wonder Art Workshop and has spoken and interviewed with thought leaders from all over the world.
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Episode 20: Self-Compassion & Meeting Everyone's Needs with Vivian Viester
In this week’s episode I had the pleasure of chatting with Vivian Viester, an Aware Parenting Instructor from Europe and a Mum to an 11 year old boy. Vivian shares her parenting journey, and how she discovered Aware Parenting.
We then discuss:
- Self-compassion
- Attending to our own needs and parts of ourselves that need to be heard
- Our journey together as parent and child
- How our children help us heal from our own childhoods
- Attachment play
- Open and honest communication with your child
- Meeting everyone’s needs
- What we both found most challenging about Aware Parenting
- So much more
Where to Find Vivian:
Instagram: Vivian Viester Aware Parenting
Facebook: Vivian Viester, Aware Parenting
Resources Mentioned:
Aware Parenting books by Aletha Solter Ph.D
ABOUT VIVIAN:
Vivian Viester was born in the Netherlands, and travels between several European countries. She is the mother of an eleven year old boy and has been an Aware Parenting Instructor since 2016. Vivian is passionate about self-compassion and meeting our own needs as parents, on our parenting journeys.
Episode 19: Navigating Swearing & Harsh Words with Your Child with Devon Harris
After hearing from parents over the last couple of months, about their child swearing, I felt called to record an episode on that very topic. To make the episode even more fun, playful and light-hearted I invited my dear colleague and friend, Devon Harris to share this beautiful conversation.
We start the episode with Devon sharing her journey and story.
We then delve into the juicy topic of swearing and chat about:
- Swearing without punishments
- Our responses, as parents, to swearing
- How to share information with your child on swear words
- Play ways to address swearing
- Looking to the feelings behind the words
- Reflecting back on our own childhood, reactions that occurred and patterns that arose to affect us today
- Plus so much more
Disclaimer: this episode does contain swearing, please be mindful of this before listening if there are people in your vicinity that you do not want to hear these words.
Where to Find Devon:
Email: upsidedowndevi@gmail.com
linkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/devon-harris-65409869/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010436254368
Resources Mentioned:
Mindset by Carol Dweck
Playful Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen Ph.D
ABOUT DEVON:
Devon Harris is a specialist in child and adolescent behaviour and an accredited Aware Parenting Instructor. She holds a Bachelors in Youth Studies and has over a decade of experience working directly with young people in a variety of settings from prisons to playgrounds. Since becoming a parent in 2013 she shifted her attention to supporting other parents to meet the developmental needs of their children as well as to capitalise on undesirable behaviour as an opportunity to deepen trust and connection. Devon is as passionate about Natural Learning and Aware Parenting as she is about yoga, meditation and travel.