PARENT COACHING in Athens, GA and online.
Support for Your Parenting Journey.
As loving parents who have read the parenting books, listened to the podcasts, and taken in the latest advice from the parenting experts, we know how we want to show up for our kids.
You know that you want to hold space for their big feelings, accept and support all the parts of them, prioritize connection, and set healthy boundaries.
But inevitably, when your child is melting down for the third time in a row, and you’re trying so hard to hold it all together, you snap. The noise and your child's big feelings become overwhelming, and you find yourself yelling just to make it stop. You feel drained, and try not to beat yourself up inside for losing it…again.
In spite of all of the late-night reading, strategizing, and very best of intentions, why is it still so hard to embody that parent you want to be in the moment?
And why is it sometimes so hard to put all that we know in our heads about parenting into practice?
How Coaching works
Because so often our reactions in real time with our kids are not determined by what we know in our ‘head-brains’. They are in-the-moment responses of our bodies and nervous systems…our ‘belly-brains’. As humans, we all have unconscious stored energy in our bodies and nervous systems, and our kids are so good at waking that energy up. And that’s what they are meant to do!
If we have the support that we need, we’re able to allow our own feelings (that ‘stored energy’) to come up and out, and to be celebrated (especially those big feelings like rage, desire, pride, grief and wild joy that may have been shamed in the past). And once that energy is freed up, we can turn around and do the same for our kiddos!
When you can bring your own big feelings to a coach, the coach can be there to catch and celebrate those feelings. When you experience, over and over, what that feels like in your body and nervous system, you start to become more able to catch those big feelings when they come up in your kids (and to catch your own big feelings in the moment, too!).
Relational, body-based Parent Coaching can help you…
have a place to bring ALL of your feelings so that you can turn around and offer that same thing to your kids.
learn playful, embodied practices to feel more supported and grounded in the day-to-day.
nurture your Inner Child through ‘redos’ that mimic the Parent-Child or Parent-Infant Dance.
recognize and celebrate your inner knowing (aka ‘belly brain’) around what is right for you and your child(ren)’
make the shifts that you are longing to make but have been feeling stuck.
more fully live out the life you envision for yourself.
Frequently asked questions about somatic coaching
FAQs
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Coaching sessions are 50 minutes, either in-person in Athens or online via Zoom. Parent coaching with me is relational and somatic.
In a session, I invite different Chi for Two® moves based on the particular parenting challenges you bring to the session and what comes up for you during the session. This is the somatic piece.
As you explore these moves, I’ll be there, holding space for you so that you can hold space for your kiddos. This is the relational piece. Schedule a free, 15-minute consultation call here.
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Parent coaching with me is for anyone looking for more somatic (body- and nervous-system based) support. Maybe you’re feeling overwhelmed, struggling to manage your emotions as a parent
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