A Home That Heals
A FREE webinar:
How to cultivate a home where your child can recover from life’s daily hurts, maintain their sense of wonder, and move through the world with the confidence to make it a better place.
Friday, September 26th @ 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern
Every child deserves a home where they can heal from the inevitable hurts of life.
Because if you are parenting in today’s world–and care about a better and more fair world for all children–you know that…
🤯 Being a kid is exciting and full of wonder. But it can also be hard and scary to figure out how to do life.
🥺 Feelings can be really overwhelming. And most grownups don’t know how to provide children with the support they need to move through them in a healthy way.
😣 Kids want to cooperate and belong,. But their immature brains can make it hard to move past the stuck feelings that get in the way of showing up the way they would want to.
❤️🩹Our world is hurting a lot right now. And we need to be as loved and connected as possible to bring our best thinking and actions towards building something better for all families.
😕 You have the desire and hope to create this kind of home for your child, but your childhood home was not as emotionally safe as you needed it to be and now have some learning to do around how to make it happen.
😬 The ability to heal from life’s daily hurts is a fundamental part of experiencing well-being, and your home is the best place for your child to learn how to do it.
The effects of capitalism, racism, greed and hyper individualism can make the world a scary place for so many families, and we need our homes to be a place to recover from these.
Your child needs home to be their safe space, from the early years through the teen ones…and beyond.
As children explore the world around them–whether they walk out the front door or engage through a screen–they will find so much to delight in, that excites them, that brings them joy.
And they will also see and experience things that feel scary, hard, upsetting and confusing. Things that are not appropriate for their age. Things that are unjust. Things that promote stereotypes that perpetuate the mistreatment and exclusion of certain groups of humans. Messages that children are inferior and can be treated as such.
More often than we would like, they will encounter adults who do not respect their autonomy, opinions or right to be themselves.
Oftentimes, these experiences will be painful.
And while it is very much our work to protect them from harm, it is not our work as parents to shield them from every painful truth.
We can’t hide away in homes that are closed off from the world, shielded from the interconnectedness and community with others that we need.
Rather, it is our job to provide them with homes that heal.
Homes where…
🤍 A strong culture of listening allows for children’s feelings to flow and settle,
🤍 Rituals of delight and connection remind them that it is good to be human,
🤍 Skills for mending the hurts caused by conflict show them that it is possible and safe to connect after having been hurt,
🤍 A culture of nonviolence reinforces everyone’s right to be treated with respect,
🤍 The freedom to play provides the necessary conditions for emotional processing and release,
🤍 The space to grieve well allows the daily hurts and disappointments to be seen and healed,
🤍 Strong values around caring and mutual support encourage outlets for participating in social change,
This kind of home does not require:
😒 A perfectly “healed” parent,
🥱 An impeccably sustainable home, unaffected by the demands of modern day life,
👎 A home without struggle, conflict and moments of stress.
But it does come from:
Having the right teachings, tools and community to:
Strengthen yourself as the leader of both your own, and your child’s growth and healing journeys,
Provide your child with the kind of parent child relationship that is required for proper emotional development,
Instill and model values that reinforce the felt-sense of nonviolence, safety and connection that they experience in your home,
Find the meaning and joy in coming together around the most ordinary, and even life’s most painful realities.
Parents who are healing years after their childhoods, sometimes hope that they can give thier children a childhood that they won’t have to heal from. But this is not possible or necessary.
What we do need, are homes where your children can heal in real time.
So that their wounds don’t hold them back from showing up in the world fully present for all of the gifts that they came to receive and give.
For the past five years, I have been helping parents like you to do this in their homes, and on Friday, September 26th, I’ll be teaching you how to do it for free at my LIVE webinar:
A Home That Heals
Cultivate a home where your child can recover from life’s daily hurts, restore their sense of wonder, and move through the world with the confidence to make it better.
Not sure if you can make it live? That’s okay. Everyone who signs up will receive a recording of the replay.
