Aware Parenting Stories with Joss Goulden

Welcome back to another episode in my series about Attachment Play in Aware Parenting. This episode explore power-reversal play, what it is and why it is so important for children to feel powerful. I talk about how it helps children to move out of hyper-arousal or dissociation into releasing and healing. I give lots of examples of when these games can be effective and helpful for our children and lots of examples of how to offer this kind of play. I talk about why our own feelings about powerlessness often come up for us when we are playing in these ways and the importance of us getting our own support in order to be able, safe and willing to play in these ways. I end with some words of compassion and support.

If you would like support with this or any other aspect of Aware parenting, I invite you to get in touch.

To learn more about Attachment Play I highly recommend reading the book by Aletha Solter on this topic.

Welcome back to another episode in my series about Attachment Play, this time in conversations with Eliza Parker. Eliza is a certified Aware Parenting Instructor, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, Body-Mind Centering Practitioner, and trained Feldenkrais® practitioner. American sign language interpreter. She has special expertise in healing birth trauma, and parental attunement to non-verbal cues and crying.
In this episode we talk about how Aware Parenting and Attachment Play helps babies and toddlers to process their early experiences from conception, pregnancy, birth and the early post-partum period. She shares some of the ways that stress and trauma from early experiences present in babies and young children and describes how attachment play, specifically symbolic play and power-reversal play are so effective in the families she supports. We discuss the importance of giving information to babies and children to make sense of their experiences, as part of their healing. We talk about trusting the innate wisdom of babies and children to know and to communicate to us what they need in order to heal.

To learn more about Eliza, please visit www.consciousbaby.com or follow her on facebook or Instagram at Eliza Parker Conscious Baby.

For support with this or any other aspect of Aware Parenting, I invite you to get in touch at https://awareparenting.com.au/contact-me/

Welcome back to another episode in a series of conversations about Attachment Play. In this episode I am talking with Maru Rojas who is an aware parenting instructor in the UK with 2 children, aged 7 and 5 and she shares her journey with bringing the healing power of laughter and play to her family.

In this episode we talk about how to reconnect with our own innate playfulness and how to support ourselves at times when we are not feeling playful. Maru shares lots of games that she has enjoyed with her children over the years and still offers to bring joy to her family. We discuss how to bring play to some of the most common challenges in parenting, including toilet learning, food and sibling conflicts. She shares how she loves to bring playfulness and fun to herself and how to use play for non-punitive discipline.

To learn more about Maru, please follow her on Instagram at _maru.rojas_ and visit her website to find her course Attachment Play Magic https://parenttogether.co.uk

For support with this or any other aspect of Aware Parenting, I invite you to get in touch at https://awareparenting.com.au/contact-me/

This episode explores Symbolic Play, one of 9 forms of Attachment Play that are outlined by Aletha Solter in her book Attachment Play. I talk about how this type of play is helpful to support healing, connection, cooperation and non-punitive discipline. I describe how to offer Symbolic Play and share several examples of when it can be used to support our children with some of the most common sources of stress and trauma. I talk about why it can be hard to offer this type of play and share some words of compassion and support to help parents to build more capacity for play.

For support with this or any other aspect of Aware Parenting, I invite you to get in touch at https://awareparenting.com.au/contact-me/

Welcome back to another episode in a series of conversations about Attachment Play. In this episode I am talking with Rebecca Sheikh, who is a level 2 aware parenting instructor and the regional coordinator for aware parenting in UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa.

In this episode we talk about how to better understand children's behaviour so we can then use attachment play in order to support them to be their naturally cooperative selves. We share some of the ways we have used play in our families to support greater connection and healing. Rebecca shares a powerful activity to support our younger parts in relation to offering attachment play. She offers suggestions for how to find playfulness at times when we are feeling overwhelmed and not having capacity to play. We talk about the importance of laughter and fun for us as parents.

To learn more about Rebecca, please visit her website https://www.flourishingchildhood.com and follow her on social media at Flourishing childhood.

For support with this or any other aspect of Aware Parenting, I invite you to get in touch at https://awareparenting.com.au/contact-me/