Supporting Parents
Creating Connection
1
Confidence
Reconnect to your voice and your truth as you cultivate connection in your family life
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Trust
Create a relationship with your children based on peace, collaboration and mutual care
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Courage
Bravely examine your own childhood and patterns to move forward with clarity
Guiding parents to self discovery & emotional resiliency
No parent is perfect.
We are all messy humans doing our best to raise children with curiosity, kindness, courage and grit.
Perhaps you considered yourself put together and calm before having kids. Now, sleep deprivation has set in, toddler tantrums bring you to your knees, and you barely recognize the overwhelmed and impatient parent you’ve become.
Or you feel skilled in other areas of your life but managing sibling rivalry and the big emotions of young humans feels nearly impossible on the best days.
The relationship we have with our children is one of the most important – for you and for them. Struggling with this core connection can leave parents feeling inadequate, frustrated, detached, guilty or like you’re not made out for this parenting thing.
So many of us were never taught how to be the parents we long to be and it can be hard to acknowledge that we feel lost or alone. Your parenting path deserves to be witnessed and honored. You deserve to be seen and nurtured as you do the most important work of guiding your children into adulthood.
Open Hearted Parenting offers you the support, guidance and care you need to grow your emotional awareness, gain inner balance and find true connection with yourself and your children.
Hi! I'm Bonnie.
I'm a certified parenting coach, educator and parent to two spirited, strong-willed and tender children. I help parents who are struggling with overwhelm, doubt, frustration, or disconnection from their kids find their heart-centered parenting path. Through patient inner work and practical parenting tools, I empower my clients to tend to themselves, authentically show up for their children and invite more ease and joy into their families.
Although not always easy (the best things rarely are!), I know that it is possible to build a relationship with children based on mutual trust, understanding and care.
It is also true that as parents we get to choose the kind of parent that we want to be. How amazing! How scary.
As a parenting coach, I am committed to supporting parents to do the life-changing work of stepping fully into their hearts to be the parent they choose to be.
Let’s work together to dream up, reimagine and create a different relationship with your children.
A path to conscious parenting and transformation
Working with a parent coach will help you understand yourself better - not just your parenting self but your whole, complex self. Our work together begins with you.
I am guided by the belief that our children's behaviors are the best tools they have for communicating with us. They are a reflection of their needs (sometimes met, sometimes not) and our triggers (both conscious and unconscious). When parents make changes in themselves, their kids can change too.
With compassion and grace, we'll uncover the emotions and beliefs behind your unconscious actions like yelling, shaming or detaching. By uncovering the hidden why's that influence your actions, we make the unconscious conscious. This is the gentle place where true transformation happens.
Choosing to break the cycle and parent differently is a courageous act that takes commitment and an open heart. When we work together, I will hold space for you to show up, settle into yourself and discover who you really can be as a parent.
You will gain:
- A clear vision and set of values unique to your family that will guide you through inevitable parenting challenges
- A framework for creating a secure attachment with your kids rooted in connection
- Clarity around how you and your children respond to stress and overwhelm
- Concrete tools for keeping your calm and helping your children find theirs
- Strategies you can use right away to ease discomfort and struggle so that you can enjoy the tender work of parenting.
"We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books." - Brené Brown
How It Works:
When you book a call with me, we’ll discuss what's going on for you and your family and where I can offer support. This is our opportunity to see if working together makes sense.
I’ll explain my approach and the options we have for working together. You can ask any questions you have and see what type of support would be the best fit for your life and schedule.
If it feels right to you, we can book our first session and get started. If it’s not a good fit, I will do my best to offer alternative resources or suggestions for support, wherever possible. There’s no pressure of any kind, simply an opportunity to see if working together makes sense.
Let's Talk!
Shift your experience of parenting to peace, harmony and connection.
Take the first step towards becoming the parent you know you can be.
