Unconditional Parenting with Blimie Heller
Episode description
Parenting is all-encompassing and all-consuming, even if you’re not a helicopter parent. At the very bare minimum, we are tasked with keeping our offspring alive. Yet we also want to facilitate our children’s emotional, spiritual, psychological, physical, social and academic growth! And we very much don’t want to hinder their growth and development with our mistakes, missteps and full-blown fails.
Enter Blimie Heller with her compassionate unconditional parenting approach, and parenting feels a lot more manageable. We’re grateful that Blimie shares her wisdom with us on this episode of DMC about how to be more compassionate towards our children in understanding the root of behaviors, as well as how to be more compassionate towards ourselves in our parenting journeys.
In our conversation with Blimie, we discuss:
- what unconditional parenting is and how she discovered it
- strengthening the parent/child relationship
- the power of empathy in parenting
- dealing with feelings of failure in parenting
- how to see the root causes driving children’s behavior
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Show notes:
Blimie’s website:
On instagram as @unconditional_parenting
Blimie’s book recommendations:
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
Hold On To Your Kids by Dr. Gordon Neufeld
Non-Violent Communication by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg