In this episode, I dive into the concept of embodying loving limits: a term I coined to describe the process which is integral to the Aware Parenting approach created by Aletha Solter, PhD. I share my experiences and challenges that I faced in practicing loving limits, both with my daughter and son. I also emphasise how the practice of loving limits contrasts with typical authoritarian or permissive parenting models. I highlight the nuanced understanding and deep inner work required to truly emb...
Jun 16, 2025•43 min
In this episode, I take a meander through the surprising beauty of welcoming children's crying and raging. You can find my new course here: https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/tantrums-and-tears-course You can find out more about my work at www.marionrose.net and my books at: https://marionrose.net/books/ You can also find me here: https://www.instagram.com/theawareparentingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ https://www.instagram.com/awareparenting/ www.facebook.com/MarionRose...
Jun 07, 2025•46 min
There are many different beliefs about why children hit, and based on those beliefs, what the most helpful response to a hitting child is. Old religious paradigms believed that children were innately evil or bad and needed to be shamed and punished into being 'good'. Behaviourism believed that children needed to be taught through punishments, or removal of rewards, to teach children to stop hitting. Cognitive paradigms believed that children need to be taught that hitting hurts, in order to stop...
Apr 30, 2025•28 min
Join me as I welcome Linde Lambrechts back on the podcast! Linde is an Aware Parenting instructor, Psychotherapist and Psychologist. Linde was a guest on episode 210, where she shared an experience that I found deeply moving. In this episode, Linde shares her profound journey with Aware Parenting, discussing the transition from mainstream parenting to understanding the true causes of behaviours in children and adults. We explore the nuance, depth, and transformative experience of practicing Awar...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr
Welcome to The Aware Parenting Podcast! In this special episode, I celebrate the launch of my first children's book, "I Love You, However You Feel," by reading it aloud. I highlight the unique nature of the book, which uses flower photographs to help convey nuanced feelings. Emphasising the importance of deep presence and unconditional love, I invite you to connect deeply with your child or children while reading this book. I also share ways for you to buy the book and take part in the 'I Love Y...
Apr 02, 2025•13 min
In this episode, I talk about why I believe crying is so important in children (from an Aware Parenting perspective) and for adults (from a Marion Method perspective). I emphasise that in Aware Parenting, crying is a vital natural healing response for children, enabling them to release stress and trauma. I connect emotional disconnection in adults to societal issues and suggest that many violent and harmful behaviours stem from unexpressed grief and rage as well as from a sense of disconnection....
Apr 02, 2025•49 min
In this episode of the Aware Parenting Podcast, which is part of the Foundations of Aware Parenting series, I discuss separation anxiety. I delve into the history and current usage of the term and I contrast Aware Parenting's understanding of separation anxiety with Classical Attachment Parenting's understanding. I explore various causes of separation anxiety, including developmental stages, a need for safety, accumulated feelings, past unhealed separation trauma, and the parent's own past unhea...
Mar 21, 2025•44 min
In this episode, which is the second in my series of the foundations of Aware Parenting, I talk about helping children cooperate with toothbrushing. I share about my own journey with my teeth and mouth, and how I passed down some of that trauma to my children, and how that affected their willingness with toothbrushing. I talk about the three reasons why children may not be willing to cooperate with toothbrushing, including trauma related to their mouths, and what we can do to tend to each of tho...
Mar 19, 2025•40 min
In this episode, I talk with Alex Letham, who is the mother of a 12 year old son, Miles. Alex did my Attachment Play Course 10 years ago, when I first created it, and I still share her testimonial and the games she and Miles made up, all these years later. In the episode, Alex shares about the conversation where she asked about tantrums and her dear friend shared about Aware Parenting. Then we had a lovely conversation about attachment play. Alex talks about her grandmother has an incredible abi...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 7 min
In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Jessica Klug, who is a Clinical Psychologist and an Aware Parenting instructor. Jess shares her journey of being deeply passionate about understanding parenting. Her doctoral research was on the impact of parental exposure to to traumatic and stressful life events on parenting practices and child psychological wellbeing and outcomes. Then she became a mother, and realised that none of the parenting practices she was seeing around her resonated with h...
Mar 17, 2025•42 min
I'm so delighted to welcome Meg Rankin on to the podcast. Meg has been a Social Worker for 20 years, and still works in a tertiary hospital setting. She also has her own business offering Aware Parenting support, general counselling, birth debriefing, and supervision for care and health professionals. She also offers women's circles and mother blessings. Meg shares about how she'd known about Aware Parenting a long time before becoming a parent herself, because of being immersed in the parenting...
Mar 02, 2025•46 min
In this short episode, I invite you to join me in my celebrations of 20 years as an Aware Parenting instructor! I'm so grateful to Aletha Solter, PhD, for creating Aware Parenting, and for her ongoing guidance and support. Thank you to everyone who has ever read any of my posts, listened to any of my podcast episodes, done any of my courses or trainings, come to any of my workshops, read any of my books, or had mentoring sessions with me. I love Aware Parenting, and I am so thankful for all the ...
Mar 02, 2025•8 min
I'm so delighted to welcome on to the podcast Daniela Ekman, who is an Aware Parenting instructor and birthkeeper. Daniela shares about how she uses a lot of ancestral traditions and wisdom from South America in her work as a birthkeeper. She is from Venezuela. Daniela shares about her calling to become a birthkeeper, and the deep connection that she has with babies. This deep connection with babies is also what called her to become an Aware Parenting instructor. She shares about how much babies...
Feb 26, 2025•32 min
I'm so delighted that Carly Facius has returned to the podcast for the 6th time. She was also on episodes 149, 154, 159, 199, and 202. Carly is a mother of three, Registered Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, holds a Master of Primary Maternity Care, and is an Aware Parenting instructor. Carly shares about the very beginning of her journey to becoming an Aware Parenting instructor, which was when her Mum asked her to watch her brother, who would hold his breath. This wa...
Feb 26, 2025•53 min
In this episode, I welcome back Nic Wilson, who was also in the last episode. This marks the return to talking about Aware Parenting, and is the first episode in a mini-series about people's journeys to become Aware Parenting instructors. Please note that Nic shares about going through a very tough time of three years of her daughter waking up every 45 minutes and feeling desperate and in her own words, "very low". Nic then talks about coming to Aware Parenting, how much it resonated, and the tr...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 9 min
This is the last episode in the series about reparenting with The Marion Method. In this episode, I welcome Nic Wilson, who is a Marion Method Mentor and Aware Parenting instructor. Nic shares about how she first came to The Marion Method 7 years ago, in a 1:1 willingness mentoring session with me. She talks about the power of reparenting with The Marion Method, including how our relationships with our Inner Loving Presences can often result in our outer relationships changing. Nic also shares a...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 8 min
This is another episode about reparenting with The Marion Method. It's not about Aware Parenting. In this episode, which I recorded on Valentine's Day 2025, I share how you can use the Inner Beloved Practice or connecting with the Soul Version of your partner or ex-partner. I also picked a card from my Loving Presences Oracle Cards for you, and spoke some Inner Beloved phrases to you. If you want to learn more about The Marion Method, you can do so on my Psychospiritual Podcast: https://podcasts...
Feb 14, 2025•29 min
This is another episode of the reparenting series, which is based on The Marion Method, not reparenting. As parents, our relationships with our partners and exes can have a huge effect on our children. I love supporting my mentees, either in 1:1, or them as a couple, to use The Marion Method maps and practices to bring about deeper connection, harmony, and healing in their relationships. In this episode, I share the maps and practices which support that. If you want to learn more about The Mario...
Feb 11, 2025•29 min
In this episode, I talk with Katie Fusco, who is an Aware Parenting instructor in the UK. Katie also works in perinatal mental health, and speaks a disclaimer that everything she shares on the episode is her own, based on her own experience. We'd also love to say, before you listen, that Katie shares some of her experiences during and after giving birth that were extremely traumatic, so please listen in to yourself and whether you are willing to listen, or continue listening. After Katie shares ...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 31 min
In this episode, which continues the reparenting series, I describe terms and concepts from the Marion Method that are NOT used in Aware Parenting. These include: Soul Messages from Life Conversations with Life Reparenting, Re-culturing Disconnected Domination Culture Love-Needs, Will-Needs, Love-Hurts, Will-Hurts Needs-feelings, Healing-feelings, Thoughts-feelings Inner Loving Mother, Inner Loving Father, Inner Best Friend, Inner Beloved Reparative phrases Inner Children Listening to our yeses ...
Feb 11, 2025•28 min
This continues the reparenting series (and reculturing too). It's part of The Marion Method, not Aware Parenting. In this episode, I talk about the process of change from Marion Method perspective, and how getting freer from Disconnected Domination Culture conditioning, and instead embracing lovingness and willingness, supports us to say no to what we don't want, and yes to what we do want. I share about the difference between wanting and willing, and not wanting and not being willing, about the...
Dec 31, 2024•46 min
This is another episode of the reparenting and reculturing series, and is based on The Marion Method, NOT Aware Parenting. I talk about why many people find it hard to say yes to what they have a yes for and no to what they have a no for, having grown up in The Disconnected Domination Culture. I share why this is particularly the case at this time of year. And I offer tangible suggestions for experiencing more safety in expressing full-body yeses and full-body noes. As well as Loving Presence st...
Dec 22, 2024•33 min
I love this episode with Caitlin Jaspers, who has been doing mentoring with me for the last 4 months. This episode includes both her practice of Aware Parenting, and also The Marion Method and Nonviolent Communication. Caitlin starts off sharing her journey with Aware Parenting, which started when her 4-month-old son was waking very frequently. Once she started practicing Aware Parenting, his sleep shifted. However, she then saw how much of an effect her own inner work, including her exploration...
Dec 22, 2024•56 min
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Dec 21, 2024•17 min
I absolutely LOVE this episode with Linde Lambrechts, who has a Masters in Clinical Psychology, and is a Psychotherapist and Aware Parenting instructor. You may recognise her from my trilogy of Aware Parenting books, where she shared her beautiful stories. Linde talks about all kinds of topics in this episode, including reclaiming the beauty of our needs as parents. However, it's the stories she tells half way through the episode that brought us both to tears. She shares about what happened for ...
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min
In this episode, I talk about why our yeses and noes are so important, how we disconnect from them growing up in The Disconnected Domination Culture, and how we can reclaim their power and beauty, and the safety that they bring to our lives. I'd love to emphasise again that this is NOT Aware Parenting. This reparenting series is based on The Marion Method. Our yeses and noes are our slug wisdom. Our innate body wisdom The DDC disconnects us from our our slug wisdom. As children growing up in The...
Dec 11, 2024•51 min
When I added up the listens this morning, there were 3,033,364! Woohooo! Thank you SO much to everyone who has listened, whether that was to 1 episode, or all of them! And a very big thank you to Lael, who was the co-host for the first 123 episodes. I'm also so grateful to Aletha Solter, PhD, the Founder and creator of Aware Parenting. In this episode, I talk about the past episodes, the different series, and what's coming in 2025! If you're wanting to listen to past festive season episodes, tho...
Dec 09, 2024•26 min
I'd love to emphasise again that this is NOT Aware Parenting. This reparenting series is based on The Marion Method. I came up with the concept and practice of the three types of feelings by integrating two philosophies: Aware Parenting, which includes what I call needs-feelings and healing-feelings. Nonviolent Communication, which includes what I call needs-feelings and thoughts-feelings. I'll explain more about this! But first, why is this important? Well, if we think that there is only one ty...
Dec 05, 2024•47 min
It really is possible to get free from guilt! I'd love to emphasise again that this is NOT Aware Parenting. This reparenting series is based on The Marion Method. I'm so grateful to Marshall Rosenberg, who created Nonviolent Communication. It was from him, back in 2002, when my daughter was 9 months old, that I learnt about the true origin of guilt, and how it is simply a form of cultural conditioning. It's not an innate feeling. I also borrowed the term 'Domination Culture' from him. He in turn...
Dec 04, 2024•47 min
I'm so delighted to be starting the reparenting series. I'd love to make it very clear that this is NOT Aware Parenting. It's The Marion Method. However, it was profoundly influenced by Aware Parenting, and in some ways is like practicing Aware Parenting with ourselves. Aware Parenting of course includes the importance of honouring our own needs, having community, and listening to our own feelings, but does not include any particular processes – beyond prompts for inner reflection about our chil...
Dec 03, 2024•45 min
