In this episode, a P.S. from the last one, I share about my journey of healing from being premature in an incubator for 5 weeks and the modalities, practices and choices I've found helpful, including: Psychosynthesis ~ Roberto Assagioli, Rebirthing, Holotriopic Breathwork ~ Stanislav Grof, Polarity Therapy ~ Dr Randolf Stone, Watsu, Alexander Technique, HypnoBirthing ~ Marie Mongan, Private Subconscious-mind Healing, giving birth and not being scared, holding my babies, co-sleeping, having them ...
Jul 03, 2023•32 min
This is one of the most powerful conversations I've had! In this episode, I talked with Roma Norris, a Hand in Hand Parenting Instructor who was born at 32 weeks and was in an incubator for 5 weeks. I was born at 30 weeks and was also in an incubator for 5 weeks. We talked about a lot of things, including when we first realised that our experiences as babies had affected us, the effects we've experienced as a result, the healing we've done, and the feelings we've felt. Please note that we talk i...
Jun 24, 2023•1 hr 36 min
In this episode, I introduce the new series on the effect of the pre and perinatal period of us as babies, children and adults. This fits alongside the upcoming publication of my book, The Emotional Life of Babies. In future episodes in this series, I'll be having conversations about healing from stress in utero, birth and the postnatal period for babies, children and adults, and the effect of not healing can have. I share about my own journey of realising how much my birthing experience, being ...
Jun 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min
In this short episode, I talk about the relationship I've observed between accumulated feelings and nightmares. I offer two hypotheses and share some observations that parents and Aware Parenting instructors have shared with me about feelings and nightmares. My Sound Sleep and Secure Attachment with Aware Parenting Course is now available. You can find that on my website: www.marionrose.net or directly at: https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/sound-sleep-and-secure-attachment-with-aware-paren...
May 30, 2023•14 min
In this episode, I talk about my own recent experiences of lots of little stresses accumulating, the raging and crying that followed, and how it affected my sleep. I compare it to when I didn't get to complete the expression of some bid old feelings from the past a couple of days later, and waking up grumpy, with those feelings still at the surface. I liken this to what babies and children experience, both in terms of the effects of lots of small stresses, and also what can happen to their sleep...
May 30, 2023•28 min
I'm so delighted that Sarah Mason came back on the podcast. Sarah is an Aware Parenting instructor and came to talk about babies and sleep in episode 132. This time she shared about toddlers and sleep. She talked about how she shifted beliefs in relation to bedtimes, and the effect that had. She also discussed the importance of us as parents tending to our own needs and feelings in relation to bedtimes. She brought in the understanding of the ways as parents we can unwittingly suppress our toddl...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 1 min
In this episode, I talk about how our own capacity to be present in our bodies with each particular feeling affects our capacity to be present with our baby or child as they feel and express that feeling. I share about the cultural effects on which feelings are welcomed, and how we can become more comfortable to be present in our bodies when we're feeling particular feelings, thus affecting our presence with our baby or child's feelings. I also relate that to a child's experience of being uncond...
May 08, 2023•44 min
In this episode, I talk about mild dissociation, how to differentiate it from relaxation, and why that makes a difference to sleep. I describe what mild dissociation is, why it happens, what the experience of it is, how we can tell if a baby or child is mildly dissociated, and how it affects sleep. I also share about the innate relaxation response and how supporting babies and children with this helps them feel more relaxed, and how their sleep is then different as a result. If you want to find ...
May 04, 2023•33 min
In this episode I was so delighted to talk with Erin Dee and Kim Cousins, who are registered nurses who specialise in perinatal mental health. I LOVED the conversation so much and was in tears several times. They both share about their journey with Aware Parenting, and the difference it made in their own parenting, including with sleep, and how they then introduced it to mothers in the unit they work in. They talk about supporting the mothers with expressing their own feelings, and then having t...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 6 min
I so enjoyed this episode, in which I talked with Clare Louise Brumley, an Aware Parenting instructor who has a background in nutrition and integrative medicine, whose PhD was on Evolutionary Medicine and Optimal Human Health. Clare Louise share about why an evolutionary perspective is important, sleep through an evolutionary lens, and the physiology of sleep and how the modern culture gets in the way. Interwoven through all of this, she talks about the stress response and Aware Parenting and th...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 23 min
In this episode, I talk with Steph Fleeton, Aware Parenting instructor and early childhood educator, owner of Spirited Hearts Natural Learning Day Care with her husband Lucas. She shares about her own experience of practicing Aware Parenting with her children, and the ins and outs of sleep with different children who have different life experiences, including how their sleeping arrangement evolved as her children got older. She talks in depth about her own experiences in her Natural Learning Hav...
Apr 21, 2023•49 min
In this episode, I share about how parents can be the researchers with Aware Parenting. I invite a process where you first listen in to whether something resonates with you, and if it does, then to experiment and to observe your baby or child. I share about all the things you can observe to see if what you are doing is helpful for them or not. And if something is happening that is different, then there's an invitation to pause, to find out new information about what might be going on, to listen ...
Apr 19, 2023•22 min
In this episode of The Aware Parenting Podcast, I talk with Sarah Mason, an Aware Parenting instructor and mother of an almost three year old. She shares the journey of Aware Parenting that she's been on and all the intricacies of Aware Parenting and sleep that she's learnt along the way. She talks about all the things she tried with sleep before learning about Aware Parenting, including a dummy and a sleep consultant, and all the differences she observed with each approach, including Aware Pare...
Apr 17, 2023•43 min
In this episode, I talk about how Aware Parenting's overall approach to trusting babies and children in relation to everything also applies to sleep. That instead of them fighting sleep, we are often fighting their natural relaxation processes. And hat these natural processes are the same as those innate ways that they heal from stress and trauma. And the most important thing in supporting sleep is freeing ourselves from our cultural conditioning around sleep, our adultism, and doing our own hea...
Apr 08, 2023•31 min
In this episode, I talk with my dear friend and colleague, Helena Mooney, who is an Aware Parenting instructor and Hand in Hand instructor. She shares about her experience of starting off with Classical Attachment Parenting with her daughter, and how little sleep she had, and how exhausted she was. She shares about how weird she found Aware Parenting at first, and her unsureness in practicing it at the beginning, and how different it was from Classical Attachment Parenting. Then she talks about ...
Apr 04, 2023•57 min
In this episode, I talk with Maru Rojas, an Aware Parenting instructor in the UK who shares about her very different experience with sleep with her first child and second child. The first time around, her baby was very restless all night long or was feeding for most of the night and she had very little sleep. She learnt about Aware Parenting and gradually, sleep changed. The second time around, she started with Aware Parenting from the beginning and her son slept peacefully and for much longer p...
Mar 30, 2023•39 min
In this episode, I talked with Joss Goulden, an Aware Parenting instructor who hosts The Aware Parenting Stories Podcast and who co-hosts The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast with me. Joss shared about her own journey with sleep as a mother, including her son's frequent waking until she found out about Aware Parenting. We also talked about cultural and historical perspectives to sleep, and why that can be so helpful as parents, particularly in terms of co-sleeping, which we also talk...
Mar 23, 2023•55 min
In this episode, I talk to Nic Wilson of Peaceful Parenting, an Aware Parenting instructor who shares about her journey of Aware Parenting, going from her daughter waking up every 45 minutes at night for three years, and that changing radically once she found out about Aware Parenting. She shares about all the other methods she tried, including white noise and controlled crying, and also about all the things she was told to do and not do in relation to sleep. If you want to find out more about N...
Mar 21, 2023•46 min
In this episode of The Aware Parenting Podcast, I answer 12 questions from parents, starting with a 9 year old, going back through decreasing ages to a 6 month old. The questions include nightmares, wriggling, frequent night waking, not wanting dad to put them to bed, pulling hair whilst breastfeeding to sleep, healing from birth trauma, and waking up crying. I also talk about general things you can do to support your child or baby to be more relaxed and sleep more restoratively. I'm going to be...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 5 min
In this episode of The Aware Parenting Podcast, I talk about sleep from an Aware Parenting perspective. This incudes why Aware Parenting is the third way with sleep, the three things needed for sound sleep, and why it's important to understand the difference between true relaxation and dissociation when looking at sleep. I also explain why concepts such as 'overtired', 'fighting sleep', 'sleep windows' and 'sleep regression' don't exist in Aware Parenting. I share about my own experience of slee...
Mar 08, 2023•57 min
In this first episode of the new-format Aware Parenting Podcast, I talk about stress for parents. Most of all, I normalise the experience stress in The Disconnected Domination Culture and offer compassion and empathy as well ideas for how both to reduce stress and heal from stress. Are you experiencing stress at the moment? If so, is there anything you can do to reduce your stress levels? Anything you can say no to? Things that you can do less of? And most of all, do you have empathy buddies to ...
Mar 06, 2023•26 min
In this very special episode, we interview Gabor Maté about his most recent book, 'The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture.' We so loved talking with Gabor and hearing him share his wisdom about his willingness to be vulnerable, the four needs of children, and how people are desperate for information about trauma and healing. He also shared about attachment and authenticity, and the effects of needing to make a choice between these two as a child on later physical and ...
Jan 28, 2023•1 hr 7 min
For our holiday episode, we have a very special guest, Aletha Solter's son, Nick. Nick describes himself as the very first guinea pig for Aware Parenting! In this episode, he talks all about what he remembers of his experiences growing up with Aware Parenting, as well as his experiences of parenting his own two children with Aware Parenting. Nick and his wife have recently started their own podcast and YouTube channel called Dyslexia Journey: Support Your Kid, about the journey they have taken a...
Jan 08, 2023•57 min
We are SO excited to talk about our book in this episode! We share behind the scenes, right from the beginning, with all the twists and turns, all the inner work and outer work, up to today, where our book is number one in several categories. We invite you to listen to our journey and we so appreciate you for listening and supporting us. Much love from us both. xoxox Please come over to our Facebook page, or find us on Instagram @theawareparentingpodcast You can find Marion at www.marionrose.net...
Dec 14, 2022•43 min
In this episode, we ask invite you to connect in with what you don't want and what you do want this festive season. Topics include: Children's big feelings and adults' big feelings, disappointment, families, the big Santa question, and the vital importance of receiving plenty of empathy at this time of year. We share some of our own Christmas experiences with you, and talk about what we've learnt from more than two decades each of parenting. Please come over to our Facebook page, or find us on I...
Dec 08, 2022•39 min
In this special episode, we have a very important guest, Aletha Solter. PhD, founder of Aware Parenting and The Aware Parenting Institute. As a developmental psychologist, Aletha includes the effect of stages of development in Aware Parenting. In this episode, Aletha talks about two things: 1. Myths about typical behaviours at different ages that Aware Parenting helps to dispel, including the following myths: - sleep regressions during infancy - it's 'normal' for toddlers to hit and bite - it's ...
Nov 29, 2022•54 min
If you want a quick snapshot of Aware Parenting, or you want a family member to learn more about it it, this is the episode for you to listen to or to pass on. In it, we talk about the origins of Aware Parenting and about Aletha Solter, the founder of Aware Parenting. We share about the three core principles and how each of them look in practice. We talk about why deep self-compassion is vital in Aware Parenting, as is community and support. We also share about how Aware Parenting invites us on ...
Nov 20, 2022•56 min
In this episode, we talk about what we've learnt from studying, practicing and teaching Aware Parenting. We'd love to hear if you resonated with any of these from your experiences with Aware Parenting! Please come over to our Facebook page, or find us on Instagram @theawareparentingpodcast You can find Marion at www.marionrose.net and Lael at www.laelstone.com.au And if you haven’t already, would you be willing to subscribe to the podcast so we can show up in your podcast feed? We’re sending you...
Nov 08, 2022•36 min
In this episode, Marion talks to Nic Wilson, an Aware Parenting instructor and certified Marion Method Mentor, from Peaceful Parenting. Nic shares many practical things she does to support her daughter in relation to school, including a lot of attachment play - she shares in chronological order, right from preparing the night before, to playing games to help her get out of bed, to games in the playground before school. She shares how other children also join in with these games in the playground...
Oct 30, 2022•1 hr 26 min
In this mini episode, Marion shares about her experiences of not being heard in her younger years, and how that has been showing up in her outer life again recently. She shares about the core beliefs that we can acquire as children when our parents, with the most loving of reasons, distract us from our painful feelings. She invites us to have compassion for ourselves as parents when we see the ways that we might have done that to our children, knowing that it is never too late to start listening...
Oct 26, 2022•11 min
