Category: Blog Posts
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The Mirror of Parenting
When we look at our children, we see glimmers of ourselves. Reflecting on our parents, we realize we’ve inherited many of their traits, habits, and behaviors, just as our children inherit some of ours. In self-aware parenting, we strive and are excited to pass on the positive attributes we feel proud of, as we do…
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The Six Pillars of Self-Care for Parenting the Authentic Self
To live in authenticity, we need to care for our body, mind, and spirit, and as we care for our Self, we strengthen our inner connection. From this place, where we are acting as our own best friend, we have the ability to nurture healthy and positive relationships and interactions with ourselves and others. There…
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Agreement with Self
An agreement with Self shifts the fragmented mind into a solid and cohesive sense of Self. This is a place of healing, contentment, and peace where we can fully live by being engaged and aware of our own actions, thoughts, and experiences. This agreement with Self, then, is the key to understanding how we can…
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Duality of Mind
Duality of mind is a quality that can exist in the undisciplined and fragmented mind. Our thoughts are ever present and without a witnessing quality anchored in a sense of authenticity and being grounded in our own experience, we can be easily swayed into uncertainty, indecision, and confusion. Duality of mind can create in us…
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Creating a Peaceful Home
As parents, when we are acting from a place of authenticity and love, we have the ability, with self-awareness and discipline, to create peaceful and nurturing homes for ourselves, our partners, and our children. The key here is self-awareness, because with it, we can take the disparate and fragmented parts of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors…
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How Do We Become Self-Aware?
“The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke It is through our body and senses that we learn about the world and form relationships with others. Ideally, self-awareness is something that grows, expands, and changes as we move through all the experiences of our lives. Are we connected to our feelings every day?…
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Who Am I? How to live in Self-Awareness
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein When we live in expanded awareness, we have the potential to create anything in our lives, and self-awareness is the vital link we…
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The Circle of Life- When Our Parents Become Dependent
It can be slow and gradual; the transition of our parents’ reliance on us, or it can be sudden. As we move into this role, of caring for our aging parents, we find ourselves immersed in a new kind of reality. How does this feel, to lose our own parental dependence and begin to help…
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Lost and Found- Finding Your Self in a Loss
Each of us has a separate self, yet we sometimes forget this as we become pulled in and connected with others. A new mother begins to learn these boundaries as she literally ‘births’ a new life. As the baby matures and grows, turning into first a toddler, then a preschooler, and continuing to transform right…
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Parents’ ‘No!’ – The Tug and War of Limit Setting
Children have a way of pushing us, in just the right way, so that we easily fall off our center if we are not self-aware. When we react to them, without reflection, we unknowingly put ourselves on the defensive as we prepare for attack, by first attacking ourselves. While parenting, we assure ourselves often that…
Julie Noparstak, LCSW 