Sublime

use this book to help you parent your children without shaming them and to help yourself recognize shame and replace it with love and joy.

Parenting is a journey that tends to begin with a high level of egoic narcissism, an energy we take into our relationship with our child. The consequence is that we can easily, though in many cases inadvertently, fall into the trap of using our children to fill some need in ourselves, all the while under the illusion that we are loving, giving of o

She is what I call the Teaching Mommy, meaning that she is there to model this, to show your adult self how to do it.

Viewing parenthood as a process of spiritual metamorphosis allows us to create the psychic space to invite the lessons of this journey in.

It certainly isn’t out of a lack of love that we impose our will on our children. Rather, it stems from a lack of consciousness. The reality is that many of us are unaware of the dynamics that exist in the relationship we have with our children.

On the other hand, a less heart-centered child will find it easier to abandon her feelings enough to win her parent’s approval, so she will probably decide “I can measure up, I just haven’t achieved it yet” and dedicate herself to constant self-improvement.

Since self-esteem comes from actual

Everyone looked so bright and shiny. I looked like the sad girl whose parents fight a lot.

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