Aware Parenting Stories with Joss Goulden

Welcome back to another episode in my series about Attachment Play, this time in conversation with Felicity Juhn. Felicity is mother to two boys, aged 6 and 8 and is an Aware Parenting Instructor. She runs an in-person parenting group called Wild Hearted Parents, which she co-facilitates with fellow Aware Parenting Instructor, Marisa Taylor and offers an in-person "Mums, Let's Chat" in her local p...

Welcome back to another episode in my series about Attachment Play, this time in conversation with Britt Ortmann-Wold. Britt is a Certified Aware Parenting Instructor living in Minnesota, USA. She has two young daughters, Sophie and Athena and shares a passion for Aware Parenting with her partner Ryan. Britt has spent nearly 15 years in the self-awareness and spiritual healing space. Her work has...

Welcome back to another episode in my series about Attachment Play in Aware Parenting. This episode explore power-reversal play, what it is and why it is so important for children to feel powerful. I talk about how it helps children to move out of hyper-arousal or dissociation into releasing and healing. I give lots of examples of when these games can be effective and helpful for our children and...

Welcome back to another episode in my series about Attachment Play, this time in conversations with Eliza Parker. Eliza is a certified Aware Parenting Instructor, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, Body-Mind Centering Practitioner, and trained Feldenkrais® practitioner. American sign language interpreter. She has special expertise in healing birth trauma, and parental attunement to non-verbal...

Welcome back to another episode in a series of conversations about Attachment Play. In this episode I am talking with Maru Rojas who is an aware parenting instructor in the UK with 2 children, aged 7 and 5 and she shares her journey with bringing the healing power of laughter and play to her family. In this episode we talk about how to reconnect with our own innate playfulness and how to support o...

This episode explores Symbolic Play, one of 9 forms of Attachment Play that are outlined by Aletha Solter in her book Attachment Play. I talk about how this type of play is helpful to support healing, connection, cooperation and non-punitive discipline. I describe how to offer Symbolic Play and share several examples of when it can be used to support our children with some of the most common sourc...

Welcome back to another episode in a series of conversations about Attachment Play. In this episode I am talking with Rebecca Sheikh, who is a level 2 aware parenting instructor and the regional coordinator for aware parenting in UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa. In this episode we talk about how to better understand children's behaviour so we can then use attachment play in order to support the...

This episode of my podcast is a beautiful conversation with Suzanne Thijs, from the Netherlands. Suzanne is an Aware Parenting Instructor and mother to two sons aged 4 and 7 and a stepdaughter aged 23. She offers training and courses for professionals working with children through her business Kinders Academie in Netherlands. In this episode, Suzanne shares her journey with Aware Parenting and Att...

In this episode I speak with Hannah Mushit who is the mother of 4 children, a registered play therapist and an Aware Parenting Instructor in Fremantle in Western Australia. She shares her journey with Aware Parenting and offers some examples of using Attachment Play to support her family. We discuss how to help ourselves in the moments where we "should" ourselves about play and how to support ours...

This episode of my podcast is all about non-directive child centred play, also often known as Special Time. I describe what this kind of play is and how it is so therapeutic and helpful for our children. I explore how we can offer it, when it's particularly helpful for our children, what can happen when we offer this type of play, as well as why this can be hard for us to do. I talk about how to s...

This episode is the first in my new series of conversations about Attachment Play. I describe what Attachment Play is and the benefits of this for our children. I talk about how this type of play supports us in the practice of all the aspects and principles of Aware Parenting. and share how we offer it to our children. I explain the 9 different types of play and discuss why it can be hard for us a...

Welcome back to another episode of the Aware Parenting Stories podcast. After having a few weeks off, I am back with the final episode for this year and the last episode in the series of conversations I have been having about Embracing Imperfection. In this episode I share some final reflections on where perfectionism comes from, the effect of our childhood experiences and the socio-cultural facto...

This latest episode of my podcast about embracing imperfection is all about the journey of self-acceptance in fatherhood. I am really excited to be having a conversation with Mark Gee, who is a counsellor, a mental health first aid instructor, a Rites of Passage leader and an online Circle Work Facilitator. He is a father and supports other fathers through his 6 week online Dad's Journey Workshops...

Welcome back to another episode and the next instalment in my series on embracing our imperfection in Aware Parenting, in conversation this time with Rebecca Sheikh who is a level 2 Aware Parenting Instructor and the regional coordinator for the UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa. In this episode we talk about how parenting invites us to tend to the hurt places within us from our childhoods and ho...

Welcome back to another episode and the next instalment in my series on embracing our imperfection in Aware Parenting, in conversation this time with Katie Fusco who is an Aware Parenting Instructor and a specialist perinatal and infant mental health practitioner in the UK. In this episode Katie shares with beautiful vulnerability her journey with embracing imperfection following a profoundly diff...

In this episode, Danni Willow joins me for a beautiful conversation about trust in parenting. We talk about how trust is such a central aspect of Aware Parenting and why it is hard for many of us to trust. We discuss what we need in order to cultivate trust and share the effect on our children and who they grow up to be of us getting support to be more trusting of them and of ourselves. We share t...

It was such a pleasure to invite Lael Stone back onto the podcast, this time to talk about her new book Own Your Story. Lael shared her journey coming to write this book about supporting adults to explore their imprints, understand where they have come from and then make shifts and changes to free themselves from limiting beliefs and heal past wounds. In this conversation Lael talks about some of...

Welcome back to another episode and the next instalment in my series on embracing our imperfection in Aware Parenting, in conversation this time with Belinda Isbister. Belinda is an Aware Parenting Instructor from Western Australia with 2 boys aged 5 and 2. In this episode Belinda shares more of her journey with Aware Parenting and with embracing imperfection in her parenting. She shares some of t...

In this episode I talk with Kanika Vasudeva , who is a parenting coach, energy healer and Akashic Records reader from the Art of Life Center. She supports parents to explore the record of their soul's journey across lifetimes and to heal. She blends spiritual tools with grounded support to help parents feel more whole themselves, and raise empowered children. Please note that Kanika is not an Awar...

Welcome back to the Aware Parenting Stories podcast. In today's episode I’m thrilled to be joined once again by Dr. Aletha Solter, the founder of Aware Parenting, to talk about her inspiring and thought-provoking new book, Raising Joyful Lifelong Learners. Her latest book explores how we can best nurture children's intrinsic love of learning through connection, emotional safety, trust and play. Dr...

Welcome back to another episode and the next instalment in my series on embracing our imperfection in Aware Parenting. I really enjoyed this second conversation with Linde lambrechts, was on episode 49. She is an Aware Parenting instrutor, psychologist and psychotherapist with 2 boys and lives in Belgium . In this episode Linde shares more of her journey with Aware Parenting, learning to create a...

Welcome back to another episode in the series about embracing imperfection in Aware Parenting. In this episode I talk with Helena Mooney who is an Aware Parenting Instructor and a Hand in Hand Instructor with 2 children. She share her journey with learning to embrace her imperfection in parenting and learning to accept her children's imperfection too. We talk about self-criticism and learning a mo...

Welcome back to another episode in the series about embracing imperfection in Aware Parenting. In this powerful episode, Danni Willow and I share some reflections from our recent extraordinary Aware Parenting Retreat about the truths of motherhood and how embracing imperfection as mothers can be both liberating and deeply healing. We talk about the mother wound and sisterhood wound, two often unsp...

Welcome back to another episode in the series about embracing imperfection in Aware Parenting. In today's episode I am offering a guided meditation to support listeners to learn to embrace their imperfection in parenting and to bring themselves more acceptance, more ease, more self-compassion. If you would like support with this or any other aspect of Aware Parenting, please contact me at support@...

Today's episode is a short acknowledgement, celebration and honouring of all Aware Parenting mothers in the run up to Mother's Day. It is a message of love to all mothers doing the often invisible work of offering Aware Parenting in their families. For everything that you are doing for your child/ren, for yourself, for your families and for the world, you deserve appreciation and support. I am sen...