Aware Parenting Stories with Joss Goulden

This episode is another in the series of conversations with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. This episode explores how to navigate parenting together with the other parent of our child/ren. We discuss the impact of becoming parents on our relationships and how to navigate parenthood when we have different perspectives on how to parent. We share some things we have found helpful to s...

In this episode I have a wonderful conversation with Bernadette Lack from Core Floor and Restore. B is a midwife, core and pelvic floor specialist, educator and author. She is the creator and founder of Core and Floor Restore, an online pregnancy, birth and postpartum hub, co-owner of Motheration with Lael Stone and co-host of The Great Birth Rebellion Podcast. She loves all things from pregnancy...

In this episode I have a wonderful conversation with Shelly Robinson . Shelly is both a certified conscious parenting coach and certified family wellness coach who helps parents worldwide break generational cycles to fill their homes with more compassion, calm, and joy. She is the founder of Raising Yourself and the creator of the Connected Kid Toolkit. When she’s not cheering on parents to become...

In this episode, I have another great conversation with Jai Singh. Jai joined us in episode 61 and here we have a second conversation about conscious fatherhood. Jai is a men's coach who works with fathers on their relationship with themselves, their partners, their kids and their sense of purpose in life. His work is inspired by his own humbling and growth-inspiring experience with marriage and f...

This episode is another in the series of conversations with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. This episode is in response to a question from a listener about Tantrums. We explore why children have tantrums and describe the compassionate, trusting and loving approach to tantrums in Aware Parenting. We describe what is going on physiologically and emotionally when our children have tan...

In this episode I have a very touching conversation with Rafa Guadalupe. Rafa is an Aware Parenting Instructor based in Brisbane, Australia. Originally from Brazil, Rafa relocated to Australia in 2016. She is a Food Engineer and has worked for more than a decade in big corporations around the world. As a mother of two young children, she's very familiar with the challenges of juggling parenthood w...

I so enjoyed this episode, which is a conversation with Jai Singh. If you are a father or you have a father in your family, I highly recommend listening. Jai is a men's coach who works with fathers on their relationship with themselves, their partners, their kids and their sense of purpose in life. His work is inspired by his own humbling and growth-inspiring experience with marriage and fatherhoo...

This episode is a conversation with Dr Suzanne Zeedyk. Suzanne is a Developmental Psychologist and Research Scientist with an honorary post at the Univeristy of Dundee, Scotland. She is fascinated by baby’s innate capacity to communicate and is passionate about sharing the Science of Connection. She is the founder of Connected Baby, an organisation that shares the latest discoveries on infant comm...

This episode is a deep conversation with Dr Sophie Brock. Sophie is a Motherhood Studies Sociologist and Mother living in Sydney, Australia. She provides analysis of Motherhood in our culture, exploring the ways individual experiences of Mothers are shaped by broader social constructs. Sophie’s work contributes to changing the cultural conversation on Motherhood and the individual experiences of M...

This episode is a powerful conversation with Marion Rose about her new extraordinary book The Emotional Life of Babies, which has just been released. Marion is a level 2 Aware Parenting Instructor and the regional coordinator for Australia and New Zealand and has a background in developmental psychology, pre and perinatal and post-natal psychology. She is an author and speaker and offers courses,...

In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with Eliza Parker. Eliza’s work helping babies sleep, move, and feel better revolves around her respect for babies and toddlers as whole people who enter the world aware, desiring to communicate and learn, and with the ability to process and self-heal within relationship. Her Conscious Baby practice employs unique approaches to non-cry-it-out sleep,...

In this episode I am speaking with Katie Parker. Katie is a social worker, postpartum doula, parenting educator, women's circle facilitator and mentor for mums in business, passionate about supporting women to find their most authentic and resourced experience of motherhood and business, without the guilt, overwhelm and depletion. She loves supporting parents to build connected and respectful rela...

In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with Charlotte Pointeaux. Charlotte is a Menstrual cycle coach, speaker, entrepreneur and mother. She empowers children and parents on the transformative journey of puberty and the menstrual cycle. Her First Moon Circles school, trains global menstrual cycle educators to foster period positivity and open communication. In this powerful conversation,...

This conversation with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow, explores how we can make Aware Parenting a way of life. We talk about how Aware Parenting is an on-going way of being with our children and with ourselves. We share how we have learnt, and re-learnt and deepened our knowledge and understanding of Aware Parenting over and over again, to learn new nuances and layers. We talk abou...

I am so happy to be releasing another powerful conversation with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. In this episode we talk about how to practice Aware Parenting with our partner/the co-parent of our children. We share different ways that we can support our partner/co-parent to come on board with Aware Parenting. We discuss how we can often become a source of suppression for our child...

In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with one of my favourite authors, Robin Grille. Robin is a psychologist in private practice, international speaker, trainer and parenting educator. He is the author of three internationally acclaimed books: ‘Parenting for a Peaceful World’, ‘Heart to Heart Parenting’ and ‘Inner Child Journeys’. His books, seminars and courses focus on healthy emotion...

In this episode, I have the pleasure of talking with Marianne Littlejohn. Marianne has been a midwife for 40 years, an Aware Parenting Consultant for 30 years, and is a home-birth midwife. She has a Psychology degree and is currently studying through the school of Infant Mental Health in London. She has 3 sones and a grand-daughter. Marianne shares her powerful story of healing in motherhood, lear...

This episode is part 4 of a series of conversations that I am sharing with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow about supporting sibling relationships and navigating the challenges of having more than one child. We share how we have approached the parallel process of healing and processing our wounds from our sibling relationships as well as how to prepare our first born child for the bi...

I really enjoyed this conversation in today’s episode with Linde Lambrechts. Linde is a psychologist, psychotherapist and aware parenting instructor in Belgium. She is training in the Marion Method and is mother to 2 boys aged 7 and 5. She is really passionate about supporting families with Aware Parenting and is deeply committed to preventing mental health problems in the next generation by suppo...

This episode is part 4 of a series of conversations that I am sharing with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow about the lists of 3 in Aware Parenting and how to connect the theory to practice. In this episode we talk about the 3 things our children (and ourselves) need in order to sleep. We share the 3 steps that we can use when there has been rupture or conflict with our children in o...

In this episode of the podcast I have the pleasure of speaking with Lainie Liberti. Lainie is a mother to her 24 year old son, Miro. She is an author, international speaker, alternative education advocate and spearhead of the World Schooling Movement. She is the founder of the Teen Mentoring Program, a TEDx speaker and the author of “Seen, Heard and Understood – Parenting and Partnership with Teen...

In this episode I have the pleasure of talking with Genevieve Simperingham. Genevieve is a psychosynthesis counsellor, the founder of the Peaceful Parent Institute, a Parenting Educator, writer and was an Aware Parenting Instructor for 14 years. She regularly contributes articles to publications and is a feature contributor to the Natural Parent Magazine. She offers workshops and courses in parent...

In this episode I have the pleasure of talking with Kirsty Fernandes. Kirsty is mother to 2 children and is an Aware Parenting Instructor from New Zealand. She is passionate about supporting mothers in the post-partum period and is a certified Sacred Mother Roaster, and a certified Sacred Pregnancy Instructor. Her business to support mothers is Honouring Māmā. In this conversation, Kirsty shares h...

This episode is part 3 of a series of conversations that I am sharing with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. In this episode we continue our conversation that connects the theory to the practice. We talk about responding to painful feelings. We share the 3 responses that our children (and ourselves) can have when we have painful feelings – expression, repression and aggression. We al...

This episode is part 2 of a series of conversations that I will be sharing with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. In this episode we talk about connecting the theory of Aware Parenting to the practice. We discuss the 3 core aspects of Aware Parenting, the 3 things that are always underneath challenging behaviour. We also discuss the 3 main central nervous system states that our child...