In the conscious parenting movement, many of us are re-parenting ourselves as we raise our children. We identify our triggers, often leading to inner child work, we identify enmeshments and become capable of taking personal responsibility for our own thoughts, actions and feelings.

We practice boundaries which in turn help our children take full responsibility for their thoughts, actions and feelings. Just like traditional recovery, conscious parents break generational patterns by 1) Talking 2) Learning to Trust and 3) Feeling the Full Spectrum of our Emotions.

I’m on a mission to help parents in recovery from childhood trauma, transmit recovery principles by relating heart to heart in their families. Since my family of origin came to recovery later in life, I didn’t have a model of how to share or speak consciously. I set out on a course of study and awakenings that led me to develop a type of roadmap through conscious communication skills.

Part of that study and awakening included the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Not only did the conscious communication skills afford me the road map to reconnect with my daughters deeply, but the 12 Steps gave me a guide to find and maintain a new consciousness that made me spiritually and emotionally responsible for my thoughts, actions and feelings. Doing so made me communicate with integrity with my children.

These skills led me to speak openly about recovery concepts with my children and facilitate discussions about their choices regarding alcohol. Communicating from the heart laid the foundation to break the generational cycle of alcoholism in our roots.

My work in the conscious parenting movement and in recovery finds alignment by offering an adaptation of the 12 Steps for Conscious Parenting and the Twelve Steps for Recovering (Re-parenting) Parents. Download with this link, The 12 Steps to Parenting Teens for Parents in Recovery