Healing Mom Guilt
Parents are often told the first 5 years of a child’s life are the most important for brain development, psychological bonding and habit formation. When children hit adolescence, teens push away from us as parents to form their own identity and sometimes it can lead...
The 12 Steps Facilitate Conscious Parenting
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...
Good Parenting Often Starts with Reparenting Ourselves
When I was fifteen years old, I swam for my high school swim team in our district meet in our hometown. Since the meet was local and at the indoor pool of the university where my father was professor, he came to watch. I was thrilled to see him! You know those videos...
Reparenting Ourselves and Our Teens: Survival Roles in Alcoholic and High Stress Families
Many adults on their own re-parenting and consciousness journey identify with some or part of these roles because their unique voices were not heard as children. Sometimes it’s helpful to look deeper in our family of origin to define tendencies that block us...
How Recovery Principles Pave the Way to Conscious Parenting
I grew up in an alcoholic home. I am incredibly grateful that my family found recovery, but it was not until my adolescence and it came at a great price, my parents’ divorce. Adult Children of Alcoholics Battle Cry: It Will Never Happen To Me The battle cry of every...Laura Lyles Reagan, MS
For more than 30 years, Sociologist Laura Lyles Reagan has worked in youth development and parent education. Her approach, called co-creation, helps teens and parents grow the skills they need for positive relationships. Seen here with Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author of The Conscious Parent and Oprah’s “favorite parenting expert,” who invited her to her annual event, Evolve.