PREVIEW: The Benefits of a Psychologically Healthy Parent by Carista Luminare
It need not be said that preparing for parenthood is a major life initiation. It is a personal and provocative journey and involves much soul-searching. When embracing a holistic health perspective to preconception health care, your psychological wellness is as important as that of your body and spirit. Standing on the threshold of parenthood, now [...]
Read MorePREVIEW: Why Your Child Rebels by Lion Goodman & Carista Luminare
Children can be stubborn, willful, and infuriating. But maybe that isn’t such a bad thing. Whose needs are more important? Yours or your child’s? Have you ever been dominated and controlled by another person? How did it make you feel? Did you want to push away from them or run away to escape their control? [...]
Read MorePreview: Parenting Begins Before Conception – Your Childhood wounds by Carista Luminare
“Parenting forms children’s core beliefs about themselves. Nothing could be more important. The future of the world depends on our children’s conception of themselves. All their choices depend on their view of themselves… There is a crisis in the family today. It has to do with our parenting rules and the multigenerational process by which families perpetuate these rules.” – John Bradshaw
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