Reality Awareness Conscious Parenting Conscious Self

This is a place for parents and people willing to heal their own past emotional hurts to grow and evolve in conscious awareness of themselves, to support, nurture and treat our children with the respect and care that they deserve. And this includes our Inner Child!

As Mahatma Gandhi states:

"If we are to reach real peace in this world... we shall have to begin with children."

Reality Awareness is passionate about seeing young people as the consciously aware and present beings that they are. We provide tools on how to honour, acknowledge and embrace all of their emotions - the full spectrum on the scale. This in turn fuels our own spiritual growth as we heal our past to bring us back to the present moment. Our children are our future and we need to become aware of ourselves on all levels to raise physically, mentally and emotionally healthy children to adults.

As any parent knows, the parenting journey is a road of reflection and a huge personal growth experience. Reality Awareness supports alternative and distinctive parenting paradigms that ultimately help and support us to grow spiritually to be present and emotionally available for our children.

Parenting is such a large topic, with so many areas to cover. Here is a page for you to learn information, through experience and passion. This information may just be the answer to your prayers. It certainly was to me! Through my parenting journey, I have grown so much, especially through this style of parenting. Your children are a direct reflection of you - a gift to you, to teach you to heal, love and embrace all parts of yourself. I am now clear that offering information, tools and a loving space for parents to share their parenting journey is a big part of my being. I am very passionate about respecting, honouring and embracing all parts of our children's emotions - all parts of themselves. I offer here, information and links that have inspired and helped me along my parenting path.

When my daughter, Adaya, was 3 months old, I attended a Mother's Group, where Marion Badenoch Rose gave a speech on Aware Parenting. I was in awe, the words leaving her mouth where like God talking to me. It made complete and utter sense. All people experience all emotions - we just need to let ourselves feel them. And the way we are taught to deal with the whole range of emotions begins in babyhood and beyond.

Marion has been a backbone of support through the Aware Parenting journey I have chosen to take for my family. Her website, articles, online support, forum, with her warm presence has given me the support and confidence needed for this very conscious and aware style of parenting. The connections I have made through the Aware Parenting community has been the utmost lifeline and I am truly grateful. My deep gratitude for Aletha Solter, founder of Aware Parenting is at it's heart.

Here at Reality Awareness we support connected, loving, respectful parenting paradigms. Our weekly Playgroup/Mum's Meet held at Coolum Beach is a place where you can find support and information to help you along your parenting journey. Click here to view our Playgroup/Mum's Meet page for a list of upcoming topics, guest speakers and activities >> >> >>

Here is a few links I highly recommed reading, learning and exploring if you are wanting a deep, loving and conscious connection with your child:

www.parentingwithpresence.net - Marion Badenoch Rose - Aware Parenting. Marion's website helped me greatly when I first learnt about Aware Parenting from her talk. Read articles that you feel drawn to help you learn and understand Aware Parenting.

www.awareparenting.com - Aletha Solter, the founder of Aware Parenting. If you are wanting a deeper understanding about the philosophy, research and studies behind Aware Parenting, I highly recommend reading Alethas four books; The Aware Baby, Helping Young Children Flourish, Raising Drug Free Kids, Tears & Tantrums.

www.handinhandparenting.org - Patty Wipfler, founder of Hand in Hand Parenting. This resonates with me as does Aware Parenting. I love Patty's set of booklets, easy to read, understand and implement techniques from Hand in Hand Parenting. A great source of articles too. Veronica Lovejoy is a trained Hand in Hand facilitator holding Hand in Hand workshops in Northern NSW. For more information on Veronica's workshops, contact us here >> >> >>

www.connectionparenting.com - Pam Leo. Another favourite with many articles to expand your mind.... her quote says it all "Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhood."

"Isn’t it time that we, as a culture, recognized the urgent need to renounce and abolish the punishment of children? At least the hitting, bashing, slapping attacks? The assaults that, if done to a grownup, would lead to litigation and possible jail time? And to a child, lead to depression, learning difficulties, spouse abuse, underemployment, and marriage failure?" ~ Norm Lee

Parenting Articles by Hannah Andrews:
- Let's Listen
- Top Tips for Bedtime

We support, encourage and embrace:
- Aware Pregnancy
- Conscious Birthing
- Breastfeeding
- Co-sleeping
- Aware Parenting
- Baby-wearing
- Home-schooling/Unschooling