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Motherhood: what I learnt when I became a mother
Exploring motherhood lessons and the myth that to be a good mother you need to be self-sacrificing.
Motherhood, Parenting, Raising children, Self-love, Breastfeeding, Children
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Essential words about words
This fun, fascinating and wide ranging conversation explores the hidden harm behind the misuse of words and how it affects us all in every conceivable aspect of life.
Abuse, Accountability, Ageless Wisdom, Alchemy, Corruption, Energy, Essence, Expression, Humanity, Livingness, Love, Raising children, Relationships, Religion, Responsibility, Soul, Spirit, Truth
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What does it mean to be a teenager – the modern day myth of adolescence
What does it mean to grow up? What does it mean to be a teenager? Have we come to accept adolescence to be the ‘reckless years’ or a preparation for adulthood? Adolescence is a time that we can offer support to young people in their transition to adulthood.
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Best Mother’s Day gift ever!
The best Mother’s Day gift ever is unwrapping the roles and expectations we put on ourselves as women when it comes to mothering. The perfect mother is not just an ideal, it’s an impossibility, but what’s the alternative to trying to make everyone around you happy?
Exhaustion, Motherhood, Parenting, Raising children, Mother's Day
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How much has education really advanced us?
We have long viewed education as a positive force in our society, one leading to progress and better, more civilized lives. But is that really true? From headhunting to pornography . . . how far have we really advanced from what we think of as our ‘primitive’ selves? How are we breeding desensitization to violence in our kids?
Education, Anti-social behaviour, Pornography, Role models, Raising children, Psychology, Tenderness, Gaming
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Building true relationships and positive parenting
Jean Gamble has a knack of making us laugh out loud whilst sharing profound and life changing observations. If you have children, a partner, family, friends or anyone else you would like to relate to then this is a must!
Communication, Evolution, Healthy relationships, Parenting, Love, Raising children
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Bringing up boys to become glorious men!
There is much that occurs in the journey from boy to man. Read on to find out what is troubling boys and how we can bring up and support our boys to become glorious men.
Parenting, Raising children, Gentleness, Hardness, Tenderness
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Is striving to be the good mother really what true mothering is?
Mothering can be a comforting yet uncomfortable job for many women. Although a vast library of information already exists on mothering, this article offers a fresh perspective on this subject.
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So, you want to be a man?
Growing up as men we have many choices to make about what sort of ‘man’ we want to be. Who will be our role models and what sort of effect will they have on our lives?
Acceptance, Alcohol, Behaviour, Bullying, Children, Confidence, Raising children, Tenderness, Body image
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Everyone is born with a beautiful voice – Singing and speaking
In re-discovering the amazing voice that we are naturally born with we can all sing, speak and express freely!
Communication, Confidence, Performance anxiety, Raising children, Self-esteem, Tension, Expression
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Motherhood beyond our children
A beautiful piece revealing there is more to mothering than meets the eye
Motherhood, Parenting, Raising children, Children, Healthy relationships
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Parenting as a same-sex couple
A compelling insight on how raising a child in a same-sex relationship is no different to any other family.
Same sex parenting, Love, Raising children, Role models, Healthy relationships, Tenderness, Pregnancy
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Music and parenting
Rosie shares how listening to music can affect us. In this case, how her young daughter’s mood changed, and how her ability to stay connected to herself and the family was affected.
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I’m a dad ... How do I show affection to my teenage daughter?
Puberty can be a difficult time for both fathers and daughters. This article offers support for fathers in understanding why they can often feel uncomfortable and how they can be with their daughters through puberty, with the continued flowing affection their ‘little girls’ may have grown up with.
Abuse, Confidence, Mental health, Parenting, Raising children, Relationships
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Parenting and Self-Care – Crashing the ‘Helicopter Parenting’ myth
Falling for the ‘helicopter parenting’ ideal. Have you become a slave to your children?
Parenting, Raising children, Exhaustion, Family, Burnout, Healthy relationships
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Marijuana and Me
My first experience with marijuana happened at the age of 15. The group of friends I hung out with all came from unhappy backgrounds, as did I, and so the alcohol that I’d begun drinking at 14 was never enough to quench my thirst so to speak and I wanted to try dope, as did my girlfriends.
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Before and after: Angela Perin
At the age of 48, I am feeling more beautiful, sexier and more comfortable in my body than I have ever felt thanks to The Way of The Livingness.
Self-empowerment, Self-love, Work life balance, Raising children, Universal Medicine
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Teenage drug abuse – Is it just a passing phase?
If you are thinking teenage drug taking is a ‘just a passing phase’, read one mother’s deeper understanding of this.
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Education Audio
A collection of free audios looking at education in a completely different way. A way that makes a huge amount of sense and is something we all know at heart.
Education, Children, Raising children, Teachers, Essence, Clairsentience, Intelligence
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Does using our breasts as a baby pacifier truly support us or our child?
Using our breasts as pacifiers when breast feeding is a fast track to exhaustion and frustration but there is another way.
Breastfeeding, Motherhood, Confidence, Raising children, Breast care
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Grandparenting from Stillness
What is it that truly supports us in being a grandparent and raising our grandchildren?
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Motherhood 101: an all-encompassing mothering
Is the quality of our mothering of others influenced by the quality of our mothering of ourselves? Debasing the notions that mothering yourself is selfish and asking for help is an indication of failure.
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"You’re a man – eat and be strong." What lengths do men go to to fit in?
This audio focusses on men’s body image and how men feel about their body, how they have grown up in a world that teaches them that they need to be big and strong and not show any form of weakness. In truth this takes men a long way from their natural self.
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Awareness
What is energetic awareness and why do we fight it?
Awareness, Clairsentience, Communication, Raising children, Relationships, Soul, Spirit, Universe
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Natural or normal – how are you living?
How do we go from being lovely full expressing babies with no inhibitions to living life considered, calculated for risk and control? Why is our normal so far from the joy we have as babies?
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Women, excessive tiredness and Christmas stress
How many women are left feeling exhausted after the month of December and how long does it take our bodies to recover?
Body awareness, Stress, Exhaustion, Raising children, Well-being, Healthy living
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Why do our children need to self-medicate with junk food, energy drinks and smoking?
This article explores why our children are prone to self-medicating with harming activities: the answer lies very close to home…
Addiction, Raising children, Role models, Parenting, Children
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The new conversation and the dangers of circulation energy
What if the expansive future of education lay in our hands and voices, free from the imposition of past thought and expression?
Truth, Expression, Joy, Soul, Raising children, Education, School
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What if we gave children the space to develop at their own pace?
It can be easy for parents to become anxious about their child’s early development, but what if we gave children the space to learn in their own time?
Education, Parenting, Children, Acceptance, Anxiety, Raising children, School
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Internet porn – the ultimate educator for normalising abuse and violence in our relationships
As we determine what intimacy, love and connection means in our society, internet porn has become a global sex education and created a new ‘normal’. Do we want this abuse to infiltrate and influence our children’s lives?
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Mainstreaming porn – who is truly educating our kids?
The mass media makes massive profit mainstreaming porn through every corner of society. Does it affect our children to be educated and constantly exposed to pornographic imagery and does that make sexually charged situations become “normal”?
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‘Out of the mouths of babes’ – the wisdom inherent in all children
What is our responsibility in a child’s education? In this illuminating article, Liane Mandalis shares the beauty inherent in all children when we allow our children’s innate wisdom to shine through.
Children, Connection, Education, Nurturing, Raising children, Intelligence
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Examining rewards in the classroom: Do they truly support the student?
Do classroom rewards truly support children or do they set in motion ill patterns that they will carry with them throughout life . . . a forever seeking outside themselves for reinforcement and gratification?
Children, Education, Raising children, Relationships, Teachers
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Gender based violence – where does it begin? Do we really want to know?
What is a man of true quality? If violence has no true value then there cannot be any truth in making violence a core characteristic of predominant masculine identities.
Domestic violence, Parenting, Raising children, Gender equality, Education, Behaviour, Abuse, Gender
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From being a good mother to true mothering
Mothering from a place of comfort, while seemingly ‘comfortable’, is not comfortable. So what does this even mean?
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Motherhood: why am I not enjoying it more?
Is motherhood actually lessening in quality under the assumption a mother has to go it alone, and is there a call for the return to community mothering and support?
Motherhood, Parenting, Raising children, Children, Healthy relationships, Role models
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Goldilocks, Barbie and Porn Stars
Do you remember the storybooks you read and the favourite games that you played as a child? How has ‘playtime’ changed and what does this mean?
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Girls mistake budding breasts for cancerous lumps… what is going on?
Research shows that 30% of girls are worrying that the normal development and budding of their breasts could be cancerous lumps. Why?
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Motherless mothers – finding our way back to wholeness and love
Explores the deep grief women carry when they don’t have a mother and how mothering from within can heal this.
Motherhood, Love, Parenting, Raising children, Family, Children
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Is masculinity ‘the best a man can get’!?
From the buzzword of toxic masculinity and #metoo and a controversial razor advert, let’s uncover more about the truth of who men are as we reveal why a solution driven approach won’t give us the love and equality we seek.
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From reactions and tensions, to harmony within the family
Both parents and kids carry tension home with them every day, and often this gets played out at home, causing disharmony in the family. Katie Walls looks at how we can change this dynamic.
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Much ado about.... lockdown
What if there are some benefits to Lockdown?
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Power and Authority in Parenting: Whose Responsibility is It?
We all want our parenting to have a powerful and positive impact on our child yet often find ourselves holding back out of anxiety and fear or giving up in defeat. But at what cost?
Children, Empowerment, Parenting, Raising children, Responsibility
