Welcome! Growing Through Parenting offers insights, practical techniques, and helpful suggestions that you can use for your own growth and upliftment as a person as well as a parent. Whether you are already a parent, you are thinking of becoming a parent, or you know that parenting is not for you, the material in this blog can be helpful to you in creating a more fulfilling life for yourself. I have separated it into 3 categories of topics: On Parenting, Taking Care of Ourselves, and Managing Anxiety).

As parents, we consistently have our hearts and minds focused on our children and how they are doing. We mentally ask ourselves:

• Are they healthy?
• Are they happy?
• Are they doing well in school?
• Do they have friendships that are good for them?
• Are they developing as they “should”?

With these nagging concerns, and the scurry of activity that day to day parenting brings with it, it is easy to lose track of ourselves and our own lives. We forget that in the end, it is how we are living our lives and the essence of who we are as people that we are offering our kids daily. As parents, it is not what we say so much as who we are that our children are listening to and modeling themselves after. Our role as parents is to help our children get the best possible send off into the life that they are here to live. The healthier we are on all levels (mind, body, and spirit) the healthier our kids will be. I have noticed repeatedly as a parent, as well as in my professional work as a psychologist, that when parents are willing and able to work on their own growth and healing, their children immediately benefit.

Recent Posts
On Parenting:
Your Children are Not Your Children
Helping Our Children to Feel Good about Themselves
We Cannot Make Our Children Happy
What Do Children Need Most?

Taking Care of Ourselves:
Five Practices for Creating More Happiness in Your Life
Six Things You Can Do to Experience More Peace and Satisfaction in Your Life
That Pesky Critical Inner Voice
Habits can Make or Break You
Twelve Suggestions for Creating a Happy Marriage

Managing Anxiety:
Managing Anxiety About Our Children’s Well-Being
Anxiety? Neurologically it is all about Survival
“Grounding” a Technique for Calm and Presence
How are You Inhabiting Your Body?