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Aware Parenting Podcasts with Joss

In these Podcasts about Aware Parenting, I cover a variety of topics. The Aware Parenting Stories podcast explores the world of parenting through conversations with people who are passionate about parenting and supporting others to parent in this beautiful way.

The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast with Marion Rose explores Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. Together we cover many different aspects of these wonderful approaches and provide information and inspiration to support other families who are called to practise these together too.

Aware Parenting Stories

About the podcast
Each week I interview inspiring parents to discuss the joys and challenges of parenting that we all face in our families.

I talk to parenting experts and Aware Parenting Instructors to explore many aspects of raising children. People share their stories about parenting in this way, what they have loved and what they have found challenging and how parenting has supported them to heal their own childhood pain. The aim is to inspire us all on our parenting adventures, to build more connection and community and to support us all to offer more compassion to ourselves and our children.
Featured episode
Episode 79

"Help I am Getting Triggered!"

In this episode I respond to a listener’s question about what we can do when we are triggered by our children’s behaviour. I talk about how normal it is for us all to have many moments when we are activiated in response to our children. I share about some of the main ways in which we were wounded and hurt as children and how this can affect us as adults, underlying some of our reactions to our children. I share some of the ways we might be triggered by our children.

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Aware Parenting Stories Podcast
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Episode 105

Attachment Play with Teens and Tweens

In this episode, I describe each of the 9 types of attachment play, how it helps our teenagers, offer LOTS of examples of how we might play in each of those 9 ways and share some of what might come up for us when we are playing.
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Episode 104

Meeting Needs for our Children and Ourselves

I share how Aware Parenting supports us to understand needs, to prioritise ways to meet needs and to acknowledge how painful it is when needs are not met. I offer some practical suggestions of ways to meet needs more for ourselves and our children.
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Episode 103

Loving Connection with Josha van Baalen

We talk about how Josha discovered Aware Parenting and started listening to her daughter’s feelings. We talk about the power of connection, slowing down and bringing more simplicity to life.
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Episode 102

Choosing Togetherness with Danni Willow

We talk about the effect on our children of being outside of the school system and all the ways we see them flourishing when we are offering aware parenting whilst supporting their learning at home.
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Episode 101

Sound Sleep & Secure Attachment

In this episode I have a conversation with Marion Rose about her wonderful best selling book Sound Sleep and Secure Attachment with Aware Parenting. She shares her profound wisdom about how to help our children to get restful and restorative sleep.
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Episode 100

A Celebration of Aware Parenting

To celebrate my 100th episode I invited anyone who felt called to share, to come and have a conversation about what Aware Parenting means to them and the effect practising Aware Parenting has had on their family.
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Episode 99

Curious about Homeschooling?

I share some of the ways that I see aware parenting and homeschooling fitting together so well and some of the advantages that I perceive of not sending our children to school.
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Episode 98

Children's Healing with the Balance of Attention

I talk about how to offer the balance of attention to our children and why this is necessary in order for them to release and heal from stress and trauma. I describe what the balance of attention is and how it works.
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Episode 97

Feeling Overwhelmed in Parenting

Danni and I share some of the reasons why it can feel overwhelming for us all to be practising Aware Parenting. We talking about finding ways to meet our own needs and how to support ourselves through the tough times.
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Episode 96

Birth Debriefing with Kirsty Fernandes

We talk about how birth trauma can affect birthing women, their partners and children and share the profoundly transformative experience of receiving support to process and heal, by sharing our stories and receiving support.
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Episode 95

Something to Cry About - Why Children Need to Cry

I normalise frequent big feelings for all children and how we can support them. I remind parents how important it is to be taking care of ourselves and finding ways to try to meet our own needs in order to be able to take care of our children.
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Episode 94

Helping Children with Thumb Sucking

I talk about this common challenge for parents, exploring why children suck their thumbs/fingers, how we can support ourselves and how we can support them to not need to do this anymore.
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Are you passionate about Aware Parenting? Would you like to suggest a topic for me to discuss? Would you like to come on the podcast and have a conversation with me about what you love about parenting in this way and how you have overcome some of the challenges?
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The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast

About the podcast
Marion Rose and I are both really passionate about Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. This podcast explores many different aspects of these beautiful approaches and provides information and inspiration to support other families who are called to practise these together too.
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Episode 21

The Many Gifts of AwP & Natural Learning

We share the gifts, which include our children's self-connection, their freedom from the painful and enduring beliefs about ourselves that are set up in school through cultural conditioning, their freedom from coercion and control and the deep, mutual, unconditional love that is the defining feature of our relationships, throughout childhood and beyond.

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Episode 21

The Many Gifts of AwP & Natural Learning

In this episode we talk about the many gifts for our children and ourselves of choosing these ways of raising them, as we are both now at the end of the "schooling" process.
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Episode 20

Meeting needs

In this episode, we talk about meeting needs of both parents and children when practicing Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. We share about the effects of the culture on needs, and the creative ways we might need to utilise to support others.
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Episode 19

The Effect of School Trauma on our Callings

In this episode, we talk about how school trauma can affect our callings in the world, our work life and our ability to be who we were always meant to be and to contribute to the world.
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Episode 18

Making different choices

In this episode, we talk about the different choices we've made to be able to practice Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. All the way through, we acknowledge with gratitude all the ways we've received support and help, as well as the challenges.
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Episode 17

School Trauma Part 2

In this episode we discuss school trauma again. We talk about some of the visible and some of the invisible traumas that children experience at school, as well as the impact of the accumulated mini and major traumas that are part of each school day.
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Episode 16

School trauma

In this episode, we talk about school trauma - what it is, how it happens, and how institutionalised it is. We share about the fight/flight/freeze response and how Aware Parenting understands that we also have an innate healing response.
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Episode 15

Juggling Life

In this episode we discuss the challenges of juggling everything in life by ourselves when we are practising Aware Parenting and Natural Learning.
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Episode 14

Separation is unnatural

This episode title comes from a quote from Gabor Maté: "It is completely unnatural for kids to be separated from their parents for the whole day."
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Episode 13

Schooling the World

In this episode of The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast, we discuss the documentary "Schooling the World" by Carol Black. This incredibly powerful movie interviews the villagers of Hemis Shukpa-Chen and other Ladakhi people.
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Episode 12

History of Schooling

In this episode we talk about the history of schooling. Our conversation is based on an article of the same name written by Peter Gray, the Psychologist and research professor and author of "Freedom to Learn".
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Episode 11

Challenges

In this episode of The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast, we talk about the challenges we've experienced practicing the combination of these two philosophies, and the challenges we've observed mentees and friends going through.
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Episode 10

Support and Learning

In this episode we discuss number 11 of Aletha Solter’s Principles of Learning, which is as follows: Children learn best when they have a warm, supportive relationship with their parents and teachers.
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Getting started with Aware Parenting

Aware parenting free introductory course

FREE Introductory course

This free short video introduction to Aware Parenting Course covers the basics of Aware Parenting theory and explains the strategies and tools to start supporting your children in this beautiful way.

It is ideal for people who are new to this approach.

It covers listening to our children’s feelings, how to play to build connection and promote healing, how to support ourselves as parents and how to build deep, loving relationships in the family.

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Aware Parenting with Joss

I am so passionate about sharing this beautiful approach with parents. I believe that Aware Parenting is THE solution for so many of the challenges facing the world. - Joss Goulden, Level 2 Aware Parenting Instructor
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