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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 explore different topics and 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 93

Healing your Inner Child with Lavinia Brown

We talk about how to connect with our inner child and explore what is coming up for us, going towards the feelings and then supporting the integration of those painful experiences so we can become freer from the activations of our inner child wounds.
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Episode 92

Parenting our Children and Re-Parenting Ourselves

Danni and I talk about the parallel journey of parenting our children and reparenting ourselves. We share the on-going invitation that aware parenting our children offers us to be tending to ourselves and our healing.
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Episode 91

Explaining Aware Parenting to Family & Friends

I describe the key assumptions of Aware Parenting and outline the main aspects in a way that is easy to share with others and how to support ourselves when we are wanting to have these conversations with others so that it feels empowering.
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Episode 90

Understanding and Supporting Children's Behaviour

I share how we can see behaviour as communication and explore the reasons for our children’s difficult behaviour. I share how we can bring compassion and curiosity to our children, for them to use their innate healing mechanisms.
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Episode 89

Emotional Awareness & Self-Connection

Raluca Stefan and I share how raising our children in this way gives such profound learning for us as parents too and supports our children to have deep emotional awareness and self-connection.
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Episode 88

Parenting Teenagers with Kirsten Cobabe

In this conversation we talk about how to bring more connection and support to our teenagers and how to cultivate trust in our families. We share some of the results of raising our teenagers in this way.
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Episode 87

Heard, Held and Honoured with Aware Parenting

This conversation with Meg Rankin explores her powerful experiences of learning to offer Aware Parenting to her daughter and all the ways that it has deepened her connection with daughter and herself.
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Episode 86

Death, Loss and Grief with Aware Parenting

In this conversation with Danni Willow, we talk about the on-going, individual journey of grief and how Aware Parenting is so helpful in grief because it validates and welcomes all feelings.
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Episode 85

Bringing Presence to Parenting

Carly Facius shares her story and we talk about supporting our children’s big feelings, in particular how to respond when they are being aggressive, in a way that bring us back to compassion and connection.
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Episode 84

Body Image and Self Acceptance

In this episode Sarah Martin and I talk about our own on-going journeys with body image and how the messages and imprints we receive as children about our body affected us as adults and how we have tried to support our children with this.
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Episode 83

When our Children's Feelings Seem Stuck

In this episode I share some thoughts about why it is hard to truly welcome our children’s feelings and how we can support our children when their feelings and behaviour seems stuck.
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Episode 82

Empowering Birth with Aware Parenting

In this conversation with Candice Morse, she shares how aware parenting supported her in birth by enabling her to deeply listen in times of intensity, as well as bringing her back to connection and trust
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Suggest a topic or feature on a podcast

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 9

Trauma restricts learning

In this episode we discuss number 9 of Aletha Solter’s Principles of Learning, which is as follows: Stress and trauma can interfere with the learning process by causing confusion, anxiety, grief, anger, and difficulty concentrating.
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Episode 8

Screens

n this episode we discuss number 9 of Aletha Solter’s Principles of Learning, about screens and learning. We start by inviting people to bring compassion to this tricky aspect of parenting and learning and to put down any judgement, shame or guilt ab
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Episode 7

Learning styles

In this episode, we discuss the ways in which the Disconnected Domination Culture, and many schools, value particular types of learning style above others, and the effect that has on children whose key learning styles aren't those.
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Episode 6

Trusting timing

Welcome to another episode of the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning podcast. In this episode we discuss another of Aletha Solter’s Principles of Learning. We talk about how “earlier is not necessarily better.
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Episode 5

Inspiring toys

In this episode, we are again inspired by Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, this time, 'The best toys are ones that inspire children to imagine, build, create, and think.'
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Episode 4

Rich Learning Environments

In this episode we discuss another of Aletha Solter’s Principles of Learning. We talk about creating rich learning environments for our children at home.
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Episode 3

Learning through play

In this episode, we return to Aletha Solter's Aware Parenting Principles of Learning article, particularly focussing on play, and how children learn through play. We discuss how play is devalued in this culture and how much we value it.
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Episode 2

Trusting our Children's Desire and Ability to Learn

Welcome to another episode of the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning podcast. In this episode we discuss some of Aletha Solter’s Principles of Learning. We talk about trusting that our children are born with the desire to learn.
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Episode 1

Introducing ourselves

In this very first episode, we introduce ourselves and tell you a bit about our journey with Aware Parenting and Natural Learning.
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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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