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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 77

Nurturing our Children's Wellbeing

In this episode, Dr Greer Kirshenbaum shares with parents how early maternal care has profound impacts on wellbeing. She offers her knowledge to counter many of the beliefs in our low-nurture culture that are harmful to babies, children and parents. She shares how we can support our children’s needs for connection, for emotional responsiveness and with sleep.

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Aware Parenting Stories Podcast
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Episode 62

The Power of Connection

Rafa Guadalupe shares how powerful aware parenting has been in supporting her to balance the juggle of modern parenting. She shares how small changes bringing aware parenting into the homes of busy parents can make a big difference
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Episode 64

The Power of Self-Connection in Fatherhood

In this episode, we talk about how to support fathers to bring more self-connection to their parenting journey, whilst they navigate the stresses and challenges of parenting without the support that we evolved to rely on.
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Episode 65

Raising Yourself

In this episode, Shelly Robinson shares the profound realisation she had early in parenting, that she was raising herself alongside raising her children.
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Episode 63

Why Children have Tantrums and How to Respond

In this conversation with Danni Willow, we talk about why children have tantrums and how Aware Parenting supports us to respond to our children with compassion so they can release and heal stress and trauma.
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Episode 61

Supporting Fathers

Jai Singh shares some of the challenges of fatherhood and how mothers can best support their partners to come on board with conscious parenting.
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Episode 60

Repair Matters More than Rupture

Dr Suzanne Zeedyk shares her expertise about babies and the gap between what science now understands about the capacities and needs of babies and what is understood about that in our wider culture.
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Episode 59

Dispelling the Perfect Mother Myth

In this episode, Dr Sophie Brock describes the concept of patriarchal motherhood and the myth of the perfect mother and how this impacts our experience of motherhood.
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Episode 58

The Emotional Life of Babies

In this episode, Marion Rose Ph.D. shares her wisdom from this extraordinary new book that supports a compassionate approach to crying.
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Episode 57

Babies are Whole People

Eliza Parker shares how to tune in to the communication of babies and young children’s behaviour and to understand the meaning of their crying to support them to release and heal.
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Episode 56

More Self Care for Mothers

In this episode I am speaking with Katie Parker about deconditioning ourselves from the cultural conditioning of the selfless mother as we have learned to take care of ourselves and our children.
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Episode 55

Living in Flow with your Menstrual Cycle

Charlotte describes the seasons of our cycle and how we can live so deeply connected to the rhythm of our flow. Charlotte shares the profound impact of how we experience our first cycle on all the other rites of passage we experience as mothers.
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Episode 53

Aware Parenting is a Way of Life with Danni and Joss

In this conversation with Danni Willow we talk about how Aware Parenting is an on-going way of being with our children and with ourselves. We share some invitations, suggestions and reflections for the listeners to live Aware Parenting more fully.
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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, Aware Parenting Instructor
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