The inner work of reparenting ourselves while parenting our child/children is so big! Over the last 3 months working with Joss Goulden, I have found new depths of understanding in both myself and the nuances of Aware Parenting.

While my space was held, it felt like I was pushing up stream through emotional mud, muck and yuck to suddenly appear in crystal clear waters. The clarity I reached from being lovingly held, acknowledged with compassion is deeply remarkable. At times, it felt like my heart was hit by the powerful understanding of Joss' compassionate words. It was like a tender embrace each time I had the courage to be curious about the complexities of my life. Once experienced, my body and mind craved it.

This support from Joss has helped me to connect emotions to physical symptoms and deepen my understanding of why I act or react, the thoughts I have and the reasons feelings emerge because of my story. I feel a huge sense of relief that I'm choosing acknowledgement, compassion, love and understanding over judgement, harshness, guilt and shame.

Experiencing complete acceptance from Joss with love and compassion was heart glowing. I felt grateful for every message and validation for being the way I am. I feel seen and heard emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually with so much wisdom, clarity and love. All my feelings were welcome with tender genuine empathy and understanding.

I highly recommend working with Joss Goulden.

I’m so grateful to have received support from Joss over the past 12 months. Her experience and knowledge of Aware Parenting, divine skills in listening and various therapeutic and counselling skills she has in her tool belt felt so perfect and aligned with what support needs I had. Joss’s support has been such a gift to me as a woman and mother, and to my family, and the gift has also rippled onto other relationships in my life.

I would describe Joss’s support as compassionate, wise, loving, and genuine. The space she created allowed me to come as I am, and feel hear and accepted as I shared with her either in voice notes or in 1:1 zoom sessions.

Her monthly sessions were such a beautiful space of holding, and digging deeper together into what was coming up for me. I always felt safe in Joss’s very real and loving presence, her experience as a coach and mentor, as someone truly focused on my needs in that moment.

I was always deeply touched by Joss’s ability to listen to what was coming up for me in my voice noting. Her responses were filled with compassion, acknowledgement and acceptance of all that was alive for me in these messages. They often kept me connected to my feelings to allow more tears to fall, or gently invited me to explore deeper. I have come away having experienced such beautiful listening, I now know what it feels like to be heard lovingly, and can offer more to my children and others in my life.

I’ve moved forward in my journey with a deeper knowledge of Aware Parenting and what that looks like in my family life, as well as more ways to connect with my own feelings, identifying and clarifying my needs, and more able to show myself compassion as I travel on this journey as a mother and woman.

I really am so grateful for Joss, and for being able to receive support from her this year. It truly has been life changing for me and my family.

I don’t have the words to describe the retreat. However my whole body/being FEELS differently since experiencing Danni and Joss’s beautiful, life changing retreat. My whole body got to feel and experience a safety and true compassion, for simply showing up and this was worth and meant everything.

I now have felt in my body what it’s like to be truly seen, to be heard and to be held by other amazing like minded women. I now know what it feels like to be surrounded by community, to feel supported, to chat, laugh, cry, and rage alongside each other. To be vulnerable and be ok with not only my own vulnerability but to witness others in theirs.

Danni and Joss were able to both create and hold a safe, magical space for each and every one of us in whatever way we needed. I now know this is exactly what my body craved and needed to both feel this and witness this. It was so incredibly moving and powerful.

I am so looking forward to next one!

It’s so hard to find words and phrases beautiful and big enough to describe the retreats and the flow on in my life. In simple words it’s gratitude- for the love, care, energy, wisdom, trust and acceptance from you both, but of course it’s sooo much more than that! I really felt so seen and held throughout, and that when I needed support and space it was always being offered to me already!

The way you designed these retreats seemed to work so magically to allow me to really experience being mothered in ways that I want to offer and turn up for my children, to be held through my feelings in ways i desire to hold this space for my own children. All the conversations, sharing, reflective prompts and writing really opened my eyes and heart to see things within me and set a strong foundation for these practices in my everyday life. The spaces you set up of love, trust, compassion and acceptance have been a vital part of the amazing sisterhood that we developed during and then after the retreat. It’s all beautiful!

The weekends have been so instrumental in transforming how I understand Aware Parenting, and more importantly, how I understand and love myself, and my kids. Attending the retreats has been such an amazing gift to myself and my family and has flowed onto lots of other friendships and relationships in my life.

Thank you Joss and Danni xxx

Joss is uniquely skilled and talented in her ability to hold a compassionate space that feels nurturing and honest. She doesn't shy away from the truth of the bigness or messiness of life and her authenticity makes connection effortless. Being held by Joss is like having the most supportive friend always on your side. Her voice is so love filled it feels like healing in sound form. Joss, I am so grateful for your beautiful work.

Danni and Joss have created pure magic at these retreats. Their love, respect and admiration for each other is palpable. As facilitators they offered us safety, love and deep holding. Over the weekend we were gently invited to share our stories, lean into our pain and express our emotions. I was able to explore parts of myself I didn’t even know existed, all whilst being witnessed and supported by an epic group of women. As a participant I felt so seen, heard, understood and most importantly, unconditionally loved.

Danni & Joss are offering something out into the world that is so unique and so sacred. The connection amongst the group was like nothing I have ever experienced before. The power of vulnerability was beyond words. One night we were invited to express ourselves fully, to release all of our pent up rage and pain. The energy in the room was so electric, even the lights flickered with our connection and strength! It felt like a true sisterhood as we danced the night away with freedom and joy. It’s difficult to describe, but I reflect on the retreat like travelling through a portal, to the depths of yourself and then back out the other side; a more embodied, whole and connected version of yourself. This would not be possible without the deep presence and holding Danni & Joss offered each and every one of us. It was an utterly transformational weekend of healing and growth. My only qualm was that it just wasn’t long enough, so roll on the next one!!

Working with Joss has been one of the most profoundly healing experiences of my life. For the first time, I truly understand what it means to reparent myself. To be held with such tenderness, to be met with genuine compassion, and to be guided so gently has been deeply reparative.

Through parts work, compassionate listening, and Joss’s rich understanding of aware parenting, I’ve begun to grow an inner loving mother within me - one who stays more present and kind, especially when I’m struggling. I’m not a perfect parent, and I still have days when I find it hard to listen the way I wish I could. But now, instead of judging myself, I’m learning to meet those moments with more grace and self-compassion. That has changed not only my relationship with myself, but also the way I show up for my children.

Joss brings a rare blend of skill, heart, and wisdom that makes this work feel safe, transformative, and deeply empowering. I’m profoundly grateful for the time we’ve had together and for all that her support has opened in me. I couldn’t recommend working with her more.

I can’t say enough about how grateful I am that I began working with Joss. I began working with her during a very challenging time in our family. We had practiced Aware Parenting since my oldest was born and honestly things had gone so well.  Parenting was still hard but there was ease. However, after our second daughter was born we were met with so many challenges as a family. I was still in a lot of physical pain from birth, my husband returned back to work after having almost 3 months of one on one time with my oldest daughter every day and our baby was experiencing some unexpected health issues which was very stressful. All of this added to a lot of unmet needs, overwhelm and not being able to provide our oldest with what she needed in this time.

I remember one particular evening in which bedtime was just really hard and after that, I had a really big cry that night and decided to reach out to Joss, knowing that I needed some extra support. I was feeling disappointed, worried and self-judgment that we were struggling so much. I was also confused because we were so intentional in preparing her for the birth of her sister and that transition. I was very familiar and had been working with all the “theory” of Aware Parenting but I really needed help integrating it during this stressful time. I was really drawn to Joss’s work and approach- in particular because of her emphasis on imperfection and self-compassion.

So fast-forward a few months after working with Joss and I had another bedtime with my daughter that was so beautiful and so connected, and afterwards I went and had another big cry because it was truly the most connected I had probably felt to her since having our baby.  We had come such a long way in healing in such a short time. Joss is very gifted at holding space and listening, and she is particularly skilled at being able to listen for the deeper themes of what is happening for me and my family. I have found my sessions with her so illuminating and it has had a ripple effect on my children, partnership and whole family.

I know it can be hard as a mom to carve out the space and time to just really get some listening and support for yourself, but when you’re often the one holding the space for the big feelings and the emotional care at home, it is so so so important that we have this opportunity to really do our own inner healing and aware parenting work so that our families can thrive.