Project for Pam Leo:

Please be sure to send us your stories and pictures for the book we're creating for Pam Leo! We are extending the deadling to September 17th. Click here for more info

Resource of the Month:

WYSH: Wear Your Spirit for Humanity. Shirts and Stories with themes of Connection, Intuition, Respect and more. WYSH is dedicated to celebrating our authentic human spirit.
wearyourspirit.com

Photo by Lisa Trakis for WYSH Wear Your Spirit for Humanity. Copyright 2009. All rights reserved.

Teleseminar

NVC and Deep Healing with Jorge Rubio and Stephanie Mattei

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Did you miss these calls?

Our Building, Maintenance adn Repair support calls from last month are available FREE on this page - check them out! Be sure to sign up to be notified of the next set of calls coming soon!

Teleparenting Classes Open:

Connection Parenting
Tuesday evenings, 9:00 PM Eastern: September 15, 22 29, October 6, 13, 20 & 27.

Connection Parenting
Friday Mornings, 10:30 AM Eastern: September 18, 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30.

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Article Spotlight

Rebecca has been blogging about transitioning to school. Click here to read her blog!

Inspirational Video

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Reducing Infant Mortality

Reducing Infant Mortality is a brand new documentary meant to educate law makers, health professionals, and parents to support the health of mothers and infants. Watch the trailer now and consider supporting this project. It is available at no cost to spread the word to everyone who needs to see it!

Just Listen to Me

When I cry, you pick me up and hold me

When I’m sad, you listen to my pain

When I’m scared, you hold me tight

When I’m angry, you allow me to express it safely

I communicate what I need: you listen

I always communicate what I need through my actions, through my behaviors

I need you to listen to what I am “saying,” even if my words don’t always match

When I use my words and tell you what I need, listen with your heart

It will tell you if this is a need or a want

Your heart is not the same as your intellect

You know your intellect is involved when there is confusion

Focus on your relationship with me and you’ll connect with your heart

You’ll heal yourself and your own pain through our relationship

For true healing happens when we reconnect with our own inner guidance

By listening to my communication of need, you help me stay connected to my own inner guidance, to trust that I know what I need, and am valued. That I am worthy.

Sometimes what I say I need and what you feel I need are in alignment, but the outside world has different ideas about what “should” be right. The heart is always right. Let those other voices go.

Sometimes what I say I need and what you think I need are different. Connect back to yourself as a parent. Is this about my own unmet needs? Is it based on intellect? Is this really a want that needs a limit? Sometimes yes. Sometimes no.

The answers are found as we learn to dance together through our relationship. That’s all that really matters.

Copyright 2009 Consciously Parenting. May be reprinted with permission.

Best,

Rebecca Thompson, M.S.

Update From Downunder

There is a great interest in parenting from a love-based, relationship focused status here in Australia which is very exciting. I have recently started a yahoo group called Consciously Parenting Australia to facilitate the networking of like-minded parents.

To date the majority of participants in the classes have been adoptive families (including prospective adoptive parents) however there have also been biological and foster families attend. I am currently working on spreading the word to the fostering community here in Perth.

The next Perth course is scheduled for Tuesday evenings, October 13, 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17.

I am offering an evening and a daytime teleclass as follows:

Thursday evenings, September 17, 24, October 1, 8, 15, 22.

Tuesdays September 15, 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20.

Further details of the classes and phone coaching can be found on the website.

If you have any queries or ideas of what you would like to see happening in Australia, or you have a resource that you think would be of interest, or you just want to say hi then please email me at sally@consciouslyparenting.com.au I would be delighted to hear from you.

Best wishes to all,

Sally Flintoff

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