Wondering how to have less overwhelm while parenting feisty toddlers or testy teens or something in between?
Using early relational co-regulation practices from the multi-generational trauma healing method Chi for Two™, M-Bodied Parenting helps parents to explore behaviors-as-communication and reactions-as-information in an effort to reclaim healthy connection, communication and playfulness.
From womb-to-walking-and-beyond, children depend on primary attachment figure(s) to provide the Circle of Support for healthy relational connection and eventual individuation.
From womb-to-walking-and-beyond, children ideally explore developmental movement expressions to grow physically, cognitively, emotionally and socially.
M-Bodied Parenting explores early relational and developmental movement expression of both connection and separation that can sometimes overwhelm parents & caregivers. When parents and caregivers are more informed about how to support movement expression within themselves as well as in their children that is developmentally normal or perhaps laced with trauma response, the parent-child dance becomes easier and deeper nourishment can be met for everyone.
What’s included?
🧠 Nervous system psycho-education
💚 Attachment theory concepts
👣 Body-based, co-regulation practices
Who benefits from M-Bodied Parenting? Parents/caregivers who care for babies, toddlers, kids, tweens, teens & young adults
Areas of support:
Clingy, fussy baby
Attachment concerns
Sleep issues
Toddler or teen tantrums
Focus problems
Pandemic stress
Oppositional or defiant behavior
Disordered eating and self harm
Chronic family tension
Addiction or substance use
Parent depression, rage, anxiety
M-Bodied Parenting helps parents and caregivers to:
Better listen to your child's behavior as communication.
Get curious about both your reactions as valuable information.
Move through messiness & mismatch to deepen your relationships!
Recognize a child's need to "push" as normal not naughty.
Transform yelling and shaming into effectively setting limits with love.
Use developmentally appropriate, body-based co-regulation practices for grounding, focus, play & connection.
Channel sibling rivalry and conflict into self-empowerment.
Feed yourself with emotional and nervous-system nourishment to better nurture your children.
Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, is a somatic psychotherapist, Chi for Two® embodiment coach/trainer & registered yoga teacher. Caroline created M-Bodied Parenting, which focuses on re-patterning early relational practices from the multigenerational trauma healing method Chi for Two®, a polyvagal-informed, trauma-sensitive, attachment-based healing approach.
Group details:
In-person
Kirkwood
Tuesdays 12:00-1:15pm
Starting Feb 28, 2023
Ongoing, 3-month commitment, $200/month
Interview required
Contact: Caroline@MBodiedTherapy.com or Caroline@MBodiedCoaching.com