*Space open for one new group member in August/September 2025!

No one gets ideal parenting, and no one needs the pressure to be a perfect parent. But, children indeed ask for present parents/caregivers.

When parents can learn how to better "catch" and channel and even celebrate their own big energy, they begin to feel more equipped to catch and channel their kids' unique being (this includes all the big feels, the pushes-and-pulls through all the developmental years that are necessary for healing and a robust quality of aliveness!) 🌟

M-Bodied Parenting is appropriate for Parents of Kids of all Ages/Stages/Identities: Babies, toddlers, kids, tweens, teens & adult children

Areas of support:

• Clingy, fussy baby

• Attachment concerns

• Sleep issues

• Toddler or teen tantrums

• Neurodivergence

• Opposition and defiance

• Disordered eating and self harm

• Chronic family tension

• Addiction or substance use

• Parent depression, anxiety, rage

M-Bodied guides parents and caregivers how to:

• better recognize nervous system, developmental, and trauma responses in themselves in an effort to become the holding environment for their children

• appreciate attachment as an ongoing relational practice and process

• feel equipped to offer body-based co-regulation practices to children that are neuroaffirming and trauma-sensitive

• celebrate the unique energy and self expression of each of their children

Did you know 70% of our love dynamics involve mismatch, being out of sync? This includes parent/child interactions!

Did you know that co-regulation from parent to child and the child's development of Social Engagement system functioning needs more than just “staying calm?"

Children and their developing nervous systems depend on their parents/caregivers:

• to practice being the strong and steady container,

• to reclaim their own robust quality of embodiment,

• to model taking up space.

This helps kids to feel celebrated for their own unique expressions and their inevitable rainbow of feelings.

Here’s why I created this group:

As a parent of three, and as a therapist who sees a lot of parents, I often here the desire parents have for better connection with kids, especially as they try to steer away from old-school punishment. However, reading all the books and watching all the social media tips don’t seem to “click” in the heat of the moment. Parents’ bodies, their nervous systems, need more support, more practice to stay steady and present in the thick of it. Therefore, this group teaches parents how to not just intellectualize but literally move through triggering dynamics with a greater capacity for their own embodied steadiness in an effort to feed that nourishment to their kids.

Using early relational co-regulation practices from the embodiment method Chi for Two®, M-Bodied Parenting helps parents to explore behaviors-as-communication 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 that supports bio-psycho-social development 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 and equipped with somatic practices 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.

M-Bodied Parenting helps parents and caregivers to:

• Use developmentally appropriate, body-based co-regulation practices for grounding, focus, play & connection.

• 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.

• Channel sibling rivalry and conflict into self-empowerment.

• Feed yourself with emotional and nervous-system nourishment to better nurture your children

Group details:

In-person, Kirkwood

Tuesdays 12:00-1:15pm

Ongoing, 3-month commitment minimum, $200/month

Interview required

Contact: Caroline@MBodiedCoaching.com