18/02/2026
Parents. If you want meaningful relationships with your children then there is going to be personal work you’ll need to do on yourself as a parent.
There’s no way around it.
Because if you can’t sit with your own discomfort,
you will unknowingly silence your child’s.
Not because you’re cruel.
Not because you don’t love them.
But because their feelings wake up the ones you were never allowed to feel.
A child’s tears, anger, excitement, fear. They don’t ask to be fixed. They ask to be felt and seen by YOU. They need you to be this way.
And that requires something radical:
that you stop running from your own body when it tightens,
your own chest when it aches, your own throat when it wants to close and start to recognise these were yours in your childhood to feel, too.
When you can learn to stay present with your discomfort and feel your emotions yourself, then you stop managing your child’s emotions and start witnessing them in all their glory.
That’s when they feel seen.
That’s when they feel heard.
That’s when they learn their feelings are safe to express because yours finally are too.
This doesn’t have to take long because your body and soul actually naturally know how to do this.
Comment “FEELINGS” and I’ll send you a step by step PDF on how to do this 🙌