23/06/2026
Confession time: I don't know about you, but parenting is one of the hardest things I have done in my entire life. No jokes! Even with years of studying psychology, no amount of knowing what to say and do in your thinking part of your brain, stops the feeling part from running its own show at times as a parent. 😬💥🫣
You say all the right things when the feelings get BIG. So why does it still go sideways?
🧎♀️➡️The calm voice.
🧎♀️➡️The gentle words.
🧎♀️➡️The script you read about, saved on your phone and practised.
🔥You did it by the book — and your child (and you) unravelled anyway. 😭🤬💥
Here is what I have learnt:
🌱 It's not because we get the words wrong.
🌱 It's because kids don't only respond to what we say. They respond to what's happening inside of us while we say it. ⚡️
👉🏼And here's the part almost no one tells you: that inner "state" isn't something you're choosing in the moment. It's running inside you, outside of your conscious awareness.
👉🏼What if your parenting style was never a decision at all?
What if the way you react;
💥 the snapping,
🫣 the shutting down,
😬 the over-fixing,
🚽 the hiding in the bathroom,
🥶 the freezing
— isn't a flaw in your character, but a signal from your body?
🔎 A clue about how parenting actually lands on your nervous system? 🧠
✨️This single shift in the way we look at our parenting reactions can change everything.
🤍The guilt loosens.
🤍The self-judgment quiets.
🤍And for the first time, your reactions start to make sense instead of making you feel like you're failing.
✨️This is the missing piece.
⚡️There's no shortage of parenting advice out there — scripts, hacks, gentle-parenting phrases for every meltdown. But you may have already noticed the uncomfortable truth: they don't hold up in the hard moments if you're not steady on the inside. 🔥😵💫🤬😫😭😱
⚡️You can't "perform" calm.
⚡️Your child can feel the difference.
🧠I created this course as the "why" to all of this — the eye-opening foundation that makes everything else click into place. Once you can see it, you can't unsee it.
🧠In this introductory mini-course, you'll start to see what's really happening beneath your hardest parenting moments — why those moments throw you the way they do, what your body is trying to tell you, and how your own nervous system state can also quietly shape your child's nervous system.
🌱Not with shame.
🌱With understanding, from the inside-out.
🌱This is where it begins.
✨️Come find out what your body has been trying to tell you from the inside-out. 🧠
✨️Save your spot:
🧠THE NEUROSCIENCE BEHIND PARENTING STYLES COURSE:
-Presented by HPCSA registered psychologist Danelle Gough
✨️ DATE: 25th of July 2026
✨️ TIME: 09H00-11H00 AM
✨️ PLACE: Nurture Nest: 35 Vygeboom Road, Durbanville, Capetown
👉🏼Book your spot directly on the Nurture Nest website:
www.nurturenest.co.za
👉🏼R250 pp/ R350 per couple
👉🏼Parents of kids of all ages are welcome
