Episode 13: Attachment Play with Helena Mooney

In this episode, I have the pleasure of talking to Helena Mooney. Helena is an Aware Parenting Instructor and Hand in Hand Instructor who has been supporting families for over 10 years. She loves helping mums to create deeply connected families where both parents and children thrive and have fun together. She is the host of the Parenting with Play podcast and works with parents 1:1 as well as through her 2 online programs: Aware Parenting Babies and Annoying to AMAZING! Helena has 2 children of her own aged 14 & 8 and lives in Sydney. In this episode Helena shares her story of how she found Aware Parenting and how learning how to listen to feelings and play with her children was so life changing. We dive deep into Attachment Play. Helena shares her considerable knowledge about the different forms of Attachment Play and why it is such a helpful aspect of Aware Parenting. We talk about how it works to support our children, and she gives many examples of how she has used play in her family and with the families that she supports. If you want to know about how to use Attachment Play with your family, then this is the episode to listen to! To find out more about Helena, follow her on social media at Parenting with Play on Facebook and Instagram and her website is www.parentingwithplay.com.au