Episode 8: How Aware Parenting brings Joy, Laughter and Connection with Shelley Clarke

Today on the podcast I talk to Shelley Clarke. Shelley supports parents to understand their child's behaviour and develop rich long lasting relationships. She is a Physiotherapist, CranioSacral Therapist, Aware Parenting Instructor and Parent Mentor. She is passionate about the nervous system, human body and helping families thrive. She is the host of the Mind Body Parenting Podcast and is the mother to three beautiful children. She is on a mission to shift the paradigm that we parent from. Shelley describes how hard parenting felt before finding Aware Parenting and how learning the strategies of AwP, brought back the joy, connection and laughter to her parenting. We talk about how this approach has allowed us to unpack our layers of conditioning to remember and reclaim our connection to our needs and feelings and how this then impacts on our relationships with our children, our partners, our friends and family. We discuss the power of attachment play in our families and how play works to shift their feelings, to make life easier and to encourage cooperation. To learn more about Shelley, her website is www.shelleyclarke.com, and she is on Instagram at _shelleyclarke_ and Facebook at Shelley Clarke Mind Body Parenting.