A Summer to Parent Yourself -- Inner Mother Inner Father Discount
Published: Mon, 05/20/13
May 20, 2013
INNER MOTHER INNER FATHER
Mother's Day/Father's Day Discount $100
Discounted Price $147 (or three payments of $49)
Discount is available May 20 - June 3
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Ideally, parenting gives you the care you need in your first 21 years to develop an adult sense of self capable of maturity, evolving fulfillment, and inner peace. But there is no such thing as perfect parenting.
In the karmic scheme of things, we sacrifice perfect parenting so that we can awaken to individuality. Good enough parenting gives you just enough connection, attunement, safety, and stability that you develop a secure relationship to yourself. This relationship to self allows you to successfully find the inner drive to find know and become a self-loving individual.
Who will parent the unparented parts of yourself? The parts that still respond to the events of living as a needy infant, an anxious child, or a confused or angry adolescent. Who will meet the needs for connection, attunement, trust and autonomy living in the still immature parts of your soul?
Last year I developed a course, Inner Mother Inner Father as a guide for creative, compassionate, and courageous inner parenting.
Whether you had wonderful parenting or wicked parenting, you will have needs that weren't met and feelings that were never expressed. Even the best of mothering and fathering is far from perfect and leaves parts of your soul hungering, confused, and lonely. Through addressing these parts with compassion and contemplation, through naming and meeting your unmet needs, and speaking your unspoken truths, you find your way to your full adult self.
Inner Mother Inner Father guides you on this task/journey of self-parenting. Here is a note I received about the value and impact of Inner Mother Inner Father.
I see that being present doesn't mean feeling good all the time, it means being present. Sometimes it means being present with some very difficult states, but I don't need to make them worse by fighting & abandoning myself.
This feels truly miraculous. Thanks again for the course. I appreciate the slow pace we're going.
You will receive 9 audios (over 11 hours of self-parenting wisdom), beautiful presentations sides to follow, and numerous supporting materials. The course is delivered to you in three segments of three sessions each - the first segment when you purchase the course, the second segment four weeks after purchase, and the final segment eight weeks after purchase. I will also be offering at least 2 live webinars to respond to your questions and celebrate your development.
Let me share with you one of my own amazing developments through working with what I share in Inner Mother Inner Father.
I had really lousy, neglectful, abusive parenting. When I was 37 and the mother of two young children, I realized that every time I spoke with either my mother or my father such distress was activated in my sense of self that it took at least a week to restore any kind of center and for that week or so I often failed to parent my children and partner my husband with focus, kindness, and joy. Over a period of six months I struggled with the awareness that I could not be their daughter and myself as adult, mother, and wife. I wrote my long-divorced parents a letter declaring an end to our active relationships. I divorced my parents.
I realize now I was de-dramatizing and protecting my heart and soul, an act of inner parenting. (If I had had the Inner Mother Inner Father compassionate and powerful wisdom, then, I would not have needed to cut off my parents, but I didn't.) Immediately after I sent the letters, my close friends started commenting that I looked more beautiful! So this painful choice was the right choice.
Fifteen years later, I began to speak and visit with both my parents and there was an unspoken reconciliation with each of them by the time they passed. Almost 30 years later, my evolving heart does not hold regret, nor does it grieve my childhood or resent the parenting they gave me.
With the wisdom and practice of Inner Mother Inner Father, I no longer spend time struggling with the parenting they should have given me, that they truly were incapable of giving me. I parent myself and forgive them. And it works.
Creating the course, gave me the wisdom to know what I needed and how to provide it when I find myself feeling the needs and angers of a 3 yr old or a 10 year old or a 17 yr old, even in the isolating, restless hours in the middle of the night. Suddenly, there is an inner mother comforting me and an inner father guiding me and those undeveloped parts are self-evolving into mature adulthood.
Do give yourself the gift of inner parenting and take advantage of the discount.
BTW, if you have any questions or are need further financial assistance, please email mail me.
We've just had Mother's Day and Father's Day is a few weeks away. It seemed to be the time of year when I should encourage you to consider the parenting you got and the parenting you still long for and need. Below are my encouraging thoughts, but I am also offering a $100 discount on the cost of purchasing the Inner Mother Inner Father course which will guide your essential self-parenting.
Encouraging Thoughts
Ideally, parenting gives you the care you need in your first 21 years to develop an adult sense of self capable of maturity, evolving fulfillment, and inner peace. But there is no such thing as perfect parenting.
In the karmic scheme of things, we sacrifice perfect parenting so that we can awaken to individuality. Good enough parenting gives you just enough connection, attunement, safety, and stability that you develop a secure relationship to yourself. This relationship to self allows you to successfully find the inner drive to find know and become a self-loving individual.
Who will parent the unparented parts of yourself? The parts that still respond to the events of living as a needy infant, an anxious child, or a confused or angry adolescent. Who will meet the needs for connection, attunement, trust and autonomy living in the still immature parts of your soul?
Last year I developed a course, Inner Mother Inner Father as a guide for creative, compassionate, and courageous inner parenting.
Whether you had wonderful parenting or wicked parenting, you will have needs that weren't met and feelings that were never expressed. Even the best of mothering and fathering is far from perfect and leaves parts of your soul hungering, confused, and lonely. Through addressing these parts with compassion and contemplation, through naming and meeting your unmet needs, and speaking your unspoken truths, you find your way to your full adult self.
Inner Mother Inner Father guides you on this task/journey of self-parenting. Here is a note I received about the value and impact of Inner Mother Inner Father.
Just a note to let you know that IMIF is working on me from the inside out. I'm starting to tell the difference between my "funks", whether I'm needing IM - to be loved, seen, to feel like I matter - or IF - feeling like I'm at a standstill in developing, experiencing and bringing my deed out into the world. I see how much I have fought internally with these states - trying to fight them off, judging myself, "diagnosing" myself, all of it it. I see now that when I stay present, inquire, and call on IM or IF, I get the help I need to move through. Thus, I am developing some Basic Trust.
I see that being present doesn't mean feeling good all the time, it means being present. Sometimes it means being present with some very difficult states, but I don't need to make them worse by fighting & abandoning myself.
This feels truly miraculous. Thanks again for the course. I appreciate the slow pace we're going.
Linda Johansen, Enneagram Teacher, Fargo, ND
What's Included in Inner Mother Inner Father
I am so happy to be offering you this Mother's Day Father's Day discount of $100 if you purchase the course before June 3.
You will receive 9 audios (over 11 hours of self-parenting wisdom), beautiful presentations sides to follow, and numerous supporting materials. The course is delivered to you in three segments of three sessions each - the first segment when you purchase the course, the second segment four weeks after purchase, and the final segment eight weeks after purchase. I will also be offering at least 2 live webinars to respond to your questions and celebrate your development.
This can be your summer of inner parenting.
My Personal Parenting Story
Let me share with you one of my own amazing developments through working with what I share in Inner Mother Inner Father.
I had really lousy, neglectful, abusive parenting. When I was 37 and the mother of two young children, I realized that every time I spoke with either my mother or my father such distress was activated in my sense of self that it took at least a week to restore any kind of center and for that week or so I often failed to parent my children and partner my husband with focus, kindness, and joy. Over a period of six months I struggled with the awareness that I could not be their daughter and myself as adult, mother, and wife. I wrote my long-divorced parents a letter declaring an end to our active relationships. I divorced my parents.
I realize now I was de-dramatizing and protecting my heart and soul, an act of inner parenting. (If I had had the Inner Mother Inner Father compassionate and powerful wisdom, then, I would not have needed to cut off my parents, but I didn't.) Immediately after I sent the letters, my close friends started commenting that I looked more beautiful! So this painful choice was the right choice.
Fifteen years later, I began to speak and visit with both my parents and there was an unspoken reconciliation with each of them by the time they passed. Almost 30 years later, my evolving heart does not hold regret, nor does it grieve my childhood or resent the parenting they gave me.
With the wisdom and practice of Inner Mother Inner Father, I no longer spend time struggling with the parenting they should have given me, that they truly were incapable of giving me. I parent myself and forgive them. And it works.
Creating the course, gave me the wisdom to know what I needed and how to provide it when I find myself feeling the needs and angers of a 3 yr old or a 10 year old or a 17 yr old, even in the isolating, restless hours in the middle of the night. Suddenly, there is an inner mother comforting me and an inner father guiding me and those undeveloped parts are self-evolving into mature adulthood.
Do give yourself the gift of inner parenting and take advantage of the discount.
BTW, if you have any questions or are need further financial assistance, please email mail me.
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