The Eight Great Gestures of Self-Parenting - They will change your life.

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May 31, 2015
The Eight Great Gestures of Self-Parenting​

What is your relationship to your inner life

& your presence in the world?

  • do you face doubts about yourself being able to calmly manage and nurture your inner sense of self or confidently show up in the world with your gifts and goodness?
  • do you wonder about how you go about expanding your self-awareness and developing your ability to remain centered and positive?
  • do you struggle to have clear goals and make purposeful choices?
  • do find it overwhelming, even paralyzing, to recognize and meet your practical needs, emotional needs, spiritual needs?
  • do you find yourself distracted or sabotaging your intentions?
  • do you neglect or abandon your inner life or your passions & life purpose?
  • do you feel you have amazing potential, yet you fail to manifest it?
I respond YES!!! to each of these questions everyday. 

For years, these questions drove me nuts! Made me miserable! I was always running from them: I read so many books, took so many courses, prayed, meditated, got depressed, got manic, journaled, watched a lot of TV, cooked lots of good comfort food, and pretended to not have doubts, fears, confusion or questions.  

Then a few years ago, my relationship to these questions changed. I stopped being angry about them. They became inspirations.

First, I began to distinguish my inner life from my life in the world. It was this time of year, the parenting season between Mother's Day and Father's Day. I realized that my inner life questions needed me to self-mother and my life in the world needed me to self-father.


I devoted my attention to discerning the maternal gestures that I needed to awaken to support and cultivate my inner life, and the paternal gestures I needed to take my stand in the world.  I began to develop the ability to self-parent myself everyday.


When I was pregnant with my first child, I had been deeply moved by a quote I found in a parenting book.  It was something like...

The mother's job is to hold the child close to give her a sense of self and the father's job is to take the child to the top of the hill and show her the world.

Everyday I am finding this quote living in my soul as I parent myself. Everyday I give birth and nurture my inner sense of self and step into the world with my gifts. 

I want to share with you the eight gestures of self-parenting. If you ask yourself what self-parenting you need when you meet the questions I listed above, you can refer to these eight gestures...they will hold you close and take you to the top of your hill. 

I also want you to register for my course, Inner Mother Inner Father, which will strengthen your capacities to awaken, sustain, and evolve your self-parenting gestures, resolve your personal challenges and fulfill your needs to feel inwardly whole and become wholly expressed in the world everyday.

You will know your inner authority and stand in the world authentically.

Nurture an extraordinary sense of self with

The Four Great Gestures of Inner Mothering 

  • self-holding: the gesture of embracing who you are just as you are in just the right way to feel contained and supported.
  • self-handling: the gesture of self-care: attentive, sufficient, creative, appropriate.
  • self-object presenting: the gesture of introducing and engaging new ideas, new feelings, new behaviors in the right way at the right time...just what you need for the next step in being and becoming you.
  • self-reverie: the gesture of de-dramatizing and establishing equanimity in your reactions and responses  to all the challenges life brings to your sense of self.



Establish an extraordinary presence of self in the world with 

The Four Great Gestures of Inner Fathering

  • self-protecting: the gesture of designing, declaring, and securing safety for your physical, emotional, creative, and spiritual presence in the world.
  • self-providing: the gesture of defining, articulating, and meeting your needs to support your well-being as you develop and offer your gifts and goodness to the world.
  • self-directing: the gesture of setting clear goals, designing and following an effective strategy for manifesting in the world what lives in you and only you.
  • self-naming: the gesture of recognizing and celebrating your exquisite, powerful and essential active presence in the world



Inner Mother Inner Father is a training in these eight gestures of self-parenting. It begins with looking at the past and the your needs for self-parenting, centers on the gestures and the shadows of self-parenting, and closes with a process for practicing these gestures as your life unfolds and explores the presence and possibility of the inner adult.


You will find the maps, mirrors and methods for becoming your own inner mother and your own inner father.


Learn more about the gifts of Inner Mother Inner Father here.


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Until June 1st,

 Inner Mother Inner Father 

is offered at

a 20% discount. 


This extensive and transformative Imagine Self course normally costs $247.  Until June 1st the cost is $197.60. You can also pay in three monthly installments of $69.60.  Learn about the content of the course and register here.



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The Swan’s Journey — a year long program of outrageous development for twelve women at the turning point of their lives. The program consists of 24 online classes, a 4-day retreat in Chapel Hill, lots and lots of guidance, support, encouragement and celebration.  More details to come.



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I just want to give you a brief rundown of the major courses available in 2015. I’ve included dates and costs so you can plan and budget.  I will be sending out detailed descriptions for the courses closer to when each one will be opening registration.


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Core Imaginations

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...the most powerful, healing, liberating curriculum in the Imagine Self Academy.  You will want to come back to these courses many times throughout your life.


Core Imaginations is a year long, life long, curriculum that teaches you how to do self-compassionate observation and guides you to a fully alive imagination of yourself in ten core expressions: 

Your Image of Self in each of the Four Realms of Existence:

1. As a Physical Self in Dimensions of Space,

2. As a Living Self in the Flow of Time,

3. As a Conscious Self in the Possibilities of Relativity,

4. As a Divine Self in the Absolute

Your Image of Self in the Three Activities of Consciousness:

5. As a Thinking Self with a desire to know the heights of Truth

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Imagining Your Inner Mother

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We will look at the four great maternal gestures and recognize their presence or absence in our childhood.  We will learn how we can awaken each of these maternal gestures in our own soul for self-mothering. Cost: $47


Imagining An Inner Father

beginning late June


This course brings to our souls the great paternal gestures for self-fathering. Cost: $47


These two courses are excerpts from the Inner Mother Inner Father course.  We need an inner mother and an inner father to meet the needs of our inner child.  ​Both courses together $77

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The Swan's Journey

A Yearlong Program for Women Seeking Outrageous Wholeness at the Key Turning Points in Their Lives

Info will be available soon.

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Here’s to your inner work and becoming new in 2015!

Blessings & Imaginations,

Lynn

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Lynn Jericho
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