Are you experiencing The Call?

Parenting in today’s world is hard! For many, the pain involved can thrust parents into a “dark night of the soul” that seems determined to break us. Humbled, we learn that our old ways of parenting are no longer working to ensure the health and wellness of our family unit, and the tasks ahead demand that we develop ourselves in ways we never imagined we’d need to.

To embrace the Paradox means we understand that parenting will issue us The Call to our Life’s greatest adventure, the one meant to grow US up by inviting us to develop our most heroic qualities. If we accept this Call, we’ll reorient to Life’s painful circumstances, learning from them so that our wisest, most courageous and compassionate selves might emerge.

As scary as this might sound, to refuse The Call is far more painful. It’s likely to feel like torture as your life shrinks in your efforts to block out the incessant niggling that Life shouldn’t feel this way and something needs to change.

The Parenting Paradox invites you to consider parenting itself as The Call to self-discovery and that this just might be what both you and your child need most from you: to find the way to your center and tune into your heart—the sense organ that creates the experience of connection with our fellow humans and our own inner wisdom.

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