How Can Mindfulness Help Trauma-Surviving Mamas and Their Children Heal Together?

Um, so how can, how can trauma-surviving mamas nurture their kids and allow them to tune in to their inner awareness that they have?

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Good question.

So number one, for the moms, I recommend having a practice themselves, right?

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Um, if you survived trauma, if you are past it, I hope you are able to sit with your thoughts, sit quietly and breathe, and acknowledge and appreciate everything that you are, who you are, what you have inside.

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So that is the first step, to do it yourself.

If you can't do it yourself, um, we teach by...

You know, kids model what we do.

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They copy you.

So listen, the, the biggest ...

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Hold on.

The number one thing that I would say is you as a mom, as a parent, you need to let go of all pressure, all anxiety, all need to do a great job, to be perfect.

Um, r- relax.

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All you need for this to work out is to have the intention, and I promise you, just with the intention and taking a couple of steps, which I'll walk you through a couple of exercises, and you will...

If you try it, you will see the magic unfold.

Um, your work is not here to fix your children, to make them anything.

Your, your work is just to present the activity, to be present, and to be willing.

So, um, with that said, my recommendation is to have a quiet corner in the house, and this quiet corner is used by one person, whoever wants to use it, once a day or twice a day, whenever, and the invitation is to sit there and to breathe deeply and to be ...

When we do mindfulness, we ...

Mindfulness is about being present.