Consciously Parent. Create connection. Cultivate change in the world one child at a time.
Please become part of Mindful Mothering and join me,
Dawn K. Gibson, LCSW, on this amazing and challenging
journey through pregnancy and motherhood.
I will help you:
Become Less Overwhelmed and Live a More Fulfilling Life: Pregnancy, the postpartum period, and early motherhood can leave you feeling tired and overwhelmed. Receive guidance from a therapist and shift your painful emotions into a more balanced state to help you feel more calm, confident, and balanced, allowing your to manage your life more effectively so you can focus on what is really important to you. This applies to NICU moms as well.
Gain Tools Needed to Cope in Chaos:
Pregnancy, the postpartum period, and early motherhood can feel chaotic, scary, and depressing. Learn what you can do to manage with confidence during these times while maintaining healthy relationships with your partner, your baby (at home with you or in the NICU), your children, and yourself.
Trust Your Ability to Mother Your Child(ren):
Increase understanding of how following your “gut” and learning to be mindful or “in the moment” with your baby and children can improve bonding, feel empowering, and alleviate stress regarding your mothering abilities. This can also be helpful for NICU moms, whose babies are cared for by hospital staff most of the day and night.
Normalize Your Experience of Pregnancy and Motherhood:
You may feel “crazy” at times, but I assure you these feelings are normal and you are not crazy! Learn to release mother guilt during pregnancy and motherhood, and shift self-criticism into loving self-acceptance so you can enjoy your baby more.
Increase Your Knowledge About Child Development, Gain Non-Violent Tools to Help Your Child with Challenging Behaviors:
Increase knowledge and understanding about the brain, nervous system, and emotional development with up-to-date research and gain tools to calm your baby, assist young children in times of stress or during tantrums, and to optimize brain development during critical periods of growth. Gain tools and learn how consciously parenting your children can contribute to a more peaceful, loving, and connected home environment.
Understand How Your Emotional Health Impacts Your Baby and Young Children and How You Can Shift Unwanted Patterns:
All of us come into parenthood with some unresolved feelings from our childhood and pregnancy can evoke feelings we never knew existed. Did you know that the healthier you are emotionally, the healthier your unborn baby and children will be? Learn what keeps you “stuck” in unhealthy patterns, how they affect your parenting or trigger you in difficult situations with your partners, your children, or other loved ones, and bring them back into balance or become “unstuck”.
Please view Mindful Mothering’s Pregnancy and Postpartum Group offerings and Individual counseling information.
For more information about Dawn and Mindful Mothering, please listen to the interview below: