Wondering how to have less overwhelm while parenting feisty toddlers or testy teens or something in between? Do you yearn for neuroaffirming support for you and your children?
Using early relational co-regulation practices from the multi-generational trauma healing method Chi for Two®, M-Bodied Parenting helps parents to explore behaviors-as-communication and reactions-as-information in an effort to reclaim healthy connection, communication and playfulness.
From womb-to-walking-and-beyond, children depend on primary attachment figure(s) to provide the Circle of Support for healthy relational connection and eventual individuation.
From womb-to-walking-and-beyond, children ideally explore developmental movement expressions to grow physically, cognitively, emotionally and socially.
M-Bodied Parenting explores early relational and developmental movement expression of both connection and separation that can sometimes overwhelm parents & caregivers. When parents and caregivers are more informed about how to support movement expression within themselves as well as in their children that is developmentally normal or perhaps laced with trauma response, the parent-child dance becomes easier and deeper nourishment can be met for everyone.
What’s included?
🧠 Nervous system psycho-education
💚 Attachment theory concepts
👣 Body-based, co-regulation practices that are trauma-informed and neuroaffirming
Who benefits from M-Bodied Parenting? Parents/caregivers who care for babies, toddlers, kids, tweens, teens & young adults
Areas of support:
New parenthood
Attachment concerns
Sleep issues
Neurodivergence
Toddler or teen tantrums
Oppositional or defiant behavior
Disordered eating and self harm
Chronic family tension
Addiction or substance use
Parent depression, rage, anxiety
M-Bodied Parenting helps parents and caregivers to:
Better listen to your child's behavior as communication.
Get curious about both your reactions as valuable information.
Move through messiness & mismatch to deepen your relationships!
Recognize a child's need to "push" as normal not naughty.
Transform yelling and shaming into effectively setting limits with love.
Use invitational, developmentally appropriate, body-based co-regulation practices for grounding, focus, play & connection.
Channel sibling rivalry and conflict into self-empowerment.
Feed yourself with emotional and nervous-system nourishment to better nurture your children.
Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT and Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist created M-Bodied Parenting to help parents and caregivers to develop a greater capacity for steadiness and presence in both body and mind for sustainable nervous system functioning and healthier relationships.
M-Bodied Parenting focuses on re-patterning early relational embodiment from the multigenerational trauma healing method Chi for Two®, a polyvagal-informed, trauma-sensitive, attachment-based healing method.
M-Bodied® is grounded in the principles and practices of Chi for Two, which groups and sequences early relational embodiment practices as symbolic redos for nervous system functioning, mindful embodiment, and healthy relationships.
Group details:
In-person, Kirkwood/ATL
Tuesdays 12:00-1:15pm
Starting Feb 28, 2023 - ongoing
3-month commitment, $200/month
Interview required
Contact: Caroline@MBodiedTherapy.com or Caroline@MBodiedCoaching.com