REAL-TIME SELF-CARE

 

A Parenting Course that Teaches

 

How to Take Care of Yourself While You Take Care of Your Child

 

 

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Children need thriving parents to thrive.

 

This self-paced program is effective for your outstanding child 

(your amazing child who stands out).

 

We successfully work with families who have children with challenges like...

 - Autism, ADHD, and PDA

 - Mental Health and Learning Challenges

 - Developmental/Complex Trauma

 - Medical Complexity

 - Quirks: Outstanding qualities families still haven't figured out, or that don't require a diagnosis, or for which families don't feel the need or have interest in a diagnosis.

 

We LOVE our outstanding children. They (and you) need parenting practices that honor these children's augmented nervous system strengths and vulnerabilities. The typical ways we parent in our society drain parents and STILL does not set them up for their best lives.

 

This is in part because these children's nervous systems needs make them more sensitive to our societal deviation from the ways in which children were raised for 95% of human evolution. Outstanding children tend to be less adaptive to modern parenting practices. This course integrates ancient wisdom with modern neuroscience to match what outstanding children need. Our typical parenting practices are so stressful, it's needed even if you don't have a child who stands out!

 

 

 

Your Instructors

Betty Peralta, MIT, MSc-MHC, IMH-E (Mentor-Clinical) and Reverend Amelia Bolyard are your course instructors and parent coaches throughout this journey.

Visit our About page to learn more.

 

 

 

 

Finally, a parenting course that focuses on the parent's well being as well as the child's. Because parenting should feel good for everyone!

 

In this course, you’ll learn: 

 - How to handle intense emotions (theirs and yours!) with confidence

 - How to slow down and truly savor parenting—while still getting things done

 - The power of play to reduce resistance, strengthen trust, and facilitate cooperation

 - Tools for turning conflict into connection—even with the strongest-willed kids

 - Ways to get more buy-in so your child helps you around the house

 

 

How is this course different? In it, we...

 

 - Provide you with live coaching sessions that address the specific challenges you face as a parent

 

 - Surround you with a community of parents who support you as you try new strategies together

 

 - Walk you through the process step by step all along the way.

 

This isn't your average course for doling out information.

(To learn much of what we teach for free, just watch these videos.)

 

This course is here to help you absorb, digest, and incorporate our teachings sustainably. 

 

 Here are what people have said after applying the principles of this course:

 

Rachael struggled with a perennially disorganized house and two daughters at each other's throats with constant bickering. They were so vicious with trying to get a reaction out of each other that it left everyone feeling resentful and completely drained of energy.

"As soon as I started doing the things taught in this course, things became so much easier. When I learned to understand them, it was easier to love them. I went from being frustrated, and reacting to my girls to a life feeling calmer and more in control of my home. It freed up more energy to develop my interest in Feng Shui and my home has become harmonious with much less of the effort. Our home life has completely transformed. My girls rarely fight now, and when they do, they are able to resolve it peacefully." Rachael H.

 

Sarah was exhausted, drowning in clutter, constantly trying to calm a child who was flying off the handle over small things all day. After applying one of the main principles of this course, she said,

"After one day, I felt like a different person. After three days, I had a different kid. He was able to accept a 'no,' and would cheerily say, 'Maybe tomorrow!' Everything is feeling easier. Taking the pressure off to get everything done suddenly made it possible to get everything done. My body is able to feel pleasure now, and my brain is happier." Sarah H. 

 

What You Get

when you join the Real-Time Self-Care Course  before June 27: 
* Take the Course for HALF PRICE $3,000 $1,500
* One year FREE membership to the Bloom Community
* Pay the Founding Member price for the Bloom Community forever

Scholarships are available! Contact us to apply.

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Our Real-Time Self-Care course combines strategies from ancient wisdom, current neuroscience, and growth-promoting joy that move relationships from challenging to smooth...and even fun! 

 

 - Ancient Wisdom: 95% of our evolutionary history was spent as hunter-gatherers. Modern hunter-gatherer societies around the world parent in very similar ways. We study how these modern Indigenous cultures parent in common and find that when we apply these methods to our clients, children transform, family life becomes calmer and easier, and more joy flows.

 

 - Current Neuroscience: We teach neurodevelopmental approaches to parenting so that you can tailor your expectations of your child to their nervous system reality. Our sources include neuroscientists Dr. Bruce Perry, Dr. Bruce McEwen, Dr. Allen Schore, Dr. Daniel Siegel and Dr. Stephen Porges. We use Connie Lillas' NeuroRelational Care as a framework that synthesizes this work and breaks it down into executional steps.

 

 - Growth-enhancing Joy: Joy is the fuel that propels development, and there isn't enough of it in our society's modern family experience. The missing joy impacts both children's adults' emotional health. The Real-Time Self-Care course modules build on each other to lay a foundation from which joy can spring.

While the course is self-paced, each module is designed it to be completed within a month to two, averaging 6 weeks each.

 

Course Outline

Module 1: Meeting Your Needs in Ways that Benefit Your Child
 1.1 Indigenous Wisdom -- From WEIRDness to Wellness: How Indigenous Parenting Practices Can Enhance Our Self-Care
 1.2 Self-Care Pledge
 1.3 The Brain Science of Rushing & Slowing Down to Attune, AKA Vibe Challenge
 1.4 Choose Slow-down Your Adventure & Stay with Your Boundaries Challenge
 1.5 Important But Not Urgent: Normalize Waiting Challenge
 1.6 Basking in the Flow: Routinize Challenge 

 

SEE ALL 5 MODULES

 

4 Strong Support Systems

* The Bloom Community, where you can chronicle your progress, share your pledges, and get and give support with challenges
AND choose ANY or ALL of the following:
* 2 Monthly Coaching Calls with Amelia and Betty, where you can ask questions and get advice for your unique situation
* A Monthly Community of Practice Group Call facilitated by Children in Bloom staff, where you can grow your self-awareness and process your learning with up to 5 other parents.
* Three-with-Me Support Group, where you meet and/or text with one to three buddies to support each other throughout the course

 

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by parenting but know there’s a way to make it more joyful, this course is for you.

 

Are you still wondering whether this course is for you?

 

  • Read our FAQ's below

  • Check out our free 3-day Seminar, Self-Care in Parenting: It's Not What You Think! for the basic information taught in this course

  • Join us for the first lesson, "From WEIRDness to Wellness: How Indigenous Parenting Practices Can Enhance Our Self-Care"

  • Or contact us with your questions

 

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