Trusting Yourself as a Parent
A kind inner dialogue, being gentle on yourself and accepting things as they are help when things feel out of control
One of the greatest lessons I have learned from my children is that I am OK the way I am. It’s a message I raised them with, and one that they now reflect back to me. As parents, we often feel the need for a script, a philosophy, a book, a guru. We fear that we can’t just go our own way. But we must. As dance legend Martha Graham says,
There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares to other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
Keeping our channel open in this era of overstimulation is no easy task for us as parents. With so much information coming at us from so many sources, we have to figure out how to discriminate and how to recognize reliable sources. We can trust…
