We specialize in connection, not perfection. Here you'll find products, services and classes to help you connect and heal in your family from the comfort of home.
This course is available on its own, or as part of our Consciously Connected Village (click here for more information). If you are a member of the Village Library, you already have access!
When something unexpected happens in your life, it can be difficult to know how to navigate it. Whether you’re still in the day-to-day survival mode or the situation is in our past, how can we support ourselves to heal? How can we support our children?
If you or someone you love has experienced something overwhelming- from a birth that didn’t go the way you planned, to a divorce, job loss, or illness in the family- how can you move forward in a way that heals?
Class 1: Unexpected Life Events and Attachment, Neurobiology, and Relationships: How We Cope with Overwhelming Stress
Discover your own patterns and what happens in your brain and body when you’re stressed to your max.
I’ll introduce Janet Conner’s concept of the 7 Countries to understand the journey through grief and loss.
Class 2: The Role of Storytelling in Our Lives: Learning How We Tell Our Own Stories and How to Tell them for Healing
Take a look at what our own behaviors are communicating to us and to our family members.
See how we’re all telling our stories all the time, whether we realize it or not!
Why is conscious, integrative storytelling important for us as adults?
How can we create healing for ourselves?
Class 3: The Critical Importance of Emotions and Emotional Expression (aka we’re not plants…)
What gets in the way of healing expression of our emotions?
What are your own unique patterns around sharing and allowing your emotions?
What was modeled for you growing up?
How does that translate into how you handle emotional overwhelm in the present?
Class 4: We’re All in This Together (like it or not…)
Discover your family member’s attachment strategies, physical health impacts, and emotional expression patterns and how they work together to heal- or not.
Learn about this secret ingredient that makes healing our families possible!
Class 5: Supporting Your Child’s Healing through Unexpected Life Events
Defining trauma and unexpected life events for children- prenatal, birth, NICU, losses, adoption, etc at all life phases as significant.
How do unexpected life events affect attachment, neurobiology, physical health, and relationships for children?
Why is it important to look at our child’s whole story and not just the current challenge to help our child heal?
Class 6: Helping Your Child Tell His Story
What stories are your child’s behaviors telling you?
How can you support your child consciously through storytelling for healing?
What are the most important elements when using integrative storytelling with children?
Class 7: Children and Emotional Expression
Children are mirrors of your family’s own comfort with emotional expression AND some children are expressing emotions for the entire family.
What are you (were you) modeling regarding feelings for your children during the time of the unexpected life event? After?
How can we best support our children to express their feelings in a healthy way?
Class 8: Seizing the Opportunities of our Healing Crisis: Integration for Ourselves and for Our Children
Daily life application when tensions are running high and you’ve got to keep on going. Finding connection with yourself and with others in the midst of the storm.
Upon Purchase, you will be given a link to join the space immediately as a download. We look forward to seeing you in the Village!
Our products and services all focus on supporting you to create, nurture and heal connection in your family from the comfort of home. Why? Because we're parents, too, and we know you want your home life to feel good. (And we know what it feels like when it doesn't feel good!) We also get that your time is limited, so we've made our resources accessible (many are downloadable) and affordable. All our information is based on the latest research in attachment, epigenetics, brain science, sociology, trauma, pre and perinatal psychology. We've read the research so you don't have to. We provide the tools, support, and inspiration to help you find your own way.
Now in our 15th year of supporting families around the globe, we've become a name you can trust to help you find your way to stay connected in your family and heal. No one-size-fits-all approaches here. Each family is unique. Each person's story is unique. When you buy from us, you're supporting families, not a large corporation, and you're helping to change the world one family at a time. Many of our services are discounted and many of our resources are available for free so that everyone has access regardless of ability to pay. Because everyone needs support. Purchasing resources here helps us continue our work creating rich content and inspiring connection and peace in homes around the world.
Rebecca affirms that she truly understands where we are, and that makes it seem more attainable when we talk about where we want to be, or what we can accomplish. Also, having conversations about what works for OUR family, not an abstract idea of the perfect family, gets me to listen.”
Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT
Holistic Marriage and Family Therapist
The Consciously Parenting Project, LLC., was born when Rebecca found herself really struggling to be the parent she wanted to be with her first born. Despite her masters in marriage and family therapy and degree in education, she wasn't sure how to create the family she wanted and heal those things she didn't do the way she wanted. As she found her own way through a series of people who pointed the way back to connection, she was inspired to create resources and offer support for others who would find themselves in similar places. We all want our families to feel good and we need to know how to create healing spaces when they're needed.
Consciously Parenting also has expanded to include passionate parents and professionals from around the globe who share the vision of support for families. Through the Consciously Parenting training program, we are working to expand our capacity to offer more qualified support for individuals and families around the world.
Rebecca is the mom of 2 boys, ages 18 and 23 and bonus mom to two grown young adults. She's messed up plenty of things in parenting, but is here to walk beside you as you find your own way. All our resources are created with this in mind. When Rebecca isn't supporting parents or creating parenting resources, you'll find her wandering through the mountains outside of Oaxaca, Mexico, eating amazing food, and planning adventures to visit the ocean with her family.