Mindful parenting for young parents

Service Description

If you’ve chosen to become a parent, you already know how much energy and resilience this journey demands every single day. Parenting is likely the longest and most transformative experience you’ve embarked on so far. Though the long-term rewards of parenting are immense, the early stages often come with a steep learning curve that can be unexpectedly anything but rewarding. As new parents, we find ourselves dealing with new and very busy routines, seeing restricted our physical freedom, sacrificing career opportunities, or feeling our body changing. This revolution happens suddenly, without giving us time to fully grasp its effects and meaning, sometimes before we’ve even fully experienced that deep surge of love and connection with our child. On a deeper level, parenting is also a shift in perspective: we transition from being someone’s child to becoming a parent ourselves. This shift can bring up reflections on our own upbringing, causing us to reevaluate our childhood and our parents’ choices with newfound awareness. In some cases, we may even seek healing from our own experiences by reinterpreting them through our new role as caregivers. This process can awaken a complex world of emotions, projections, and parenting styles that, consciously or unconsciously, shape our new family dynamics. In Mindful Parenting for Young Parents, we hold the belief that parenting is something we grow into, rather than something we are born with. Rooted in my experience as a mother of two and shaped by my training in Counselling, I hold space for us to walk side by side through the unfolding path of parenthood. By prioritizing the parent’s wellbeing—a non-negotiable foundation for deep connection and bonding with the child—we aim to empower and contribute harmoniously to the family’s overall balance and resilience.