The Wholehearted Method

• COMMUNICATION includes all of the ways you speak to your child that make up the delivery of your discipline and teaching over time.

I teach specific scripts grounded in Positive Discipline that allow you to be both KIND and FIRM in the same sentence.  

• CORE NEEDS includes meeting and reinforcing your strong-willed child's perception of security, control, love + belonging.

It's often the missing piece of all other courses or programs out there. Power, attention, and control are their love languages.  This work improves behavior significantly without any discipline to speak of.

When you put those two together, you create CONNECTION with your child, because you're speaking to them in a language they understand, you're making them feel seen, known, and understood, and you're understanding their behavior in a language you can understand.

Connection is the foundation for an influential relationship over time.

• COMPOSURE includes a parent's ability to process stress, rewire their mindset, and find ways to cope under pressure. 

This work is the prerequisite for all the others to take hold.  Sanity comes before strategies.

When you put Core needs + Composure together, you create CLARITY.  You finally realize and take control of what you can control and feel really damn good about it - so you can let all the little things go, not take them personally, and have the ability to truly create the relationship you desire with your child.

And when you combine Composure with Communication, you create CONFIDENCE.  You're armed with the toolkit you need to truly handle whatever your child throws your way.

Your self-concept is solidified and you stop using your child's behavior as your report card, relying on external validation to know how you're doing as a parent.

You're truly FREE.

If you've learned tips + tricks but they're inaccessible in the moment - this is the missing piece for you.

True COOPERATION isn't available without addressing each of these 3 components.

THEN and only THEN do you see your child's behavior change as a result.

The Wholehearted Method is a process of cultivating cooperation by taking control of what you can control as the parent, and it all trickles down and overflows to the ultimate outcome- ease, flow, peace, joy + cooperation.

My Wholehearted Method specifically equips parents of strong-willed kids with the tools to manage their composure, improve their communication and meet their child's core needs so they can improve their child's behavior, cultivate cooperation and find peace. 

There really isn't a way that *can't* work for you.

If there's a strategy I teaches that you try and you get a response you weren't expecting, you get to bring it back to me to tweak and trouble shoot.

The group coaching calls offer individualized support that enables you to truly integrate, implement, + sustain the mindset shifts, new habits and communication scripts for the long haul.

Every big principle or concept is boiled down to how you can apply it to your kid(s) at their age with the particular pain point you're struggling with. 

You get to practice the "recipe", make it your own, then step into a much more confident, empowered identity!

I believe respectful, positive parenting is best for kids. Behavior is communication and parenting is a relationship.

I will always advocate for positive reinforcement, natural consequences, cultivating confidence through independence, and most importantly the idea of "conscious parenting", which encourages a parent to grow in their awareness of their own emotional literacy and learn how to process their stress + triggers alongside their child.

I am certified as a Positive Discipline-certified parent educator, ascribing to the belief that "A Misbehaving Child is a Discouraged Child."

Overall, I uphold progress over perfection and celebrate the wins. I hold a mirror to reflect the good you are doing and constantly remind you of the ways you're impacting your family for years to come.

You are welcome to work with me as a single parent, the only one going through it from your family, or right alongside your partner.

You're invited to work with me if you...

• Wonder if your strong-willed child is neurodivergent (it's even more critical to offer structure + support as well as be the calm to their storm if that's the case!)
• Are just beginning your path of discovering into positive parenting
• Have gone to therapy, read 10 parenting books and graduated with 3 other courses
• Are ready to do the work alongside your partner or 100% alone
• Your child's behavior is not really a problem or it's a HUGE problem