In this episode, I really enjoyed talking to Dace Flynn. Dace has a degree in politics and diplomacy, but after working in the field for a while, she decided to change her career and become an early childhood educator. After graduating and working in various childcare centres, she became disillusioned with the system and left her job. When her daughter was born, she came across aware parenting and because it was so transformative and lifechanging for her, she decided to become an aware parenting instructor and share this beautiful approach to parenting with others.

In this episode, Dace shares her journey of discovering Aware Parenting and shifting from thinking she needed to stop her baby from crying to understanding that her baby had feelings to share and would thrive and sleep well and be so relaxed when she instead listened to her crying. Dace shares how she offers herself compassion and supports herself to heal her younger parts when she notices them coming up in her parenting. She describes how she has used play to heal trauma and to prevent trauma in her family. We discuss learning to offer loving limits and Dace’s decision to homeschool.

To learn more about Dace, please visit Dace_flynn on Instagram or Freedom to Flourish on Facebook. To learn more about my Aware Parenting Teenagers course please visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au/courses/aware-parenting-teenagers/