Conscious Parenting, 39 Jalan Jambu Ayer, Globally Available (2025)

20/11/2025

✨ It’s not going to be easy… but it’s going to be worth it. ✨
Growth asks for discomfort. Healing asks for honesty. Change asks for patience.

Every small step you take — even the messy ones — is shaping a version of you who is stronger, clearer, and more grounded than before.

Keep going. Future you is already grateful. 🤍

19/11/2025

🌿 TIPS FOR HELPING ANXIOUS KIDS 🌿

Supporting an anxious child isn’t about fixing the fear — it’s about helping their body and mind feel safe enough to move through it.

Here’s what truly helps:
1️⃣ Calm breathing
Slow, steady breaths help their nervous system settle.
2️⃣ Use the senses to soothe + ground
Touch, smell, sight, movement — simple sensory anchors bring them back into the present.
3️⃣ Collect evidence + challenge the thought
Gently guide them to explore: “Is this worry true? What else could be possible?”
4️⃣ Schedule worry time
A safe container teaches kids that worries don’t have to take over the whole day.
5️⃣ Validate the feeling (not the worry itself)
“I hear you. That feels scary.”

Validation opens the door to safety and connection.
Anxiety doesn’t disappear overnight — but with support, patience, and emotional attunement, children learn they are strong enough to handle big feelings. 🤍

Save this for later and share with a parent who might need it.

17/11/2025

✨ “There is not a human in this world who does not settle down a bit when they’ve been heard, seen, and felt.” ✨

This is the power of safety.
The power of presence.
The power of connection.
So often, regulation begins not with fixing, teaching, or correcting…
but with simply being with someone in their experience.
When we feel understood, our nervous system softens.
When we feel seen, our defenses lower.
When we feel felt, we can breathe again.

A gentle reminder: your presence is more powerful than you think. 🤍

16/11/2025

You may know your love language…

but do you know your stress language?
Because when the nervous system is overwhelmed, it speaks before we do.

And understanding your stress patterns is one of the most powerful ways to improve your relationships — with your partner, your kids, and yourself.

Here’s what stress can sound like in real life 👇

🔥 FIGHT RESPONSE
In conflict:
“YOU’RE WRONG.”
Snappy tone, harsh comments, rigidity, defensiveness, short fuse.
Inside the body:
“I need to handle this RIGHT NOW.”
Urgency, anxiety, anger, buzzing energy, restlessness.
What you actually need:
Movement, discharge of energy, grounding through the body, and support that meets your intensity — not shames it.

🏃‍♂️ FLIGHT RESPONSE
In conflict:
“I can’t do this.”
Shutting down, avoiding, cancelling, ghosting, walking away.
Inside the body:
“I need to get OUT.”
Overwhelm, panic, wanting to escape, feeling like it’s too much to handle alone.
What you actually need:
Reassurance you’re not alone, gentle connection, understanding, and movement that releases the urge to flee.

🫥 DORSAL (COLLAPSE) RESPONSE
In conflict:
Silence, shutdown, blank stare, no energy to respond.
Looks like “not caring,” but it’s actually nervous system overload.
Inside the body:
“It’s hopeless.”
Numbness, heaviness, disconnection, exhaustion.
What you actually need:
Warmth, slowness, sensory comfort, time, and a safe, steady presence.
The more you understand your stress language,
the more compassion you can offer yourself and others.
Because beneath every reaction is a nervous system trying to feel safe.

✨ Which stress response feels most familiar to you?

15/11/2025

If you’re a parent who loves breaking free from culturally conditioned beliefs, this way of understanding baby and child sleep may resonate deeply.

In Conscious Parenting, sleep is not about control — it’s about connection, safety, and emotional release.

There are two key ideas that differ from the mainstream narrative:

1️⃣ Babies and young children need closeness to fall asleep.
Feeling safe, held, and connected helps their body relax.
This aligns with what many instinctively feel — closeness invites safety, and safety invites sleep.

2️⃣ Babies and children have an innate relaxation process.
And this is where Conscious Parenting shifts the lens:
For babies, that process looks like crying in arms when all needs are met — a natural way to release stress.
For toddlers and older children, it looks like rambunctious play, laughter, crying, or raging with the loving presence of a calm adult.
This emotional expression is not misbehavior — it’s healing.
It’s the body releasing stored tension so true rest can happen.

No surprise these ideas often clash with a culture that values compliance over connection.

But if you’re ready to support a child who is both securely attached AND deeply relaxed,
who sleeps because their nervous system feels safe and understood…

✨ DM me — let’s explore Conscious Parenting together.

14/11/2025

If you’re a parent who loves breaking free from culturally conditioned beliefs, this way of understanding baby and child sleep may resonate deeply.

In Aware Parenting, sleep is not about control — it’s about connection and emotional release.

There are two key ideas that differ from the mainstream narrative:

1️⃣ Babies and young children need closeness to fall asleep.
Feeling safe, held, and connected helps their body relax.
This part aligns with classical Attachment Parenting — closeness invites safety, and safety invites sleep.
2️⃣ Babies and children have an innate relaxation process.

And this is where it gets beautifully different:
For babies, that process looks like crying in arms when all needs are met — a natural way to release stress.

For toddlers and older children, it looks like rambunctious play, laughter, crying, or raging with the loving presence of a calm adult.

This emotional expression is not misbehavior — it’s healing.
It’s the body moving out stored tension so true rest can happen.
No surprise these ideas don’t fit neatly within a culture that values compliance over connection.
But if you’re ready to support a child who is both securely attached AND deeply relaxed,
who sleeps because their nervous system feels safe and clear…
✨ DM me — let’s explore Aware Parenting together.

12/11/2025

🧠 Parenting isn’t about eliminating anxiety — it’s about understanding it. 🌙

This workshop helps you see anxiety from the inside out — what it means for your child’s developing brain, and how to calm both their system and yours.

You’ll learn:
🧩 Why anxiety shows up
💞 How to co-regulate and respond
🌱 Tools to build safety and connection

📅 13 Dec (Saturday) | 9:30am–12pm
📍 Bukit Timah

Science-based, heart-led, and made for parents who want to parent from calm, not chaos.

10/11/2025

A look back at the Soul Vision Board Workshop ✨

✨
May this board be a compass,
a mirror,
and a prayer in motion.

Thank you for showing up — fully, bravely, honestly.

09/11/2025

The 3 things babies + children need for truly restful sleep ✨

Yes — sleep matters.
But what creates the conditions for deep, restorative rest might surprise you…

1️⃣ TIREDNESS
Of course!
But here’s the twist → in Conscious Parenting, there’s no concept of “overtired.”
Their bodies are wise.
2️⃣ CONNECTION
We’re wired for closeness.
Babies + young children need to feel safe to fall asleep —
Just like our hunter-gatherer ancestors who slept best when held, close, and protected.
3️⃣ RELAXATION
This isn’t about doing things to them…
It’s about trusting that they innately know how to relax
and will activate their own natural calming system.

So what happens at bedtime?
You may notice your child…
• Cry
• Rage
• Become playful or silly
• Talk about their day
These aren’t “bad behaviors.”
They’re part of the body’s innate relaxation response —
a natural way to release stress, feelings, energy, and tension so they can settle.

🌙 When we lovingly hold space —
Whether that’s listening to their tears

Joining their playful release
Or hearing them process their day —
We guide them out of fight/flight and into softness, safety + sleep.

Sleep isn’t about control.

It’s about connection, trust, and emotional release.
If this resonates, save + share this post!

Want to learn more about nervous system + sleep?

Send me a DM ✨

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09/11/2025

🌿 Inner Child Ceremony with Wil Kolen —

An immersive afternoon of sound and soul — to reconnect with your inner child and return to wholeness. ✨

Through movement, sound, and deep presence, this ceremony gently invites release — of old tension, old pain, and old patterns — so you can return to calm, balance, and self-love.

📅 6 Dec (Saturday) | 2pm–6pm
📍 The Raintree Condo

Facilitated by myself and Wil Kolen
A deep and gentle space to meet yourself again.

09/11/2025

✨ The 3 things babies + children need for truly restful sleep ✨

Yes — sleep matters.
But what creates the conditions for deep, restorative rest might surprise you…

1️⃣ TIREDNESS
Of course!
But here’s the twist → in Conscious Parenting, there’s no concept of “overtired.”
Their bodies are wise.
2️⃣ CONNECTION
We’re wired for closeness.
Babies + young children need to feel safe to fall asleep —
Just like our hunter-gatherer ancestors who slept best when held, close, and protected.
3️⃣ RELAXATION
This isn’t about doing things to them…
It’s about trusting that they innately know how to relax
and will activate their own natural calming system.

So what happens at bedtime?
You may notice your child…
• Cry
• Rage
• Become playful or silly
• Talk about their day
These aren’t “bad behaviors.”
They’re part of the body’s innate relaxation response —
a natural way to release stress, feelings, energy, and tension so they can settle.

🌙 When we lovingly hold space —
Whether that’s listening to their tears

Joining their playful release
Or hearing them process their day —
We guide them out of fight/flight and into softness, safety + sleep.

Sleep isn’t about control.

It’s about connection, trust, and emotional release.
If this resonates, save + share this post!

Want to learn more about nervous system + sleep?

Send me a DM ✨

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