Authentic Families: Healing Ourselves While Nurturing Our Children

As caregivers, it’s essential to reflect on our childhood experiences and how they shape our current parenting practices. Many of us carry wounds from our childhood relational experiences that shape the foundations of developmental immaturity. This shows up not only in our adult relationships but also in how we parent our children.

These workshops invite you to explore your curiosity about the parenting you received and how it has shaped your own parenting patterns. Through our own self-exploration and healing work, we can strengthen our connection with our children and bring more empathy, understanding and balance into our relationships with them. This also helps to model what a healthy balance looks like within the framework of Post Induction Therapy (PIT), the model used at Green Shoe Foundation. At the heart of PIT is the idea that trauma causes developmental immaturity, leading to difficulties with self-esteem, boundaries, dependency, reality and moderation. Some common outcomes of these childhood relational wounds can arise in patterns of shame, people-pleasing, emotional reactivity or chronic self-doubt.

  • Understand how the messages we received as children about our own worth shape our parenting. Learn how to model unconditional worth — going beyond expecting perfection or achievement — and discover ways to help children value themselves without comparison or shame.

  • Discover how healthy boundaries and affirming limits reduce power struggles, create safety and support autonomy and healthy growth.  Learn how to set limits that honor your child’s dignity and promote accountability. Explore how boundaries help children develop a sense of self.

  • Parents need to model honesty, demonstrate healthy emotional regulation and engage in repair when needed. Discover ways to help children face their imperfections and mistakes, take responsibility and think flexibly — all without shame or fear.

  • Explore how overdependence, rescuing or hyper-independence form in childhood. Learn to support kids’ needs by meeting them where they are, allowing them the freedom to take risks within affirming limits and supporting their needs and wants. Discover ways you can model healthy interdependence. 

  • Understanding a life of balance is an art. Discover how to help kids develop moderation — with feelings, technology, behaviors and choices — without shame, rigidity or chaos. Learn how emotional regulation and loving structure create lifelong balance. 

Join us for our free workshops to explore your parenting patterns and learn healthy tools to use with your child.