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🙏 Clinical Psychologist 📚3 x NYT Bestselling Author 🎖CEO Conscious Coaching Institute Follow me ⬇️ to be a more conscious parent

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What is the message about life you are unconsciously telling your child? Is it full of fear & self-limiting beliefs? #lifeclass #parenting
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. @oprah #lifeclass the best gift to give our children is to grow ourselves up.
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The Awakened Family, can begin with just one conscious parent. One conscious parent impacts a child and humanity...
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Loneliness arises out of the false belief that another’s company is more valuable than your own. #ConsciousQuote
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Love can never turn to hate. If it does, it wasn't true love in the first place. #LoveQuotes
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5 years
Parent the child in front of you and not the child you fantasized about having. #ConsciousParenting
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8 years
Join me in 30 mins for a FB LIVE on SUPER SOUL SUNDAY'S FB PAGE SuperSoul - Can't wait to talk about THE...
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5 years
Your resistance to who your child truly is reflects your resistance to who you truly are. #ConsciousParenting
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You know you've found your passion when you lose yourself in it. #QuotesAboutLife
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10 years
Your child is the one who can teach you to be a better parent. All you have to do is truly listen. #lifeclass #parenting
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Listen to my conversation with Kate Hudson & Oliver Hudson on their Podcast, "Sibling Revelry" #ConsciousParenting
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Your expectations will be the death of your joy. #ConsciousQuote
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Give your child a message that is full of joy, hope, & belief in their future, but in a way that embraces the struggle to come. #lifeclass
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10 years
The ego is SO seductive. It traps us into believing there is only one way to affirm the self. But it is a fear based way. #lifeclass
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5 years
ENROLL NOW in The Conscious Parenting Quest where you will work with me and learn how to create the ideal environment for your child to thrive! Go to: Comment YES if you've enrolled!
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"Don't look for someone to grow old with. Look for someone to grow with." -Dr. Shefali
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5 years
Love without consciousness becomes need, dependency, it becomes control in the name of love. Watch more of my talk with Oprah ( @Oprah ) about conscious parenting.
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10 years
All our children want is for us to see who they truly are in the moment. Not for us to fix, to do, or to have an agenda. #lifeclass
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5 years
Have you signed up for my FREE MASTERCLASS? Join me & Vishen Lakhiani from @mindvalley to deep dive into your fear and stop projecting your own unmet needs on your child! To sign up go to:
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Love, as I define it, is the ability to fully see, accept, and honor the other person for who they truly are. To love someone consciously is to harness the ability to step outside of our own self and consistently connect with the other. #ConsciousLove
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You are the author of your own life's script. #Consciousness
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10 years
. @oprah #lifeclass we need to yank parenting out of the dark ages. no more control and more connection. more spirit. less fear
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5 years
To find our authentic self we have to peel back the layers & re-question all that we should have never been given answers to, What is success? What is beauty? What is truth? We should have been lead to discover these answers; they should not have been given to us packaged.
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As a clinical psychologist, I can attest that most of our adult addictions and issues stem from this one problem: our inability to truly deal with our feelings. Do you agree? Listen in and share with someone who needs to hear this! Check out my new book:
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10 years
All eyes need to be on your growth process and your child's growth process. #lifeclass Don't let anyone take you away from your essence.
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5 years
Our children are not our easels on which we get to paint the life we never had. #consciousparenting
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5 years
No amount of riches in the world will fill you up if you are impoverished from within. #QuoteOfTheDay
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5 years
We live in a time of disconnection. It's hard to confront our mess-ups, and our insecurities, but it's necessary. Change in mindset is what we need more than anything in this world right now. I believe conscious parenting is the best place to start. #ConsciousParenting
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5 years
You will always feel empty as long as you use others to fill you up. #ConsciousLiving
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10 years
Life is a yes. No is soul-crushing. Start with the yes. #lifeclass
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4 years
Doors of the Coaching Institute are Open Now - FOR COHORT 5. Will you be part of the next cohort of conscious coaches to graduate from my conscious coaching institute? READ MORE:
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5 years
Life will always be difficult if you expect it to be easy. Life isn’t meant to be linear, exact, predetermined, or predictable. It’s supposed to be a snow-balling, curve-throwing, crap-shooting, wild mess of an adventure. Embrace the ride.
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If you are looking for a deeper meaning and purpose, this maybe your path. -
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5 years
My child is here to fumble, stumble, try, and cry. Learn and mess up. Fail and try again. My task is to step aside. Stay in infinite possibility. Heal my own wounds. Fill my own bucket and let my child fly. #consciousparenting
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10 years
. @oprah Positivity says "you can go to harvard!" Abundance says: "harvard will come to you!" #lifeclass
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5 years
Your children are here to discover who they truly are and not who you wish them to be. #consciousparenting
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Living an authentic life is your birthright. Don't squander it. #ConsciousLiving
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10 years
We're asking our children to fix our own anxieties. No wonder they shut down! #lifeclass
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. @Oprah "All children are looking for the same thing. They want to be loved for who they are." Connect to the child you have. #lifeclass
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5 years
When you act out of passion, you will find your way. When you act out of obligation, you will lose it.
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10 years
Children only shut down because they're so aware of our energy. So, instead of dealing with the symptom, get to the root. #lifeclass
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10 years
What do our #children show us? They show us our wounds, our immaturity on the inside, how shaky we are in ourselves. #lifeclass
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5 years
Watch "Saying NO Is Not A Weakness" & join me at my annual event EVOLVE where we work together to find your AUTHENTIC self. EVOLVE is coming up in October. Purchase tickets here:
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5 years
It's important to separate who you are from who your child is. #consciousparenting
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10 years
. @oprah #supersoulsunday ALL intimate relationships bring up how it is we have been unmothered and unfathered.
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5 years
What does it mean to be a conscious parent? You realize that, in your parenting, you are bringing your unhealed wounds from your childhood. So the raising of the child becomes the external question - which child are we raising? The real child? Or the child within each one of us?
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10 years
The answer lies within us. The answer never lies in the child's behavior. #lifeclass #consciousparenting #consciousparent #parenting
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5 years
One of the most priceless gifts you can give your children is your ability to truly see who they are in their essence and space for this to thrive. #consciousparenting
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2 years
Every child wants to be seen for who it is they are. The greatest gift a parent can give their child is to see their children for who they are. Listen in and drop a ❤️ if you agree. In my latest book, The Parenting Map I share valuable tools for parents to connect with their kids
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10 years
. @oprah #lifeclass we have to END the idea of "discipline". We give ourselves permission to control. Instead, we need to connect.
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5 years
Every moment matters. Every chance to hug. Every opportunity to say 'I love you.' Every choice to be more present. #consciousparenting
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Your tears are the soul longing to know itself. Let their waters fill you with the wisdom of your worth. #ConsciousLiving
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10 years
Yes, we can never care more than our kids about their future. THEY need to be the leaders in their own life. #lifeclass
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5 years
Letting go of control over our children is probably the hardest spiritual task we face as parents. #consciousparenting
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10 years
. @oprah #lifeclass our children pick up on our subconscious agendas
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10 years
@oprah #lifeclass cycles keep repeating in families - cycles of pain and shame. let's end this starting from today.
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. @oprah our children show up to expose us to the feelings we left behind. #lifeclass
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10 years
"I know who I am." Listen to your child--don't try to mold them into someone else. #lifeclass
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10 years
If the only way your child can connect with you is by acting out, well then of course your child is going to act out. #lifeclass
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10 years
Shift the energy from no to yes. Affirm the yes in your child. #lifeclass
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We come from a place of wanting our children to be empowered and complete as possible. But then we project fears onto them. #lifeclass
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No one betrays you without your permission. #ConsciousLiving
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. @oprah the quest for wholeness is always an internal one. Our children are not here to make us whole. #lifeclass
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#parenting is a dance. A push and pull between connecting and creating limits and boundaries. #lifeclass #consciousparenting
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. @oprah to parent in the present and in abundance is the key. #lifeclass
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10 years
. @Oprah #supersoulsunday do we dare to step away from culture's definitions of success? today, ask yourself: "do I dare?"
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5 years
New video, "If Your Child Is Suffering Watch This" Share your thoughts with me! #ConsciousParenting
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10 years
Are you acting like a hypocrite? Telling your child not to do something and then doing the exact same thing a minute later? #lifeclass
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10 years
What does your child have that is unique to them? Protect that inner light and help them shine. #lifeclass #parenting
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Swap thoughts of perfection for the thrill of being an ordinary human.
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Raising yourself is a prerequisite of #consciousparenting You cannot raise another into empowerment unless you have tasted it yourself. #parenting
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There is no growth without regression. #ConsciousLiving
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You don't 'fix' your child. You create the conditions for them to rise. #consciousparenting
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10 years
We're choosing to dictate our children's preferences, feelings, and activities. Who gave us all this power? #lifeclass
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Conscious parenting is about NOT handing over the prescriptive checklist that outlines what it means to succeed, to fail and to be beautiful. We have to deconstruct our own emotional legacies and find our truth so that we can then unleash it in our child. #ConsciousParenting
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. @oprah #lifeclass our children yearn to tell us how they feel. they just do not have the language
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. @oprah #lifeclass we are so scared to drop control. who will we be without the illusion, the mask of supremacy? we will see our fragility.
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10 years
How can we tell our children that their best wasn't good enough? How would you feel if someone you loved told you that? #lifeclass
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5 years
You know you have found your passion when you lose yourself in it. When the boundary between yourself and the task fades, you have stumbled on your life’s work. I am grateful that I can share my passion and purpose with you all.
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. @oprah #lifeclass the best gift we can give our children is for you to grow yourselves
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“You are not the boss of Me!” And that’s a totally true statement. This is the hardest thing for parents to grasp - that they are not the boss of their kids, or anyone for that matter! The goal of a conscious parent and human is to empower the other to be the boss of themselves.
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Acceptance of our child 'as-is' is the first step to a connection. #consciousparenting
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8 years
I AM GIVING AWAY 7 DAYS OF TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES FOR FREE! Join here and become a conscious parent!
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10 years
Next Sunday on @OprahsLifeclass , we'll hear from the children. They are wise beyond their years! 9pm EST #lifeclass #consciousparenting
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7 years
If we don't become aware of our own baggage, our children will carry the burden. #consciousparenting #innerwork ...
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Once we release our fears, we can walk with our children as their students and fellow travelers. This is the ultimate purpose of parenting. #consciousparenting
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Take your dreams seriously for no one else will. #MondayMotivaton
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Are you ready for a revolution? We are shattering all parental delusions today . @Oprah . @SuperSoulSunday @DrShefali #SuperSoulSunday
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We cannot expect our children to become something that we are not willing to embody ourselves. #consciousparenting
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10 years
What does the way you #parent reveal about your #childhood ? Where is the #unmothered part of you that is being shown the light? #lifeclass
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A child who knows itself is a child who will rise. #consciousparenting
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2017 has been the year when many women felt empowered to speak up. I believe that 2018 will be the year we will...
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. @oprah its hard for parents to hear that every conflict with our children is a reflection of how we need to yet develop #lifeclass
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Our children are not "ours." If anything, we are theirs. At their service....to help usher them to their highest...
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10 years
We do great damage to our children when we try to reduce them to one thing. It comes from our fixation with the external. #lifeclass
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10 years
What happens when you step outside yourself & honestly view your behavior towards your kids? The potential for change is there. #lifeclass
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These children are so full of an expansive spirit and we try to reduce them to one thing--a grade, a sport, etc. #lifeclass
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Doors to my Coaching Institute are Open Now!  😃 -
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