#24 | What Every Couple Needs to Know About Love

08/17/21 • 41 min

In our previous Part 1 episode, Inas and I discussed what love means to a child vs. to a parent. And the episode went into how parents who love vs. what a child needs in love.
This Part 2 episode focuses on what it means to truly love in an intimate, romantic relationship with our partners or spouses.
Inas is married to his high school sweetheart and has experienced many couples' ups and downs to reach a conscious relationship. I've been married in the past, and I share in a deep conscious connection through spiritual self-awareness.
This episode is for anyone not currently experiencing the relationship they wish they were having with themselves or their partners/spouses, and for parents having parenting challenges (because often than not, the relationship is as well - consciously or subconsciously).
We give tips on reaching a level in your relationship, even as busy parents, that is more connected in mind, body, and spirit in daily life.

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#23 | The Meaning of Love: the Child vs Parent Perspective

When we talk about love, we often mean "love" as a feeling rather than what love is in action. Second, and most importantly, what love is for the person receiving it (in this case, the other person is your own child).
Sure, we unconditionally love our child, but what does that even mean? What does that REALLY mean to you? Because let's face it, we know there will be times that love is challenged.
As moms and dads, we love our children, though not always like everything they do. So, through those challenging times, how are we showing love in a way that the child feels, not just in a way that we believe love is felt? And how is our idea of love influenced by how we grew up to understand love to be?
We discuss all these and more in today's episode about the child's perspective and the parent's perspective of love. The concept of love is more profound than the way love comes up in the mainstream.
This topic is so important to understand in its deepest level so that our children grow up to know love in the purest form possible. However, this means that there will parts of you that need to be questioned and examined so that you become self-aware to the parts of you that need more love.
This episode is my first with my new co-host Inas Aquiningoc, father of two and advocate for holistic parenting.

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#25 | Are You Open to Healing as a Parent?

I used to think that being open to healing would be something easy to do until it was my turn to heal.
And instead of welcoming healing, I found myself wanting to run away from it.
Why? Because it meant that I needed to run towards my triggers and, in turn, my generational trauma (which, if you aren't aware, passes on to you through your DNA). And that wasn't going to be an easy process to go through.
I felt that as a mom, it was just easier to stay in my bubble of reality and keep trying to learn parenting tips instead of trying to understand why I felt the way I felt and did the things I did.
Better to focus on my kid's behavior than my own.
But, that way of parenting also led to feeling depleted, overwhelmed, constant mommy guilt, and all the things that other parents told me were part of being a mom (Hint: it's not).
Had I not continued anyway, despite the work it would take to heal, I never would've reached the way of parenting that I lead now, which is one of self-awareness, confidence, ease, and flow.
For my co-host, Inas, his journey was one he was open to leaning into, without the same hesitation that I experienced. So, you'll hear both sides of healing as a parent, from being open to it to running away from it. And what happens when you do go through the time to heal as a parent.
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