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When I work with parenting couples using my Roots of Parenting model, we spend some time identifying individual values and where they overlap. These overlaps are often surprising to couples who think they have nothing in common when it comes to how they want to raise their kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/a0f681f7-deae-4e60-bc5c-251b558dafbe/IMG_2836-1.jpg Motherhood Blog - When It Is Hard To Get On The Same Page About Parenting. - The Roots of Parenting is a 12 Week Group Coaching Program for parents with kids of any age. Designed to stop parenting guilt in it’s tracks by supporting you to stop yelling at your kids and arguing with your partner or co-parent. We start on January 28th 2022. 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Before your children were born, it is likely you had a really clear picture in your mind of the parent you wanted to become. For many parents, this vision gets lost as our babies grow and develop into small humans with big behaviours, thoughts and feelings of their own. I invite you to ask yourself this question; “Am I the parent that I truly wanted to be?” As a family counsellor I have worked with hundreds of parents who want to return to parenting from those original values, but struggle to do so because they are triggered and overwhelmed by their kids big emotions and behaviours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/a0f681f7-deae-4e60-bc5c-251b558dafbe/IMG_2836-1.jpg Roots of Parenting - How well do you truly know yourself as a parent? Ask yourself these questions: Am I the parent I thought I would be? Do I feel clear on the values that matter most to me as a parent? How well do my views and values align with those of my partner or co-parent? What is standing in the way of me bringing the best version of myself to parenting? This program is designed to help you answer these questions and many more while building strong foundations for a happy, calm and loving future for your family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/d61f9490-3477-4671-a0a9-504103974fc0/IMG_3150-1.jpg Roots of Parenting - Hi, I’m Emma Holdsworth As well as being Mama to my 2 beautiful daughters, I am a Family, Parenthood and Perinatal Counsellor who has been working with parents, kids and families for over 20 years. I am super passionate about supporting parents to connect with their long lost parenting values, explore the roots of their core beliefs and relationship patterns and become the parents and partners they truly want to be. I am on a mission to support as many parents as I can, as early as possible in their parenting experience because I know that the best way to give our kids a loving and secure foundation, is to provide parents with the support and tools they need to feel lovable and secure themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1633668062379-4KORFA8P0RS6VHF8HE86/unsplash-image-OMl0o6TSQXU.jpg Roots of Parenting - Over many years working with families, I have discovered that the most important thing to focus on when it comes to parenting, is exploring how you respond and react to the needs, behaviours and emotions of your children. We now know that a child’s earliest experience of being in relationship with you, their parent, shapes their relationships throughout life. 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If you already have children, I’m guessing you have thought about it every day since they were born. If you are pregnant or planning a family, you may not have considered that the mother you truly want to be, often isn’t the mother you become. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1611189466724-JKX4JQCA0SSHV6I6OCMC/image-asset.jpeg Home (New) - Uncovering the roots of YOUR unique Motherhood story Your unique motherhood story can be found by peeling back these layers and observing these parts of your story with curiosity. This allows you the opportunity to heal what needs healing. The more of your story we uncover, the more of the parent you truly want to be becomes exposed and accessible to you. This allows you to parent from your true instinct as a mother, from your personal values as a parent. When we are moving through pregnancy and into motherhood is the perfect time to embark on this transformational work. THE MOTHER in you is strongly emerging (or re-emerging) and these layers will show themselves in your early relationship with your new baby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1607577660900-RDHSH4LEBI33R6YH75SA/kelly-sikkema-R1ZlnN69-18-unsplash.jpg Home (New) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1607579578450-74USMS3CO7JAVFVWCOJ6/image-asset.jpeg Home (New) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1607579801361-UN4YM2U8QDWL7KY8TAQZ/image-asset.jpeg Home (New) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1603431362824-03EH06R2OK5ZL1LJW4JQ/Screen+Shot+2020-10-23+at+3.37.13+pm.png Home (New) - The Roots of Motherhood programs have been designed to: Uncover the parent you truly want to be so that you can give your baby the very best possible start to life. Help you focus on bonding and responding so that your baby develops a secure attachment for life. 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Emma supports parents to explore the deeper aspects of themselves and understand how their childhood experiences, past relationships, values and beliefs will influence their parenting experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1603700991275-9UVI0WXPDO4MWEDZCUBT/Copy+of+ROM+All+Templates+%281%29.png Home (New) https://emmaholdsworth.com.au/under1mums daily 0.75 2023-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/ed1f0cfe-2127-4acf-aed0-a0f4be147132/Under+one+Mums+%282%29.png Under 1 Mums Circle - Confidence in motherhood Growing your community Tuning in to your baby and your instincts. Facilitated by Emma Holdsworth - Pregnancy, birth and postpartum support professional, Family and Breastfeeding Counsellor, Sandplay Therapist and Mother of 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1620612441133-R31DC8KZ3D2Y7O4RSAH1/priscilla-du-preez-nF8xhLMmg0c-unsplash.jpg Under 1 Mums Circle - The Under 1 Mum’s Circle is for you if; You have a new baby or are expecting in the next few months. You would like the opportunity to genuinely explore motherhood themes and be real about your experiences in a supportive environment. You want to build life long relationships with a village of like-minded, new mums. You are interested in tuning in to your body, your baby and your instincts as a mother and tuning out the 'noise' that can get in the way of becoming the mother you truly want to be. 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My dream is to see babies thrive. In my 20+ years of working with families I have learned that the best way for babies to thrive is for new mothers to thrive! New mothers thrive when their internal experiences are heard and validated. New mothers thrive when they are given genuine, loving care and support during the early years. New mothers thrive when they understand their own needs and are supported to meet those needs. New mothers thrive when they know what to expect and how to communicate in their relationships. This is why I became The Mental Health Doula, so I could walk alongside families, providing both the mental health and practical, nurturing support they need to thrive, from planning a family to pregnancy, birth and the first years postpartum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1650596166153-CYR8361PFOEC1XZBDK1Y/IMG_1891.jpg Pregnancy and Postpartum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/ddd5b8bd-cd6b-461b-9b79-12d76ae41848/IMG_1918-1.jpg Pregnancy and Postpartum - About Me I’m Emma, mother of two, parent focused Counsellor, Early Parenting and Breastfeeding Educator and Perinatal support professional with over 20 years experience working with families. There is nothing I love more than providing loving care and support to new parents so that they can provide loving care and support to their babies. Supporting you to become the parents you truly want to be, the parents your baby needs to thrive in the world is what I was born to do! I support parents through all the aspects of pregnancy, postpartum and early parenting, providing a ‘continuity of emotional care’ model to new families. I believes that a change is needed in the outdated and often unsupportive way that families are offered emotional care in the foundational years of parenting. 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Focus on bonding with and responding to the needs of your babies and children so that they develop a secure attachment for life. Work through difficult thoughts and feelings associated with parenthood to reduce the risks of depression, anxiety, overwhelm and relationship struggles. Understand your personal needs and develop strategies to continue to find time for yourself. Peel back the layers of confusion and conflicting advice that can cloud the transition to motherhood so that you can develop a parenting style that feels good for you. Be an extra pair of hands, a less sleep deprived brain and a sturdy person to lean on as you travel on the wild ride that is the early months and years of motherhood! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/581ab50d-4827-4a2b-b604-ed986225f5ff/IMG_2080-1.jpg Home 21 - Your early experience of motherhood is so very important. It lays the foundation (the roots) of your entire experience of parenthood. Healthy roots in early parenting is what happy and secure babies, kids and adults grow from. 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I support parents to explore the deeper aspects of themselves so that they can become the parents and partners that they truly want to be. I have worked with hundreds of parents over the last 20+ years and I can tell you, hand to my heart, not one has told me that parenting is easier than they expected! When you become a parent, you just can’t tell what behaviours, stages or emotions will be the ones that you struggle with the most. Now, I don’t have a crystal ball but when we sit down and begin to explore your past - your childhood, adolescence, relationship patterns, core beliefs and values, it becomes pretty obvious why you find some aspects of parenting more challenging. I would love to stand by your side and take a walk back in to your own roots to discover and begin to heal, what is holding you back from becoming the parent and partner you truly want to be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1650596166153-CYR8361PFOEC1XZBDK1Y/IMG_1891.jpg Parenting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/b264a02c-34a4-4acf-ae14-a7e57cd533f5/IMG_3111-1.jpg Parenting - About Me.. I’m Emma, mother of two, parent-focused Counsellor, Early Parenting and Breastfeeding Educator and Mental Health Doula, with over 20 years experience working with families. There is nothing I love more than providing loving care and support to parents so that they can provide loving care and support to their babies and children. I have seen first hand the damage that can be done by the lack of emotional and practical support offered to families in the foundational years of parenting, as well as the outdated and impractical advice that they are offered. I believe it's time for a change. Which is why I have developed my ‘Wrap my arms around you’ model, which supports parents through all the aspects of pregnancy, postpartum and early parenting, providing continuity of emotional care to you and your family. https://emmaholdsworth.com.au/about daily 0.75 2024-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/fa6b816e-8ac7-4165-ae23-4d1a2527ac3e/IMG_2885-1+%281%29.jpg About - Whether you are pregnant or already a mum, I know you have doubts and worries. I know you think you should be able to do it all and that you shouldn’t have to ask for help . Motherhood is hard, there is so much to learn and you just want to get it right. You know how you want to parent but can’t seem to shake the worry that you might not be a good enough Mum. That’s where I come in… You can let go of some of that worry, because you are in the right place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/2d4b1070-2812-472a-9c58-30250d0e0939/IMG_1918-1.jpg About - I’m Emma Holdsworth - your mental health doula I take care of parents so that parents can take care of their babies and children. I am a mother of 2, parent-focused educator and therapist, perinatal support professional, breastfeeding counsellor and doula. That’s a mouthful though so you can call me The Mental Health Doula! I am trained in counselling and Sandplay Therapy with many years of experience in women’s and children’s mental health. I also trained as a postpartum care professional with extra knowledge in infant mental health, breastfeeding and infant sleep. I have been working with families for over 20 years and boy, have a learnt a thing or 2 along the way! The greatest thing I have learned in all my years of working with families is this; so many of the issues that families face as their kids get older, could have been avoided by getting it right - and accessing the right support - in the early years. I want to change the narrative around emotional support for parents and families. I want all parents to know that; EMOTIONAL SUPPORT IS NOT A LUXURY. Emotional Support is NOT FOR WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG. Emotional and mental health support is a necessity for ALL PARENTS. Everyone needs it and everyone deserves it. Including you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/b3936795-0a72-4d8d-a0e3-eb4a7df3b35e/IMG_2962-1.jpg About - Qualifications and training include; Dual Diploma in Community Welfare and Counselling - ICCS. Newborn Mothers Postpartum Professional - Newborn Mothers. Certificate IV in Breastfeeding Education - Australian Breastfeeding Association. Introductory Certificate in Infant Mental Health - WCHN Sandplay Therapy Practitioner - Sandplay Therapy Australia. I have completed the 2021 NDC Program for Providers and Educators by Possums & Co www.possumsonline.com And this year I am working through the comprehensive Doula training provided by The Doula Training Academy. Founded a successful private Family Counselling Practice which I ran for 7 years called Tree House Family Counselling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/fe726119-95d8-452c-8a5c-752827c53a52/IMG_2778-1.jpg About - “Yeah but Emma, who are you really?” These 2 girls are my lifeblood and parenting a preteen and a preschooler is bloody hard work! (need support parenting any age? I can help) ‍‍ I am a single mum and have a great working relationship and friendship with my co-parent. (need support separating with kids? I can help) ‍ I’m a lover of deep conversations with good people AND public speaking but I don’t enjoy small talk - go figure! (want me to speak to your group/class about something? Happy to) ❤️‍I have had a big life with lots of love, travel and interesting jobs - as well as my fair share of heartache, pain and loss. ‍♀‍I am committed to trying something new, fun and out of my comfort zone every year. Last year I starting Roller Skating and this year I have joined a Roller Derby League. (Do you need support to find something that is just for YOU? I can help.) I found pregnancy very challenging, experiencing hyperemesis gravidarum, an early pregnancy loss and an ectopic pregnancy. I seriously love all things birth and babies though, including my experience of both. 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I support parents to explore the deeper aspects of themselves so that they can become the parents and partners that they truly want to be. I have worked with hundreds of parents over the last 20+ years and I can tell you, hand to my heart, not one has told me that parenting is easier than they expected! When you become a parent, you just can’t tell what behaviours, stages or emotions will be the ones that you struggle with the most. Now, I don’t have a crystal ball but when we sit down and begin to explore your past - your childhood, adolescence, relationship patterns, core beliefs and values, it becomes pretty obvious why you find some aspects of parenting more challenging. I would love to stand by your side and take a walk back in to your own roots to discover and begin to heal, what is holding you back from becoming the parent and partner you truly want to be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/1650596166153-CYR8361PFOEC1XZBDK1Y/IMG_1891.jpg Couples Support https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f87cbf2f81ed4116676347b/b264a02c-34a4-4acf-ae14-a7e57cd533f5/IMG_3111-1.jpg Couples Support - About Me.. I’m Emma, mother of two, parent-focused Counsellor, Early Parenting and Breastfeeding Educator and Mental Health Doula, with over 20 years experience working with families. There is nothing I love more than providing loving care and support to parents so that they can provide loving care and support to their babies and children. I have seen first hand the damage that can be done by the lack of emotional and practical support offered to families in the foundational years of parenting, as well as the outdated and impractical advice that they are offered. I believe it's time for a change. 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