Why Honest Parenting Communities Feel So Nourishing One of the most difficult challenges in parenting is learning how to lighten up, especially when it comes to self-judgment. Most parents do not struggle because they care too little. If anything, they struggle because they care so much. They want to do right by their children, to … Read more
How the Attuned Parent Project Uses Self-Awareness to Build Secure Attachment Parents often discover the Enneagram while looking for a better understanding of themselves or their children. Less widely recognized is that the Enneagram can also illuminate how the nervous system organizes itself under stress, particularly within the emotionally charged environment of family life. Viewed … Read more
The core purpose of this article is to introduce parents to the foundational paradigm of The Attuned Parent Project (TAPP). In a parenting culture flooded with behavioral hacks, sleep training formulas, and hyper-curated milestones, TAPP offers an alternative: a return to relationship, presence, and authentic seeing. The goal of our work is not to train … Read more
Touch, Temperature, and the Awakening of the Inner World I came across this article in Neuroscience News that explores how temperature changes during something as simple as a hug can deepen body awareness and emotional attunement. What struck me immediately was how profoundly this connects to what we explore in The Enneagram World of the … Read more