An introductory session to learn about Terry Rubenstein, the founder of iheart, mother of six boys, and the teacher of this course. Terry introduces why she created this course,  what will be covered, and provides some background on iheart and its mission and vision in the world.

She clarifies that this course goes beyond parenting techniques, that work for some and not for others, to offering  an instructions manual as to how we work as humans, and as parents, and how this undertanding can dramatically change the way you view parenting and your children.

Have you every noticed that when your parenting really resonates with your kids, that they have something landing inside of them – that they have their own insight?

In this session, we explore the concept of wellness by looking at common struggles for parents and myths about where our wellbeing comes from. We learn that wellbeing is innate in all humans and that when you see this, it changes the game of parents when you understand that all of this is truly built into your children. We also explore why how it is that we aren’t always feeling our wellbeing.

 In this session, we continue to explore how the mind works. We explore that often we overlook the true source of our wellbeing and attach our wellbeing to something or someone outside of us (our kids behaving, money, our success, our child’s grades, our kids having friends). And that this tendency to attach our wellbeing can leave us feeling contstrictid or limited. If we can’t achieve that, we feel like we can’t be peaceful or happy. Our mind is innocent but powerful – it will work very hard and put a lot of thinking on whatever pursuit we give it, regardless of the true logic of the pursuit.

   PRINT: Session 3 Notes Page

   WATCH: Session 3: Getting to know your psychological system

   WATCH: Alarm bells go off for Tess: Letting go of her attachment allowed her daughter to learn from her own innate wisdom

   WATCH: Vanessa describes struggling with her child who has severe allergies

   READ: Helen reflects on her attachment to her son’s mental health/ wellbeing

   PRINT: How do you feel when you are not in your wellbeing

   PRINT: Session 4 Notes Page

   WATCH: Session 4: Getting to know your psychological GPS

   WATCH: Gracie (age 19 ) powerfully described how the iheart learning helped her with chronic stress and anxiety

   WATCH: Stacey questions whether her daughter’s exams really steal her peace of mind?

   PRINT: Above and below the iceberg

   PRINT: Session 5 Notes Page

   WATCH: Session 5: Help I feel insecure, anxious, worried and full of guilt!

   READ: Patricia offers a powerful sharing of how a long standing attachment to fear of cancer/ death began to fall away

   WATCH: Vanessa describes her revelation of discovering that she could experience ‘a perfect day’ of parenting even when her children were far from perfect.

   Challenging (poking holes) in your outsources/ attachments – Terry introduces some great questions to help facilitate insight when an outsource/ attachment feels very embedded, engrained and hard to shift

   Insight Questions

   PRINT: Do we all see the same reality?

   PRINT: Session 6 Notes Page

   WATCH: Session 6: Navigating conflict in the home

   WATCH: Sonia explores whether a mother and daughter can disagree and still be friends?

   WATCH: Babs describes dealing with difficult behaviour and head strong children

   PRINT: Session 7 Notes Page

   WATCH: Session 7: My child is being bullied/my child is bullying other children

   WATCH: Alfie on Anger

   WATCH: Vanessa describes a moment of sibling rivalry that led to despair, but finally ended up with a powerful insight

   PRINT: Session 8 Notes Page

   WATCH: Session 8: Labels are for jars–uncovering innate confidence

   READ: Nora describes a powerful insight she had around her children creating mess in the house