Conscious-Parent-Transforming-Ourselves-Empowering-ebook
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Print Length: 324 pages
Publisher: Namaste Publishing Inc.; First edition (October 1, 2010)
Publication Date: October 1, 2010
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Language: English
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The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children eBook
by Dr. Shefali Tsabary (Author)
It’s a tremendous privilege to raise children, though for a quite different reason than most of us who are parents imagine.
While we think it’s our responsibility to mold and shape our children’s future, the essential premise of Dr. Shefali Tsabary’sA Call to Conscious Parenting is that our children are born to us to create deep internal transformation within us.
Our children have the power to unleash our egoic behaviour unlike anyone else, triggering all of our emotional reactivity. As, through our intimate relationship with them, we are exposed to our immaturity, they become our most accurate mirror of our own lack of emotional development. In other words, by inviting us to confront who we are in our relationship with them, our children raise us to be the parents they long for us to become.
Despite our best intentions to raise our children well, in our unconsciousness we pass on emotional legacies to our children that have deep and lasting repercussions. Bequeathing to them our unresolved needs, unmet expectations, and frustrated dreams, we shackle them in unconscious patterns that shut them down to their own unique being.
To do justice to parenthood, a parent needs to become conscious. Only to the degree we are willing to transform our own emotional present do we succeed in positively influencing our children’s future.
Dr. Tsabary asks us to set aside traditional parenting strategies that major in controlling our children and instead find true kinship with their spirits by tuning into who each child is in its own unique essence. Surrendering to the oneness of the parent-child relationship in this way lifts parenting out of the physical and into the realm of the sacred.
Peppered with practical, hands-on examples from Dr. Tsabary’s real-life experiences with the countless families she has helped journey consciously together, A Call to Conscious Parenting is a manual for giving our children the opportunity to shine and dazzle with their natural state of being.
Instead of being merely the receiver of the parents’ psychological and spiritual legacy, children function as ushers of the parents’ development. Parents unwittingly pass on an inheritance of psychological pain and emotional shallowness. To handle the behaviour that results, traditional books on parenting abound with clever techniques for control and quick fixes for dysfunction. In Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s conscious approach to parenting, however, children serve as mirrors of their parents’ forgotten self. Those willing to look in the mirror have an opportunity to establish a relationship with their own inner state of wholeness. Once they find their way back to their essence, parents enter into communion with their children, shifting away from the traditional parent-to-child “know it all” approach and more towards a mutual parent-with-child relationship. The pillars of the parental ego crumble as the parents awaken to the ability of their children to transport them into a state of presence.
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About the Author
Shefali Tsabary, PhD, received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, New York. Dr. Shefali was exposed to Eastern mindfulness at an early age and integrates its teachings with Western psychology. This blend of East and West allows her to reach a global audience. Her ability to appeal to both a psychologically astute and consciousness-driven audience establishes her as one of a kind in the parenting field.
Dr. Shefali has worked with a varied demographic, ranging from survivors of the Asian Tsunami to Third World women, from inner city youth to suburban families, and from the elderly and infirm to corporate leaders.
Dr. Shefali lectures extensively on mindful living and conscious parenting around the world, and is in private practice. She is author of Out of Control, published in early 2014, as well as the book It’s a Mum: What you should know about the early years of motherhood, which debuted on the Indian National Bestseller List for four weeks.
Dr Shefali was recently a guest on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday and Lifeclass television programs. In her introduction of the author and this book, Oprah stated that she has not been as excited about a book’s philosophy as she is about this one since Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth.
About Dr. Shefali Tsabary
Rachel Rainbolt
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Feels like I just left a conscious parenting retreat. Though I do have a few points of contention.
July 05, 2019
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There was so very much in The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Shefali Tsabary that resonated with me. It is not a how-to book of parenting strategies but a philosophical guide for walking the parenting journey with mindfulness. I put down the book feeling like my mind just left a conscious parenting retreat, punctuated with moments of, “Ah, yes,” and feeling spiritually rejuvenated. I definitely recommend this book for parents in the advanced class.
That said, I do have four significant points of contention.
Lack of connection
I walked away from this reading experience feeling a definite sense of separateness as the ideal (in her opinion). But connection is the foundation of everything for humans. The author of this book sees the path to enlightenment as being a solitary one. I disagree – passionately.
Devaluing of full time parenthood
The author conveys a clear message that working away from your child gives them the greatest benefit and further diminishes full time parenthood by expounding the insignificance of direct involvement in your child’s daily life. I wholeheartedly disagree and attitudes like this contribute to a societal devaluing of mothering.
Only child perspective
Some of what she describes is not applicable for a family with multiple children. For example, she espouses a lot of alone time and silence. Having three little boys myself, they are always together and it is never silent.
Traditional Public School
A lot of the book is told through the lens of a family with a child in traditional public school. So much so, that it is presented as the way of life, as opposed to a choice she has made.
Despite these concerns, I still recommend the book for parents who seek to evolve.
Plant Based for the Whole Family
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is life-changing!!
June 17, 2019
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I’m a Christian. I’ve read a ton of parenting books. I homeschool my kids, I live with them 24/7. I’ve tried a lot of different techniques and they all feel like a cop-out for the real reason behind the struggles. Like Dr Shefali says, “Stop the insanity!” This book has brought a different perspective to the whole scenario. Things are finally making sense. It all starts with me, the parent. The problem is not my kid. The problem is me! Please don’t freak out!! You’re probably thinking, “oh, yeah, here we go again. It’s all my fault!” Yes and no! The good news is that there is a solution. I’m loving this book and I am reading her other one too, The Awakened Family. Don’t give up on your kids. Buy this book today and start listening to Dr Shefali’s teaching on YouTube.
27 people found this helpful
Rachelle
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A MUST READ
June 15, 2019
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I never write reviews, but in this case I have no choice. I have a PhD in clinical psychology, and I think this is one of the most important books ever written. EVER. Anyone who has a child, wants to have a child, is having a child, or WAS a child should read this. If Dr. Tsabary’s message could get through to any of them, the world would be a better place.
49 people found this helpful
Books-For-Everyone Customer
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Also believe kids can better understand their parents and face issues they struggled with …
June 04, 2019
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Bought this for Mum- may not have been the right move because she got offended, however, I started reading the book and it is very insightful (it’s much easier for me to take in because I am not a parent). I also believe kids can better understand their parents and face issues they struggled with during childhood by reading this.
24 people found this helpful
Alexandra Aldrin
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good info but repetitive
May 26, 2019
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This book was good info in regards to being aware of your own presence and letting your kids be what they are however it seemed it was just repeating all the info throughout the book. At times the author makes you feel like if something is happening to your child or when they act up its your own fault. I continued to read it and got past that and then just felt like I was re-reading the same info. She basically does not want you to have any sort of expectations from your kid otherwise they are going to rebel in different ways.
Worth the read for the info but don’t feel bad about yourself because of the focus on yourself she puts.
29 people found this helpful
Lionel Hilaire
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Takes you deep!
May 23, 2019
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Shefali dives in very early in her book and really show how we can be more effective parents. I realised that was parenting from my past and not learning who my children are and are becoming. Now, I listen to them, show more concern. I ask them questions like “why do you feel this way, or why did you answer like that.”
I see improvement in my children. I realise that every child is a small reflection of myself. Once I begin to do some deep searching within myself, I begin to understand them more and know how to better help them as they help me also…
8 people found this helpful
Lucas Alcalde
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly recommend!
April 24, 2019
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Great, great book for anyone who is about to become a parent (like myself) or someone who already has kids. I haven’t finished the book yet but I love that this is not a how-to book, it’s a book that walk you through the conscious process and how many unconscious responses that we already have programmed in us.
Definitely a very holistic/stoic approach to parenting but if you already have that mindset about life. this book will spark your imagination 🙂
9 people found this helpful
Lucas
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best parenting book I’ve ever read
April 07, 2019
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This is, in all seriousness, the best parenting book I’ve ever read. It isn’t about “how to fix” your kid(s), it’s about how to fix YOU.
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