How to Get Unstuck – Serious parents who are committed to making personal changes in their lives, but need some help, here is a very special resource, a weekend intensive called Taking It Lightly. One of our parents has been involved for a few years with this program and has written to all parents particularly those with traumatized children of her exhilarating experience. I am familiar with this as my previous wife, Patricia Clason created it and has been running it for over 20 years — impacting the lives of thousands of families.
Although based in Milwaukee Wisconsin, she does offer the course in other cities as well. Take a few moments to read this expression of how this parent’s life has been empowered due to this experience.
Taking It Lightly made it possible for me to (finally!) do what Bryan Post had been urging me to do all along–be fully present to my children in deep love without judgment or criticism. It’s very simple: I CANNOT be compassionate to my children when I am beating up on myself. They know this–they are always watching me to see how safe I am for them emotionally. Since Taking It Lightly, it is much easier for me to love myself just as I am, so it is easier for me to love my children just as they are. I’m more fun now, too, which is all they ever wanted me to be.
In addition to taking the course in 2012 and reviewing it in 2015, I also volunteer to staff as many Taking It Lightly weekends as I can. The difference in my relationship with my children when I come home in the evenings is amazing! They are cuddly, so much less afraid, letting me hug them and even offering to hug me! They can tell I’ve been bathing in an environment of unconditional love. I now experience profound moments with my daughter when she looks warily into my eyes, searching for traces of judgment and criticism, and finds none, only love and acceptance. Then she relaxes. This would never have happened before Taking It Lightly. — Love, Lia
If this touches you in a way that says, “I want that too!” contact Patricia to see how you can accomplish this. I can pretty much guarantee that you will never be the same – and your family will love you all the more for it.
Have a calm and peaceful day!
David