John responds to a mother’s wish to understand why her young daughter still seems unhappy, despite her best efforts at parenting.
Topic: Parenting
Questions about personal responsibility and what makes us truly human are on the table in this conversation, ranging from global concerns to being the best parent one can be.
VOD
December 31, 2023
“Openness is what you are. When you close, you shut you down. What is open can close and what is closed can open. Regardless of what you’ve done or not done, live delicately opening.” Energy centres: what you do to one you do…
For this mother, who is struggling in relation to her teenage daughter, what begins as a hard lesson to learn becomes a beautiful crossroads that will deeply change them both.
In this simple, sweet teaching, John describes how to raise a child who will feel safe, seen, and who’ll not need to perform for love.
Q: I feel so happy! There’s a child growing inside of me. Can you speak about becoming a mother, a good mother, and being this as much as possible? Thank you. John: Instead of you being mother, which you don’t really know how to…
How do you say “no” to a child in a way that doesn’t feel restrictive and frustrating? John shares the magic of the “no” that is full of “yes” … a clarity that opens a child to its deeper resources of goodness and love.
Q: I had a call from my 21-year-old daughter who left home a year ago, telling me she needed to talk to me and she’s in a lot of pain. I could feel it in myself; it seems we’re in some kind of symbiosis…
VOD
May 9, 2022
“The self is as good as you are fundamentally relaxed in it. That’s where you realize in experience that the self is all good.” New realms; integration comes naturally by being knowing in life Multi-tasking; doing on the surface what needs to be…
This mother’s wish to protect her baby son’s purity from the world reveals what it takes to be the best kind of parent she can be, and how this establishes the foundation her child will need as he grows.
Q: You’ve spoken about understanding the world and how it works, and then both moving and seeing beyond it. This world is hardly understandable for me, so can you guide me a little in how to be with my child as he starts to…
VOD
December 26, 2021
“Say something tender to your toothbrush when it runs out of battery. If you live that way everything in your whole life changes before you. You begin to see everything differently, everyone differently, your self differently. It starts with your toothbrush.” Difficulty is because…
