Bridget Borsdorf

Being a parent tests boundaries, limitations, and patience daily, and yet can be one of the most rewarding experiences of our lives. In working with parents over the years one thing has become abundantly clear: we tend to parent as we were parented. While consciously we try to make adjustments and modifications to how we were raised, it is evitable that our own childhood experiences will influence how we communicate, discipline, and connect with our children.

In working with parents I find it necessary to address the integrated behaviors that have manifested from our own childhood experience. By doing so parent’s can begin to see how these experiences shape their approach to parenting and then begin to shift their perception and then parent from a place of their own authentic value and essence. Our own inner child needs to be parented first, in the way we wanted to be parented in order for us to be able to have the patience, resilience, and compassion for our own children.