Healing Your Ability To Love Unconditionally Workbook

We all know how important it is for kids to have lots of love so they can grow up well. But sometimes, we might not feel like we have enough love to give, especially if we don't feel very good about ourselves. The first step to loving our kids is to be kind to ourselves.

If you didn't have a perfect childhood and sometimes you feel grumpy instead of kind, does that mean you can't be a good parent? Nope, not at all. Studies show that our hearts can get bigger and we can learn to be nicer to ourselves and others. 

Being a mom or dad helps us get better at this because we really care about our kids, so we're willing to do the hard work of healing ourselves. And it's worth it! The good news is that when our hearts get bigger, we become not only better parents, but happier people!

Healing your ability to love takes daily attention and commitment, but it's quite do-able. The workbook will show you how. Here's the Table of Contents:

1. Become a Recovering Perfectionist.

2. Unconditional love is like a muscle. It needs a daily workout.

3. Want to wake up jazzed about the day ahead? Commit to radical self-care.

4. Are you drinking rat poison? Heal your childhood.

5. Heal Your Heart, Heal Your Life

6. Walk In Your Child's Shoes: 5 Secrets to Love Your Child Unconditionally.

7. Love unconditionally even when you're angry.

8. Take the High Road.

9. What if you've made mistakes as a parent?

10. Rewire Your Brain for Love.

There is no such thing as a perfect parent. But it is entirely possible to gradually become the parent you want to be, most of the time. After all, you have live-in teachers and 24/7 lessons! Use your mistakes to your advantage. They aren’t mistakes if you learn from them; they’re life lessons in your parenting PhD. That’s why spiritual masters call it a Practice!

Do a page or two of this workbook every day, and put what you're learning into practice when you relate to your child, and yourself. You'll be growing your ability to choose love in those tough moments, and that's what changes your brain. 

Just keep practicing, bringing awareness to each interaction, finding that moment of freedom between the stimulus (your child's behavior) and your own reaction. Noticing is what gives you a choice next time. The miracle of one foot in front of the other, in the right direction, is that one day you look around, and all the scenery is different.

Pretty soon, you'll find yourself in a whole new landscape.

Repeat daily. Enjoy the journey. Watch your life transform.