Here’s my Dare To Love Yourself Challenge Video Day 2 – I share with you my “This Too Shall Pass” Moment:

I have tried affirmations in the past without a huge shift – but I never did stick to it every day for 3 weeks. When I do them I feel like I am lying sometimes. When I’m not in a good mood I can’t possibly believe that many of those phrases could ever be possible.

A friend of mine on Facebook, Nancy Barry-Jansson has taught hundreds of people how to get the most from affirmations and is a coach. Her comment to my Day 1 Challenge video yesterday was “Be kind to yourself, Andrea. If affirmations were *true* you wouldn’t benefit from saying them ~feeling like a stretch means they will stretch your consciousness (if you stick with them). If they are too much of a stretch, you can baby-step them.” The part I bolded really helped me feel better.

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“Families don’t need martyrs, they need mothers. You have to take care of yourself first, so you have something to give. You can’t give what you don’t have.” Dr. Phil

This quote was posted by a friend of mine who is taking the Dare To Love Yourself Challenge with me.

Here’s a few videos I recorded, will try to Vlog every day of the Challenge!! =)

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By June Ebell

Heather and Andrea,

At the beginning I was skeptical about the Beyond Consequences method.

I believe there is no “magic wand” that you can wave, and everything is roses (with no thorns).
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Online Parenting Class Testimonial from Margie & Rick Magar

- Tell us a little about yourself

We are Christian parents of a 15-year-old birth-daughter who we have
home schooled for 9 years. We felt God’s call in our hearts this past
November (2008) to adopt a child from the US Foster Care system. We are
currently waiting to hear back on a potential match. [Read more →]

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Online Parenting Class Testimonial from Karen Adams, Beyond Consequences Instructor

- Tell us a little about yourself

I am a bio mom of adult kids, a former special needs and therapeutic foster parent, and a new adoptive mom. I am choosing to adopt children from US foster care that are already “labeled” with diagnoses including RAD, PTSD, ADHD, FAS, Mental Retardation, Adjustment Disorder of Childhood. [Read more →]

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Can you see this angry child as a scared child? Image by foamcow via Flickr.

Today in our online parenting class that started last month we completed Session 7 in the course which deals with Chapter 9 in Beyond Consequences, Logic & Control Volume 1 on Aggression. Our goals for today’s session were:

1. To help participants identify anger as fear. An aggressive child is a scared child.
2. To help parents understand that aggression is a survival behavior, triggered when feeling threatened.
3. Equip parents to identify their own fear reactions when their child is aggressive.
4. Teach techniques that can be used to create safety and decrease the creation of more fear and stress.
5. Help them realize that aggression is not a personal attack against them. Help them shift their belief that their child is rejecting them.
6. Help them understand that the core drive of aggressive behavior is not control, it is protection. [Read more →]

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Two spaces left…Don’t Miss Your Chance to join us ONLINE

Have I mentioned yet that I want you to attend the best online online parenting classes ever?

Tomorrow, on July 22nd, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30am PST I have Heather Forbes, LCSW and author of Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control Volumes 1 & 2 as well as Dare To Love is ready to teach you the parenting secrets that will bring your family the peace you are looking for!

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I am pleased to announce that I attended the Beyond Consequences Certified Instructor Training in Los Angeles this past weekend!

I spent two insightful days with Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, and truly did experience a training like no other. Heather brought her professionalism and understanding of the Beyond Consequences parenting paradigm to this training. Like the “Every Day is Mother’s Day” Moms Conference I attended last month, Heather also moved me to a new understanding of myself — cognitively, emotionally, and spiritually.

Eric Guy, LSW, a nationally recognized therapist and speaker taught this Instructor Training. I liked the balance of their energies and loved the synergy of their work together! I really enjoyed Eric’s style and presence; his parenting demonstrations were powerful and inspiring.

I attended to learn to actively implement excellent parenting techniques and learn to regulate during stress filled times, empower myself and my family, be a local support to my community, have an opportunity to truly help other parents.

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