Parenting Support – Collaborative Thinking and Consultation

Pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and raising babies while preserving our relationship and ourselves… it’s so much.

Sometimes much more than it seems possible to bear. Certainly on our own…

As a mother of five, I offer sessions of shared reflection, consultation, and guidance from an egalitarian, supportive, and empowering place.

• The challenges are many and complex—and constantly changing—but it is possible to draw on knowledge and support so that we grow into the people and the parents we wish to be.

Pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood provide us with a rare and precious window of opportunity. A window that looks both to the past and to the future. An opportunity also to learn, to touch, and even to try to repair periods, traits, and habits of our own. And also an opportunity to learn and shape the way we live in general and our way of parenting in particular. (Almost every subject we touch upon in the preparation meetings also stirs in me the wish to point out that this is only the beginning of dealing with that subject, which will appear with greater force and in different shades throughout the entire challenge of parenthood.)

I bring with me:

Perspective.
Belief in the goodness of the child.
Trust in the goodness of the parent.
Belief in the good that can and should be.
A great deal of experience accompanying families and children through the challenges of growth and change at important crossroads.

We meet either at my home in Moshav Merchavia or in your home, and together decide on the nature and framework of the meetings.

It is not always necessary to “dig” into the sources of a problem; it is also possible to look at where we want to arrive and how to make use of the good and the strengths that already exist.

You are welcome to contact me by phone or email for an introductory conversation, with no obligation.

In the meantime, I invite you to get to know my approach through my evolving blog, which deals mainly with matters of thoughtful, conscious parenting that dares, perhaps, to be different.

I will appreciate and value every response, comment, and insight—whether within the blog itself, by email, by phone, or otherwise…

(You are also warmly invited to pass this on to anyone you think may be interested in and enjoy the blog.)

Here is a link to a sample post: “Don’t Solve Their Problems for Them”

See you,

Lilach

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