Here’s a question - when would you say you were at your best as a parent?

And when do you feel you are at your worst?

It takes just as much mental and physical energy to be our ‘best’ parent as it does to be our ‘worst’ parent, it just feels much easier at our best!

Being able to be in that ‘flow’ state or at our best is super important whatever we are doing, be it parenting, working or pursuing our hobbies or dreams.( remember those!) and there is a way to find and keep accessing that kind of energy (we call it anabolic energy as it helps produce the feel good hormones such as dopamine, oxytocin etc.

Awareness is just the start of working out what you need as a parent and as a person to get into your flow and stay there, especially with all the pressures and demands of helping our kids navigate their world. There are many different models, frameworks and structure to help build self awareness of what’s going on for us in our head, heart and gut and we use the Energy Framework developed by Bruce D Schneider. There is an Energy Leadership Index Assessment you can take to help start this journey or you can dive right in by joining one of our small and supportive group courses.

So what would it feel like to feel recharged, re energised and revived just by being able to identify what kind of energy works best for us in any given situation? Great, right? And it’s not rocket science, its just about practicing our awareness within a framework and flexing those metal muscles that we can call on when we need them.