Empowering our children to let their spirits soar

Dear SpiritKids Parent Partner,

I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve you. I have had a contemplative practice for many years, having trained in and taught mindfulness and meditation practices in schools in grades kindergarten through high school. I also work one on one with youth of all ages helping them to connect to their inner guidance and build a wellness practice supporting and empowering them to live their best lives during joyful and also turbulent times. From these beautiful experiences, and the witnessed need in the world for a greater foundation of peace in our people,  the larger calling to create SpiritKids, the soon to be released app for families, was born.

As parents, we are stretched daily. Our patience, our will, our belief system, are all tested in our parenting. We come from a place of love, wanting to give and teach our children everything, all that we did not have, all that we wanted for ourselves. But this means we come to parenting with a prescribed plan or unconscious agenda for how to parent based on our own childhood, our past, our lessons learned, our dreams and our hopes for our own futures, fulfilled, and unfulfilled. And this is not bad, and it is not our fault. All parents are doing the best they can given the resources, tools and experiences they bring to parenting. Yet we must realize that what we have in our children is not a redo for ourselves. Nor is it our chance to finally achieve all that we personally wanted to achieve in our lives, rewrite mistakes, or right wrongs. Rather, this is an exquisite opportunity to bear witness to another being’s individual experience on this Earth, and what they choose to make of it, what they bring to the table, how they decide to use it, and where they find and create happiness. Because they are their own beings having their own experience in this lifetime.  They will have their own trials and tribulations, their own lessons to be learned, their own failures, mistakes, set backs, and strides, successes and illuminations. It is therefore our job as parents to embody the honor that has been bestowed upon us to steward these new humans into this human experience, to protect and love and support them as they grow and learn about this life and planet they have been born into, and to step aside when it is time for them to fly. If we can parent with faith, knowing that these little humans who came through us, these little rays of light who are meant to shine brightly in this world, are not "ours", nor little versions of us, but rather divine gifts and lovely visitors to our lives for but a moment in time as children, then we can relish all of the precious time we have with our children, all of the struggles, pitfalls, and triumphs the same. We can see them for the individuals that they are, stand by their side when needed, and guide them to return to their inner spirit for their ultimate guidance in our world. We can trust and have faith that our children were born with everything they need to thrive and will do so when they are able to connect to their spirit and live from this irrefutable place of solidity. We can recognize that our jobs as stewards to help them always return to this place of pure love and all knowing guidance and support, is perhaps our highest calling on Earth. All we have to do is answer.

The SpiritKids program is designed to support families in reconnecting to one another as well as to their inner spirit. SpiritKids provides tools in the way of mindfulness activities and discussion, breath work, and guided meditations to help guide parents and youth to their inner guidance system together and as a result create more peace and love in their children's lives, bringing about more clarity around their place and actions in the world. The tools provided in this program are but seeds planted for a lifetime of continued learning and exploration of inner wellness so that children and their families may continue to connect to their heart and be guided from this place of love always. It is my prayer, that this program provides a foundation for children to remember that they are never alone, they are always guided, and that they are deeply and infinitely loved. With these tools, and your love and support, we can empower our youth to connect to who they truly are and let their spirits soar.

Spirit Kids

With much love, 

Spirit Kids