Skills for Healthy Transitions

Times of transition are rife with stresses and unexpected complications. Anxiety can run high, and overwhelm can set in.

Mindfulness is one tool that can release some of the pain of transitions. It is a lifelong skill that can be used and developed to improve psychological well-being and physiological regulation.

By bringing a mindful approach to doula work, Embracing Liminality’s Elana Baurer can orient you towards mindful approaches to help you find calm and ease in life-changing times.

Mindfulness interventions can support family relationships and provide a range of benefits, including reduced parental anger and stress, fewer co-parenting disagreements, and increased connection with children.

If you wish to cultivate a regular guided mindfulness practice, Elana can also help you find resources and courses that can more fully meet those needs.

Present Parenting

Parenting is stressful, often from the first hours of a child’s arrival. Juggling the needs of many individuals, the family unit as a whole, and work schedules can feel unmanageable even to the most well resourced and supported parents.

A mindful approach to parenting means bringing open-hearted, present-centered attention and non-judgmental awareness to parenting in the moment.

Elana can provide a mindfulness lens in the postpartum period to encourage new parents to respond to your child’s needs, rather than reacting with frustration or irritation. The more and the earlier we practice mindfulness in parenting, the more we can bring joy and balance to our relationships with our children and reduce anger and conflict as they grow. Mindfulness brings ease and gentleness to even the most challenging behaviors of infants, toddlers, and beyond.

Being Fully Present With Ourselves

A mindful approach to can help us bring awareness into decisions we make around caring for ourselves and our family units. It can increase our ability to manage stress and guides us to develop tools that meet challenges with interconnectedness. Mindfulness also directs us to our own internal sources of patience, calm, and joy, even in challenging times.

As we develop mindfulness we may find we are able to bring greater wisdom, open-heartedness, joy, and balance to how we treat ourselves, internally, as well as in our interactions with our partners, children, colleagues, and other family and friends. Mindfulness helps us cultivate the capacity to be fully present with ourselves and our children, and has impacts in all aspects of our daily lives.