The Parenting Temple

The Power of Feeling Felt &
the Path to Integrated Parenting

Parenting is one of the most powerful ways we shape the future. Yet for many of us, it also brings up the raw echoes of our own childhoods. We long to give our children more presence, more safety, and more love than we received ourselves. But when their feelings arise—loud, messy, unfiltered—we often discover how hard it is to meet them.

This is not because we are failing.
It is because our own nervous systems were never met in this way.

The Young Nervous System and the Need to Feel Felt

For a child, feeling felt is the foundation of safety. It is not just being seen with the eyes or understood with words—it is knowing, deep in the body:

✨ Someone is here with me.
✨ They sense me.
✨ They hold space for all that I am.

When this does not happen—when cries go unanswered, when joy is not mirrored, when fear is dismissed—the young nervous system adapts in order to survive.

The adaptation is subtle: the breath becomes shallow, the eyes glaze over, the body quietly withdraws. The child learns to minimize their needs, to numb their feelings, to survive without the nourishment of true presence.

This is how many of us grew up.

The Ripple Effect

When children learn survival instead of connection, they grow into adults who:
✨ Struggle to feel at home in their bodies
✨ Overthink, overperform, or overgive
✨ Feel anxious, shut down, or stuck in cycles of self-doubt
✨ Long for intimacy but find it hard to truly receive

And when we become parents ourselves, it can feel unbearable to witness our child’s raw feelings—because no one ever witnessed ours.

This is not weakness. This is an intergenerational inheritance.

Integrated Parenting was born from my own journey. For years, I felt caught in the middle: carrying the weight of my childhood wounds while trying to protect my daughter from them.

I tried to hold it all together with willpower, but I often felt like I was failing. Until I discovered somatic and biofield integration.

Through this work, I learned that:
✨ My nervous system wasn’t broken—it was protecting me.
✨ Feeling felt is an experience I could finally offer myself.
✨ When I came home to presence in my body, I could meet my child with compassion instead of reactivity.

The Path of Integrated Parenting

Why Feeling Felt Still Matters—for You and Your Children

It is never too late. Your nervous system can rewire at any age. When you experience what it’s like to be truly sensed, witnessed, and held, a deep shift occurs. Parenting stops being only about effort or control—it becomes a natural flow of embodied presence.

And your children feel it.

Because children don’t need perfect parents. They don’t need strategies or ideals. They need adults who are integrated, alive, and capable of feeling.

When you feel felt, you naturally become the safe harbor your child’s nervous system has always needed. And in that safety, they thrive.

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