
Embodied Parents. Thriving Children.

Embodied Parents. Thriving Children.
The Power of Feeling Felt and the Path to Integrated Parenting
Have you ever paused to consider what it truly means for a child to feel felt?
Not just seen with the eyes. Not just understood with words. But to feel, deep in their nervous system:
Someone is here with me. They sense me. They hold space for all that I am.
For many of us, this was missing.
The Young Nervous System and the Need to Feel Felt
When a child’s nervous system is developing, co-regulation is their lifeline.
Tiny bodies and hearts depend on the adult’s capacity to meet them where they are—emotionally, energetically, and somatically.
When a child cries and no one comes…
When a child’s joy isn’t mirrored…
When a child’s fear is dismissed…
…the young nervous system must adapt.
And the most primal adaptation is this:
Preparing to leave the body.
Not necessarily in a dramatic or visible way, but in subtle, protective dissociation:
✨ The eyes glaze over.
✨ The breath becomes shallow.
✨ The child learns that their felt experience is too much, too inconvenient, too invisible.
Over time, they stop reaching for connection. They build resilience not in thriving, but in surviving without being felt.
The Ripple Effect on Our Society
This survival adaptation doesn’t stay small. It ripples out through generations.
Children who learned to numb and compress their emotions grow up to be adults who:
✨ Struggle to feel at home in their bodies
✨ Overthink, overperform, overgive
✨ Feel constantly anxious or shut down
✨ Long for connection but don’t know how to receive it
And when they become parents themselves, they often find it excruciating to witness their child’s raw feelings—because no one ever witnessed theirs.
This is not a personal failing.
This is an intergenerational inheritance.
The Path of Integrated Parenting
Integrated Parenting was born from my own experience of carrying the immense responsibility of not passing this legacy on.
For years, I felt caught in the middle—between the wounds of my own childhood and the longing to protect my daughter from them.
I repressed my survival responses, tried to hold it all together, and wondered why it felt so hard.
Until I discovered somatic and biofield integration, and everything began to shift.
I learned that:
✨ My nervous system wasn’t broken—it was doing its best to protect me.
✨ Feeling felt is an experience I could offer myself and receive in community.
✨ When I returned to presence in my own body, I could finally meet my child’s experience with compassion instead of reactivity.
Why Feeling Felt Still Matters—for You and Your Children
It’s never too late to experience the profound healing of being felt.
When you step into a space where someone senses you fully—where your emotions are not too much and your stories are not too messy—you begin to rewire your nervous system.
From this place, parenting stops being only an act of willpower.
It becomes a practice of embodied presence.
And your children feel it.
Because children don’t need perfect parents. They don’t need more theories or better strategies.
They need us to be real adults—integrated, alive, capable of feeling.
When you feel felt, you naturally become the safe harbor your child’s nervous system has always needed.
The Integrated Parenting Circle
If this speaks to you, I warmly invite you to join Embodied Parents. Thriving Children.
This is not just another class. It is an experiential circle where:
✨ Some participants will work 1:1 with me in the group setting
✨ Everyone receives the energy work and integration—even if you’re simply observing
✨ You will be gently guided to reconnect with your body, meet your inner child, and release inherited patterns
How to Join
You can choose the level of support that feels right for you:
🌱 Drop-In Session – $44
🌿 3-Session Bundle – $66
🌳 9-Session Journey (Recommended) – $99
Includes recordings, a WhatsApp support group, and 20% off 1:1 mentoring
Sessions are held online fortnightly, so your journey unfolds with spaciousness and care. You can upgrade your choice any time you feel ready for more support.
💛 If something in you feels the longing to be felt, to be held, to finally come home to yourself…
Trust that impulse.
When you heal, your children thrive.
When you feel felt, your whole family begins to shift.
With love and gratitude,
Gloria de Gast