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Parenting With Spirit
Welcome to Parenting With Spirit!
Parenting With Spirit is a space dedicated to those parents and caregivers who actively want to incorporate spirituality into their daily life as a way of nurturing and supporting the children in their lives. As a child and teen I experienced very minimal exposure to spirituality that might have eased the struggle I endured as an introverted, fearful child. As a young mother of two boys who presented with a host of developmental and social challenges, I found myself in unknown territory of how to navigate this terrain without losing a part of myself. It was not until I spiritually cracked open and the Divine flooded in that I began to feel my way through this in a life affirming manner for myself and my family. And of course, it was through the act of mothering that ultimately brought me to my knees for Spirit to even enter my life in this way.
My offerings are meant for all children and families. We have entered a time where more children are incarnating on Earth with a heightened sense of remembering their star seed origins. These Crystaline-Rainbow-Golden Children are here on purpose, to bless the Earth with their wisdom, and to guide and lead humanity to greater healing, global community, and a return to right relationship with the Earth. We are all aware of the dire need to change our ways as a people and to honor the Earth as a living being and our first Mother. These star seed children are here to show us the way.
I also have a unique perspective as I have spent the past 26 years as a speech-language therapist working with children with a variety of developmental differences, and I have raised 2 boys with their own unique blue prints. There are various degrees of challenge and growth with parenting/caregiving, and I have experienced a great deal. Sharing and being of service is my passion and calling.
My Story
Community is fostered through the sharing of stories and life. It is through these stories that we begin to see our own reflections, and whether they be reflections of joy or pain, the knowing that we are part of something larger begins to take shape. It is my deep desire to share my story of heartbreak and healing, and for you to know you are not alone. I have spent the past 26 years as a speech-language pathologist, working with small children ages 2-6 years, with a variety of developmental differences. These differences include social-emotional, sensory, speech-language, behavioral, medical/biological and cognitive. I have listened to parents express their frustrations, grief, anger, love, and wonder at it all. I have a tremendous capacity to hold compassion for any situation regarding parenting and raising children. In addition to my professional experience, I am also the mother of two very special boys.
My Boys
My children are older now, 18 and 21 years. It has been through my role as mother of these boys that my entire spiritual being awakened.
My older son came into the world with his own unique wiring. We began seeing language, sensory, and emotional differences as early as 1 year of age. He grew into an extremely challenging toddler and young child, and from there into a challenging older child and adolescent. My boy has had numerous speech-language, occupational therapy, and behavioral therapies. He has gotten a few diagnoses along the way. My boy was highly aggressive and tantrumed excessively from when he was a toddler into pre-adolescence. As a small child he could not be left alone with his younger brother because of his aggression. Our neighbors moved because of the nightly temper tantrums that would last for hours. When he was 11 years old, I worked with a Shaman to clear his energetic field of anything that was not his Divine essence. It was this experience of mothering my older boy that brought me to my knees.
My younger son developed a fever when he was 6 weeks old. This sickness progressed quickly into a diagnosis of meningitis with encephalitis. I was terrified, as I had worked with children who had meningitis as infants, who were left extremely developmentally delayed. My boy spent 5 weeks in the hospital, and family flew in from all over the country to help us with his care and that of our two year old. My boy slowly began to heal, and at the end of this 5 week period, he appeared as close to healthy as we could hope for.
I began noticing developmental differences around 1 year of age, when his language was slow to develop. Given my background, I began working with him, and at 2 years of age had him evaluated at the center I worked at.
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This began a long road of speech-language and occupational therapy that lasted for years. Shortly after turning 5 years of age, my boy began to display physical and vocal tics. It became very intense quickly, and he eventually received a diagnosis of Tourette's Syndrome. When it was time for him to go to elementary school, my boy went into a special classroom for children with learning differences. After 2 years and at my insistence, my boy transitioned into regular education in second grade, with speech, OT, and resource teaching. This proved to be a wise decision, as he thrived in school.
Beginning in 5th grade, we began to see compulsive behaviors such as opening and closing doors repetitively. By the beginning of 7th grade, this had bloomed into Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Many children with Tourettes go on to have OCD, as these neurologies are located in the same part of the brain. While my son’s Tourettes had decreased over time, the compulsions had grown. We got him a therapist who provided Exposure Response Prevention Therapy, and within 5 months he was able to end these sessions as his OCD was under control.
The Gift
On my 41st birthday, my husband took my boys, who at the time were 6 and 8 years old, to buy me a present. Knowing I loved to garden, he took them to a local nursery. They came back with a large goddess statue, one I did not recognize. I was in the beginning stages of my priestess training, and learning about many different Goddesses and the different physical archetypes they held. This one I could not name, although she looked familiar. My husband told me both boys insisted she was the one. Here she is, in my first garden:
I absolutely loved her! My husband could not remember her name, and after a few days I insisted he call the shop and find out who she was. When he texted me it was Kuan Yin, Chinese Goddess of Compassion and Mercy, I froze for a moment. Someone had given me a very small statue of Kuan Yin years before, and I had just pulled her out and begun to learn about her medicine. I did not immediately see the resemblance, as one was tiny and glass, and the other enormous and stone. My children, the source of so much pain, grief, and love in my life, had given me Kuan Yin as a birthday gift.
I began working with Kuan Yin daily. The elements of water and surrender began to call powerfully, and I found myself leaving water bowls at her feet filled with flowers from my garden almost daily. I began to surrender deeply to prayer, crying for help to turn the anger I felt towards my older boy into compassion for a being who was also suffering. I went deep inside the inner chambers of my heart, where so many hard emotions around my family life were stored and ignored. It felt hot and angry, and so hard to hold, yet Kuan Yins water and grace soothed this space with such ease, my body began to crave these states. I kept returning to Kuan Yin again and again, flower bowl after flower bowl, until the inevitable happened: my heart cracked open and all the heat and anger rose like steam up into the cosmos for release.
My heart, now free of pain and anger, began to flood with the compassion so generously bestowed upon me by Kuan Yin. Wave after wave of watery grace began to fill me, and as my heart filled with water, tears began to stream down my face. I loved my boy, and could finally feel that above all else that was happening around me. The Divine began to fill me with love.
Spirit Guides
I have used a variety of spiritual tools over the years to help hold the space of mothering my boys, and it is these tools that I wish to share with you. I can’t say it all magically resolved simply because my heart cracked open, that was the gateway to the presence of the Divine within my parenting, and to the collaboration that has evolved ever since. It is an active process, and one that must be refreshed, renewed, and surrendered to constantly. The human body, both physical and emotional, requires this, as we are simply too prone to trauma, anger, and grief for healing family wounds to be a one or even two time experience. It is the courage of returning again and again with the Divine as our ally, that allows love and light to transform the family story from one of pain to grace. I have done this enumerable times, and will continue to as long as I call myself Mother.
Parenting With Spirit Offerings
We begin our work together with a 15-min getting to know you Zoom or phone call. It is here that I get a sense of your family dynamic and whatever medicine or gifts need to come through for insight, healing, and growth. This is in addition to the longer session or sessions you have purchased and is at no additional cost. It is also possible to share information prior to our longer sessions via email.
From here there are many possibilities. When working with children and other family members, permission is always necessary, either directly or spirit to spirit.
As a Prophetess-Oracle, I am able to go into an expanded state during our explorations together.
When I use the word “blueprint” below, I am referring to the Divine Design/Cosmic Make-Up of each individual and family. This can include past lives, places of cosmic origin, or purposes/missions that might be revealed by Spirit.
Here are some examples of Parenting With Spirit Offerings:
-Exploring the family blueprint to look at how/why each family member has incarnated in this lifetime together. This can include any karma or patterns that exist or have been passed down.
-Exploring individual blueprints of your children to best understand and support them at a soul and human level.
-Exploring the spirit guides and allies of your children and family, and getting to know their higher selves/highest aspect of themselves.
-Bringing in energy medicine to explore the chakra/central channel system.This can be for personal upgrades and healing, and/or to support each family member or child to live their best life.
-Creating personalized meditations and affirmations that nurture you, your child, and your family. These meditations can help center, align, heal, and bring love into the family circle.
-Creating family altars with intentions and prayers built into their creation. These can be done in various rooms in the house, or outside. These altars can offer immense nourishment of harmony and growth to the entire family
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-Creating ceremonial art that represents aspects of family healing. This can be kept, buried, or burned depending on the intention.
-Calling on your ancestral line of love and light to assist in the healing of your family.
-Making offerings to the land, or your altar, for the continued healing of your family. Calling on the elements of the land to assist in your parenting.
For those that are working with more challenging emotions and family dynamics, or have children with neurodivergence or special needs, we can work together to co-create an experience that supports you and your family on your journey. I know for myself when things were at their most challenging within my family, healing needed to happen on multiple levels and with several family members, including extended family.
It is my Diving Calling to nurture and support you on this journey we call Family!
Parenting With Spirit Pricing Bundles
Bundles 1 & 2 are on Zoom or at my home temple space.
Bundle 3 can include a personal visit to your home or property for ceremony or healing work for those that live locally.
Bundle 1
1 session
$325
One 2-hour session where we will hold space for your personal family, and their hopes, dreams, and desires. Intuitive exploration of your child’s Soul Path/Divine Blueprint or your family’s Soul Path/Divine Blueprint can occur in this space. Healing can happen organically during the session. An additional 15 min getting to know you phone call or Zoom is included.
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Bundle 2
2 sessions
$569
One 2-hour session ($325) and One 90-minute session ($244). For those that wish to go deeper in establishing meditations or ongoing rituals as part of a regular practice. Intuitive exploration and healing can happen organically during these sessions. An additional 15 min getting to know you phone call or Zoom is included.
Bundle 3
3 sessions
$813
One 2-hour session ($325) and two 90-minute sessions ($488). For those that want deep healing, intuitive understanding, and/or personalized rituals or ceremonies for your family. An additional 15 min getting to know you phone call or Zoom is included.
If interested please reach out to aprilaronoff@yahoo.com to schedule or for questions.