NEXT LIVE WORKSHOP | WEDNESDAY MAY 27 | 10AM AEST
BIG FEELINGS AREN’T JUST FOR TODDLERS.
Every parenting workshop teaches you about your child's brain. This one is about yours too — because there are two nervous systems in the room, and ours is the one running on broken sleep, mental load, and our own unfinished business.
That's why "just stay calm" doesn't work. That's why you can recite the scripts in your head at 10am and still snap at 5pm.
Big Feelings (Yours & Theirs) is a 60-minute live workshop for parents of 1.5–5 year olds who are tired of white-knuckling through meltdowns — and ready to understand what's actually happening in both brains in the room.
$59 AUD
Free for Coming Home members
You've read the gentle parenting posts. You've tried the scripts. You know you're meant to validate, stay calm, hold the boundary..
And sometimes it works. But other times — fifteen minutes into a meltdown over a broken banana — the calm, patient version of you has left the building.
You snap. Or go quiet. Or give in just to make it stop.
Then comes the spiral: I'm not gentle enough. I'm too soft. I'm too harsh. Am I actually ruining him? Why can other mums seem to stay calm? What is wrong with me?
The problem is, that the problem isn't that you're not "gentle enough" or "firm enough." The problem is that every parenting style hands you a fresh rulebook to fall short of. Another label to measure yourself against at 2am when nothing is working.
You don't need to perfect a parenting style. You need to understand what's happening in their brain and yours — so you can stop second-guessing yourself in the hard moments and start trusting yourself inside them.
HERE’S WHAT WE’LL COVER.
1. What you've been told — and why it keeps falling short. Scripts, parenting styles, the over-focus on "staying calm", and the anger-guilt trap (Dr Sophie Brock).
2. What's happening for YOU — your stories, your body, and why the feelings you find hardest in your child are usually the ones that weren't allowed for you. 🤯
3. What's happening for THEM — the hand model of the brain (Dan Siegel), the iceberg below the behaviour, and the mad-to-sad cycle every big feeling moves through.
4. What's happening BETWEEN you — the Four S's (Safe, Seen, Soothed, Secure), why connection comes before direction, and the "kind AND in charge" alternative to too-soft or too-mean.
5. A way through — practical tools for the moment, what to do when you rupture, and the big three: hitting, "I hate you", and the public meltdown.
Plus: a live Q&A so you can bring your specific moment to the room.
Your investment
$59 AUD
Fiona is like the kind friend you really want in your corner when you’ve just had a baby.
She is that one person who really sees you and understands instinctively what it is you need and how you feel. She is a fierce advocate for both baby and mother and is passionate about honouring them both as individuals and not choosing one over the other.
With years of experience in perinatal mental health and parenting, a social worker turned baby sleep specialist who advocates for an evidence-based, biologically normal, compassionate, attachment-based approach to all things infant sleep.
YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT FIONA AND HER CREDS HERE.