Hi, I'm Joanna Danielle, and welcome to the parenting after trauma course. So this course was designed to help parents who have experienced traumatic life events, to be able to process those events so that they can parent in a way that is going to be nurturing and nourishing for both them and for the child. I know sometimes when we've experienced trauma, the blocks that are in us present itself in our parenting, and we struggle to parent in a way that, you know, we the promises that we made to ourselves and the expectations that we had the things that we told ourselves that we were going to do when we weren't going to do, but the roadmap that we kind of had before children and the life that we envisage, then the children arrive, and we find out that we're struggling to give them the kind of life that we thought in our heads that we weren't going to give.

We promised ourselves the cycles weren't going to repeat in our lives. The things I see my parents do, I wasn't going to do. we tell ourselves that we were going to be this kind of thing. Mother or parent that we realize and that in reality we're not. And sometimes we're stuck wondering, what do I do next? How do I fix this problem?

Sometimes we don't quite know what the problem is. Because if we did, we would probably know how to fix it. So I'm really glad that you're here, because we're going to take you on a journey that's going to unblock whatever it is that it's in for you, and give you some real tools that you can begin to apply in your parenting. You know, I run this course, all the time. And recently I did it and someone did that was on the course after one of the module she said, You know, I was really irritated after that module. And she said, when I'm irritated, I like to ask myself why, why am I feeling this way?

When she assessed she realized that there were things that she was doing on our child was being distance and and really hostile towards her but really nice to everybody else. The behavior told that story. Because of that module, she was able to read the story behind the behavior and make adjustments that caused real change in her parenting and in a relationship with her child. I'm really hoping that you'll be able to get results like that. I'm sure you'll be able to get results like that. So I'm really excited that you're here.

So I'll see you on our next module. Take care