7 Stage Parenting

How to meet your childs changing needs
by Jon Freeman
Children change.
The parent that they need as infants is quite different than who they need as teenagers
- that is obvious.
But how do you know what they need?
There is a consistent pattern to their changes that shows up regardless of culture, gender or personality.
While you can and should respond to their individual uniqueness, the underlying pattern, based on a well-established theory of psychological development, provides a framework for knowing what approaches will support them and be most effective at each stage.
You can be the mum, dad or step-parent that your child needs you to be.
You can develop as a parent alongside their development as children.
Also available in French!
Be the Best Parent You can Be
Children change, you need to change with them.
This straight forward guide helps you to know their needs at different stages and become the parent they need.

Based on established psycological theory and validated by psycotherapist.
This book teaches you
how to have more of the pleasure
and avoid more of the pitfalls
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It is well-known that many shamanistic cultures experience direct connections with the spirits of plants and animals.  Assuming that you don’t regard that as illusion or projection, you might ask  - what is that for us and for today’s world?

There are “modern shamans” – people who work with that realm of connection.  In fact there are many – horse whisperers, plant spirit medicine practitioners for example.  There are well-known examples of people who garden in collaboration with nature, and books such as Dorothy Maclean’s “To hear the Angels Sing”, which describes how enormous vegetables were produced in the seemingly barren soils of Findhorn.  Machaelle Small Wright has given in-depth accounts of how she created the Perelandra garden.

There are also stories of animals – particularly horses - being used in healing.  There is a great story of one such in my Substack “A tale of a psychic horse”.  I also talk about nature spirits in the “What’s Nature to you” chapter of “What makes you YOU” and the chapter on shamanism in “The Science of Possibility”. 

It is an inevitable outcome of the “information field” as a central theoretical theme in both books, that our ability to connect with what animates other parts of the living world will reveal itself in many ways.” 

Read this substack article: The Tale of the Psycic Horse

Your body is made of cells, which form organs and other systems. Anything in the world has sub-elements. Anything in the world is also part of a larger whole. This is the nature of holons, that they are identifiable, nested elements that we can choose to focus on, as we zoom in or out to the scale that we need.
“The whole context of Relational Being is that the universe is governed by a Field of Information. This includes the relationships we have with the flow of the universe in the sense of “God”, or “The Divine” or “The Force” or any equivalent term for the spiritual context”