I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit,

and work.

Welcome back, Mind Valley fans.

In this episode of the Mind Valley podcast, we're going to explore a subject that's going to be touchy for some of you.

And that is the subject of conscious parenting.

Now, this is a talk that is suitable for you even if you do not have children, but if you do have children or you plan on having children, this is going to be eye-opening.

Shefali Sabari has been on Oprah seven times.

Her book, Conscious Parenting, is a game changer

and she's someone whom I've learned a ton from.

She dramatically shifted the way I parent my two children, Hayden, who just turned 12,

and Eve, who's five years old.

And what Shifali is about to introduce to the world in this talk is really fascinating.

Basically, she says this.

Most of us as parents assume we know exactly what to do.

We assume because we were once a kid, we are qualified to raise a kid.

We believe that parenting is a natural instinct and we fail to realize that a lot of what

we are doing as parents is really

bullshit rules that we took on from our parents who took them on from their

parents who took them on from their parents, who took them on from their parents, who took them on from their parents, who lived a hundred years ago in a radically different world.

And very often we are not raising our children, but we are attempting to raise and heal our own inner child.

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