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,

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Hi everyone and welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast.

This episode is a speech that was delivered in Tallinn Estonia at Mine Valley University, City

Campus, 2018.

The speaker is a woman who has been invited on Oprah seven times because of not just how incredible, insightful,

and beautiful her ideas are, but the fun, powerful way in which she conveys them. So I love putting her

on stage in her name is Shefali Sabari. She's the author of the book Conscious Parenting.

I really wanted to share

Shafale's wisdom with you because she had such an incredible impact on me as a

parent. I have two kids, Hayden who is 11 and Eve who is 5,

and this speech actually changed in a big way how I spent my

evenings every single night with my children. So take a listen and even if you aren't a parent, there's some wonderful wisdom here that will

maybe help you understand yourself better and understand your relationship with your parents

better. I'm Vishim Laciani and this is the Mind Valley Podcast.

Firstly, thank you for coming all the way here. You kind of popularized the term conscious parenting, but what is that? What does it mean to be a conscious parent?

It's to realize that to every moment in your life, but mostly to your parenting, you are bringing your unheeled wounds from your childhood.

So the raising of the child becomes the eternal question. Which child are we raising? Are we

raising the real child or the child within each one of us? Because all of us

sitting here today and all watching are just children, just more adult, more ready to pay a bill or two but really we are tantruming

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