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Inspired by kids Your child is your first mirror. Life is the rest. I help you see the unseen and recognize the patterns. 💚

26/08/2026

YOU WANT YOUR CHILD TO BE HONEST WITH YOU. OF COURSE YOU DO!

But think about all those tiny moments when you say one thing and do another. Nothing dramatic, maybe you don't even notice it anymore.

But your child does.

And maybe that's where you can change your point of view. Instead of immediately asking “Why is my child lying?”, ask yourself: “Where am I not completely honest with myself?”

Because this isn't really about catching your child in a lie. It's about building a parent-child relationship where the truth feels safe even when it's uncomfortable.

You don't want your child to think, “I hope Mom doesn't find out.”

You want them to know: “I can tell Mom.” 💚

25/08/2026

HOMEWORK BECOMES A FIGHT EVERY EVENING!
We see refusal but what if underneath it is fear of making mistakes, overwhelm or perfectionism?

Before adding more pressure, look a little deeper. Maybe the behaviour is trying to tell you something.

24/08/2026

MY SON LOVES WATCHING OLD VIDEOS OF HIMSELF. For a while, I thought he simply missed being younger or maybe our old home. But the more I watched those videos with him, the more I started to understand what he was actually connecting with: the lightness, the freedom, the curiosity. He was experimenting, laughing and trying things without thinking about whether he was doing them right.

Then came the transition from kindergarten to school.

Within just a few weeks, I noticed a change in his behaviour. He became quieter, had less energy and often didn’t feel like doing much after school. From the outside, everything looked fine, but something just felt off. So instead of only focusing on his behaviour, I started to look at the bigger picture.

How much structure was in his day? How many transitions? How much noise and stimulation? How much energy did he need to adapt and function at school and in after-school care? And how much space was left to simply be himself?

For us, one of the biggest changes came when we took him out of after-school care. Suddenly, he had more energy again. That doesn’t mean school or after-school care is the problem for every child. But it taught me something important: when a child’s behaviour suddenly changes, get curious before simply calling it a phase.

More anger, withdrawal, exhaustion, emotional outbursts or losing interest in things they used to enjoy can be worth looking at more closely. Sometimes what we see at home isn’t the whole problem. Home may simply be the place where a child finally feels safe enough to stop holding everything together.

So if your child seems fine at school but completely different at home, look at the bigger picture. What has changed around them? How much energy are they using to get through their day? And what might their behaviour be trying to tell you?

Sometimes we need to stop asking, “What’s wrong with my child?” and start asking, “What does my child need right now?”

23/08/2026

Our bodies remember what our minds let go of. 🧐
Do you remember a moment from your childs babyhood or YOUR OWN, that still sits in your body somewhere?

22/08/2026

Children don’t always have the words to explain that something feels wrong, but sometimes, their behaviour speaks for them.

Please always have new physical symptoms medically checked first. But when the tests show nothing, don’t stop looking. Look at the routines, the relationships and the environment around your child.

Your child may not be the problem. Their behaviour may be the message. 💚

I'M AFRAID? AREN'T YOU?There are so many children being diagnosed today, and what worries me even more is how quickly me...
20/08/2026

I'M AFRAID? AREN'T YOU?

There are so many children being diagnosed today, and what worries me even more is how quickly medication can sometimes become part of the answer.

And yes, medication can help. For some children it can make a huge difference, and a diagnosis can finally bring understanding and relief. But I still think we need to be brave enough to ask another question:

What exactly are we trying to change?

Are we helping a child with something they genuinely struggle with, or are we sometimes trying to change their behaviour so they can better fit into an environment that simply doesn’t fit them?

Because what if the actual problem is somewhere completely different?

This is why, when I look at a child, I never look at only one part. I look at the whole picture, their environment, their relationships, their everyday life, their nutrition, what has changed around them, what their body might be trying to communicate and also which patterns this child might be reflecting back to their parents.

Because everything is connected.

Sometimes the behaviour we desperately want to stop is not the actual problem. Sometimes it is communication. Sometimes it is the body screaming that something needs our attention.

The child who suddenly cannot sit still, who explodes over small things, withdraws, struggles to concentrate, becomes anxious or simply seems different from before might not need us to immediately ask, “How can we stop this behaviour?”

Maybe we first need to ask:

“What is this behaviour trying to show us?”

Maybe something in their environment needs to change. Maybe their body needs more support. Maybe there is too much pressure, too little safety or too much stimulation. Maybe something has changed in their relationships. Maybe nutrition plays a role. Or maybe our child is holding up a mirror and showing us a pattern within ourselves that we haven’t been ready to see yet.

That doesn’t mean diagnoses are wrong or medication should never be used. It means that a diagnosis or medication should never stop us from being curious and looking deeper.

Symptom & Diagnosis & Medication, but where is the WHY?

What happened before the symptom appeared? What changed? Where does this child feel safe? Where are they overwhelmed? What does their everyday life look like? What does their body need? And what are they trying to communicate when they don’t yet have the words to tell us?

Don’t be afraid to look closer. Don’t be afraid to question things. And don’t be afraid to change something when you feel that something isn’t right.

Be more afraid of looking away and handing your child over to a cycle you don’t even want for them yourself.

Because maybe our children don’t always need us to make them fit better into this world. Maybe sometimes we need to question the world we are asking them to fit into.

And please, don’t leave your child standing there alone while everyone is trying to change them.

Stand beside them look closer, listen and stay curious.

And most of all, accept your child for exactly who they are instead of constantly trying to turn them into who the world expects them to be.

Your child might not be the problem.

Maybe they are trying to show you where to look. 💚

19/08/2026

WHEN DID YOU STOP TRUSTING YOUR MAMA HEART?

You are the mother who felt your child’s life before anyone else did. You had no idea what was waiting for you, you had no guarantees and no plan for everything that was about to come, and still, you chose this child. You trusted that feeling inside you. You trusted your mother’s intuition before you even knew what motherhood would really look like.

And then somewhere along the way, we start giving that trust away. Because “that’s how it has always been done,” because our own mothers did it that way, or because teachers, doctors, family, friends or parenting advice must know better. Someone tells you your son is bad at reading, but nobody mentions how incredibly good he is at maths. Someone tells you your daughter is underweight because she falls below some calculated curve, and suddenly we are looking more at numbers, charts, expectations and what a child is supposed to be than at the unique child standing right in front of us.

Damn it, every human being is unique, and your child even more so. So why do we start trusting everyone else more than our own parenting intuition, that feeling that was already there before our child was even born?

I spent, no lie, three years trusting doctors and other people’s opinions, even though deep inside I already knew that something didn’t feel right. Today, I’m doing everything I can to trust my mama heart again. No, this path isn’t always fast, and I don’t get an instant answer to every question, but it is honest. I’ve stopped looking only for solutions that cover something up without ever asking what might actually be underneath it.

Through my work with children in yoga and mental training, and through conversations with doctors, parents and coaches, I’ve come to understand so much about child behaviour, sensitive children and the connection between a child and the adults around them. But there is one thing I’ve felt for a long time: this generation of children is different, and they are perfect exactly as they are.

Maybe conscious parenting isn’t about making our children fit into a system, a chart or someone else’s expectations. Maybe it starts with understanding your child instead of immediately trying to change them.

Maybe our children are here to show us what no longer fits.

They show us our patterns, our expectations and our fears. They challenge old generational patterns and ask us to look closer. Not always gently, but damn honestly.

And especially with highly sensitive children, maybe what looks like a problem on the outside is sometimes an invitation to look deeper, listen more carefully and strengthen the parent-child connection instead of asking, “How do I fix my child?”

Maybe our job isn’t to change our children.

Maybe it’s to truly listen to them, really see them and, along the way, learn to trust ourselves again.

To trust our intuition, to trust our children, to trust our mama heart.

So if not now, when?

Are you ready to trust your mama heart again?
And are you brave enough to really look?

18/08/2026

THIS MIGHT CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE IT.🧐

Because I work with both schools and parents, I’ve started to notice something that I believe we need to talk about much more openly: parents often expect schools to take responsibility for things they simply don’t have enough time or capacity for anymore, while schools are increasingly saying that certain things need to come from home and somewhere right in the middle of this constant back and forth are the most important people of all: our children.
And somehow, they are often the ones we ask the least.

We decide what they should learn, how they should learn, when they should be ready for something, how they should behave, what a successful school day looks like and even what they need to become prepared for their future, but how often do we actually stop and ask the child sitting right in front of us what they need, how they experience their school day or what would help them feel safe, curious and ready to learn?

Look at the reality many families are living in today: both parents work full-time, and the reasons for that don’t even matter for this conversation, because the simple reality is that there are only so many hours left in a day, and somewhere between work, dinner, homework, activities, laundry and getting everyone ready for tomorrow, parents are also supposed to deeply understand what is happening inside their child, recognize their individual needs, support their emotional wellbeing and child development, teach them values and somehow prepare them for a future none of us can even predict.
So naturally, more and more responsibility moves towards school because that is where our children spend such a huge part of their day.
But then look at the other side.

Schools and teachers are supposed to educate our children, support different learning needs, manage conflicts, create safe classrooms, teach social skills, recognize emotional struggles, support children’s mental and emotional wellbeing, communicate with parents and at the same time somehow make sure every child reaches the academic goals expected of them.
And when we expect schools to also take over more and more of the responsibility for teaching our children how to live, how to behave and which values they should carry into their future, I think we need to ask ourselves two very important questions:
How much space is actually left for learning and whose values are our children learning?
Because children are not all the same, families are not all the same and our values are not all the same either, and when we try to fit every child into the same idea of what is right, successful or acceptable, we risk losing exactly what we should be protecting: their individuality, natural curiosity and unique way of seeing the world.
Maybe the answer isn’t deciding whether parents or schools are responsible.
Maybe we need to stop passing responsibility backwards and forwards and start creating a stronger connection between parents, teachers and children, where everyone brings something different to the table, where parent-teacher communication is not only about grades, homework or problems, and where children themselves finally become part of conversations about their own lives and education.
Because parents know their child in a way a teacher never can, teachers see children in situations parents will never see at home, and children themselves know and feel things that neither side can fully understand unless we actually give them the space to tell us.
Imagine what could change if these three perspectives started working together instead of separately.

Maybe we would create more understanding or more individuality.
And maybe, instead of constantly asking who is responsible for our children, we could start asking a completely different question:
How can parents, schools and children work together to create an environment where children can learn, grow and still remain exactly who they are?

Because ultimately, education should not only prepare children to function in the world we already created.
It should give them the confidence, curiosity and inner strength to create their own.

My plan was actually to make a video today, but then my son came home from his first day of school after the summer holi...
17/08/2026

My plan was actually to make a video today, but then my son came home from his first day of school after the summer holidays and had SO much to tell me. So the video could wait. 💚

But while I was listening to him, something came back to my mind that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately:

Are our children already entering the same circle that so many of us adults are trying to escape?

Wake up, be on time, perform, do what is expected, come home and repeat. And why do we automatically say yes to this circle for our children when sometimes we don’t even like this circle in our own lives?

And no, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it if you and your child are happy with that path. This is not about saying that one way is right and another is wrong. It’s about consciously asking ourselves what we actually want for our children.

So what is your intention for this new school year? And I don’t mean which grades you want your child to get or how well you want them to perform. What is your dream for how your child will experience this year?

Do you want them to stay curious, trust themselves, dare to make mistakes, find their own solutions and ask questions instead of simply learning the answers someone else gives them?

Children are naturally curious. They want to discover, explore and understand. And when they feel safe, connected and regulated, we create much better conditions for exactly that kind of learning.

So maybe the question isn’t only “Is my child doing well at school?” Maybe we also need to ask: Is our school system giving children enough space to develop self-efficacy, independence and trust in their own perception? Are they learning how to find solutions or mainly learning to reproduce what someone else has told them?

I’m actually really happy that we are seeing more and more different ways of learning and different types of schools. Because maybe our responsibility as parents is not simply to choose the path that has always been there, but to look at the child in front of us and ask:

Which environment helps THIS child stay curious, trust themselves and develop in their own way?

Not every child needs the same path.

And maybe that is exactly where we need to start looking deeper. 💚

So forget grades for a moment: What is the ONE thing you hope your child will take with them from this school year?

I created a group for parents who want to look deeper into their child’s behaviour, their own reactions and the connecti...
17/08/2026

I created a group for parents who want to look deeper into their child’s behaviour, their own reactions and the connection between the two.

Not to find another parenting rule. Not to change our children into who we think they should be. But to become curious about what might actually be happening underneath the behaviour. 💚

And we’re already a beautiful little group of parents from different countries. I love this because we didn’t all grow up the same way, we don’t parent the same way, and we don’t always see things from the same perspective.
Sometimes an international perspective makes us question something we have always considered “normal”.
Our group languages are English, German and Norwegian, so you can express yourself in whichever of these languages feels most natural to you.

Every Monday, we have Mirror Monday, a little invitation to pause, reflect and look deeper into conscious parenting, our parent-child connection and our own patterns.
And today’s questions are actually questions I’m asking myself too:

1. Where are you trying to change your child’s behaviour instead of asking yourself what might be behind it?
2. When your child says “no” or chooses a different way than you would, what comes up in you first: curiosity, fear, control, or trust?
3. If you stopped asking “How do I get my child to
?”, what question would you ask instead?

Until now, Mirror Monday has simply been a little sheet with reflection questions. But very soon, I’ll start adding short videos too.
Because anyone can give you another exercise.
What I want is to help you make the connection between what you understand in your mind and what is actually happening in your body.

Where do you feel this pattern?
Where does your body react before your mind even has an answer?
And where does your change actually begin?
The reflection helps you see the pattern. The body can help you understand and integrate it.

This is where conscious parenting, emotional regulation and personal growth come together for me. Not another technique to make your child behave differently, but a deeper understanding of yourself, your child and the connection between you.
Because sometimes, when we stop trying to change the child, we start seeing something completely different. 💚

If this sounds like a space for you, come and join us.

🌍 Different countries means different perspectives means different experiences.

Group link in the comments.

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