Mindful Parenting
Drawing on more than 30 years of mindfulness practice and training, mindfulness facilitator and foster dad Anthony Cupo (TMF) shares practical strategies for navigating parenting challenges, supporting emotional growth, reducing digital overwhelm, and strengthening family relationships.
Published monthly in Parenting OC Magazine. Readers Choice Award for Best Mental Health Services. Follow @mindfulstepsforward for parenting support, tips, and insights.
Mindful Practice
Learn how practicing mindfulness helps children with anxiety. Mindfulness is the ability to focus on the present moment while allowing yourself to experience emotions, thoughts and sensations as they develop. It’s important not to try to control your experience when practicing mindfulness. Instead, allowing thoughts and feelings to run their course teaches you to become more comfortable in the stillness. Breathing techniques, meditation and positive affirmation exercises are all helpful components of practicing mindfulness.
Mindfulness for Childhood Anxiety
How mindfulness can become a useful part of your child’s mental-health toolkit. Parents shouldn’t be intimidated by conversations about how to manage childhood anxiety. It’s very easy to fall into the trap of thinking that anxiety is a problem that needs to be fixed. In reality, anxiety is a very expected, everyday part of the human experience that can be managed.