I have an example of the power of creating authentic power with my children. I do my best to raise my children from the life perspective of creating authentic power. The other day my 9 year old daughter was missing her daddy. She was sad, crying, feeling separate from him in that moment. I supported her with feeling this pain in her body, noticing her FP thoughts with the intention of supporting her with healing the FP perspective of separation. A few minutes later she was up singing, dancing, full of energy and life was just radiating off of her. I brought her awareness to the difference in how she was feeling, how different her experience was in this moment vs. a few minutes prior. She said her thoughts were something like “I feel more positive, like it’s okay, I know we all love each other and we are truly never apart.” Then she said, “it gives me the chance to see what I am and what I am not.” Meaning that the love is who she is and the FP is who she is not. Then the next night she sat down and said, “mommy it seems like other people don’t realize they are connected with God, that he loves us and is always with us.” I again brought her back to the day before when she had her FP and felt separate, to support her with having compassion for when people forget and when she forgets, and shared how she can help remind people and help remind herself when she has a FP active. She also often is right there to support me. For example if she feels I have said something from a FP, she will say, “well, that was a FP.” My intention and what I feel I create in many moments is spiritual partnership with my children….a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Not trying to teach, judge or blame them, but growing and healing with them. To use our moments together for what they were intended for.
Love,
Kristen Richardson

Hi,
I have been practising creating authentic power since 2008 and the greatest reward has been in raising my children. They have been my amazing teachers. I have learned so much about my fps that need to caretaker, teach, fix and even please them. These parts were my identify, my role as a loving, caring mother. As I came to learn inside myself that these parts were based I fear through my practise of creating authentic power, my relationship with them, and theirs to me became more joyful, meaning, and fulfilling. My son who is now 14, used to play referre between my husband and I when we would get into disagreements during supper time. My intuition told me that that was a fp of his personality that wanted to caretake. I asked him if he was open to doing an experiment and supported him, when he said he was open, that the next time he wants to say something, to stop and feel. He did, and said that he had pain in his heart and stomach.
I have seen a change in his compulsion to caretake and feel his developing peace and trust during my power struggles with my husband, which in turn supports me during those times! I have joyfully watched my 16 yr old daughter’s need to teach her peers about this and that, transform into supporting her peers. Her complaints of not fitting it, not belonging and her judgement of her peers that are based in fear, have lessened over the last two years. These are just two examples of the many I notice each day in them as I create authentic power in me. Like you so beautifully said Pam, I am offering to them the reflection of the beauty they are, and help them bring more love into the world. Thank you for this community, love Soula.

Chi,
I am excited to hear how you incorporate creating authentic power with raising your children. I have a 17 year old and a 10 year old that I do my best to raise them from the perspective of creating authentic power. I like what you wrote about supporting them with being independent, self-aware and with making responsible choices….that is what I experience with my children….all of the above. Especially my 17 year old. He is about to enter adulthood and I love the young adult he is. It is so beautiful for me to watch how self aware he is, responsible, open, loving, compassionate and ready to open his wings and fly into his manhood! Love,
Kristen