REAL-TIME SELF-CARE

Of course you don’t have enough time—you’re a parent! That’s exactly why this course exists: to help you reclaim your time, energy, and calm.

Here’s how it works:

• Each lesson is just 5–15 minutes long, released weekly.

• You can follow the course's schedule or your own.

• You’re free to pause and come back anytime. Your access lasts up to two years, even though the course spans just 10 months.

• And best of all? The course helps you slow down and get more done—with less burnout and more connection.

Plus, inside The Bloom Community, you’ll have space to:

• Chronicle your progress

• Share small pledges

• Get and give support when things feel overwhelming

You don’t need to carve out big chunks of time or be perfectly consistent. Just begin when you can, take what you need, and return when you’re ready. The support and tools will be here when you are.

Parenting is hard, period. But if you're like many parents in our society, you're expending energy in ways that are counterproductive to raising a resilient child and growing your own resilience. This course will help you parent in a way that requires less energy, feels more effective, and ends up being more rewarding.

This is a year-of-practice course designed to take a minimum of 10 months, with new content released gradually to support real-life integration. But it’s also self-paced—you can move through it in a way that fits your life. You’ll have two full years of access, so there’s plenty of space to pause, revisit, and take your time.

Anyone who wants to be much closer to the parent you dreamed you would be. The course is designed for overwhelmed parents. This includes, but is not limited to, parents of children who experience complex trauma, neurocomplexity, medical complexity, and mental health challenges. It also includes parents who experience the same.

If you are overwhelmed, confused, frustrated, or at a loss of how to handle your child's behaviors, this course is for you.

1) If you are a die-hard behaviorist who believes consequences and rewards are required to correct behaviors, this course is not for you. If, however, you have a parenting partner who holds this philosophy and you don't, this course will help you navigate the challenges of raising a child with a person with a clashing philosophy. 

2) If you do not want to deal with emotions, yours or your child's, this course is not for you. If, however, you would like to learn how to have healthy responses to emotions, this courses is for you.

3) If you don't feel challenged by parenting and you have a resilient child who expresses the full range of emotion freely and seems to be functioning at their potential, this course is not for you. 

We find that children do best when parents follow some basic practices that are common across modern hunter-gatherer societies around the world. 95% of our evolution happened while we were hunter-gatherers, and when we apply what these wise cultures are teaching us about child rearing, the families we work with report that life becomes calmer and more joyful. 

It makes sense: hunter-gatherers are living similarly to how children are genetically accustomed to being raised. They come out of the womb expecting this treatment, and when they don't get it, conflict ensues.

Children with challenges are especially averse to our modern deviations from hunter-gatherer practices. When these practices are restored, they express a sense of relief and calm.

In order to apply these practices, we use current neuroscience that is very much in alignment with hunter-gatherer parenting practices. Neuroscience helps contextualize the ideas, providing us with additional understanding about why these practices work and how to apply them in our modernized society.