I'm Gertrud, a Conscious Parenting Practitioner and Coach.
specializing in self-awareness and emotional healing for parents. I help parents break generational patterns, build healthier relationships with their children, and create more connected, emotionally safe families.
Motherhood changed my life in the most profound way. It brought everything to light and led me to discover my purpose. I’m raising a beautiful three-year-old son who inspires my work every day.
This was influenced by my own story.
I don’t speak from formal expertise—I speak from lived experience, self-study, and years of inner work.
After struggling with my mental health for many years, I became determined to understand what was happening within me. More than anything, I promised myself that my anxiety would not shape my child’s upbringing. As I searched for answers, everything led back to my childhood experiences.
I am a parent who chose to do the inner work. I reflected deeply, questioned inherited ideas about parenting, and examined the beliefs and survival strategies I developed early in life. Through self-education and lived experience, I created the resources I once needed myself—the ones I wish I had had much earlier.
It’s a meaningful signal that you care deeply about your child’s well-being and that you’re willing to explore topics that aren’t always comfortable or easy. That willingness matters. In fact, it’s the most important first step of all: staying curious, open, and brave enough to look beneath the surface.
It’s about understanding you.
So often, parenting challenges show up during moments of intensity — meltdowns, tantrums, stress, or emotional outbursts. In those moments, it can feel like the problem lives entirely in the child’s behavior. But what actually drives these situations runs much deeper.
Our own conditioning, nervous system responses, beliefs about “good” behavior, and unresolved experiences from childhood all quietly shape how we react as parents. Long before we choose our words or actions, our body and brain are already responding — often on autopilot.
I invite you to gently turn your attention inward.
You’ll begin to notice how your internal state influences your parenting, how stress gets passed between nervous systems, and why lasting change doesn’t come from controlling behavior, but from creating safety — first within yourself, and then for your child.
When parents learn to regulate, reflect, and respond rather than react, something powerful happens: meltdowns soften, connection deepens, and parenting stops feeling like a constant battle.
There is more work to do with the parent than with the child — and that’s not a criticism. It’s an invitation. An invitation to grow, to heal, and to parent from awareness rather than instinct alone.
You’re exactly where you need to be.
This is your chance to
become a conscious parent.
A Three-Step Patch to Conscious Parenting
Reflect on your childhood experiences, parenting triggers, and patterns. Question inherited beliefs and social norms around parenting.
Learn about early child development and start viewing your child’s behavior through a developmental, emotional lens instead of a disciplinary one—recognizing that your reactions are often more about you than your child, and choosing to break inherited cycles.
Parent with presence and awareness of your own conditioning, so it does not unconsciously influence your child’s upbringing. Create healthier futures and deeper connections that endure into adulthood.
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