• Absolutely gorgeous - The ocean always fills me with wonder. The energy is just so different than being in a city. I love the wind, the smell, the water, the warm sand, the waves...the sea creatures. It was so good to be back. ☀️ 🌊 🏖 ❤️ . . . #beach #ocean #sand #sun #myhome #highenergy #love #monterey #california #bluesky #bluewater
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    Absolutely gorgeous - The ocean always fills me with wonder. The energy is just so different than being in a city. I love the wind, the smell, the water, the warm sand, the waves...the sea creatures. It was so good to be back. ☀️ 🌊 🏖 ❤️ . . . #beach #ocean #sand #sun #myhome #highenergy #love #monterey #california #bluesky #bluewater
  • My sweet Lilly Lou ❤️🐶 She is the sweetest and craziest dog, I know. I am sooo grateful for spending time with her right now. We don’t know how much more time she has. She is in heart failure, but thankfully is doing pretty well on her meds... I love this doggie! ❤️ . . . #beaglesofinstagram #sickdog #geateful #thankful #inlove #celebratinglife #doggiesnuggles #dogsofinstagram #love #heartfeltparenting #sweetgirl #sweetdogs #sillydog
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    My sweet Lilly Lou ❤️🐶 She is the sweetest and craziest dog, I know. I am sooo grateful for spending time with her right now. We don’t know how much more time she has. She is in heart failure, but thankfully is doing pretty well on her meds... I love this doggie! ❤️ . . . #beaglesofinstagram #sickdog #geateful #thankful #inlove #celebratinglife #doggiesnuggles #dogsofinstagram #love #heartfeltparenting #sweetgirl #sweetdogs #sillydog
  • 15 months of traveling... It’s funny how things work out. The plan was to settle again after just under a year of being gone. Covid had other plans for us. So after traveling once around the world and once across the country from Rhode Island to California, we spent a month in SoCal and are now trying to make it work in the bay area. August we’ll spend a bit south again, in Santa Cruz by the beach 🏖 😌 We are on an adventure called life and I wouldn’t want to be on it with anybody else than my hubby and my sons. ❤️🙏🏻 . . . #muirwoods #california #covidtimes #familia #travelingwithkids #worldschooling #unschooling #travelingusa #love #attachmentparenting #respectfulparenting
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    15 months of traveling... It’s funny how things work out. The plan was to settle again after just under a year of being gone. Covid had other plans for us. So after traveling once around the world and once across the country from Rhode Island to California, we spent a month in SoCal and are now trying to make it work in the bay area. August we’ll spend a bit south again, in Santa Cruz by the beach 🏖 😌 We are on an adventure called life and I wouldn’t want to be on it with anybody else than my hubby and my sons. ❤️🙏🏻 . . . #muirwoods #california #covidtimes #familia #travelingwithkids #worldschooling #unschooling #travelingusa #love #attachmentparenting #respectfulparenting
  • It makes me incredibly sad when I hear that women think that they can’t say no to having sex with their husbands. We are living in the 21st century! And women should be listening to their own feelings and should be confident in saying no if they didn’t feel like having sex! And men should be sensitive and not even want to have intercourse if their women aren’t interested. And couples should have such a deep and honest and open-hearted relationship that they could openly talk about what they wish. All that came to my mind when I read that women feel obligated to satisfy (sleep with) their husband 🤔 because of being a Christian 🤔 because their husbands do a lot for them, so they need to do what their husbands want from them 🤔 because their husbands need to relax and relief themselves at home after a long workday Hm, all this sounds like contracts to me and lots of self esteem issues that don’t have to do anything with LOVE. And still, I need to remember myself that I felt the exacly same way when I was younger. I had a very screwed up view of sex and had such low self confidence that I wouldn’t even ask the guys to use condoms! In my head, the man was the one who was im charge. I guess, I had a picture of men having this urge and need to release and relief themselves and women would be the objects to do it with. Later on it was me feeling worth less, because my husband made all the money and since we couldn’t live without money, I at least wanted to contribute to the relationship in making him happy, helping him relief himself. CRAZY!!! But years ago that was my truth, I thought. But, please beautiful women, THIS MAKES US SICK, when we don’t listen to our own bodies!!! Our pelvic area is a sacred place! If we don’t take great care of ourselves our sexual organs will feel ignored and will get sick. When I was 26, I was diagnosed with abnormal (precancerous!) cells on my cervix. I had to go in for surgery and I am glad that all these cells could be removed. I got a second chance! And even more glad I was when I did not have any problems with my cervix during my pregnancies and deliveries of my sons. ... (continued in comments)
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    It makes me incredibly sad when I hear that women think that they can’t say no to having sex with their husbands. We are living in the 21st century! And women should be listening to their own feelings and should be confident in saying no if they didn’t feel like having sex! And men should be sensitive and not even want to have intercourse if their women aren’t interested. And couples should have such a deep and honest and open-hearted relationship that they could openly talk about what they wish. All that came to my mind when I read that women feel obligated to satisfy (sleep with) their husband 🤔 because of being a Christian 🤔 because their husbands do a lot for them, so they need to do what their husbands want from them 🤔 because their husbands need to relax and relief themselves at home after a long workday Hm, all this sounds like contracts to me and lots of self esteem issues that don’t have to do anything with LOVE. And still, I need to remember myself that I felt the exacly same way when I was younger. I had a very screwed up view of sex and had such low self confidence that I wouldn’t even ask the guys to use condoms! In my head, the man was the one who was im charge. I guess, I had a picture of men having this urge and need to release and relief themselves and women would be the objects to do it with. Later on it was me feeling worth less, because my husband made all the money and since we couldn’t live without money, I at least wanted to contribute to the relationship in making him happy, helping him relief himself. CRAZY!!! But years ago that was my truth, I thought. But, please beautiful women, THIS MAKES US SICK, when we don’t listen to our own bodies!!! Our pelvic area is a sacred place! If we don’t take great care of ourselves our sexual organs will feel ignored and will get sick. When I was 26, I was diagnosed with abnormal (precancerous!) cells on my cervix. I had to go in for surgery and I am glad that all these cells could be removed. I got a second chance! And even more glad I was when I did not have any problems with my cervix during my pregnancies and deliveries of my sons. ... (continued in comments)
  • Love my Familia ❤️🙏🏻 We enjoyed our time in SoCal a lot. The mountains, the hikes, the ocean, the lakes, countless rounds of disc golf and nice weather had us hooked, but the lack of work for Greg made us move on... hoping for some success on the job front in the Bay Area now. We are greatful for having each other, for being healthy, for still being able to travel and making memories. ❤️🙏🏻 . . . #unscholing #stayingpositive #grateful #wearefamily #love #california #attachmentparenting #respect #makingmemories #worldschooling #travelingwithkids #family
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    Love my Familia ❤️🙏🏻 We enjoyed our time in SoCal a lot. The mountains, the hikes, the ocean, the lakes, countless rounds of disc golf and nice weather had us hooked, but the lack of work for Greg made us move on... hoping for some success on the job front in the Bay Area now. We are greatful for having each other, for being healthy, for still being able to travel and making memories. ❤️🙏🏻 . . . #unscholing #stayingpositive #grateful #wearefamily #love #california #attachmentparenting #respect #makingmemories #worldschooling #travelingwithkids #family
  • We bought a car! The boys are totally in love with our new minivan. ❤️ I think, Greg and I don’t feel as strongly. For us it’s more a necessity to drive from point A to point B with all our stuff, without having to pay high amounts of money for a rental car... It’s super sweet to see the boys excitement and join in with them. We haven’t agreed on a name yet. Any suggestions? We are grateful to go our journey back into the system step by step... Thank you Hertz for providing us with a good deal under Kelly Blue Book value 💙💛 . . . #newcar #familyaffair #minivan #familycar #happyfamily #happyboys #grateful #inlove #carsofinstagram #connectedparenting
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    We bought a car! The boys are totally in love with our new minivan. ❤️ I think, Greg and I don’t feel as strongly. For us it’s more a necessity to drive from point A to point B with all our stuff, without having to pay high amounts of money for a rental car... It’s super sweet to see the boys excitement and join in with them. We haven’t agreed on a name yet. Any suggestions? We are grateful to go our journey back into the system step by step... Thank you Hertz for providing us with a good deal under Kelly Blue Book value 💙💛 . . . #newcar #familyaffair #minivan #familycar #happyfamily #happyboys #grateful #inlove #carsofinstagram #connectedparenting
  • In the past 6 weeks, since we left Hawaii, I have been quiet here and pulled myself back from all the ideas I had/have for my business. I’ve deep in trying to figure out what’s really important for me and my family right now. My essence and passion is to nurture our children. That’s what I want in my business too, helping mothers to be able to love, nurture, connect to their children in the way that is mutually fulfilling for both of them. In the past weeks, I’ve tried to live exacly this. I am somebody who walks my talk. And I want to be real honest here. 😍 I love all the moments that I can be totally present with my kids, my family. The moments where everything is blurry around us, it’s just us. Phones are in a place we don’t even no where...we are attentive and connected and all one. 😍 I love to watch my children interact with each other. They are smart, funny, empathetic, loving, sneaky, sometimes mean, but they are free to be them and I am always there for them when they need me. 😏 I still watch myself slipping into the victim role. I suffer in order to give my husband his time to do his work. It’s a sneaky feeling of feeling treated unfairly, because I don’t get to work on my business, I an ONLY there for the kids... 😏 I still can be a total control freak. If I’m entertaining the kids, I want my husband to get his stuff done, no playing around... 😏 I can be mean and use pretty strong language with my kids when I’m in need of a break. ❤️ I know when I need time to myself to recharge and often take it. ❤️ I apologize, connect and explain to my children and my hubby when I treated them badly. ❤️ Right now my biggest goal is to nurture my family and myself. We are in a stressful situation, having no home, Greg finding no job, the kids yearning for friends, me needing personal time with adults/with inspiring women and friends... We are ready to settle and have all this back in our lives. So, I am the lighthouse. I am here to make healthy foods, to create healthy boundaries, to manage arguments and hurt feeling and just BE. Be me, be connected, be mama, be wife, be be be... alive. . . . #attachmentparenting #gentleparenting #selfcare #nurture #nature
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    In the past 6 weeks, since we left Hawaii, I have been quiet here and pulled myself back from all the ideas I had/have for my business. I’ve deep in trying to figure out what’s really important for me and my family right now. My essence and passion is to nurture our children. That’s what I want in my business too, helping mothers to be able to love, nurture, connect to their children in the way that is mutually fulfilling for both of them. In the past weeks, I’ve tried to live exacly this. I am somebody who walks my talk. And I want to be real honest here. 😍 I love all the moments that I can be totally present with my kids, my family. The moments where everything is blurry around us, it’s just us. Phones are in a place we don’t even no where...we are attentive and connected and all one. 😍 I love to watch my children interact with each other. They are smart, funny, empathetic, loving, sneaky, sometimes mean, but they are free to be them and I am always there for them when they need me. 😏 I still watch myself slipping into the victim role. I suffer in order to give my husband his time to do his work. It’s a sneaky feeling of feeling treated unfairly, because I don’t get to work on my business, I an ONLY there for the kids... 😏 I still can be a total control freak. If I’m entertaining the kids, I want my husband to get his stuff done, no playing around... 😏 I can be mean and use pretty strong language with my kids when I’m in need of a break. ❤️ I know when I need time to myself to recharge and often take it. ❤️ I apologize, connect and explain to my children and my hubby when I treated them badly. ❤️ Right now my biggest goal is to nurture my family and myself. We are in a stressful situation, having no home, Greg finding no job, the kids yearning for friends, me needing personal time with adults/with inspiring women and friends... We are ready to settle and have all this back in our lives. So, I am the lighthouse. I am here to make healthy foods, to create healthy boundaries, to manage arguments and hurt feeling and just BE. Be me, be connected, be mama, be wife, be be be... alive. . . . #attachmentparenting #gentleparenting #selfcare #nurture #nature
  • Just me and my littlest 🐶 out for a 3 mile walk in the hot hot heat. I love the dry heat. Tonka got a bit hot 🥵 and tired 💤, so we had to call the clan and meet us at a Starbucks for refreshments. 🍹 . . . #hotdog #excercise #walking #enjoyingmyself #enjoyingthemoment #walking #dogsofinstagram #californiasunshine #sweating #enjoyingtheheat #selfcare #selflove #alonetime #momcoachlife #momcoach #meandmydog
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    Just me and my littlest 🐶 out for a 3 mile walk in the hot hot heat. I love the dry heat. Tonka got a bit hot 🥵 and tired 💤, so we had to call the clan and meet us at a Starbucks for refreshments. 🍹 . . . #hotdog #excercise #walking #enjoyingmyself #enjoyingthemoment #walking #dogsofinstagram #californiasunshine #sweating #enjoyingtheheat #selfcare #selflove #alonetime #momcoachlife #momcoach #meandmydog
  • Happy 4th of July to my American friends and family. 🇺🇸 We took a nice hike up one of the beautiful mountains with beautiful views here in San Diego county. I‘m grateful every day that our dog Lilly who is suffering from heart desease is still up for 3 mile walks. . . . #4thofjuly #happy4th #independenceday #family #dogsofinstagram #beaglesofinstagram #love #hiking #happyfamily #grateful
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    Happy 4th of July to my American friends and family. 🇺🇸 We took a nice hike up one of the beautiful mountains with beautiful views here in San Diego county. I‘m grateful every day that our dog Lilly who is suffering from heart desease is still up for 3 mile walks. . . . #4thofjuly #happy4th #independenceday #family #dogsofinstagram #beaglesofinstagram #love #hiking #happyfamily #grateful
  • „Mama, can you hold the dog? I want to talk to Niki.“ That what Noah asked me the other day when we were going for a walk with our dogs... My heart jumped with joy. „Of course, I can hold both dogs!“ I‘ll probably jinx myself, but I feel like we are finally at a point where they love each other more than they hate each other. Where they actually like to spend time together, instead of fighting verbally and physically all day. It was a log way to get here, but all the patience and resilience was and is worth it. 💙 ‚boys are boys‘ I heard this so often, but I don’t give up on living a family life that values respect most of all. They are brothers and they don’t need to love each other, but they do need to learn how to respect each other‘s spaces. 💙 They didn’t find many other kids to play with while we travelled around the world, so they got to be each other‘s friend, because it‘s just more fun to play together than alone. 💙 They have some of the same interests like playing Fortnite, riding waves, playing/wrestling at the beach. 💙 I put a lot of emphasis on that everybody’s needs should get met during a day. So, to make that happen, everybody voices their 3 wishes for the day and we all work on accomplishing those. It‘s a democratic way of living as a family. 💙 I encourage lots of talking about differences they have, instead of fighting over stuff. I support them in staying in a dualogue to figure things out. (This, of course, takes so much longer than living in an authoritarian paradigm, but has so much more learning potential.) 💙 They know that they are loved unconditionally, no matter what they do. They are supported and I help them to take responsibility for their actions. 💙 The more they feel connected to themselves and to their parents, the better they can navigate and build great relationships to each other as brothers and also to other human beings, friends and animals, even to our planet. (Of course, they still fight and hurt each other and that also important to figure out how to work through upsets!) But I feel that they are going through an evolution in their relationship right now. #brothers #respectfulparenting #attachmentparenting #love
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    „Mama, can you hold the dog? I want to talk to Niki.“ That what Noah asked me the other day when we were going for a walk with our dogs... My heart jumped with joy. „Of course, I can hold both dogs!“ I‘ll probably jinx myself, but I feel like we are finally at a point where they love each other more than they hate each other. Where they actually like to spend time together, instead of fighting verbally and physically all day. It was a log way to get here, but all the patience and resilience was and is worth it. 💙 ‚boys are boys‘ I heard this so often, but I don’t give up on living a family life that values respect most of all. They are brothers and they don’t need to love each other, but they do need to learn how to respect each other‘s spaces. 💙 They didn’t find many other kids to play with while we travelled around the world, so they got to be each other‘s friend, because it‘s just more fun to play together than alone. 💙 They have some of the same interests like playing Fortnite, riding waves, playing/wrestling at the beach. 💙 I put a lot of emphasis on that everybody’s needs should get met during a day. So, to make that happen, everybody voices their 3 wishes for the day and we all work on accomplishing those. It‘s a democratic way of living as a family. 💙 I encourage lots of talking about differences they have, instead of fighting over stuff. I support them in staying in a dualogue to figure things out. (This, of course, takes so much longer than living in an authoritarian paradigm, but has so much more learning potential.) 💙 They know that they are loved unconditionally, no matter what they do. They are supported and I help them to take responsibility for their actions. 💙 The more they feel connected to themselves and to their parents, the better they can navigate and build great relationships to each other as brothers and also to other human beings, friends and animals, even to our planet. (Of course, they still fight and hurt each other and that also important to figure out how to work through upsets!) But I feel that they are going through an evolution in their relationship right now. #brothers #respectfulparenting #attachmentparenting #love
  • Do you feel like you have to be in charge all the time? You have to watch every step your kids make to keep them safe? You have to make a million decisions a day? Do you feel lonely as a mom? This sounds exhausting. And yet so many moms feel this way. ❤️ Start to be gentle with yourself. ❤️ It‘s ok to ask for help. ❤️ It‘s ok to feel all the feelings that are coming up. Lonliness is something that most of us learn to ignore when we are very young. When it comes up again, take it seriously and make sure you feel all the support that is available to you. ❤️ Take responsibility for everything that comes up instead of blaming others or your circumstances. ❤️ Your children will grow up confident when you don’t helicopter them and instead trust that theycan make good choices for themselves or else learn from their mistakes. ❤️ You deserve breaks to take great care of yourself. ❤️ Implement daily routines that help you keeping your cup of love and patience full.❤️ Create a support system of people that are there for you and challenge you. ❤️ Spend a lot of time in nature. This also helps your kids to stay grounded. ❤️ Stay in the moment and connect deeply to your children. The better you know each other, the easier it is to meet your kid‘s needs, instead of focusing on behaviors that are not the roots of problems arising. ❤️ Playfulness will make your days feel lighter and happier. . . . #attachmentparenting #stressedmom #exhaustedmom #peacefulparenting #parenting #traumamama #momlife #parenthood #motherhood #momlove #unconditionallove #joyfulparenting #proudmom #connectedparenting #nomorepowerstruggles #powerstruggles #momcoach #peace
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    Do you feel like you have to be in charge all the time? You have to watch every step your kids make to keep them safe? You have to make a million decisions a day? Do you feel lonely as a mom? This sounds exhausting. And yet so many moms feel this way. ❤️ Start to be gentle with yourself. ❤️ It‘s ok to ask for help. ❤️ It‘s ok to feel all the feelings that are coming up. Lonliness is something that most of us learn to ignore when we are very young. When it comes up again, take it seriously and make sure you feel all the support that is available to you. ❤️ Take responsibility for everything that comes up instead of blaming others or your circumstances. ❤️ Your children will grow up confident when you don’t helicopter them and instead trust that theycan make good choices for themselves or else learn from their mistakes. ❤️ You deserve breaks to take great care of yourself. ❤️ Implement daily routines that help you keeping your cup of love and patience full.❤️ Create a support system of people that are there for you and challenge you. ❤️ Spend a lot of time in nature. This also helps your kids to stay grounded. ❤️ Stay in the moment and connect deeply to your children. The better you know each other, the easier it is to meet your kid‘s needs, instead of focusing on behaviors that are not the roots of problems arising. ❤️ Playfulness will make your days feel lighter and happier. . . . #attachmentparenting #stressedmom #exhaustedmom #peacefulparenting #parenting #traumamama #momlife #parenthood #motherhood #momlove #unconditionallove #joyfulparenting #proudmom #connectedparenting #nomorepowerstruggles #powerstruggles #momcoach #peace
  • Following my little boy‘s desire of making a parachute 🪂... being in the moment and letting him experiment with where exacly his Fortnite character needs to be placed to ensure the bag to have maximum air volume in it... figuring out what bag to use and what to use instead of string...because we are still not settled... Floss did the trick. Length needed to shortened a couple of times for a smoother ride... There is learning potential everywhere!! The stick he found worked better than sitting on my shoulders... We‘ll try to find a good tree to climb up when we take the dogs for a walk later. Just enjoying quality time with my kids and am inspired by their eagerness to create and living in the moment. ❤️🙏🏻 . . . #kidslearneverwhere #unschooling #followingtheirlead #childledlearning #qualitytime #attachmentparenting #peacefulparenting #joyfulparenting #connectedparenting #nopowerstruggles #unconditionallove #meandmyboys #travelingwithkids #tryingtosettle #heartfeltparenting
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    Following my little boy‘s desire of making a parachute 🪂... being in the moment and letting him experiment with where exacly his Fortnite character needs to be placed to ensure the bag to have maximum air volume in it... figuring out what bag to use and what to use instead of string...because we are still not settled... Floss did the trick. Length needed to shortened a couple of times for a smoother ride... There is learning potential everywhere!! The stick he found worked better than sitting on my shoulders... We‘ll try to find a good tree to climb up when we take the dogs for a walk later. Just enjoying quality time with my kids and am inspired by their eagerness to create and living in the moment. ❤️🙏🏻 . . . #kidslearneverwhere #unschooling #followingtheirlead #childledlearning #qualitytime #attachmentparenting #peacefulparenting #joyfulparenting #connectedparenting #nopowerstruggles #unconditionallove #meandmyboys #travelingwithkids #tryingtosettle #heartfeltparenting