MY JOurney
From then until now..
MY JOurney
From then until now..
My name is Nic Wilson and I live in Australia with my beautiful daughter. It’s just the two of us and that’s perfect. Here is a little of my journey so far…
I discovered the paradigm of Aware Parenting, a beautiful type of attachment style parenting about 8 years ago (as at 2024), when my daughter was about 3 years old. It spoke straight to my soul and I resonated deeply with the approach, in a way that the traditional ‘domination’ style parenting hadn’t up until this point.
This old and unfortunately still very mainstream style of parenting, where babies children’s feelings are completely ignored, power over is used to control them with the use of rewards and punishments as discipline and they are not trusted to know what they truly need for their own growth, because they are ‘just a child’.
This was the only way I had learnt up previously, and to be honest, it was not working for us at all.
We were extremely disconnected, both sad and upset most of the time and struggling to maintain any form of balance in our lives.
I was recovering from a very rough pregnancy, where I vomited the entire 9 months and following a 35-week check-up, I was admitted to hospital for 2 weeks of forced bed rest. Delivery by an unwanted C-section because it was discovered, I had pre-eclampsia, that she wasn’t feeding well from the placenta and she was in the breech position.
All in all, it was a far cry from my ideal pregnancy and birth!
Traumatic to say the least and I felt completely powerless during the entire experience.
Now that she was here, I was getting zero sleep, she cried non-stop all day and night. I felt so alone and even though I had my beautiful family around, I was wearing a mask and saying that everything was ok. I was severely disconnected to my own sense of being and a shell of my former fit and happy self.
This continued on for two straight years and after a painful separation from her father, we really were at rock bottom.
This truly was my awakening…
It was this incredibly difficult time of my life, that birthed me onto this beautiful journey that I continue on today. A journey of self-discovery, self-love, intense and incredible healing and releasing, of not just mine, but also my daughter’s past traumas and pain, through the theory and techniques of Aware Parenting and the practices and processes of the Marion Method. I am also able to enjoy a amicable relationship with her father and continue our healing journey, as we walk the path of co-parenting together.
I wholeheartedly believe that Aware Parenting is a philosophy of parenting that has the potential to change the world.
Based on extensive research in child development, Aware Parenting questions the more mainstream views of domination or authoritarian parenting by understanding that babies and children have real feelings and need to express them, just like any adult. It focuses on healing past traumas and hurts and being able to hold space for our children to listen to their feelings.
Aware Parenting has 3 main aspects being Attachment Style Parenting, non-punitive discipline (no rewards or punishments) and it also recognises that crying, laughing and raging are natural stress release and healing mechanisms available to us all.
Aware Parenting raises children who are more cooperative, loving and empathetic. I have seen this first hand in my own parenting journey with my child.
The Aware Parenting journey gives us a beautiful chance to connect deeply with our children, with each other and with ourselves and our own internal being.
It allows each of us to be seen and heard as the individuals we are and to give and receive love to each other from a place of full spaciousness.
It is incredibly empowering to be able to stay connected to her, offering Loving Limits when necessary, so I can ensure my needs as well as hers, are being met in the moment, with love.
She responds in wanting to be more cooperative, caring and compassionate.
Aware Parenting really is the true heart in the middle of Domination (using power over) and Permissive (not meeting our needs as parents) styles of parenting, which always leaves one party feeling powerless.
By working to heal our younger parts at the deepest level (with the practices and processes of the Marion Method – see below), re-parenting and re-culturing ourselves to be more loving and compassionate, we in turn give more of our spaciousness and unconditional love to our children.
I became an Aware Parenting Instructor in early 2020 and feel so honoured to be able to share this incredible philosophy with the world.
💜 Connecting with parents who want to embody the Aware Parenting philosophy.
💜 Connecting with parents who think they came to Aware Parenting ‘late’! (Side note, it’s never too late!)
💜 Supporting parents who want to stay deeply connected to their children and support reparenting themselves along the way!
💜 Supporting Fathers with Aware Parenting.
💜 Supporting couples and children through separation or divorce.
💜 Supporting single parents.
💜 Attachment play for any challenge.
💜 Supporting parents with challenges in the school and day care systems.
💜 Supporting people reconnecting with their true yeses and noes.
💜 Supporting people to reconnect with their willingness and bring their true heart’s desires to reality.
💜 Working with the Life Force energy, communicating with Life itself through messages and conversations.
💜 Connecting people to their true soul’s callings and supporting actions.
💜 Supporting people to unconditionally love and release limiting beliefs and conditioning.
💜 Supporting people in de-conditioning themselves from the Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC).
💜 Supporting parents to support their children to do all of the above, so we can co-create a world where people connect and interact, not from a fear, separation and conditioning, but from a place of Love, Will and connection.
The second part of my journey came when I was introduced to the Marion Method by my dear friend, mentor and colleague Marion Rose. You can find out more about Marion and her amazing work here.
About 8 years ago (as at 2024), I had a New Years Willingness Session with Marion and it was during this incredible 3 hour session that I fell in love with the Willingness work and the Marion Method.
Shortly after, Marion created an offering called A Week of Willingness and it was here that my heart and soul were about to come alive and more deeply connected than ever before!
The Will module was my first introduction to these incredible practices and processes and a way for me to live life from my Slug Wisdom (as Marion calls it) – my true Yeses and Noes.
It was this week that completely revolutionised how I approached life, from this moment on.
The Marion Method is a psychospiritual model which is a combination of 3 parts including Love, Will and Conversations with Life. It holds that we are each a unique Soul, deeply interconnected with all that is.
Through this work we are invited to look at all of the conditioning and patterning that our personality (some call this the ego) has taken on from the Disconnect Domination Culture (DDC as Marion calls it) and that we have picked up over the years, including the many ‘emotional sticks’ as Marion calls them of shame, guilt and judgment.
We are invited to give unconditional love to these younger parts of us that show up when we have big feelings, through the Inner Loving Presence Process, so that we can lovingly heal and release them and offer them reparative phrases and experiences instead. The more we are called to do this, the more our personality gradually becomes a greater and more authentic reflection of our Soul.
As I dove deep in to the essence of this work, I realised
I loved it so much that I decided to complete the Marion Method Mentor Training in 2022 and am now a certified Marion Method Mentor and Teacher!
I deeply respect and love every single part of this psychospiritual framework and I now help and support many mentees to bring this incredible work into their own lives, witnessing great transformation for them as well.
What I truly love, is that Aware Parenting and The Marion Method go hand in hand during mentoring sessions.
I will always be very clear what is Aware Parenting and what is the Marion Method, but have found such incredible changes in how we can use both of these modalities to really alchemise our lives beyond what we thought was possible!
💜 Supporting people reconnecting with their true yeses and noes.
💜 Supporting people to reconnect with their willingness and bring their true heart’s desires to reality.
💜 Working with the Life Force energy, communicating with Life itself through messages and conversations.
💜 Connecting people to their true soul’s callings and supporting actions
💜 Supporting people to unconditionally love and release limiting beliefs and conditioning
💜 Supporting people in de-conditioning themselves from the Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC)
💜 Supporting parents to support their children to do all of the above, so we can co-create a world where people connect and interact, not from a fear, separation and conditioning, but from a place of Love, Will and connection.
It is my soul’s calling to share this information on Aware Parenting and The Marion Method with the world and to support and walk alongside as many human beings as possible, to help them heal and thrive in their own parenting, re-parenting and re-culturing journeys.
As we function in this world that really expects a lot from us all, I want to support people with really tangible and practical strategies to enhance their enjoyment in life and deeply connect to their children, partners, others and themselves.
I am so willing for all of us to break free from the Disconnected Domination Culture and remember and reclaim our true power.
I want everyone I walk with to know the power of Aware Parenting and The Marion Method as ways to really live your most inspired and authentic life!
Above any other qualification, the most important one to me does not have a certification program! I am a mother. A Being. A student of life. A soul surfer and sole (soul) parent, who has been able to create beautiful harmony and connections within my own life, whilst continuing to explore my own beliefs and conditioning along the way.
I am also a qualified English as a second language teacher, by the university of Cambridge in the UK.
I have found these teaching skills can easily translate, to teaching any material in a fun, non-judgmental and loving way.
It also gave me my passion for language and words and the power they have in our lives!
Also trained in Property Law with 7 years of experience working with separated couples when selling their matrimonial home in divorce or separation situations.
I also have 8 years of extensive personal experience in co-parenting with my daughter’s father, using the Marion Method and Aware Parenting to being able to create a peaceful and highly functioning conscious co-parenting situation.
I have held various positions in small to multinational companies, in roles that required working with people of all different ages, education levels and cultures, allowing me to learn various ways to connect and communicate with people from all walks of life.
I have travel far and wide in my time and I speak fluent Brazilian Portuguese. My daughter is half Brazilian, so I also know what it’s like to experience challenges with differences in culture and language, within the family unit.
I am a Level 1 Aware Parenting Instructor certified in 2022 by Aletha Solter Ph.D, the founder of Aware Parenting. I have been practising Aware Parenting in our home for the past 6 years and have done numerous courses, workshops and trainings with the amazing Marion Rose, who is a Level 2 Aware Parenting Instructor and the Regional Coordinator AU/NZ.
Marion Rose developed the Marion Method framework of Love, Will and Conversations with Life and created the Marion Method Mentor Training (MMMT). I joined in 2022 and am now a Certified Marion Method Mentor, Psychospiritual Parenting Mentor and Marion Method Teacher. I love being able to support people to integrate these incredible practices and processes into all areas of their lives!
I really know what it’s like to juggle all the balls of job, children, school, sports, your soul’s calling, family, life admin, paying bills and all the rest, whilst maintaining loving and connected relationships. I can offer you many strategies on how to do all of this… and keep you smiling along the way!
Attachment Play is an aspect of Aware Parenting that can not only facilitate deep healing from past hurts and trauma but also bring incredible connection and fun to your life. There is literally a game for every challenge!