Change Comes with Experience
Dec 31, 2025
If you’re parenting young children, you already know this truth: the transformative moments aren’t the picture-perfect ones. They are the messy ones—tantrums, bedtime battles, sibling conflict, whining, clinginess, defiance, and the times you feel yourself getting activated.
Most parenting advice teaches you what to do in those moments. But when you’re overwhelmed, your nervous system doesn’t reach for your best intentions—it reaches for your oldest patterns. That’s why so many loving parents end up repeating what they swore they wouldn’t.
The HERO LIFE | HAPPY® Experience exists because real change doesn’t come from information alone. It comes from an embodied experience when you can actually feel the benefits of a new way of living in your body, your mind, and your relationships. That’s why I call it an experience.
What is the HERO LIFE | HAPPY® Experience?
The HERO LIFE | HAPPY® Experience is a holistic approach to well-being and parenting that helps you shift from surviving to thriving inside your own body and inside your family culture.
It’s not about “getting it right.” It’s about learning to:
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Feel emotions instead of fear them.
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Meet your emotional needs so you can meet your child’s needs.
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Build connection with your authentic self, find your voice and live supporting your needs.
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Build connection with your child’s authentic self because that’s where cooperation, resilience, and confidence grow.
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Create a family lifestyle that supports healthy relationships (with yourself, your children, and your village).
In simple terms: it helps you become the kind of parent who can stay present during big feelings your child’s and your own.
Why Parenting through Feeling is the Missing Peace
“Parenting through feeling” means you don’t try to control behavior while ignoring the emotional world underneath it. You create space for emotions to be felt and released. A "feel it to heal it" mindset.
When emotions aren’t felt and processed; they don’t disappear; they show up as dysregulation. They show up as overwhelm, disconnection, sleep struggles, rigidity, power battles, people-pleasing, shutting down, or reacting bigger than the moment calls for.
But when emotions are felt regularly, and your child experiences you as a safe place to bring them, everything changes:
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Your child learns, over time, that feelings are safe and they can live being themselves.
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You stop parenting from fear and start parenting from leadership.
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Your home becomes more connected, not more “perfect.”
This is the Missing Peace: the part most of us never learned. We were taught through behavior control. We were rarely exposed to being with our emotions and living connected with our truth.
What this blog is for (bite-sized recipes)
Making the HERO LIFE | HAPPY® Experience practical.
Not “someday” practical.
Not “when you have more time” practical.
Real-life practical.
You will find bite-sized recipes you can explore to:
- Be inspired to make small additions/shifts in your lifestyle
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Regulate yourself when you’re activated.
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Support your child through big feelings without abandoning boundaries.
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Repair after you’ve yelled or disconnected.
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Reclaim your voice and advocate for your needs.
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Create a family culture where emotions are allowed, and connection is the foundation.
Small shifts practiced consistently create the supportive parenthood change you’ve been craving.
Start Exploring: Different Than Your Parents Recipe
If you only do one thing after reading this post, I invite you to explore your BIG WHY. It will set the foundation for you to keep moving towards embodying the kind of parenting you long for.
What to expect as you keep going
As you practice, you’ll start noticing a different kind of strength:
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You pause more.
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You repair faster.
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You set boundaries without disconnection.
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You feel more like yourself again.
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You parent from alignment, not from autopilot.
This isn’t about blaming yourself, your parents, or anyone else. It’s about breaking the cycle—so your children don’t have to heal what you never got to feel.
Peace & Love, Julie.
Emotional Release: The Missing Peace
READ THE NEXT BLOG: Step 2. Where it all began - meet Julie
