Welcome!
If you are a believer in the power of relationships, deep emotional connections, becoming more mindful, moving away from traditional ways of parenting (rewards, punishments)... If you want to make sense of your past emotional experiences, heal and free yourself, gain inner peace...If you are seeking advice, help and support...
Change is possible. I'm so glad you are here.
Hi, I'm Anna
A wife, a mom, an author, a speaker, a photographer, a podcaster, an educator, a life long learner and the founder of Authentic Parenting.
My true passion is to help children to thrive. I have seen a lot of child suffering and abuse. I have worked with orphans, street children, youth at risk, juvenile delinquents, gifted kids, and children with special needs. Children are our future and we the parents have such an important job.
We are shaping the future.
I had dedicated my life in helping and serving children. Only after becoming a mother, I realized that parents need help and support. As a parent I want you to be in tune with your authentic self and help your child in the process of blossoming into his authentic self by supporting his growth. I will give you the necessary knowledge, tools and principles to support you in the emotional journey we call parenting.
You have the power.
It's within you.
When I survived a severe earthquake as a 13 year old, I didn't know what life had in store for me. Pain and suffering, big, raw emotions, hunger, lose of a young mother, evacuation...hardship.
When I wrote this essay at the age of 13, I didn’t know what my mission was. I just had a dream. My dream was to become a psychologist and serve orphans and children. Perhaps to better understand what had happened to me.
It’s funny how things work. Only 30 years later now it all makes sense.
I've got...
A couple of graduate degrees+over 18 years of professional experience working with kids, adolescents, teachers and families internationally. I studied, taught, learned for years, read hundreds of books on psychology, education, human brain, development and put together easy digestible tools and programs for parents to better their parenting skills. I beleive in helping children by helping their parents. I have helped hundreds of parents around the world in the emotional job of parenting.
The Principles of my the parenting from the heart approach are not new.
I always had them in me.
I always worked by them.
I always lived by them.
They derive from my past experiences.
- my early traumatic life-severe earthquake
- my career at the correctional facility
- motherhood
We are placed on this earth for our mission.
We all have our own unique gifts.
Mine is helping children. Mine is transforming peoples' lives.
I believe children have to be given creative freedom, a voice and an opportunity for self-expression.
I want children to have ample free time to explore and learn. I want children to play. I want children to have unstructured play and lots of it. I want children away from screens. I want children to create.
I wonder what are the long term effects of pop culture, technology, medications, fast-paced life on our kids. Where are we heading? How to preserve our values? How to transfer them onto our kids?
I contemplate about what kind of life we are preparing our kids for?
I am concerned about the well-being of the current generation.
I am excited to work with you.
"The way we treat our children, the way they treat themselves, us and others.
Let's make the world a better place! "
— Anna Seewald
Things you didn't know about me...
- I never learned to ride a bike
- If I didn't become a psychologist, I probably would have been an interior decorator or a Broadway star
- I'm an award winning photographer
- I fluently speak 4 languages
- I play the piano by ear and compose music
And when I'm not working with parents...
I'm recording my next podcast episode, creating online trainings and courses, taking pictures with my big and heavy Canon 5D, mark III or swinging with my daughter in the park.
I believe things happen for a reason. I'm so glad you are here.
Let's build a relationshop.
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