Episode 14 – Supporting the Heart of the Child with Lael Stone (Part One)

By Bronte Spicer | May 16, 2022

Imagine a world where we created wellness in families through education, connection and communication. Where children really could feel a strong sense of self and who they are, with connection and love as a priority. Lael Stone concentrates on exactly this in her work alongside children and parents. Listen as Bronte and Lael discuss:Aware parenting and non-punitive disciplines in order to connect and lean into our children. Parenting in a way that feels kins, compassionate and connected. Our bodies natural inbuilt mechanisms for healing and fostering a safe expression for feelings and emotions. Loving limits and what expression looks like and how children provide cues in order to get their needs met. Children’s need for attachment, balance and connection.

Because this conversation ran deep and covered many aspects of both Lael’s and Bronte’s work; it has been split into two parts. The next episode also features Lael and her experience creating Woodline Primary School – which is an extension of this conversation and definitely worth a listen!

For more information about Lael and her work you can find the details on her website https://laelstone.com.au/ and to connect with Bronte and find out more please visit https://www.brontespicer.com/

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Bronte passionately teaches why and how to feel downright terrifying feelings. It set her free, after all. For 22 years, she thought she would live with depression forever. But it turned out, all she was missing was some vital somatic tools to feel safe in her body.

Bronte empowers individuals and teams of professionals to skillfully shift from being stuck in their head to safe in their body, comfortable in their skin and resourced from within to handle anything that life throws them.

A natural inspiration who is willing to share vulnerable stories, Bronte caters for the needs of both individuals and groups, as they learn to gently sit, feel and heal.

Bronte is a powerful healer, offering single KI and healing sessions, a deep guided 1:1 spiritual journey in the Diamond Mentorship and monthly Shamanic Immersions on djadjawurrung country. She is the author of It’s Okay to Cry: The Gentle Way to Dissolving Depression and award-winning writer for Elephant Journal. She is the host of her own podcast, ‘It’s Okay to Cry’, featuring the untold stories of individual somatic successes from people around the world.

Bronte has facilitated professional development wellbeing workshops and programs to companies, schools and organisations including Westpac, Spiritual Care Australia, Weeroona College and Spring Gully PS to improve wellbeing through feeling.

She holds a Bachelor of Education/Bachelor of Sport and Outdoor Recreation, Advanced Certificate in Guiding and Teaching Meditation and is certified as Reiki Level II Practitioner and Kiloby Inquiries Facilitator.

Bronte believes we need people to know how to feel, not feel better, but to feel the full spectrum of emotions we experience through life. Learning to feel brings connection, authentic expression, joy and purpose to lead fulfilling lives and requires skillful, compassionate somatic inquiry.