Being a mother is something wonderful and transcendental, and at the same time, it is a journey of learning and unlearning. It is the best way to unconditionally love another human being, who at birth is completely dependent and gradually achieves healthy and progressive independence.

Being a mother is a daily learning experience, a path that accompanies us throughout life. But before being mothers, we are women; therefore, it is essential to intertwine motherhood with our role as women, in a healthy and respectful way in both senses, taking into account that respect must always be mutual.

During our journey in motherhood and in raising our children, we encounter many challenges, most of them inherent to development. Sometimes we feel lost on how to respond to these challenges and tend to repeat what we experienced in our childhood, in many cases, wonderful things, and in others, we carry a wounded childhood that is activated in our maternal role, which often leads us to react instead of connect.

That is why "Criar, Crecer y Sanar" (Raise, Grow, and Heal) offers the opportunity to work on oneself, while writing and rewriting your story; to grow as human beings and as mothers, aunts, grandmothers, nannies, and more. The book directly links self-love and self-knowledge to respectful parenting, giving children a voice through good treatment. Taking into account that conscious parenting is first a personal path of self-knowledge and self-love, to achieve tuning with the child. It is a look at self-knowledge and childhood from a perspective of love and mutual respect, because by raising children consciously and lovingly, we grow as human beings, we connect with our BEING, with our essence, and that helps us improve.

By healing our wounds, we can emotionally attune with children. Only by looking inward can we grow to connect with childhood in a healthy and respectful way.

The book is dedicated to all women in the world, with or without children.

Author: Natalia Calderon