Respecting the Body as a Teacher

(The wisdom lives within…)

What if your child’s body wasn’t something to manage, correct, or rush through—but something to listen to?

What if their wiggles were wisdom?

Their silence… a signal?

Their tears… sacred language?

The body teaches us—if we let it.

It teaches when a boundary has been crossed.

It teaches when something doesn’t feel right.

It teaches when it’s time to rest, move, cry, connect, or be still.

As parents, we’re not meant to override this.

We’re meant to tune in.

To trust that our kids come into the world already wise in their own way…

Already fluent in the language of their nervous system…

Already whole.

Body-wise parenting means respecting that internal compass.

It means pausing to ask:

“What is their body trying to say?”

Instead of:

“How do I make them behave?”

It’s a slower, more curious kind of parenting.

One that rewrites the scripts we were given…

And makes space for trust—in them, in ourselves, in the body’s quiet knowing.

Let their body teach you.

Let yours guide you back.

You already know the way.