Nourished
A gentle 4‑week journey into trust, autonomy & connection around food
What if eating wasn’t about control, rules, or pressure - but about trust, presence, and deep connection?
What if you could support your child in the self‑demand approach of Aware Parenting, while also bringing healing into your own story around food?
Nourished is a 4‑week Aware Parenting journey into your relationship with food, your childhood experiences, your child’s natural ability to self‑regulate, and the family culture you want to create around nourishment.
This is not a program about “getting your child to eat.” It is a journey into connection, trust, autonomy, and safety - for both of you.
Who is this journey for?
For parents who notice that food brings up more than just “what shall we eat?” For parents who feel that food and mealtimes can touch old stories, feelings, fears, or patterns, and who long for more softness, trust, and connection in this part of family life.
For parents who:
want to understand why food can bring up so many feelings, both in themselves and in connection with their child`s journey with food
want to trust their child’s natural rhythms, needs, and inner wisdom
want to bring healing to their own childhood experiences around food, bodies, and nourishment
want to move away from pressure, control, or worry, and into more understanding, presence, and clarity
want more connection and ease around food and during meals
want to support their child in having their own relationship with food, freer from old patterns
want to create a nourishing, safe family culture where food is about nourishment - on multiple levels - not tension
feel alone and/or unsure in this part of parenting and long for a gentle, supportive space
Whether you’re new to Aware Parenting or already familiar with it, you are welcome.
This journey is for anyone who wants to move toward more trust, autonomy, and connection - in themselves and in their child’s journey with food.
What you will receive
A short pre- questionnaire
inviting you to share where you are on your journey, so I can meet you there and offer support in the places that are most tender or important for you.4 weeks of empathy, care, & guidance
a gentle space that supports you in exploring your own story and your child’s natural wisdom.Reflection journals
questions to help you connect with what lives inside you.A 3‑hour live workshop on the self‑demand approach
clarity, understanding, and space to ask your questions and explore your own feelings.4 listening circles
a held, compassionate space to share, be heard, and connect with others.4 interviews with Aware Parenting instructors
perspectives and experiences that deepen your understanding and bring more trust into daily life.A private community space
gentle connection with other parents walking this path, a place to share, receive empathy and care, and ask your questions.Practical invitations for daily life
small steps that can bring more presence, acceptance, and trust around food and mealtimes.Playful invitations to connect with your child around food & feelings
ways to bring lightness, joy, and connection into this part of family life.Everything is offered as an invitation, there is no pressure and no performance included. You are welcome to take what resonates and leave what doesn’t.
What we will explore together
Your own childhood experiences around food
the stories, memories, and feelings that shaped your early relationship with nourishment.
How these shape your parenting today
the ways old patterns, feelings, fears, or beliefs can quietly influence your responses to your child around food and mealtimes.
Your child’s natural ability to self‑regulate their food intake
the innate wisdom children carry when they are supported in trust, autonomy, and connection.
The possible underlying needs of certain eating habits
what may lie beneath “picky eating,” “not enough,” “too much,".
How to replace pressure with presence
moving from control or worry into attunement, clarity, and acceptance.
How to build a family culture of trust and connection
creating a nourishing environment where food becomes a moment of togetherness rather than tension.
How food can become a doorway into healing for you
allowing nourishment to be a path back to your own body, your own truth, your own guidance.
This journey is not about fixing or forcing anything, but about gently allowing change to unfold by bringing in more presence, softness, understanding, and connection.
Aware Parenting
This immersion carries the philosophy of Aware Parenting, created by Aletha Solter. The self‑demand approach is a part of Aware Parenting.
In Aware Parenting, our intention is to support our babies and children to stay connected to their bodies, their sensations, and their needs - always to the best of our ability, because we are human and learning.
I deeply love the trust Aware Parenting places in children when it comes to food. Babies and children are naturally drawn to the foods their bodies need. When we allow them to choose their own foods, they stay connected to their body’s signals and nutritional needs, and they are able to self‑regulate their food intake.
This journey is rooted in that trust - in your child’s wisdom, in your own capacity to meet them with presence, clarity, and connection, and in your ability to regain that connection for yourself as well.
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I have not set a specific date yet for the next round of Nourished. If you would love to be informed when I offer it again, please let me know by sending me an email.
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The next time I offer this program, the financial contribution will be a one‑time payment of 160 euros or 4 weekly payments of 44 euros.
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Yes, you can. If you would love to have personal sessions during our 4 weeks together, you will receive a 10% discount on each session.
A Mother’s Reflection
“Thank you for creating 'Nourished' and for holding and supporting me through the process of trusting my nearly 3 year old to make his own choices around food. It was so edgy and still is at times. You have helped me to confront my fears and to sit with them, you heard and saw my frustrations and my insecurities. You encouraged me to have a vision for the future: How do I want my child to relate to food and how do I want to relate to food. I feel liberated and lighter, not having to be the food police, not having to ensure 'they ate something decent', instead trusting that things will even out as I saw develop in our house. Even I have allowed myself treats and have judged myself less. I have come such a far way from restricting even fruits (counting out grapes) to trusting that my child can eat when they want and what they want (within what we provide in the house, and that is still our choice). This feels so healing for my own inner child, who experienced so much coercion and pressure around mealtimes. How wonderful that I am not passing this on to my child any longer. They don't have to eat the meal that I decided to cook and I decided the timing. They can choose their own. Thank you Vivian. This immersion was such a gift and I received my value many times over. I so highly recommend 'Nourished' to anyone who feels called to explore the self demand approach with their children of any age.
Thank you, Nadja”
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