BECOMING

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Healing the Parent. Honoring the Child.

healing journey somatic parenting Aug 07, 2025
Quote from Vivian Meraki: Every child enters this world whole, sacred, and enough.

Every child enters this world whole, sacred, and enough.

My role as a parent is to honor that truth...
  To guide with love, not fear,
  To protect their light from being dimmed.
As a coach, I help others do the same.
Because this isn’t just parenting. It’s legacy work.

- Vivian Meraki

I work with parents who love their children deeply, but are carrying the wounds from lived experience or the children they once were. They find themselves reacting in ways they don’t want to, repeating patterns they thought they’d outgrown, or feeling guilt and grief over how hard it is to stay present. I help them make sense of those responses. So they can parent from connection, not conditioning.

My work is not about teaching parents to be perfect. It’s about helping them come home to themselves.

Through grace, through strength, through safety, and presence... not performance.

Because so much of what we were taught about parenting (and being human) was rooted in fear, control, and shame. For generations, we’ve been shaped into second-guessing our intuition. Pulled away from our internal compass. Many of us were raised to believe that love must be earned, that worth comes from doing, and that expressing our needs makes us weak or selfish.

But I believe we are born divine.

We arrive whole. Intuitive. Connected. And wise.

And yet, we are quickly taught to disconnect. From our bodies. From our voices. From our knowing. Not because our parents didn’t love us, but because they too were taught to survive systems that prize obedience over authenticity.

These systems—whether cultural, generational, or institutional—are designed to create disconnection. Because a disconnected person is easier to control. Easier to mold. Easier to silence.

But something is shifting now. A return is happening.

More and more, I meet parents who are waking up to the truth: that it’s not too late. That healing is possible. That they don’t have to pass down what was passed to them. And that their children’s emotional safety is built on the foundation of their own self-trust.

This work is sacred.

It’s not just about bedtime routines, school transitions, or discipline strategies. Although we are mindful about those too. Instead, it's deeper. It’s about the emotional legacy we’re leaving. It’s about raising children who trust themselves. Who know they are loved and lovable. Who don’t have to spend the first thirty years of adulthood untangling what they never received.

This isn’t just parenting.

It’s legacy work.

And if you’re reading this and feel something stir in your body... something that says, "this resonates", know this:

You are not behind.
You are not broken.
You’re remembering.

And you don’t have to do it alone.