Episode 141 - Attachment Play for Joyful Bedtimes with Britt-Ortmann Wold

Welcome back to another episode in my series about Attachment Play, this time in conversation with Britt Ortmann-Wold. Britt is a Certified Aware Parenting Instructor living in Minnesota, USA. She has two young daughters, Sophie and Athena and shares a passion for Aware Parenting with her partner Ryan. Britt has spent nearly 15 years in the self-awareness and spiritual healing space. Her work has included working in community mental health, with adults navigating addiction, in the prison setting and most recently, working as an end of life chaplain providing grief and spiritual care in the hospital.

In this episode Britt shares her journey with Aware Parenting and bringing Attachment Play to her family and learning to trust the power of laughter and tears for processing emotions. We talk about the need to be doing our own inner work and taking care of what needs to be tended to in us, in order to then be able to truly support our children. She shares some ways she has brought play to the challenges in her family, including the birth of her second child and difficult behaviour. We talk about the power of Attachment Play at bedtime to bring more connection, joy and ease to what is often a really tough part of the day. She talks about bringing small moments of play and connection in response to what our children are doing and gives lots of examples of play that has been really helpful in her family. We talk about Attachment Play with 2 children at once.

To learn more about Britt, please follow her on Instagram at Groundedwithbritt. Her course for Supporting Bedtime for children up to 6 years old is available from her Instagram site.

For support with this or any other aspect of Aware Parenting, I invite you to get in touch.