Strive for Balance in Personal & Family Life In-Person or Online

Join our nurturing community for flourishing in parenthood! Explore balance, healthy attachment, and practical family harmony tips. Let's nurture each other and our children together.

Caring for children is one of the world's most demanding jobs, and to do it well, caregivers need regular replenishment through social, emotional, and practical support. These resources lead to family and child flourishing. Their absence leads to stress and struggles that are more likely to build up and be ignored instead of resolved. This build-up leads to illness for parents and children.

Parents can feel replenished through a traditional sense of belonging and stress-buffering that comes from being connected to and nurtured by others.

Our work is focused on bringing you and other parents together in communities along with trained peer leaders where everyone shares, resolves, and buffers stresses, learns practical coping skills, and nourishes parenting knowledge.

You'll feel the stress melt, leaving you lighter and allowing you to discover and share new ideas and manageable plans. You'll find new ways to see old problems, reconnect with and update your internal parenting compass and use practical parenting skills that fit your family's needs. Starting this cycle of flourishing begins with replenishment.

Our meet-up this week will include discussions about:

• Understanding the importance of achieving balance in relation to promoting healthy attachment

• Focusing on the couple's relationship

• Finding balance when parents aren't together

• Practical tips for maintaining balance in the family

We hope you’ll join us!

Need flexbility? You can come in-person, to the Bristol Public Library, or join us online, depending on what works best for you each month. We’ll send out a Zoom link before each session, and we’re easy to reach with questions.

Register now for the Attached at the Heart Parenting Program. The sessions are free of charge, and document of completion is provided. We will meet the 3rd Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM. The Attached at the Heart Parenting Program helps you connect with your child, provides tools to turn parenting challenges into opportunities, and helps your child flourish. Connect with other parents and find balance, support, and encouragement!

Program Overview:

The Attached at the Heart Parenting Education Program curriculum training provides parents, child advocates and professionals much needed insight into childrearing with specific tools to help parents learn more about child development, neuroscience, and positive discipline, to trust the intuitive knowledge of their child, ultimately building a foundation that will strengthen healthy child attachment.

Looking for a faster pace, or need help with parenting older children?

If you prefer a faster pace through the Attached at the Heart Parenting Program, we offer a weekly series of sessions. For parenting students in 4th through 9th grades, we offer Guiding Good Choices parenting workshops. Please contact us at [email protected] or visit https://appalachianpromisealliance.org/parenting/ for information about these or other parenting series.

Meet the Instructor! Samantha Gray is the coordinator for Appalachian Promise Alliance Education Network and Parenting Sweet, and she has been a parenting educator for more than 24 years. She is passionate about helping parents and children flourish with community support and evidenced-informed understanding and practices.

Samantha is certified in many different programs and has created parenting programs. She has led parenting support groups and classes for more than 20 years, covering topics on pregnancy, birth, attachment, feeding, sleep, discipline, balance, childcare, babywearing, teens, life skills, and education. She writes a weekly column on Parenting for the Bristol Herald Courier.

Host or Publisher Appalachian Promise Alliance