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CONFLICT RESOULTION IN CLIENT WORK

By: Tamara Jurkin Conflict resolution starts far before an actual conflict arises. It begins when you first meet your potential client, the wording in your contract, and the expectations you set at the beginning of your working relationship. A solid foundation in a professional relationship is a proactive step when it comes to conflict resolution. […]

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IMPI’s founder, Mar Oscategui announces “Conscious Parenting Workout” to be released next month

According to a recent article in Scientific American titled “Secrets of Successful Parenting”, Amazon offers more than 180,000 parenting guides—more than double the number of diet books, as psychology professor Robert Epstein notes in “What Makes a Good Parent?” One would imagine that with such a large number of guides available and growing, surely parenting challenges […]

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The Importance of Holistically Addressing Questions Relating to Adult & Child Sleep Challenges

by Mar Oscategui, founder of IMPI and author of Awakening Through Sleep When parents experience a child sleep challenge or their own sleep challenge, one of the most common paths parents take to solve the ‘problem’ is one of public inquisition, usually with the general questions being asked right from the start. Quite often parents […]

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Awakening Through Sleep: An Integrative Child Sleep Foundations Solution

After birth, sleep is usually the next largest challenge for a family. How we address this as professionals and parents can lead us down a path of ease or frustration. Infant and child sleep carries with it not only so much controversy but also in many cases causes overwhelm, stress and a loss of family […]

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Why We Need Sunlight (A Book Excerpt from Green Body Green Birth)

by Mar Oscategui Over the years I have witnessed an increasing amount of concern over sun exposure due to ozone depletion, global warming, and skin cancer along with an increase in sunscreen usage and warnings to deal with this concern. Likewise in the last few years, there has been a huge increase in the studies […]

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Emotional Wellbeing or Behavioural Approaches? The Value of Intention.

by Ann Caird, IMPI graduate and mentor; founder of Nurturing Sleep Many sleep consultants now ask me about the appropriateness and usefulness of applying ‘behavioural’ approaches and strategies to resolving problematic baby and child sleep behaviours in relationship to emotional wellbeing. Reflecting on this question, it would seen that it’s as if we have […]

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Evidence that prenatal and early childhood nutrition play a role in proper brain function and the development of mental illness

by Jess Sherman Thanks to a pioneering researcher in Australia, we have some solid, published evidence that prenatal and early childhood nutrition play a role in proper brain function and the development of mental illness. Dr Jacka’s groundbreaking 2013 study looked at the diet of 23,000 mother/child pairs from pregnancy through to age 5. Among […]

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Living Authentically Through Your Business

written by Mary Luz Oscategui, founder of IMI In a culture of conformity, an authentically lived life shines bright. Authenticity connects you to your deepest impulse, your deepest heart longing, and your deepest sense of what you have to give to the world before you die. Early on in our journey toward maturity we may […]

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Getting Stronger for Labor with Sleep

an interview with Mar Oscategui for Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine (for highlights of this interview purchase Pregnancy and Newborn magazine’s April 2013 issue) Why is it important for an expecting mama to try to catch her 40 winks? From the moment a woman becomes pregnant; her body is undergoing many physiologic and biochemical changes. As […]

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Mom on a Mission to Revolutionize the Child Sleep Consultant Industry

Typically child sleep consultants are known to work with parents during postpartum to provide “sleep training”, tools, resources, and education in order to get their child to sleep. Sleep Training is most commonly introduced when an infant reaches four months of age or shortly thereafter. Occasionally families begin introducing sleep training earlier on, however very little […]

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