What is reparenting?

Full disclosure: this is something that I’m still learning about. I am in no way a reparenting expert, and I honestly began this inner work before I knew there was a name for it. What I do know is that reparenting is simply giving yourself what you needed when you were young, but didn’t receive.

At its core, harm reduction is a set of strategies and ideas for reducing harm related to substance use. It was created in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and has grown exponentially in the last three decades to meet the multi-layered, intersectional needs of people who use drugs.

Folks tell us that what they most appreciate about this training is the breadth of knowledge and lived experience that our facilitators have, the space created for connection and community, the content of the course, and the space that our facilitators hold for our learners. We hope you get to have that experience for yourself, wherever you choose to learn.

This blog post is profoundly personal and vulnerable. I write it as a catharsis, in hope of feeling less isolated in my grief. And I write this to let folks know that they aren’t alone in their own experiences with grief.

I was talking with a friend about it today (over zoom, cuz Covid) How is it that we’re living in this moment in a full blown pandemic, but I’m still surprised when it catches up to me? Why are so many people continuing to choose to live in denial about the severity of this pandemic? And they summed it up perfectly.

Nickie Tilsner, BSN, RN and Co Executive Director of Cornerstone Birthwork Trainings on the fundamentals of birthwork.