About
Amy Christine Bush is a mother, healer, and teacher with a passion for parenting with loving guidance. Even as a child, Amy knew deep inside that motherhood was going to be a big part of her life and it proves to this day to be the most significant grounds for her personal and spiritual growth.
As someone who has always felt the pain of others and believed strongly that all people, children included, deserve to be treated with respect, Amy determined early on that she would guide her children with love. Putting that into practice during moments of heightened emotion and questionable behavior was a bit of another story. The first step Amy took to learn more about the art of loving guidance was in becoming a La Leche League Leader where she trained to serve mothers, fathers, and babies in breastfeeding and sensitive parenting.
Through the years she served as a Leader, Amy gained many skills to nurture, guide, and handle conflict with ease. She also noticed a common trend among parents of children of all ages. The trend involves a lack of confidence in one’s ability to parent. It starts almost the moment of conception and continues on through eternity for some. It manifests as doubt, anger, guilt, resentment, lack of joy, lack of trust, and other negative feelings surrounding parenting and family life. Amy recognized it because she had felt it herself at times.
Determined to find a way to solve the root of this issue, Amy began studying more parenting material and was eventually led to something much deeper: her true spiritual nature. She began to realize the importance her thoughts, emotions, and behavior patterns were having on her life and how greatly they were not only affecting her experience, but creating it. That was a lot to swallow.
Amy continued on and found a drastic change as she was led to resources that helped her find relief in her thinking, develop trust in the process of parenting and life, and connect with her Spirit.
In an unexpected flash of life altering events, Amy faced her own death in a way she never imagined. Instead of shriveling in fear she chose to take a step she had never taken before. She prayed to the Creator with complete trust for her life and the lives of her children. Relief flooded her and she had a profound healing and awakening experience that brought about a stark clarity regarding spirituality and purpose. The time to live life and love it is now, and that includes parenting!
The morning after, Amy knew that she would share spiritual truths, healing, and practical tools with parents all over the world who are looking for simple, clear answers to parenting related struggles. To Amy, parenting is not about controlling the behavior of another, it is about learning to love fully and share that love with others so that everyone is allowed to be their true, best self. Amy applies principles of non-resistance, non-violence, truth, and love in parenting and in life. She shares these gifts with parents so they can simply make the most of the parent-child relationship, now.
To further develop Amy’s skills as a parent and share valuable tools with other parents, she trained to become a Parent Talk Facilitator. Responding to our children with love often starts with the way we talk to them. We may know what we want to convey, but not have the verbal skills to transfer what’s in our heart to what comes out of our mouth. After studying various parenting programs and systems Amy felt drawn to the sincerity of Parent Talk as a strong base to grow from in the parent-child relationship. She is currently creating a distance learning format that will be available to parents worldwide.
In addition to parent education and consulting, Amy serves parents and others as a Reiki Master providing spiritual consulting, energy healing, and meditation facilitation. Amy enjoys nature, snow tubing, hiking, playing, yoga, meditation, dancing, swimming, cooking, writing, reading, and anything that might equate to adventure. She is currently contemplating the completion of a B.S. in Social Work and Philosophy while she continues to create her own transformational life with her three wise children and two rats.
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The Innate Parenting Story…
In early 2008, an idea entered Amy Christine Bush’s awareness: to create a book outlining the path to become the parent you want to be. She soon invited her close friend, Christine Gulrajani, to contribute. Quickly, the working title Transformational Parenting was given to the project that had been unknowingly in the discussion stage for nearly four years. Amy and Christine had been traveling the path themselves as parents of young children and La Leche League Leaders providing support and information to parents about breastfeeding and sensitive parenting.
The idea for the book transformed itself into a much more urgent effort after Amy had a profound awakening experience when faced with her own death in a way that brought her to realize the true importance of her role as a parent, person, and spiritual being. Part of Amy’s life purpose is to assist parents in connecting with their spirits so they can fully understand and appreciate the dynamics of the parent-child relationship which allows them to release any struggle and enjoy the sacred contract they have entered into!
In June 2008 Amy’s brother, Chad Bush, of Raven’s Eye Design, completed the website and virtual office where Amy offers parent education, intuitive consulting, energy healing, spiritual awareness, meditation facilitation, group programs & classes, written support, articles and resources to parents across the globe.
After almost one year of operating as Transformational Parenting, Amy realized that while transformation is definitely part of the process the true focus is on awakening the innate abilities of parents to love and care for themselves and their children. Thus, Innate Parenting was born…
In the Fall of 2009 Christine decided to take a hiatus to define her work and focus. She will join Amy on some collaborative efforts in the future!
“Good parenting is not time efficient.”
~ Chick Moorman
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