Thriving Families Community
A nurturing community that supports connection and growth with tools you need to thrive when your family doesn't fit into society's boxes
Join a community that nurtures your growth as a human with compassion—rather than a bunch of "shoulds"—providing the tools and support you need to thrive in your relationship journey—especially when you, your parenting style or your children don’t fit neatly into society’s boxes.
When I became a parent, I was full of idealism and a strong desire to parent differently from how I was raised. I thought I could think my way into parenting and doing my life differently. However, the reality of changing transgenerational patterns was very different than what I thought it would be.
As much as I wanted to go it alone, that wasn't possible- not because it was a weakness in me, but because it simply isn't possible. I needed community to re-parent myself and to learn how to parent my unique children. What I didn't know was that this journey would allow me to grow myself up as I was learning how to handle the challenges that came up for me in my relationships in this process.
Turns out, it was about so much more than parenting. It has changed the way I see myself and the world.
This is the path to changing not only our lives inside our own homes, but also the world. You see, we think change happens out there somewhere (gestures generally all around), but it really happens on the inside first. As we each make changes in how we treat one another, in how we understand ourselves, and how we communicate, the world also begins to change.
Thrive is an online community for parents with children of all ages, individuals without children, grandparents, caregivers, and professionals who are ready to thrive in all aspects of their lives and relationships. Some people in the community love and work with children of all ages. Some are here to work on their own growth as a human. We celebrate diversity, curiosity, and connection. We support respectfully authentic communication, along with personal growth. We work together to make the world a better place for all of our children by doing our own personal work and supporting those doing the caregiving.
"I just want to enjoy my children and my life. I don't want to spend so much time in conflict. But I don't know what needs to shift!"
I hear this from so many people.
If you're here, I believe you want to thrive. You want your life to feel easier. But you probably don't know how to get there from where you are right now.
What would it mean to you if you could have more ease in your home, a family that can work together, and feeling like you have the confidence and competence to handle the challenges that come up? And knowing that if you don't know how to handle something, you have a community of support willing to help you find your own way?
It may seem like an impossibility for you right now.
It once did for me, too. Yet now I know this is possible because I was where you are now- wondering how I was going to be able to find my way out of the conflicts, power struggles, and even questioning my life choices. Turns out that the answers I was looking for were there the whole time, but I needed support to be able to apply what I already knew in my specific relationships. And slowly, day by day, things got better.
I know this works. I saw it work in my own family life and I see it work with my clients every day in my one-on-one, couples, and family work.
You are probably looking around at what's happening in the world right now and want to do something- anything- to make the world more kind, more peaceful. But, like so many people right now, you don't know what to do.
One of the best places we can start is in our home. We've all been trained by the patriarchal systems in ways we don't even recognize. We need to slowly begin to take these systems apart from the inside, unraveling the ways the beliefs that go along with patriarchy impact us and the way we view the world, ourselves, and our relationships.
Patriarchy isolates. It tells us we're not good enough. It tells us we're not worthy unless we're doing more and we're doing it alone. This is why we need community. It is a radical act to connect with others. And it is radical to change transgenerational patterns and begin to create a different world for our collective children.
Yes, we can do a lot in our own homes. And we need to so we can improve the quality of our own lives.
But we can do even more when we do it together.
It's the only way we can effect lasting changes that go beyond the walls of our own homes.
We need a critical mass of people to make these changes. It only takes 2% of the population. We can do this. Together.
"Thrive is a rare opportunity in a culture where we are connected to devices rather than people, to actually use those devices to connect to people. Pairing the expert knowledge that's shared with the opportunity to connect with others and to perhaps share our personal stories as well as learn from others' stories and experiences is very valuable. It's also nice to join a community with others who are also interested in a better way, as opposed to a conventional modern way of relating to people that generally leaves people not actually supported."
-MA, Arizona, current Thrive member, mom to 19 year old
What Does It Mean to Thrive?
When we're talking about thriving, we mean that we're not in survival mode, which you may also have heard referred to as fight, flight, freeze (and fawn) responses.
When we are in fight, flight, freeze or fawn, we are doing what our body feels we need to do to keep ourselves alive.
When we're in survival, we are not open to growing, learning, creative problem solving, connection, joy, love, compassion, or empathy.
Sometimes we need to be in survival mode.
Sometimes it is legit dangerous and we need to focus on our survival.
But survival as a lifestyle is not sustainable for us or for our families.
We need to find ways to move from surviving to thriving.
But how?
"Thrive is a safe space for my sensitive soul. The support and friendships are moving me towards thriving more. I can definitely see it in my kids, they’re blossoming as I grow and change. I feel seen, heard, and met at a deep level."
-Current Thrive member, Mom of three, USA
What is the Path to Thriving?
We begin with 8 weeks of important topics necessary for healthy community as well as skills that help us in our relationships with our loved ones in our daily life. Conveniently, they are the same skills. (Yay!)
Content is delivered in short weekly videos, each about 10 minutes long.
We also have weekly live calls to talk about and practice the skills we're learning about together.
It's a perfect time to ask questions, to connect with other group members, and develop new friendships.
You'll have access to a Discord group to connect with your fellow community members between live calls.
Here's what we're doing for the first 8 weeks together:
- The Importance of Accurate Reflection
- Checking in with yourself, your needs, and the pause (paws)
- Feelings and emotions: What belongs to you?
- Consent and Confidentiality
- Boundary Basics
- Curiosity rather than judgment
- Somatic Embodiment Strategies and Nervous System Regulation
- Practical Tools and Strategies to handle challenges in daily life
What happens after the first 8 weeks?
After the first 8 weeks, we shift to two monthly calls with a theme, along with short weekly videos to make your own connections to the topics at home. The first call is about the topic and includes a discussion together to explore, sometimes with activities we can do together as a group. The second call is a Q&A where you can bring any questions you have about the topic or about relationships.
Our main topics will always be connection skills, nourishing yourself and your family, and repair of relationships. We will alternate the topics every other month.
Here are some examples of our monthly themes:
- Connection skills: Feelings and Needs, Boundaries, NVC Communication Skills, Behavior (yours and others' behavior), Understanding the Body's Story, Welcome
- Nourishing Yourself: Rest, Play, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, Connection to Nature, Ancestors, Place, Ritual, Nervous System Regulation Strategies
- Relationship Repair: Big R and little r repairs in different relationships and stages of life. We cannot have healthy relationships without repair, which means we need to mess up!
Rebecca Thompson Hitt
Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT, PPNE, CPP is a holistic family therapist with 30 years of experience, specializing in couples, families, and individuals seeking personal growth. She is the founder of The Consciously Parenting Project and has authored four books on parenting and relationships, supporting hundreds of families throughout her career. Many of her clients have allowed her to witness their children grow into self-directed, healthy adults who respect and value diverse perspectives.
Rebecca employs a holistic, whole-body, whole-brain, and whole-family approach, integrating Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic Psychology, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, and psychoneuroimmunology practices. Her work is grounded in attachment and trauma research, utilizing story-based, paradigm-shifting support to uncover the hidden narratives that guide us toward connection and understanding.
Her personal journey as a parent inspired her to shift her focus from behavior to relationship, leading her to write her first books. Rebecca believes in the transformative power of storytelling and is dedicated to guiding others through their own narratives to find answers and foster meaningful connections.
Jen Gerardy
Jen is a queer, polyamorous, neurospicy homeschooling mom, conscious parenting coach, and Healing Story Circle facilitator with 10 years of experience in helping outside the box families thrive and grow. They bring compassion, curiosity, and play to deep healing and transformation that brings the joy back to parenting and relationships.
