Show Notes

Parenting can be a challenging job, and it becomes even more demanding when it comes to raising children with special needs. Children with special needs often face unique challenges that require extra attention and support. They require a different approach to parenting that addresses their specific needs. Naked parenting is a unique quality that can benefit children with special needs. It refers to a parenting style that emphasizes honesty, vulnerability, and genuine communication between parents and children. In this essay, I will discuss how naked parenting can improve parent-child relationships and help children with special needs.

 Naked parenting is a parenting style that encourages parents to be honest and transparent with their children. It encourages parents to be vulnerable and open about their feelings, thoughts, and experiences. It involves parents setting boundaries, being assertive, and also being willing to apologize when they make mistakes. This parenting technique can be especially helpful for children with special needs as it can build stronger connections between parents and children. It creates a safe space for children to be themselves, be heard, understood and feel validated.

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My name is Chad Ratliffe. I am a single father of 5 kids 6 years of age (8-14) and 2 with special needs. 5 years ago, in a nasty divorce, my depression led me to drug addiction and hopelessness. Today, I share with others a life I never imagined possible.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

naked, parenting, life, stage, parent, feel, people, ocean, ship, path, introspection, health, self awareness, wave, learn, dreams, spirit, emotions, deepest truths, special needs children

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Chad Ratliffe

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On today's show, we'll be discussing the naked parenting path Part Three. Welcome to today's episode of The Naked parent podcast. My name is Chad ratliffe. And I'm your host. And before we get to the naked parenting path, part three, here's a message from naked parent nation. Naked parent nations a worldwide community of parents and professionals raising children with all kinds of needs, we come together to share a Naked Truth, support our fellow parents and inspire the inner growth that each of us needs to build the life and family of our dreams. For the parents that are struggling, we want you to know that we will love you until you can love yourself. For your children we pray and send power from our collective group.

 Naked parenting is the process of moving from where you are to where you want to be. Naked parenting understands that the mind is responsible for all of our problems. As you shed the layers of your old programming and beliefs, you will return to the deepest truths of your own being. Do what you've always done and receive the life you're living or create the vision you want for your family. Combine it with an elevated emotion, support from our community and you can live the life of your dreams and beyond. We have the power to create any kind of life we want for ourselves and our families.

We do this by living in the naked present moment, one day at a time. If this is your first time connecting with us, I hope you feel the love that's here for you. Together we walk different paths side by side. Before we get to the path, part three, I want to do a little breathing exercise that's super short and super valuable. It's something that can be done so quickly, in a small little space for when life gets a little sideways, or it's just going in the wrong direction. Okay.

 So what we're going to do is we're going to, you can close your eyes or have your eyes open and we're going to inhale through our nose for the count of four. We're going to hold for the count of four, we're going to exhale through our nose for the count of four. And we're going to hold for the count of four. It's a 16 second cycle. We're gonna do a three times we're gonna and then just kind of feel it slow down each set. Okay, so inhale

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234 Hold 234 exhale 234 Hold 234 inhale 234 Hold 234 exhale 234 Hold 234

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Now do it on your own. And that's it.

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But feel

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your state of being right now.

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Does it feel different

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than before you did three cycles of 16 seconds. It's an amazing tool, put it in your tool bag. And practice using it as you so choose. And again, before we get to the path, part three, let's say a little prayer

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to

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launch

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this talk today.

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Heavenly Father, mother, friend, Great Spirit, divine consciousness, wondrous nature, and saints of all religions. We come together as brothers and sisters, on a similar quest, to better understand ourselves, are divine calling, and how to be the best versions of ourselves and parents for our children. We asked for guidance and the ability to accept, accept life on life's terms. May each listener feel an inner sense of peace and calm in our hearts today, may we feel love, and spread love home? Peace, amen. So welcome back. For those of you who have been with us on this journey to explore the naked parenting pillars. Today we're going to be talking about the path and this is the part three of the path and the path refers to the naked parenting path. And this piece of the path gets into the kind of structural format of the philosophy and methodology. Okay. There's a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson says the only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

 And it takes guts and courage to step up and seek a new way to explore who we currently are, how we're acting, how it's working, and so on. So if you're with us, if you're at the stage where you're reading the book, and you've made it this far, or you've just listened to the first few parts, I want you to congratulate yourselves. Because most people quit. Within a page or two, you've made it way farther than most people will make it. This means that you have a burning desire inside you know that there's more for you, you know that there's a better version of you, and you're exploring ways

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to grow and evolve.

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And it's not easy to step into the unknown. We all know that it's not comforting to feel that you're about to dismantle the person that you've been so connected to, for all these years. But one of the great moments on this journey it happens early on, it's the moment you learn the answer to the question of who you truly are, and who you aren't. If you've already been down this road, you know how life changing this knowledge is, for those learning it for the first time. Before we get to that moment, I want to give you kind of the 20,000 foot paths on the naked parenting framework. The Naked parenting framework. We talk a lot about building your ship. And this ship is an acronym.

The S is for self awareness. The H is for health. The eye is for introspection, and the P is for planning. So that's the structure. There's a quote from yoga Under, that I love and it really ties in with the analogy we use. And it says, Oh spirit, I am no longer the wave of consciousness, thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of spirit that has become the wave of human life. We read that again, oh spirit, I am no longer the wave of consciousness, thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of spirit that has become the wave of human life. And that's a great quote, To meditate on. Say it a few times, and then sit with that and chew on that. It's, it's special, for sure. So we like the ocean analogy here, you know, if you're like I am, the analogy evolves as you continue down this path. But for now, let's say that the ocean is the entire world.

 It's everything in the world. You know, some like to think of the ocean analogy as if the oceans God. Others just think of it as all things. Each wave represents all of the people, places and things that we see as separate beings, buildings, land formations, and so on. Each wave has a unique frequency as it rises, and then merges frequency with the whole naked parents scene is building and sailing your ship. That's how we roll. So we're sailing our ship on the great ocean where we're all connected. Some would even say we are all one one love one world, right? So in order to go from where you are, to where you want to be, it starts with you. One of the sort of key thoughts behind the naked parent podcast is how do we say in the kindest, most direct way, that the only thing that has to change is you. The only thing that has to change, for my family to be the family of my dreams and beyond is me.

My kids don't need to start talking or get potty trained or achieve some milestone for life to become amazing. I need to get right. And then they can be however they are in life is amazing, right. So as for the ship, just know that the ship doesn't have to be your typical ship with a sail or a motor or whatever. Like if you want to have your your ship is kind of the vessel that you're gonna go through life with you and your family. And it could be your dream home, it could be a place, it can be an actual ship, however you want to visualize and build, you can do that. Just know that it can be you know, anything you want. So the first stage is the self awareness stage. So during the self awareness stage of the build, you learn about yourself in ways that I think will blow your mind, you will learn about your likes and dislikes, and how those are influencing every one of your decisions.

 You're going to discover who you truly are. You're going to learn where your thoughts and emotions come from. And I want you to notice that I didn't say, Wait, let me let me rephrase that. You're going to learn where thoughts and emotions come from, not your thoughts and emotions, which which is a key distinction. That's going to become more real and more amazing. If this is a new teaching for you, but more on this later, okay. You're going to discover what's working and what isn't working so we can build the foundation or Hall of your ship. This stage brings up a lot of uncomfortable things. For some people. It's not always the stage people feel is the most enjoyable stage. It is necessary, but it doesn't have to be negative. We focus on the present. And moving forward, the stage encourages people to drop what no longer exists, which is the past and the things that happened in the past. And once you've blown your mind with the new discoveries of the self awareness stage, you'll walk as a new person into stage two of the build, which is health. Health is easy to explain and more challenging to create, and live. But it plays a huge role in our lives without physical, emotional and spiritual health.

The rest of it's really pointless. You can't be 100 pounds overweight, and feel your best each day when you wake up. It affects your ability to meditate, it affects how you interact with your kids. The bottom line is health is it has to be a priority in naked parenting. After that, we have the introspection stage. This is where we dive into meditation, we talk about how to start a practice, there's more to the naked parenting introspection phase. Then simply following your breath, we dive into heart and brain coherence, we discuss how to heal yourself and others through coherence healing, we go into depth on this topic so that when you get to the final stage, which is programming, you have an idea of what you want your daily practice to look like. And then finally, the programming stage.

This is where we put it all together. And this is where we build the roadmap that includes your goals and your dreams. This stage is about clarity. The stage helps you learn what to say no to and how to gauge new ideas that you have. This is the stage where you connect with other parents in naked parent nation in a way that's really beautiful. You're gonna get connected with a smaller group we call your mastermind, then the stage is super fun. This whole stage is putting together everything you've learned into a roadmap that takes you on the shortest path to the different stops you'd like to hit along the way in your life. If you go all in on the first three stages, and then sit back and enjoy the programming stage of naked parenting, and whether you know it or not, should you decide to go all in, I have a sneaky suspicion that this will be the most important moment of your life. I really do. It certainly has been that for me, it's been more important than having my kids. And if that sounds harsh, let me tell you, it's because I'm finally the Father, I'm proud to be.

I feel that doing this work. I'm doing more for my kids than a lifetime of working my ass off the other way, the old way. So, I look forward to meeting you out at sea. We are all brothers and sisters cut from the same divine cloth. Life is a series of one miracle after another. It's meant to be enjoyed. My prayer and vision for you is that the naked parenting path. Be Your next step and creating the life and family of your dreams and beyond. The Vision also consists of a life you are excited to wake up to every day of life that connects you with your kids in a way that feels amazing. That feels fulfilling and authentic. May your efforts for picking up this book be rewarded by the sweat off your very own back. This is your life. Together we walk different paths side by side.