Anna Portet Tapia
PresentChild Translator /Occupational Therapist / Psicometric expert / Infant massage instructor
These last fifteen years I have been working with parents and their children, sometimes only with children doing educative and preventive psychometric activities in some schools and private centres and in the last years, especially, doing Infant Massage courses (parents and babies aged between 1 and 12 months) and Workshops for families (parents and children aged between 1 and 6 years old); working with them I realised that there was something that was out of my reach, there was something that I was missing to really help them improve their relationships.
These Workshops are based on the closeness between parents and their children, to enjoy playing together and giving massages to each other. The main aim is to enforce and consolidate their affective bonds; To give them the chance to experience another way to relate to each other, from healthier patterns, when parents asked me for help in the raising of their kids, I could give them some recommendations, but deep down in me I felt that wasn’t enough.
Luckily and suddenly, the opportunity to do the PresentChild Translator Training got in front of me, and the first thing I thought and I told myself was "This is for me!" it was what I really needed, and I was full of joy, there was no room to hesitate, I headed immediately to take the necessary steps to get started.
At this present moment, when there is room to observe how parents and children relate to each other through the closeness, and where they do it, there is the evidence of the huge need parents have, to get the understanding of the messages their children give them with the persistence and the insistence through their behaviours.
So, nowadays, in my practice as a PresentChild Translator, I can see how thankful parents are once they have had the messages their children give them through their behaviour or whatever they present to them, and which they can get through the translation, they can see how their inner process offers them a huge heart warming experience in their lives, witnessing how their children’s behaviour, symptoms, reactions, difficulties etc, change improving in a positive way, the one that they would have never imagined, and at the same time as their inner process and new patterns help them establish a new way of living life, then they are able to see how the fullness and joy of life takes place daily.