What changes when you take this course:
You stop dreading mealtimes. Not because your child suddenly eats everything — but because you're no longer in a battle with their eating. The monitoring eases. The anxiety about nutrients and sugar and what they will and won't touch starts to loosen its grip. You understand what's actually going on, and that understanding changes how you show up at the table — and how your child feels there.
Parents who've worked with this framework describe a quieter, calmer atmosphere around food. Less negotiating, less commentary, less pressure from both sides. Children who felt watched start to relax. Eating that felt stuck starts to move — not because it was forced, but because the conditions finally changed.
This isn't a quick fix. It's a shift in how you see your child, food, and yourself as a parent. And that shift tends to ripple out well beyond mealtimes.
The investment
One-time investment
£59
Until April 7 - includes the Telegram channel (one week from April 7 -14). Me in your pocket, coaching you through doubts and real-life situations.
What's inside — 11 audio modules, podcast style:
Listen on any walk, commute, or pile of dishes. No worksheets, no video to sit down for.
- Setting the Frame — what self-regulated eating actually means, and why this isn't a behaviour-fixing course
- Reframing "Picky Eating" — where the label comes from and why it misses the point entirely
- Food Is Not Just Nutrition — how modern feeding anxiety got so loud, and what children are actually learning at the table
- Feelings at the Table — why mealtimes are flashpoints, and what shifts when feelings are welcomed elsewhere
- Early Feeding Experiences and the Body's Memory — how birth, feeding difficulties, and early patterns shape eating without conscious memory
- Pressure, Control, and Worry — what pressure looks like (including the loving kind), and how it affects appetite and trust
- What Parents Are Responsible For (and What They're Not) — structure without domination, and where Division of Responsibility is misunderstood
- Language Matters — the phrases that add pressure without meaning to, and what to say instead
- Sugar, Snacks, and Fear-Based Feeding — the most emotionally loaded module. What the research actually says, and why restriction creates obsession
- What Helps (and What Doesn't) — clear guidance, how to repair after past pressure, and what change actually looks like over time
- Mealtimes in Real Life — eating out, parties, relatives who comment, siblings, school food, staying regulated when you're triggered
Who Is This For?
This course is for parents of toddlers and preschoolers whose eating has narrowed, parents who are newer to weaning and want to start without the anxiety spiral, and parents who are already drawn to Aware Parenting or NVC and want it applied to food. It works best if you're open to questioning the framework you've been handed — not just looking for new tactics.
Who Isn't it For?
This is not for parents looking for recipes, meal plans, nutrition guidance, or a step-by-step plan to expand their child's repertoire quickly.
It's probably not for you if you just want a quick way to get your child to eat more vegetables.
Con Calma: the upgrade
£179
Payment plan available: 2 x £90 or 3 x £61
The course gives you a completely new framework for understanding your child's eating. Con Calma adds Maru — so you're not doing that alone.
This is for parents who want to bring their specific child, their specific table, their specific history, and work through it properly. Two dedicated 1:1 sessions (1 hour each) with Maru, alongside full access to the course.
Like the name says, a different kind of support: unhurried, personal, and focused on what's actually happening in your house.
Con Calma includes:
- The full 11-module audio course
- Two 1:1 sessions with Maru (1 hour each)
- Space to work through your specific situation — the dinner that keeps going sideways, the pattern you can't shift, the child who only eats beige
- Access to the prelaunch Telegram channel (7–14 April) if you join before 5 April
The investment
One-time investment
£59
Until April 7 - includes the Telegram channel (one week from April 7 -14). Me in your pocket, coaching you through doubts and real-life situations.
FAQs
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Not at all. This course is designed for parents who are curious but new to the approach. Everything is explained simply, with real-life examples you’ll recognise immediately.
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Most advice tells you to either stop the crying (distraction, punishment, ignoring) or to meet every tear with a practical solution. Tears Without Fear offers the Aware Parenting perspective: crying is a healing process. You’ll learn how to listen in a way that helps you and your child become comfortable with expressing feelings and the calm that comes afterwards.
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Whether your child is a crawling baby, toddler, or school-aged, the principles are the same. You’ll also hear about how crying shows up differently at different ages, so you can apply what you learn straight away.
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This isn’t hours of video to sit through — it’s audio-only, like a private podcast, designed to be finished in less than 3 hours. You can listen on the go, in short bursts, and revisit whenever you need. Plus, you’ll have lifetime access.
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Absolutely! One of the modules is specifically about handling crying in public (playgrounds, shops, restaurants), so you feel less panicked and more grounded — even with strangers watching.
Acknowledgements & About Me
Everything inside this course is grounded in Aware Parenting, a model developed by Dr. Aletha Solter, a Swiss–American developmental psychologist who trained directly with both Jean Piaget (in Geneva). Her work brings together attachment theory, trauma research, anthropology, and decades of clinical experience — and it offers a radically compassionate, deeply respectful understanding of children’s emotions.
Maru Rojas is an Aware Parenting Mentor and parenting coach based in London, originally from Mexico. She came to this work through her own children, her own confusion, and her own unlearning — including the rules about food and bodies she absorbed growing up in an authoritarian culture. This course is what she wishes she'd had before the worry set in.
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Course contents
Six modules, ten recordings + bonus episodes
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1The Science-y part
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2Understanding control patterns
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3A new perspective on "regulation" & "co-regulation"
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4Crying at home
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5Crying in the Wild: Public Tears + Judgment
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6How to know crying is healing
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7Extras