Great parenting starts with understanding what shaped you.
Whole Parenthood™ uses a groundbreaking approach to help new and expectant parents understand the family that shaped them, recognize the patterns they want to change, and parent with more confidence, calm, and intention.
Map your family-of-origin
A gentle starting point for noticing the roles, reactions, and relationship patterns that traveled through generations.
Look with compassion. Choose with awareness. Parent with emotional safety.
Parenting brings old stories to the surface.
The way your family handled conflict, closeness, anger, repair, boundaries, and emotions can quietly shape how you respond to your child today.
Whole Parenthood™ helps empower you to notice those patterns without shame or blame, and teach you evidence-based, emotionally attuned parenting skills that foster healthy attachment.
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- Whole Parenthood™ Basics
- The Whole Nine Months™
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Created by a therapist, parent coach and childbirth educator.
Whole Parenthood™ was created by Kira Dorrian, a mom of twins who has been working in the parenting world for over fifteen years. With a deep understanding of the transition into parenthood, family systems theory, and the real emotional load of raising children, Kira saw a gap in the way we prepare parents for the journey ahead.
She realized that Family Systems Theory is always used reactively, when families were already experiencing a problem. It made her wonder...what would happen if we used it proactively instead?
Kira's groundbreaking program and philosophy aim to:
- Help parents understand themselves, their child, and their family system more clearly
- Build confidence, connection, and emotional steadiness in everyday parenting
- Help parents feel like a team beyond the birth and throughout parenthood.
Support for the whole picture of parenthood
Prepare beyond the birth
Most perinatal programs focus on the mechanical: childbirth, breathing techniques, breastfeeding and newborn care. We prepare you for the whole parenting journey.
Work as a team
Parenthood changes the way you communicate, share responsibilities, and support each other. We prepare you to work as a team, protecting your relationship so you can care for your family without losing each other.
Learn new parenting skills
Once you know what you which family patterns you'd like to change, we help you build evidence-based, emotionally attuned parenting skills that foster healthy attachment with your little one.
Whole Parenthood™ offers warm, non-judgmental support for expectant and brand-new parents who want more than mechanical fixes. We look at the full emotional landscape of early parenthood with compassion, context, and care.
Start with your family map.
A genogram is a simple visual tool that helps you notice patterns across generations, including relationships, losses, conflict, caregiving roles, emotional cutoffs, and repeated family dynamics.
The free Whole Parenthood™ genogram guide will help you begin mapping your family story in a grounded, reflective way and leave room for creating a new family-of-origin for your little one.
You do not need all the answers.
You do not need therapy experience, perfect family memories, or complete certainty.
You only need a willingness to look with compassion and curiosity.
Your family patterns may be old, but your awareness can create something new.
A steadier, more compassionate way of parenting can begin with one small moment of noticing.