Mary Dravis-Parrish has over 25 years of experience as an educator, trainer, coach, and speaker working with kids and parents to create different possibilities in family living. She brings her 40+ years of parenting experience which includes being a teen parent, a single parent, a co-parent and step-parent as well as a grieving parent after the suicide death of her son. In addition to her son, she has two other sons, a step daughter and a step son. These parenting challenges as well as the experiences Mary had growing up in a large family, contributed to Mary discovering after the death of her son that her life needed to change. She was ready to let go of being in control of things she couldn’t control, like making her family happy, keeping her current husband sober, and judging every choice she made. The guilt she carried about not being there for her son was taking its toll. It was time to find out if this life had anything else to offer. But how could this be possible when she had done all of the things that were supposed to bring you joy, happiness and a fruitful life had failed? It is in the surrendering to something else being possible that the tools and processes of Access Consciousness® were introduced to Mary in 2010. Immediately she knew there was something here that would give her what she had been yearning for. As she applied the tools and processes to eliminate her own fears, guilt, worry, doubt, control and anger, she began to discover that she was free to choose to be, do and have the life of her own choosing. She didn’t need to have someone else tell her how to live her life. Mary began to use these tools and strategies with her own parenting as well as introduce them to parents that she worked with in her coaching practice. In her own home, she found that there was more ease as she let go of having to be in control, to be right and to be responsible for any outcome. Her children began to relate to her with more ease. She found she could have more allowance for their choices as they moved into adulthood. As she began to use these tools in her coaching practice, the parents she worked with discovered that they too were feeling less guilt, less pressure, less anxiety and much more joy and confidence. They were experiencing changes in their own life aside from being a parent that allowed them to be more positive about living, creating more of the life they desire to live, following their own dreams, and being empowered to empower their children to be whatever they choose to be, without fear or expectation. Wanting more parents to have the opportunity to know about these tools, Mary wrote Empowered Parents Empowering Kids- A Guide to Be You Parenting to encourage and support parents through difficult times, to encourage them to search for a different way of parenting through self discovery and transformation referred to as Be YOU Parenting. The book offers parents permission to see themselves through the eyes of their children, to be transformed to be who they truly be and to be empowered to become the parent that will empower kids. Mary, now invites parents and children to shed the guilt, limitations, judgments and fears associated with family living and step into the allowance, joy, ease and fun of Being YOU. It is a glorious adventure, well worth the trip!