My company: Eyes Wide Open
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My Company: Eyes Wide Open

 

EYES WIDE OPEN LLC was born in 2001 from a simple but radical belief: wellness isn’t something you chase: it’s something your cultivate from the inside out. For over two decades, we have walked alongside people navigating life’s challenges, whether buried under stress, enduring difficult transitions, finding the strength to leave abusive situations, or searching for their life’s purpose.  What they discovered is that wellness encompasses not just the body, but the mind, the heart, relationships, and our connection to both community and the planet. Staying healthy is an art, one that requires knowledge, patience, and dedication. For over two decades we have supported individuals navigating life transitions, stress, and trauma. While our physical center in Bonita Springs closed in 2018, our mission adapted online during the pandemic and we continued to odder sessions, courses, publications and videos to continue our mission. 
Convinced of the importance of our beginnings, Eyes Wide Open has created the HeartMinded Parenting trainings as our humble answer to a world in need of empathy, compassion, and connection. The crises we face—isolation, disconnection from each other, and estrangement from the Earth—stem mainly from the way we have been raised. Through inductive discipline, parents can promote empathy and prosocial behaviors without having to use power assertion or love withdrawal parenting approaches. The child’s brain responds to fear by maintaining a state of alert that prevents  the more conscious responses elaborated in the upper centers of the brain. Eyes Wide Open believes in how crucial healthy early relationships are, for the child to develop self-compassion, empathy and a moral capacity based not only on principles but also on an ethics of care. A care that must be extensive to our bodies, other people, and the planet.

To address modern crises like isolation and social disconnection, we created HeartMinded Parenting. Modern neuroscience shows that fear pushes a child’s brain into a survival state, which blocks their capacity for empathy and compassion. As an alternative to fear-based or power-assertive parenting, we promote inductive discipline. This approach fosters perspective-taking, fuels cognitive empathy, and encourages altruistic behaviors. When children grow up in loving environments, their morality stems from a natural inclination to care rather than from fear.

We offer specialized parenting courses for licensed counselors and therapists. This training does not replace your current clinical techniques. Instead, it addresses the unconscious, generational transmission of parenting practices. We help professionals identify blocked care, explore ineffective beliefs, and support parents in healing their own wounds. Self-compassionate parents are best equipped to raise children who act with compassion.

Our ultimate aspiration is to see families evolve from Homo Sapiens to Homo Amandi, moving from knowing humans to loving humans. The world our children inherit depends on how we raise them today.

 

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We offer specialized continuing education Parenting Courses for Licensed Counselors and Therapists. Click here for more information.
 

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