Sylvia Poareo grew up in Southern California in various foster and relative homes. Despite her chaotic beginning, her personal connection to the Divine sustained and guided her to seek the light in the darkness. Still, as a young adult, she felt lost, alone, and unlovable until she learned to love and re-parent herself and create the life she always wanted.
Having experienced transformation, she was drawn to helping others heal. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Azusa Pacific University, a Master’s Degree in Social Welfare at UCLA, and became a certified spiritual counselor with the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person. For over 15 years, she has shared the power of healing through social work in hospital, adoption and foster care settings, as well as, with children/families in the elementary schools using play/art therapy and training others in these processes.
She continues to provide spiritual healing support, serving as a “midwife to the healing process.” Those she supports, appreciate the way she gently guides their intuitive exploration to nurture loving and compassionate connection within, with God/Love and with others.
Having been inspired by her own experience as a new mother, she created Conscious Mothering Circles and support, as a perfect complement to parenting education. Conscious Mothering helps mothers heal the emotional challenges that interfere with parenting (or integrating parenting advice), by reconnecting to their own inner wisdom and spiritual connection.
She enjoys offering compassionate support and inspiration to parents and families through individual phone sessions, Connected Family Gatherings, Conscious Mothering Circles, Conscious Parenting playgroup, Mother/Child Blessings, the Red Tent, as well as, inspiring workshops and retreats. She feels passionately that parenthood is an incomparable time of growth, learning and healing, to be engaged in consciously so we can be truly loving to ourselves, to our precious ones, and the world.
More recently, she established www.connectingwithin.com, as a safe and sacred online space that is an antidote to our disconnected society with its focus on reconnecting to your soul, your relationships/community and your natural rhythm. She feels privileged and blessed to share many powerful healing tools and help others reconnect to their true beauty and wisdom!
When not doing the work she loves, she deeply enjoys growing and playing with her family, writing, dancing, yoga, suburban farming, traveling, and being present in each glorious moment!
