About Britt Bolnick
In Arms Coaching is the second child of Britt Pastor Bolnick, mama to Bella Nysa, who is five years old.
Personal Path to Parenting:
Britt became pregnant with Bella a few days after sending out a plea to the universe to be shown her path in life. At the time, she was teaching incarcerated men and women in the NYC jails.
The first year of parenting Bella was almost unbearable for Britt. Bella was an extremely sensitive and high-needs baby and had a lot of problems sleeping, which meant that most of the time Britt was severely sleep-deprived.
When Bella was 15 months old, Britt and Bella's father split up. The only thing Britt was sure about at that point was that she wanted to be able to structure her life to spend as much time as possible with Bella.
At the beginning of that winter she began working with mothers and their babies in a maximum security prison teaching parenting and literacy, as well as mentoring the women and teaching breastfeeding to the pregnant and new mothers. It was wonderful, very challenging, and deeply rewarding work.
In her work with parents, her relationship with Bella, and in the process of working through all Bella's intense needs and learning how to parent her, Britt has discovered a passion for working with parents and children to create loving, nurturing and healthy parent-child relationships. In her work at the prison as well as in her own challenges with Bella, she found empathy for the trials we go through as parents, for the work the role requires of us, and a gratefulness for the unlimited love we receive through the relationships with our children. She also has an overwhelming sense of love and compassion for the work we do on ourselves in order to parent our children.
Britt realized that she wanted to make it her work to help parents and children connect and grow through loving each other and through the hardships we face in the work we do with and around our children.
In addition, Britt has spent the last three years working within an exceptional coaching program of her own, and has found a passion for the transformational power of life coaching. The impact on her own life has been so extraordinary that she has realized her intense desire to bring the work to other people, with the goal of sharing its power to create a space for authentic connection to self, and to nurture and spread her personal belief in living a joyful, meaningful life.
To this end, she has createdIn Arms Coaching. She hopes it serves you in whatever way you need it to at this moment in your life.
Education and Qualifications:
Britt has a master's degree in education with a concentration in adult education. She has taught adults for over 10 years in a variety of settings. She completed training certifying her to be a lactation counselor, and in September '08 she was certified as a parent educator with the nationally used Nurturing Parents program.
-M.Ed in adult education from Vermont College 2003
-Certified Lactation Counselor 2008
-Certified Nurturing Parent Educator 2008
Other Work:
Hour Children: Britt has donated coaching sessions and workshops to the women of Hour Children, an organization which offers an amazing and inspiring array of services to formerly incarcerated women and their children. Check out their wonderful work at www.hourchildren.org
Homes For the Homeless: Britt has co-facilitated a series of parenting workshop for homeless families at this shelter in Queens, NY.
Britt can be reached at (917) 971-5347, or at Spirithouse@gmail.com Call for your FREE Connection Session!
