Big feelings, Small bodies

# A playful afternoon for moms & kids (3–6 yrs) in Cesky Krumlov - Czech/English

Emotional maturation series: an embodied experience for parents and children Fostering emotional awareness, attachment, resilience, and self-regulation — through creative, experiential, and relational learning.

Oh those big emotions in those little ones. You can sometimes see how they are struggling to express when they feel... But maybe they do NOT know what they feel? Maybe they do not have the words for it?

When our little one is full of emotions it can be difficult to be calm and present. It might trigger mothers, who sometimes tell me they can not stay present for their children in these situations.

This afternoon is an opportunity to see how emotions are created, to make them conscious, to help you and your little one name them and this way allow emotions to pass, fade away. You will take home a tool for your little one to show their feelings, and practice naming them.

A 2-hour workshop blending games, theater, art, and mindful parenting tools to help children understand their emotions and give moms practical strategies for handling big feelings at home.

Together, we’ll explore:
• Basic motions and how the body-language expresses them
• Naming and acting out feelings through play
• Simple mindfulness for calming down
• Saying no without shame
• Parent–child communication: attunement, validation, listening

For Moms: responding to big emotions (Tantrums / anger, Saying no, Supporting big emotions, Frustration, Shame, Your own triggers)

Come ready to move, play, draw, and share. We will guide the children from shy and calm, to relaxed and playful and back to calm, focused, giving you the tools to handle emotional storms with more ease, compassion, and confidence.

About the host: Eszter is a long-time expat, a mother of three, and an integral counselor. She left her home country at the age of 21 to study in Paris, where she first experienced how deeply financial resources — or the lack of them — can shape a person’s life. She began in the expat bubble with her boyfriend, then gradually opened herself to the people and culture around her. She had her first two children in Paris before moving back to Hungary after eight years.
Back in Hungary, she took over her mother’s company while raising children as a single mother after her husband left her. At the same time, her grandmother was living with Alzheimer’s, and her mother was caring for her, which meant Eszter carried the responsibility of helping provide for seven people. Trying to find a way out of this pressure, she moved to what became her second home, the Czech Republic, to join a man who later turned out to be toxic. Despite having three children, one of them still a toddler, she chose to raise them alone rather than remain in an environment that was harmful to them.

After surviving — and eventually thriving — alone with three children in a country whose language was difficult to learn, she took on several jobs. One of them involved guiding tourists, where she discovered her gift for building trust and connection with people within just a few minutes.
When the pandemic made travel impossible, she continued deepening this path by completing a coaching certification. Yet she felt coaching was not gentle enough for the kind of relationship she wanted to offer her clients. That led her to begin a three-year training in integral psychology and become an integral counselor. Because their rage required, she also took on the role of supporting her elderly parents, traveling 500 km twice a month to check on them. Since than she has been living the reality of so-called “sandwich caregiving,” caring both for (the more and more independent) children at home and parents who have become increasingly dependent on her emotional support.

Her parenting journey has also brought her through profound challenges: supporting a daughter caught in an anxiety cycle around visits to a narcissistic father until she could eventually stand up for herself; learning to hold and accept a son’s digital addiction while, over time, setting clearer limits around how she could support him; and enduring one of the hardest experiences of all, when her other daughter went through amnesia and cut off all emotional relationships, including with her.

These experiences led Eszter into a deep therapeutic journey of her own. Through it, she learned how powerfully defense mechanisms serve to protect life, how reparative emotional experiences — especially those within families — can bring healing, and how even one stable, safe attachment can become a life-giving container for a child shaped by trauma.

Today, her mission is to support parents in being parents. She believes that while therapy can be deeply valuable, the most important factor in a child’s life is a safe relationship with a caregiver. When parents can offer that, they do not only support their own children — they also help interrupt patterns that would otherwise be passed to the next generation. For Eszter, this work is not only about helping the individuals she meets directly, but also about contributing to a healthier future for humanity.
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Having lived for more than 20 years as an expat in two different countries, she has learned both how to stand strongly on her own feet and how that same self-reliance can come at a cost. She lives with a condition that will likely remain part of her life forever and requires great discipline around food and daily choices. This has taught her something essential: freedom is never the absence of limits. Rather, freedom lies in the tiny moment of awareness between what happens and how we respond to it.

That is the heart of the work she now offers to clients: helping them hold multiple perspectives, become more accepting and compassionate toward their own choices, and meet both inner experience and outer circumstance with greater awareness.

Eszter believes that when parents become aware of their own triggers and can separate them from what belongs to the child, parenting becomes much easier. And when we understand the needs and impulses a child is acting from, we can meet them with more acceptance, more understanding, and more loving guidance — rather than fear, conflict, or control.
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She sees therapy, in many ways, as a substitute for the good-enough, loving, accepting parent. And one of her deepest intentions is to empower parents to trust that they, too, can become that kind of presence for their child.