Alicia Brown empowers mothers to break generational cycles, heal their nervous systems, and parent with intention.
“You can’t think your way out of a dysregulated nervous system.”
These words echo deeply for Alicia Brown, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), parent educator, author, and the founder of Mom-ing with Intent. They are the foundation of her work with mothers, a group she believes is often overlooked in the parenting conversation. It’s one thing to offer parenting tips and strategies to help children thrive, but what if the real work starts with the parents themselves? What if healing the mother’s own nervous system could transform her entire family dynamic?
For Alicia, this wasn’t just a theory, it was a reality. As a therapist, she had seen the effects of unresolved trauma on families. As a mother of three, she experienced those effects firsthand. This is how Alicia’s transformative approach to parenting was born: from both professional expertise and personal experience. She’s not just a therapist sharing her knowledge; she’s a mother who is living the challenges and triumphs of the very work she teaches. Alicia understands how generational cycles can shape the way we parent, and how we can break them.
Breaking the Cycle: A Personal Journey
Alicia’s journey didn’t start with the intention to create a brand or build a business. It began with her own deep, personal realization, one that many mothers can relate to. She found herself, at times, repeating behaviors and reactions from her upbringing that she had vowed never to carry into her own parenting. Moments of frustration with her children, unexpected anger or overwhelm, would leave her questioning, “Where is this coming from?”
Alicia, trained in clinical therapy, understood that this reactivity was not a simple result of stress or frustration. Instead, it was a deeper response, a nervous system reaction rooted in unhealed patterns from her past. That’s when she realized the truth: the key to transforming how we parent is not in changing our children’s behavior, but in healing ourselves first.
This epiphany marked a turning point in Alicia’s career. As she navigated her own experiences as a mother, she began to craft a method that would help other mothers do the same. Through Mom-ing with Intent, Alicia works with mothers to help them break free from generational cycles of trauma, poor parenting patterns, and emotional reactivity. Her method combines her expertise as a therapist with her lived experience as a mother, making her approach both clinical and deeply personal.
The Hidden Connection: Trauma and Parenting
While many parenting experts focus on helping parents manage their children’s behavior, Alicia’s approach tackles the root cause: the parent’s own unresolved trauma. The connection between unresolved trauma and parenting struggles is often overlooked, but Alicia highlights its importance. As she explains, “Most parenting conflicts aren’t about the situation in front of you, they’re about two different family systems colliding. When you understand what you inherited, you can choose what to keep and what to let go.”
This insight drives Alicia’s work with mothers. She helps them recognize that their reactions aren’t simply flaws or mistakes, they’re the result of nervous system responses triggered by past trauma. For many mothers, this realization can be deeply freeing. Instead of seeing themselves as failures or falling short of an ideal, they begin to see their reactions as information. It’s a chance to understand the root cause and choose a different response.
The truth is, many modern mothers are drowning in conflicting advice and unrealistic expectations. They are constantly told that they must be perfect, that they must “have it all together.” Alicia’s message is a refreshing departure from this norm. She teaches that “good enough” parenting is the goal, not striving for perfection. By regulating their own nervous systems, mothers can show up for their families in more intentional, present, and responsive ways, without the pressure to “do it all.”
Building a Framework for Intentional Parenting
Alicia’s approach to parenting focuses on nervous system regulation as the foundation for everything. Most parenting experts focus on techniques for managing children’s behavior, but Alicia takes a different path: she believes that once a mother regulates her nervous system, she can respond intentionally to her child’s needs instead of reacting out of stress or fear.
Through her Motherhood: Reclaimed program, Alicia helps mothers heal their nervous systems and break free from the cycles of reactivity that so often plague parenting. She incorporates trauma-informed care, attachment theory, and evidence-based research, but she presents these in a way that’s relatable and easy to understand. Her goal is not to overwhelm mothers with jargon, but to give them practical tools they can use in everyday situations.
Her unique framework focuses on helping mothers:
- Regulate their nervous systems: Alicia teaches mothers to recognize when their nervous systems are out of balance and how to reset. This is essential for moving from reactive to responsive parenting.
- Break free from generational cycles: Alicia helps mothers identify the patterns they inherited from their upbringing and consciously decide what to pass down to their children.
- Embrace “good enough” parenting: Perfection is impossible, and striving for it only creates unnecessary pressure. Alicia shows mothers that being present and intentional is what truly matters.
- Respond, don’t react: Instead of responding with anger or overwhelm, Alicia empowers mothers to choose thoughtful responses based on a clear, grounded state of mind.
Why Alicia’s Approach Works
What makes Alicia’s approach different is her combination of professional credentials and personal experience. She holds over ten years of clinical experience working with families in schools, residential treatment facilities, and private practice. However, Alicia doesn’t just speak from a place of theory, she speaks from her own life as a wife and mother.
This combination of expertise and lived experience allows her to connect deeply with her audience. Mothers who work with Alicia don’t just hear advice, they see it modeled in real time by someone who’s navigating the same struggles. Alicia’s relatability is one of her strongest assets. She speaks the language of the overwhelmed mother, providing not just insight, but hope and practical guidance.
Alicia’s established, dual frameworks offer mothers a much-needed roadmap for navigating the modern pressures of motherhood. In a world that often tells mothers they aren’t doing enough, Alicia shows them how to step into a more intentional, self-compassionate way of parenting.
Empowering a New Generation of Mothers
Alicia is not just helping individual mothers, she’s shifting the conversation around modern motherhood. Her message is particularly resonant with millennial and Gen Z mothers, who are actively trying to parent differently than they were raised. These mothers are aware that the old playbook isn’t working, but they often don’t know where to turn for guidance.
Through workshops, one-on-one coaching, and her Motherhood: Reclaimed program, Alicia is empowering mothers to create new patterns for their families. She is also expanding her impact as a speaker and presenter, offering workshops, panels, and corporate wellness events that focus on parenting and work-life integration for mothers. Alicia recognizes that the needs of today’s mothers are diverse, and she’s committed to offering tools and support that resonate with their real, lived experiences.
Ready to Break the Cycle?
If you’re a mother looking to break free from generational cycles, heal your nervous system, and parent with intention, Alicia Brown’s Mom-ing with Intent community offers the support and tools you need. Through her Motherhood: Reclaimed program and one-on-one coaching, Alicia helps mothers regulate their nervous systems and transform their parenting approach, one step at a time.
Discover more about Alicia’s work and her book Break the Cycle, Not Yourself. You can also follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube to gain more insights on healing, intentional parenting, and breaking generational patterns.
