Maru Rojas is a certified Aware Parenting Mentor and educational consultant who challenges traditional behavioral management strategies to prioritize children’s emotional healing. Operating under the philosophy of Aletha Solter, she helps families move away from coercive regulation techniques toward deep connection through her signature course, Tears Without Fear. This series focuses on birth trauma and the biological necessity of crying as a stress-release mechanism. Rojas frequently collaborates with industry peer Rebecca Sheikh to host the Empowered Parenting live program, which deconstructs mainstream conditioning regarding sleep training and discipline. Recently, she launched The Connected Eater, a specialized framework designed to foster intuitive eating and food autonomy by removing mealtime pressure. By integrating ancestral wisdom with non-violent communication, she provides parents with concrete tools like her 20 Games for Cooperation guide to resolve power struggles through play. Her work replaces conventional behaviorism with a trauma-informed lens that views big feelings as natural opportunities for childhood resilience.