Simona Rinfreschi

I’m Simona Rinfreschi, an author, speaker, and founder of Presence Parenting, based on the Costa Blanca in Spain.

I help parents understand what sits beneath behaviour, so they can stay calm, hold the limit, and raise children with love, understanding, and mutual respect.

I’m also the author of Good Pixie Bad Pixie and its Spanish edition, Pixie Buena Pixie Mala, and I believe the best way to help our children thrive is to begin with ourselves.

Simona’s Story

Simona Rinfreschi is an author, speaker, and founder of Presence Parenting.

She writes for children and for the adults raising them, with a particular interest in what sits beneath behaviour, how early experiences shape us, and what it takes to raise children with love, understanding, and mutual respect.

Before any of this became her work, it was simply her life. She was born in Italy, grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, and now lives on Spain’s Costa Blanca. Books were a refuge from an early age, and becoming an author was a childhood dream that stayed with her even through many years when life seemed to ask for other things first.

Over the years, she studied child development and psychology, worked in early childhood education, and spent time as a primary school librarian, alongside many other roles. She has also lived with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and periods of deep struggle that changed the way she sees both children and adults. Those experiences did not make life easy, but they did deepen her understanding of what people carry, what they need, and how much harm can be done when behaviour is judged without curiosity or compassion.

She is the author of Good Pixie Bad Pixie and its Spanish edition, Pixie Buena Pixie Mala. What began as a story for children became, in many ways, a story for the child she once was too. It gently explores the feelings behind behaviour and the harm that both “good” and “bad” labels can do, which is also the thread running through her wider work.

Simona is also writing fantasy, building the Presence Parenting podcast, and creating resources and spaces that help parents stay calm, hold the limit, and respond with both clarity and care.

Through her writing, speaking, and teaching, she hopes to play a small part in breaking old generational patterns so that more children can grow up feeling safe, seen, and deeply loved.

Her guiding words are simple: “Be gentle with yourself and generous with your magic.”

Instagram: @simonarinfreschi