Stay ConnectedListen for coaching on how to care for yourself while mothering. You ARE the right mom for your kids. Motherhood is too important to do alone and too serious to be so serious all the time. You deserve self-care that isn’t hygiene every day. You are a world changer. I am so glad you’re here on Earth.
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You are exactly the right mom for your kids. I am so glad to know you. --CT
344. What the HECK is Positive Discipline?
Don't miss this gift from Julietta for sibling conflict.
Julietta Skoog is a Certified Positive Discipline Trainer with an Ed.S Degree in School Psychology and a Masters Degree in School Counseling from Seattle University, with over 20 years of experience helping families. She is the Early Years Lead and co-founder of Sproutable, which offers grown ups the tools, systems and strategies they need to cultivate powerful relationships, teach social-emotional skills, and set healthy limits and boundaries with all kids, from babies to teens. Her trauma-informed expertise includes early child development, autism, learning disabilities, anxiety, behavior disorders, Positive Discipline, Social Thinking, and mindfulness. Julietta draws from her real life practical experience working with thousands of students with a variety of needs and her own three children when coaching parents, bringing a unique ability to translate research, child development and Positive Discipline principles into everyday solutions. Her popular keynote speeches, classes, and workshops have been described as rejuvenating, motivating, and inspiring.
Check out their website and social media links:
Sproutable (@besproutable) • Instagram photos and videos
Joyful Courage - A Conscious Parenting Podcast on Apple Podcasts
Self-Care: Setting Boundaries is Julietta's best self-care practice. She can't do it all and doesn't try to.
Family Fun: Game Night! Julietta's family enjoys Exploding Kittens, Forbidden Island, Rummikub, Sequence, and Salad Bowl Charades.
Don't miss this gift from Julietta for sibling conflict.
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Are you holding your breath? Let's pause for a moment and check in with our bodies together and practice a new thought.
Good enough is good enough.
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Virginia Sole-Smith is the author of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture and The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. Her reporting on diet culture, health and parenting has appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, and many other publications. She also writes the popular anti-diet newsletter Burnt Toast and hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast. Grab her book on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3PalAlH Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith | Substack Self-Care: Virginia loves to do jiggle saw puzzles as a main self-care activity. She does not let her kids put in the last piece. She loves discrete objects on a colorful background. She's not striving for puzzle excellence; she is just doing it for enjoyment. Family Fun-- Watching Gilmore Girls with her nine-year-old. Family walks in the woods, gardening, and kids play in proximity near her.
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Are you holding your breath? Let's pause for a moment and check in with our bodies together and practice a new thought.
This is a wonderful moment of calm.
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You are exactly the right mom for your kids. I am so glad to know you. --CT
342. Get Out of the Comparison Cage
When you compare yourself-- you are trapping yourself in a box. It is "normal to do, but it's not helpful. There will always be someone better than you. Technology is constantly being changed and upgraded. Records are being broken.
You are an inviddual-- you can only compare yourself to yourself.
Notice when you want to compare yourself to other moms-- What are they better at? What are you jealous of? Why does it matter to you? What action can you take? Focus back on what you can work on. Dig into it-- and find the smallest step.
Somedays you won't be better than yesterday-- that's normal too. Be kind to yourself. Let yourself be more honest. Be softer. Be more you.
Self-Care: Paint the shadow of a flower.
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Family Fun: Play a game of hide and seek, count to 100.
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Are you holding your breath? Let's pause for a moment and check in with our bodies together and practice a new thought.
Mistakes happen because I am still learning.
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You are exactly the right mom for your kids. I am so glad to know you. --CT
341. The Orange Rhino: Not Yelling & Growing as a Mom
The Orange Rhino, also known as Sheila, is a mother to 4 boys and the author of "Yell Less, Love More: How The Orange Rhino Mom Stopped Yelling at Her Kids and How You Can Too!" Winner of PARENTS magazine "blog most likely to help you achieve your goal" and author of viral Huffington Post Article, "10 Things I learned When I Stopped Yelling at My Kids," Sheila shares honest and vulnerable stories from her successful 520-day journey of not yelling at her kids...and all the days after where she yells less and because while she is The Orange Rhino, she is still human and yells happen! While her journey started when her boys were 5 and under, she quickly realized that the insights, tips, and tricks she learned to not yell at her young kids absolutely still apply to her now teenagers (and to herself.) She invites you to join her on the journey to be an Orange Rhino: a parent who remains cool and composed and responds warmly and thoughtfully instead of charging vis-a-vis yelling.
Check out her book on Amazon-- (affiliate link) https://amzn.to/3WNjIkL
The Orange Rhino (@the_orange_rhino) • Instagram photos and videos
Try out the practice of saying, "At Least..." "Let me see something else..."
Self-Care: Shelia goes on a walk outside every single day.
Family Fun: Fun looks like playing games like Scatergoies and Dance Parties. Shelia also enjoys acting like a total goofball and dork for their entertainment.
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Are you holding your breath? Let's pause for a moment and check in with our bodies together and practice a new thought.
I do not regret kindness.
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You are exactly the right mom for your kids. I am so glad to know you. --CT
340. Rest, Delight, Nourish with Lisa McCrohan Lisa McCrohan is a Somatic Experiencing Psychotherapist, Integrative Coach, Author, and Poet. She works with clients 1:1 online and in her office. She consults with organizations to invest in the well-being of their greatest asset -their people. She advises leaders and entrepreneurs on how to live and work in a way that empowers them to thrive. Lisa is the author of two books: Gems of Delight and Your Light is Rising. She started a podcast last year called Delightful, where she helps listeners live a life they deeply love and follow what delights their heart. She is a mom to two teenagers. She and her family live in Maryland with their dog, Sherlock, and the mountains outside their backdoor.Check out Lisa's Podcast: https://www.lisamccrohan.com/category/delightful-podcast/
Bonus-- try out poetry after listening to Lisa talk about her Sandwich Board in her yard.
Self-Care: Ask yourself how you can nourish yourself. Lisa tries not to stack activities right on top of themselves; she likes to pause and breathe. Hand on the heart-- focusing on the exhale.
Family Fun: Go on Adventures with your family! Invest in time together and gear.
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Are you holding your breath? Let's pause for a moment and check in with our bodies together and practice a new thought.
Miracles are everywhere I look.
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