The Guilt-free Parent: How to Let Go of Guilt and Navigate Your Parent Journey With Compassion

"Am I good enough?" "I should do more…" "I never get it right…" This week Emily and Kathy are talking about overcoming feelings of parent guilt. Parent guilt can creep up on us, leaving us feeling overwhelmed and questioning our parenting abilities. And while that desire to want to do everything perfectly is often born out of love for your child, mixed messages from the media, and old messages from your childhood can leave you feeling anxious and worrying that everything you do is wrong. Join Emily and Kathy as they offer some guidance on how to shed those negative feelings and replace them with a sense of understanding and self-love. So, take a deep breath, relax, and join us for an empowering journey of overcoming parent guilt. After listening to this episode, you'll have ideas for shedding the guilt so you'll feel more confident in your parenting abilities and free to enjoy more precious moments with your children. Tune In To Hear: Why early patterns and messages you picked up as a child can increase your feelings of guilt as a parent, plus how to use Hand in Hand's Listening Partnerships tool to shed that guilt. Why giving ourselves grace in our parenting is so important – and how to get started. One thing you can do everyday to nix the feeling you aren't doing enough. Banishing the "I shoulds," to restore more presence with your kids and patience for yourself.

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The Guilt-free Parent: How to Let Go of Guilt and Navigate Your Parent Journey With Compassion is an episode from Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast by Hand in Hand Parenting.

This episode is 08:51 long.

This episode was published on May 23, 2023.

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