Whitney Knox McDaniel, MS, LPCS

Whitney Knox McDaniel, MS, LPCS https://bio.site/Whitneyknoxmcdaniel

10/27/2024

Check out this great series from my sister and fellow therapist, Jordan Nola Not only is she a great therapist, she is a talented graphic designer! Follow her here and on Instagram!
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I am struggling with what to say... maybe one day I'll tell the whole story. Just for today, I'll say I'm thankful for t...
07/23/2024

I am struggling with what to say... maybe one day I'll tell the whole story. Just for today, I'll say I'm thankful for the last 57 days.

Image Description:
A scrapbook page with a polaroid picture of the July 23 entry from the book "New Morning Mercies" by Paul David Tripp. The headline for the book excerpt is "God will call you to do what you cannot do, but will provide everything you need to do it."

To read the full entry, check the comments on the Facebook post.

07/10/2024

What do you all think? 🤷‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Is it harder for millennial moms? 🤱👩‍👦👩‍👧‍👧👩‍🍼👩‍👧‍👦👩‍👦‍👦👩‍👧

I don't think it's necessarily harder... but...

It is DIFFERENT.
Very different.
Incredibly different.

Our mothers, their mothers, their mother's mothers... they could never have imagined or expected parenting--life in general--to look the way it does now.

Maybe we millennial moms are harder on ourselves. Maybe we are harder on each other.
Maybe motherhood is just hard.

Maybe all the moms we knew--before we were mothers ourselves--told us it would be hard.
Maybe we laughed or cringed everytime another mom tried to tell us.

Maybe you just cannot comprehend how incredibly hard and simultaneously beautiful it is until you are living it.

Maybe it just is what it is and that is...

Different.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/style/millennial-mom-midlife-crisis.html

06/25/2024

Tone: joking.

🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

Sorry, no, I won’t be paying attention.
I have important fairy business elsewhere in my mind.

Please try to be more interesting in the future.

Em 🌈

P.s. anyone else think that ‘away with the fairies’ is just code for inattentive ADHD or AuDHD? Someone should probably tell the psychologists and paediatricians.

06/25/2024

My brain won’t brain today.

If I was in class I would not be productive.
I would not be engaging in useful learning.
My brain is nothing but owls.

And it wouldn’t be a choice.
It would not be ‘non compliance’.
It would be a direct reflection of my utterly drained capacity.

Why is it easier for so many adults to assume that our kids are making a choice to do poorly?

Em

06/25/2024

Telling your child

“It makes me sad when you don’t listen.”

Does not teach empathy, it teaches emotional manipulation.

Empathy needs to be modelled. It is not taught through explicit instruction. In fact, “forced empathy” impedes on the natural development of one’s internal moral compass. We realize that others are worthy of empathy when we experience the comfort of empathy, ourselves.

Empathy is not taught by making your child feel guilty when they’re behaviour makes you feel sad or angry. Empathy is taught by empathizing with your child.

Instead of “It makes me sad/angry when you don’t listen!”

Try “It’s hard for you to hear me sometimes, isn’t it? Is there anything I can do to help you with that?”

You can read more about empathy and what to do when your kids aren’t listening in my latest book 👇

Finding Your Calm: A Responsive Parents Guide to Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation⁣⁣

Link in bio or on the Website: responsiveparentinginspirations.com⁣⁣

🤣🤣🤣🤣 IYKYK. Either you're a therapist, been to treatment or in recovery... link to the video this is referring to in com...
06/25/2024

🤣🤣🤣🤣 IYKYK. Either you're a therapist, been to treatment or in recovery... link to the video this is referring to in comments. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

My schedule kinda "fell apart" this morning. Had several last minute cancelations and reschedules. This would have reall...
05/14/2024

My schedule kinda "fell apart" this morning. Had several last minute cancelations and reschedules. This would have really bothered my when I first started out as a therapist. These days, I take them as moments to catch up, or practice self care, or get things done.
Today's "free" time allowed me to paint my treasure box and stock up on treasures and new stickers. Treasures and stickers aren't just for the kids either!!

Come see me yall!

To all those who love a child...I'd add to this:Thinking of the Dad's loving children whose mother's are no longer prese...
05/12/2024

To all those who love a child...

I'd add to this:
Thinking of the Dad's loving children whose mother's are no longer present-for whatever reason that may be.

Thinking of the aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, foster families, teachers, bonus moms, or best friends who love and care for a child when moms are not present-for whatever reason that may be.

Giving birth or conceiving a child isn't what makes you a mother.

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