02/17/2023
Support & Empowerment for Sensitive Moms of Sensitive Children.
Your feelings matter too, Mama...
Do you relate to this at all?
As parents, we try so hard to "do it right" - reading parenting books, blogs, taking workshops...and yet we still find ourselves getting swept up in conflicts, arguments & power struggles that seem to explode out of the blue.
We often feel ourselves reacting emotionally from a place of fear, defensiveness or resentment, while the situation spirals out of control - right before our well-intentioned eyes!
Feeling disrespected and unappreciated, we snap, yell, lecture, and punish in a desperate attempt to regain our sense of control and authority over our children who we feel "should be" more respectful, more motivated, more grateful...and we think to ourselves, "Have I been fooled by all the 'Psycho-Babble Kool-Aid' I have been drinking on social media and now I've created a lazy, needy narcissist out of that newborn baby? Damn you, New Age movement!!"
Our subconscious minds begin to play old tapes of how our own parents would have responded to these insults, demands and objections - and we think, "I am done coddling my child with all this conscious parenting bu****it - I am spoiling them with all of this nurturing and they have no idea how hard I had it as a kid!"
And the whole time we are judging, reacting and lecturing, it feels like we are having an out of body experience where we are witnessing ourselves being the worst version of ourselves - everything we said we would NEVER be like to our kids if we were parents...
Then the outward criticism turns inward...and guilt, disappointment, shame and self-criticism start to fill our minds and bodies...we think to ourselves, "I have just screwed my child up...I have no business being a parent...I have no idea what I am doing..."
And after our critical voice has ripped us to shreds, our child is crying, our spouse is yelling at us and dinner still has to made, homework still needs to get done and the horror show of bath & bedtime still await us...well, then we feel totally depleted, frustrated and sad.
When it all feels way too hard...almost impossible to be the parents we wish we could be, that's when we need support!
Moms...We LOVE our children, but parenting is HARD.
As parents, we have to juggle so many demands, arrange so many schedules, wipe so many butts and noses, dry so many tears, check so much homework, and keep so many details straight that we don't have much time left to take care of our own emotional health!
And as moms, we often put ourselves LAST when it comes to getting support.
I know you are trying so hard to support your child and help them figure out how to be their best self in this stressful world.
As a pediatric hypnotherapist, I am seeing so many parents feeling emotionally triggered, worried if their children’s behavior is “normal,” and feeling totally depleted from the onslaught of issues they are expected to help their children navigate in today’s uncertain times.
If you have been craving a safe, supportive & informative environment with like-minded moms who feel your pain and also love to lighten up, then please click the link below and find out how YOU can join a small, supportive group of like-minded mamas who all want to reduce their stress, re-write their roles in the world and learn the steps to compassionate connection with themselves and their families rather than getting swept up in the downward spiral of self-criticism.
Parenting is hard enough. We don't need to punish ourselves for doing our best. Click the link below and let's connect.
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/cu/DgGeEio/momgroups...
You've got this, and we've got you!
