Emotionally Healthy Legacy- Anger management for Christian moms, mom rage, angry mom, christian parenting, patient mom, calm mom, Christian motherhood, Christian motherhood mindset, parenting triggers, mom guilt, controlling anger

Easy and simple way to reset your mindset any time of day: Look at yourself in the mirror, smile and  tell yourself - 'You've got this!' Jessie @positively.jessie is our guest speaker this week and she dropped some amazing and practical suggestions on how to shift your mindset to be more positive. Also, how to teach that to our children positive mindset as well. Join our talk this w...

Homeschooling moms, this is for you. Does homeschooling stress you out? To tell you the truth, I've personally have been avoiding the thought of it because it seems so stressful for me. In this episode, our guest speaker Jackie @whole9family is an experienced homeschooling mom who drops some great tips for us on reducing stress and how to simplify homeschooling. This is an area that I KNOW ca...

Feeling anger so strongly you want to hurt your baby.  I know this is not something moms talk about but I know that many moms have experienced this. Of course its a scary feeling and there is a safe way to handle the situation.  If you ever had colic baby then you KNOW how triggering it can be, especially if you are sleep deprived and hungry. Add some unmet emotional needs in the mix and its a per...

Have you ever yelled at your kids when you are frustrated and then thought, why did I do that?  When our brain is under any sort of stress, often it will be in reactive mode. When it's in reactive mode, it will go back to automatic patterns that are familiar. Often those patterns are what we were raised with.  We can change those cycles. Tune into todays episode and find out what you can do d...

What do you do when your toddler is having a meltdown? For me it's so hard not to be sucked into his big feelings he is experiencing. It's very normal that when your child is angry that your anger feelings will come up too. In todays episode we have a Hilary @raisedresilient who is a parenting strategist. We go deep into why toddlers have meltdowns in the first place, what to do when the...

Do you need some extra energy? Yes please. I wish I had as much energy as my kids do. They don't seem to lack it whatsoever, especially boys. In todays episode, I introduce you to Linsey Dalton. She is a mom to 2 girls. She is also a pharmacist and founder of The Energy Reboot Method. She helps busy moms increase their energy so they can lose weight, enjoy time with their families, and get mo...

Have you ever lost your cool as a mom? Of course you have. We all have.  There are no perfect mothers out there.  Have you wondered why you lost it? What is actually happening in the brain that you are not able to stay calm and patient? There is a scientific reason for it. Your brain is under too much stress for it to handle.  Now, that does not make you a bad mom. It makes you human.  Tune into t...

Postpartum stage.  It's hard. It's hard for most moms. It's hard for me, especially with the 4th baby.  In this episode I explain all the postpartum struggles I'm experiencing and ways that I am coping with them. Mindset shifts are HUGE.  There are a few things I am doing now that I don't normally do, just to make things less stressful for myself. Life is overwhelming and...

This is a positive episode. You get to learn 15 PRACTICAL ways you can support yourself emotionally. Things you can start implementing today to help yourself feel more calm and grounded and less frustrated with motherhood. Grab the list of 15 things bellow! 15 positive ways to support yourself emotionally  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next Steps: 1. Watch FREE TRAINING: 5 Steps to Break free from Mom Ra...

Last episode we talked about who safe people are. Well, there is also a group of people who are opposite of a safe person. They are called toxic people.  So who are they? What do they really do that is so toxic? Should we avoid them or not? Toxic people can really negatively influence your mental state, and negative mental state will affect your emotions. If we want to get emotionally healthy we n...

Have you ever heard of anyone referring to someone as a safe person? Who are safe people and what kind of characteristics do they have? In this episode I explain who  safe people are and why it's so important to have them in our lives.  In order to support ourselves emotionally we need multiple safe people in our life that we can lean on. Someone who can empathize and lovingly guide us in the...

As a mom, we set the tone in our home. We have great power. What do I mean by that? Well, have you ever noticed that when you are in a bad mood, somehow that transfers into other members of the family?  What we do now, how we talk, how we handle life and overwhelm- we teach the next generation how to handle the same things in life. If we choose to neglect our needs and run on empty, thats what we...

Depression is so much more common than we realize. So many moms struggle with it. When we feel depressed it will affect our emotional health as well. It will affect how we respond/react to our children. In this episode I have a honest conversation with Brittni who is a mom of 3 boys. She has struggled with depression for many years and she talks about how it affected her emotional health. She shar...

Have you ever thought about the fact that your children are experiencing hard emotions for the first time? Emotions like anxiety, sadness, loss,  and disappointment.  Often we just tell them to stop feeling that, or minimize what they are feeling to help them 'feel better'. But, is that the best approach? I think there is a better way to help children manage their feelings. One of the wa...

Postpartum is such a transition. If you have an honest conversation with any mom, each and one of them had something that was hard in that postpartum stage.  So many things we can't predict and will just need to figure them out as we go, but there are things we can do ahead of time to support ourselves in that season.  In this episode I talk about my planned c-section for summer 2021 and thin...

Have you ever tried to do it ALL? How about doing it all on your own? Did you feel like that stressed you out? Overwhelmed you? Of course it did. None of us can do it all!  In this episode I talk about the biggest myth there is out for mom, that we need to have it all together to be a good mom. The unrealistic pressure it puts on us and how that creates more stress and overwhelm than anything.  ~~...

Family of origin: It has so much impact on who we are today. So many of our beliefs, thoughts and behaviors are framed in the family we grew up. So many of those patterns we carry forward into our own families. Some patterns are healthy and some are not.  In this episode I discuss 6 major emotions we feel as humans. Which of those were allowed in my family of origin? Which were not? How did that i...

Have you ever felt guilty for yelling at your kids or saying/doing something hurtful when you are emotionally flooded? I think we all have been there.  So what do we do? When do we give ourselves grace? How do we repair the damage that has been done?  There are seasons in life when we need to give ourselves grace. Grace, not because we want to excuse our actions but because there is so much going...

Life, work, motherhood, children. At times it just gets so overwhelming. It feels like TOO MUCH. We don't know what to focus on because everything seems to need our attention. What do you do when you are SO overwhelmed? When everything seems chaotic?  When we try to focus on all the things it gets worse. When we focus on only ONE thing at a time while applying skills to calm ourselves down, t...

Have you ever wondered how to teach your kids about feelings? In this episode I discuss ways I taught my kids about feelings and continue to do so. Negative emotions are hard. They are even harder for little ones. Those feelings become so overwhelming and they often don't express them in helpful ways. We can teach them how and also model how. Here is the feelings book I mentioned  ~~~~~~~~~~~...

Have you heard this verse? Ephesians 4:26. Be angry and do not sin. Have you every wondered- how in the world do I do that? Most of us when we experience anger, we tend to say or do hurtful things. So HOW do we help ourselves?  In this episode I talk more about his verse and the following section of the verse which says we need to resolve the anger before the sun goes down. Is that literally what...

Do your kids handle their anger well? Most kids don't. Many adults don't. This episode talks about the anger emotion, why it's challenging and HOW we can teach our little ones to handle it in a helpful/safe way. This is a challenging topic because many believe anger is a bad emotion and needs to be stopped, especially in kids. Let's talk about it.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next...

Have you wondered why its hard for your kids to handle their big feelings in a mature way? Today we talk about emotional intelligence and how our kids need to be taught what to do with their big emotions and HOW we can help them with that.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next Steps: 1. Watch FREE TRAINING: 5 Steps to Break free from Mom Rage Shame ⬇️ 2. Learn about Calm Christian Mom Coaching Program ⬇️ 3...

How we think will affect how we feel. How we feel affects how we behave. How we behave will affect our relationship with our kids and others. We can choose to change our mindset and it can make a HUGE difference in how we approach parenting and kids misbehavior. Today we talk about how we see/perceive a situation can make all the difference if we are patient or not.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next St...

Have you ever wondered which things you are responsible for and which God is? We often shift too much on God and not take enough ownership on ourselves in how we parent. Today we talk about which things we need to own and what God has ownership over.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next Steps: 1. Watch FREE TRAINING: 5 Steps to Break free from Mom Rage Shame ⬇️ 2. Learn about Calm Christian Mom Coaching P...