Harmony in the Home

Have you ever had someone who is so into you that they call, text and innodate you with plans with them around the clock? You may like the person, but they are coming on so strong that it becomes a bit off putting.   Today we are going to talk about how we sometimes do that to our kids and come off as needy and graspy and don’t have a life outside of them where our every emotion hangs on their act...

Do you have issues with your parents understanding your parenting techniques?   If you were raised in a toxic environment and want to disrupt that pattern, it will most likely lead to resistance.   That resistance is tricky for adults to accept because the inner child is triggered and  tends to bring up old wounds.  When old wounds are brought up then one can go into fight, flight or freeze at any...

Do you long for your kids to have a close and connected relationship with their grandparents?   That is normal to desire, but sometimes it can’t happen due to distance, toxicity, resentment, mental illness or death.  Today we will talk about how to grieve the relationships you long  for when it doesn’t always pan out the way you desire to have more harmony in your home and over the holidays. Subsc...

Do you resent your parents for how they treated you when you were younger? It’s a common feeling to wish you had a different upbringing for xyz reasons so today we will unpack how to lessen the sting if you had a less than ideal childhood. We will learn about how we can break the patterns and disrupt the unconsciousness to create healthier patterns to have more harmony in our homes everyday! Subsc...

Have you ever seen the movie “He’s Just Not That Into You”?  It is an oldie but a goodie that I wish I knew about during my dating years to save myself a lot of embarrassment. Today we’ll talk about how to apply this concept into all of our relationships from those in our 4 walls, the relationships of the people who were in the 4 walls when we grew up and everyone else in between. I start off with...

We all had pain and trauma from our childhood that the unconscious brain and nervous system remembers at the soul level.  Our unconscious patterns created when we were younger mysteriously show up when we are adults because we are trying to heal old wounds in current time.  It never works so we end up recreating old trauma in our adult relationships and many times with our kids where we can lose o...

As a kid, did you feel responsible for your parent’s happiness?   That is a tall task for a kid and a lot of weight on our shoulders which can impact us as adults as well.   We will uncover patterns of enmeshment and codependency that may have been established as a child to garner love and approval from our caregivers.   The love may have felt conditional and carries with us as adults creating an...

We spent last week talking about the different ways our kids may handle stress by going into fight, flight or freeze mode.  This week we are going to go into our time machines back to our childhoods to take a peek at how we managed stress as kids.   During stressful and traumatic experiences as kids our egos were developed as a protective mechanism and sometimes show up in adulthood that don’t wor...

Do you ever wonder why some kids respond differently in the same stressful scenarios?  Like one kid may lose their mind and start punching a wall while another kid might run to the room and hide in the blanket.  Today I’m gonna talk to you about popular stressor mechanisms that our kids develop and use as their default stress response.  When we recognize what they do under stress then it can help...

Do your kids cry and cry and you just want it to stop altogether? If so, today is a great strategy to help you help them to dry their tears without shame or anger.  Tears are a part of life and the more we normalize them for our kids we can help them to soften the shame and anxiety that comes with holding it in.  The more we allow them and aren’t so shaken by the tears the less intense they are fo...

Do you feel overwhelmed ‘on the regular’ with all you have to do?  Sometimes we feel so overwhelmed with all we have to do so we do nothing bc we don’t know where to start,  Then we ironically  perpetuate our overwhelm even more.  Rinse. Repeat. The endless overwhelm cycle continues perpetually and we are running all day yet feel like we are failing in all the areas.  Today we will talk about a gr...

Do you ever feel like life has picked you up and just shook you up a  bunch of times like a snow globe? Sometimes when our core has been rocked then it is hard to feel clear in our thinking and everything appears foggy like we are in a snow globe. Today I’m going to share how we have felt like this lately in our own 4 walls and teach you what to do when the snow globe is rocking your world too. We...

Do you ever feel exhausted at the end of the day because you just felt like you rode the roller coaster of emotions right alongside your child/children?   It can be exhausting when they go from happy to sad then joyful to angry in 2.2 seconds. Today I’m going to teach you how to step off that ride and help your kids do the same with a cool strategy I learned about from watching another inspiring m...

Do you remember having show and tell in elementary school? It was one of my students favorite activities year after year as we learned in all of the end of the year surveys.  Today we will learn how to implement it in your home with a twist of self-love and self-like buried in too to strengthen their family sails in their sailboat of connection.  The more connected a child feels within their famil...

Ever want to just flip the script in your 4 walls and transform the energy in your home? Sometimes it can feel like we are walking on eggshells in our own home and it’s exhausting to everyone in our 4 walls. Today we will talk about how to keep the eggshells out of the house and reduce tension to have more harmony in our home. Subscribe on Apple! Subscribe on Android! Join my FREE parenting bootca...

If you ever feel overwhelmed with all that you have to do in life then today’s episode is for you!   Oftentimes we want to do it all, then our brain freezes from overwhelm and we do nothing creating a bigger snowball of overwhelm.  Rinse.  Repeat for life.   Today I will teach you how to break things down into smaller bite size pieces and get a GPA in life that makes you proud!! As always, hopeful...

Do you ever feel nervous to feel happy because your next thought is to feel like the other shoe is about to drop? This is normal and we are going to explain a little further why our brain puts up road blocks when we feel joy. Conversely, we could have one negative thought like my 5 year old son got a behavior note home from school and within minutes we are spiraling into stinking thinking’. We can...

Has anyone ever gossiped about you before?  Today we will talk about how to manage the emotions that come up when someone gossips, lies or back stabs you and betrays you. It hurts when others do it and when we do it to others as well.  The better we can handle it the more we can help our children when they face it in their lives. As always, hopefully today will be just what you needed to hear to m...

Today we are going to piggy back the episode from last week. Last week we learned how we have an all or nothing in our habits to a degree in different areas  of our lives. Today we are going to unpack how that can show up in our relationships where our mindset can go to all or nothing about people that they are all good or all bad. Once we can find the teeter totter balance within ourselves then i...

Today we are going to download some thoughts and ‘strats’ on how to achieve your goals by living in the middle ground to do a little and yield big results!. I know it sounds weird to do little and make big gains, but I’ll explain more today. You can apply this to any area of your life like weight loss, building a business, keeping your house organized, money budgeting or anything else under the su...

Do you ever feel unworthy as a parent? Join the club!! I feel this daily too! It’s like these beautiful gifts from God are placed in our hearts when they come into our lives and all of our insecurities and “not good enoughness” that was laying dormant rises to the surface with venom! Today we will unpack all of that and figure out together how to show up as a worthy and whole throbbing spirit so w...

Do you ever feel like you’re not a good enough parent?   Do you ever feel like when someone compliments your parenting that is like they are lying or talking about someone else? If so, then join the club because I feel like that a lot too.   Today we will unpack how to run from the imposter syndrome of being a good parent and what swan diving has to do with it all.   I hope today’s episode will be...

Is there anything worse than a child having a tantrum in a store? Sometimes it is easier to just give in just to avoid the glares and stares from the other customers. If you are out and about and your child loses their mind then I have just the solution for you to not make it stress you out so much. Public tantrums are hard for us because we have an underlying narrative that we are a bad parent th...

Do you ever think you’re always lecturing your kids about their behavior and it’s going in one ear and out the other ear? If so, you’ll love today’s episode about what to do when you’re feeling like Charlie Brown’s teacher and your kids give you that glossed over face or just quickly nod in agreement  to get the lecture over as soon as possible. Today we can fill our parenting strategy bucket all...

Do you ever worry about how you’re doing as a parent? If so, then join the club. I don’t think I’ve ever met a parent that doesn’t worry about their kids or how they are doing as a parent. It is very normal to worry.  We love our kids so much and being their parent is one of the most vulnerable feelings we will ever have in life.  The brain doesn’t like to feel vulnerable.  As soon as the brain ge...