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With so many different parenting strategies out there, it can be easy to get overwhelmed. This week, we’re cutting the overwhelm so you can focus on what you value. Yes, even you: the Type A, the perfectionists, the overthinkers, and over-planners! This week, episode 22 of Poised & Powerful Podcast is sharing the questions you should ask yourself (and your partner) to be emotionally prepared for parenthood - and able to figure out what approaches work for you!

This episode is sponsored by my upcoming online class: Stress Less In Pregnancy. Learn skills that will serve you beyond pregnancy and through postpartum as you: reduce aches and pains, minimize your responses to stress, and find moments of rest. Find out more at: https://poisedpowerfulparenthood.com/pregnancy-class

Lindsay C. M. Garrett, LCSW is an expert in the field of adoption, parent preparation, and child welfare. In her quest to sort through the transition to parenthood, she wrote her first book, Parent Goals: The Millennial’s Guide to New Parent Preparedness. 

In this episode of Poised & Powerful Podcast, Lindsay Garret and I discuss the following:

• While Lindsay had a lot of knowledge of family issues in her practice as a social worker, there is nothing like learning through experience! 
• Identifying your own emotional triggers and taking care of your own well-being. How to reframe your approach to self-care and ditch guilt about taking time for yourself. 
• Use your planning brain constructively: make a parenting mission statement - and reduce anxiety.
• Lindsay’s experience with postpartum anxiety and when to seek professional mental health support.

All the things talked about -- self-care, discipline, mission statements, parenting in general, fears, and relationships-- start with you. The reality is that if you put yourself last, you are going to be a burnt-out mess and your child is going to suffer for it. Everything has to start with you.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu*

A Practical Wedding/ Meg Keene

Ep. 19: Fathers Need Mental Health Support Too! with Fabrice Lubin

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