The stresses of parenting send you to places where you have no choice but to go. This is why mindfulness is so important to our parenting journeys. So we can notice when we are about to head off in that direction - when we react instead of respond when we go to the habitual response or the yelling when all we want to do is hold our child close.
"Practical mindfulness" is my term for introducing awareness techniques that mesh with parenting life. There is no extra activity or to-do list item here, just simple reminders offered in creative ways to help you replace old thinking with learning and growing.
References in this episode include:
Neuropsychologist, Rick Hanson, Ph.D. and what he calls “Reactive Mode”, check out Dr. Rick Hanson’s book Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence.
Join the 90-Day Gratitude Challenge here and start training your brain to notice the good - today.
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Parenting with gratitude is not the end goal - it's the method. 🎟 It's the means to achieving the goal of parenting differently.
🎧 Listen to this podcast if you want to parent differently than you were raised.
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The kids of my good friend Alison Mountford of Ends and Stems, a family meal planning and food waste expert, provided our fantastic and giggly intro. More about her here: https://endsandstems.com
