Can we find happiness by looking within and choosing ourselves first? Stef shares her personal experience of how focusing on gratitude helped her to notice the good around her and how she is using her Parenting with Gratitude™ formula to inspire moms to start a daily gratitude practice.
Stef, who has a professional nannying career of over 20 years, also shares her struggles with reactive parenting and how she realized she didn't want to be a perfect parent. She encourages parents to choose a third option, a middle way of parenting differently. The podcast is based on behavioral science, positive psychology, and mindfulness techniques, and Stef shares practical tips for achieving emotional well-being and physical health.
References in this Episode:
Join the Gratitude Circle here, and let's anchor ourselves in connection.
Studies show the more we feel positive emotions, the better - for our emotional well-being and physical health.
Start a daily gratitude practice because it’s time to rewire our brains.
The Parenting with Gratitude™ Equation: Intention + Attention + Action + Repetition = Results you can see and feel.
Avni Patel Thompson is a wonderful mom and start-up founder of Milo.
A third zone of opportunity, or what Buddhists call “The Middle Way”
Are you ready to parent with more patience, empathy, and compassion? Parenting with Gratitude™ is not the end goal - it's the method. 🎟 It's the means to achieving the goal of parenting differently.
Follow along for more gratitude and parenting advice:
Buy my bedtime book: “The Middle of the Night Book “here.
Subscribe and share so you can all listen as a parenting expert and author, Stef Tousignant offers you a sneak peek into her journey to normalize imperfect parenting and discover the gifts a committed gratitude practice can bring to modern family life.
🎧 Listen to this podcast if you want to parent differently than you were raised.
🎧 Listen to this podcast if you want to parent differently than you did 5 years ago.
Other podcast bonuses include interviews with expert guests, sleep consultants, and other mindful parenting guides, and easy and fun gratitude practices that fit your modern parenting lifestyle.
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
