Let’s talk about the importance of parenting with joy and gratitude. Positive emotions like joy and delight can be integral to our healing and well-being as mothers. I acknowledge that it can be difficult to add more joy to our daily lives, but I encourage you to bring gratitude to any moment of joy and watch what happens.
We also discuss the challenges of navigating tough situations with joy and how to adopt the goal of imperfect parenting. The episode concludes by discussing the scarcity mindset and the need to make time for play.
“The truth is that play seems to be one of the most advanced methods nature has invented to allow a complex brain to create itself,” says Dr. Stuart Brown in his book Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
References in this Episode:
Join the Mother’s Day Challenge with TableTopics and boost your well-being in time for the big day! Buy your gratitude pack here.
Take the Gratitude Quiz to see where you rank - can you boost your gratitude? Take it again in a few weeks.
Episode 23: from 1/3/23 called Burnout and the Benefits of Gratitude
Episode 37: from 4/11/23 called Off the Hook: Practice
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.
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🎧 Listen to this podcast if you want to parent differently than you were raised.
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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
