In this episode, Tanya and I discuss how we can empower our children if we are willing to de-condition some of our beliefs about parenting and how children "should" behave.  

We discuss parenting from survival vs. thriving and how it’s never too late to empower ourselves and our children.  It’s never too late to change your identity within these various roles.   

In this episode we discuss:

• Allowing our children to have their own experiences vs. forcing 
• How our intention to empower our children often comes with conditions
• When we aren’t resourced as parents, we can’t give what we don’t have (and if this is where you are, PLEASE give yourself some grace)
• All the expectations we put on our children
• Learning how to say no is healthy

Questions you can ask yourself when you think about how you want to parent and empower your children:

• What are your hell yeses and hell nos?
• What are your defaults?  Are you saying yes to things you don’t want to?
• How can I ask my children more questions versus telling them what I think?
• Is my child’s safety or health at risk in this moment (could they actually die?) 

 
Works discussed during this podcast:

Karen Curry Parker

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How do we continue and nourish our children with their growth and development? 
How do we empower them with the ability to say yes or no for what is correct for them? 

In this episode, we explore the above questions because that is going to be something we as humanity are constantly exploring and evolving towards.  

We discuss the difference between empowerment from the energy of love and compassion vs. power that comes from the energy of fear/frustration/anger.  And the truth is, it's not just having our kid(s) back, it’s having our own back too.  

We are constantly in the process of reparenting ourselves and so much love, grace and compassion are needed to do this.

 In this episode, we discuss:

• What the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is, when it goes offline and how we react
• Being the example with our kids and showing them repair in real time
• It’s never too late for repair if your children are grown and don’t live with you
• NO is actually empowering, there are 2 places where we practice learning to say NO in childhood (around age 2 and the teenage years)
• Owning our NO’s

 Works mentioned in this episode:

Dan Siegel

Karen Curry Parker

Healing Your Inner Child Videos by Karen Curry Parker

The Who University™ Playground is a safe space where you can receive additional, compassionate support as you make your changes. Learn more at https://whouniversity.com

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In this podcast Tanya shares that as she’s figuring out what she wants, at times, it might illicit anger and frustration in others.  

We explore the concept of changing the direction from what we don’t want to focusing on what we DO want.  

We discuss that what we are really afraid of isn’t failure but success and how that is actually stopping us from moving forward.  We discuss the survival response of staying connected to each other and our “tribe” because primitively if we were separated, that meant death.  

 
We discuss in this episode:

• Training our brains to focus on what we WANT not what we don’t want
• Having compassion for our loved ones as we are making changes in our lives
• Being in the question with your heart vs. your mind
• Feeling fear, doubt and uncertainty are all normal when you are going after what you want

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Works mentioned in this episode:

Polyvagal theory

The Who University™ Playground is a safe space where you can receive additional, compassionate support as you make your changes. Learn more at https://whouniversity.com

You can follow us on Instagram and as always, thanks for listening💜.