Secret Feelings: Opening ourselves to the tough emotions of parenthood

Episode 2: Secret Feelings: Opening ourselves to the tough emotions of parenthood

We can harness our feelings to transform our lives.

Welcome to Episode 2 of this 12-part series created to bolster parents and caregivers. As parents, we all have feelings we don’t like to admit to ourselves – let alone share. In this episode, we’re bringing those feelings into the daylight and figuring out what to do with them. Disappointment, annoyance, guilt, exhaustion… sometimes you just want to run away. Yale University expert Dr. Marc Brackett shows us how to become “emotion scientists,” and give ourselves permission to feel. Author and therapist Merriam Saunders shares the feelings she had to process as she learned about her kids’ anxiety, ADHD, autism and learning differences; and mom Jackie opens up about her childrens’ struggles with mental health and how she held it together.

Your Micro Action Moment this week

Click here to listen to learn about a breathing exercise originally from ‘the father of mindfulness,' Thich Nhat Hanh. 

 

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Resources Mentioned in this Episode 

Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett, PhD

Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children by Rita Eichenstein, PhD

Mindfulness Meditations for ADHD by Merriam Sarcia Saunders

My Whirling Twirling Motor by Merriam Sarcia Saunders

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