186. Liz Fosslien Normalizing the Full Range of Emotions in Motherhood
HERself
Abby and Amy
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Again, telling yourself, not, I need to have it together, I don't know why I'm crying, I don't know why I'm overwhelmed, but instead saying, |
| 0:07.0 | I'm a person who's learning to send my kid off to kindergarten for the first time. |
| 0:12.0 | We are a family that's learning for the first time ever to have two kids instead of one. |
| 0:18.0 | And I love telling people to do is actually pushing them to make that a really, really long statement. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Amy and I'm Abby and as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others. |
| 0:35.0 | But your life isn't supposed to look like hers. |
| 0:38.0 | Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions and always being willing to grow with a purpose. |
| 0:44.0 | We get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face. |
| 0:50.0 | Every woman listening, it's an opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself. |
| 1:02.0 | Alright, her self listeners, today we are talking with Liz Vaslin and she's an emotions expert. |
| 1:06.0 | She's an illustrator and best-selling author of not one, but two books, no hard feelings and big feelings. |
| 1:13.0 | When Amy and I did this interview, we couldn't help but feel the whole range of human emotions |
| 1:18.0 | because she allows you to go through them and she also expects us to go through them. |
| 1:23.0 | As women, we oftentimes will shove down emotions like anger or frustration |
| 1:28.0 | because we don't think it's right or we shouldn't be acting this way. |
| 1:32.0 | When in reality, those should be invited. |
| 1:34.0 | It's part of being human and having our kids see those emotions and be able to work through them is very healthy. |
| 1:40.0 | So let's get into this interview with Liz. |
| 1:42.0 | We cannot wait to hear what you have to say after listening to this interview. |
| 1:48.0 | As parents, we focus so much on emotion coaching our kids and really noisy and invalidating their feelings. |
| 1:54.0 | But at the same time, I know many of us, we push down our own emotions. |
| 1:58.0 | And it's hard because sometimes we are thinking, let's just wait until later to talk about this |
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