216. Parenting Yourself (+ Kids If You Have Them): A Conversation with Dr. Becky Kennedy
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
You know that thing your kid (or anyone, for that matter) does that drives you insane? And how it sets you off every time? Have you ever stopped to explore why that “trigger” exists in the first place, instead of just trying to “fix” it? If you search a bit deeper, you'll find that it probably stems from your childhood, and how you were parented. Once you have the why, you can use it to uplevel not only your parenting but also your relationship with yourself.
Tune in as I talk with clinical psychologist, Dr. Becky Kennedy, and we discuss how triggers can serve an essential role in our overall system, why they exist, and what you can do about them.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, my chickens. |
| 0:29.7 | I am so super excited about this interview and I know that a lot of you are too because when I |
| 0:36.0 | shared on my social media that I was going to be talking to my guest today I got so many |
| 0:41.9 | d.m. from people who either listen to her because |
| 0:46.7 | she is a parenting expert and they have children but also so many people who like me |
| 0:50.6 | follow her and listen to her for themselves even though they don't have |
| 0:55.8 | children or both. My guest today is Dr Becky Kennedy and we are going to get real |
| 1:02.2 | deep into how your own ability to emotionally |
| 1:06.7 | regulate yourself shows up in the way that you parent your children and the way |
| 1:10.7 | you parent yourself and I thought that this episode would be a really good touchstone |
| 1:15.2 | for all of this as we are heading into the holiday season. |
| 1:19.0 | We may be dealing with family members. |
| 1:21.9 | We may be dealing with ourselves. with |
| 1:23.4 | family members, and how we think and feel at this time of year, |
| 1:27.6 | just emotions can be running really high. |
| 1:30.8 | And so I think now is a great time to have an in-depth exploration of what it means to parent more skillfully, but whether that's parenting actual other children or just |
| 1:44.8 | re-parenting or parenting yourself the way that you respond to your own big |
| 1:49.5 | thoughts and big feelings. So I'm so excited for this interview. It was such a good |
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