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Calm Parenting Podcast

3 Ways to Break Childhood Patterns & Reparent Yourself #456

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

Relationships, Education, Parenting, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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3 Ways to Break Childhood Patterns & Reparent Yourself #456

"I hadn’t realized the degree to which so many of my adult choices—my spouse, my career, my friendships, my daily life—have been dictated by the patterns I learned as a child." Kirk gives you scripts and practical action steps to heal those childhood wounds, reparent yourself, and break those old patterns. Take advantage of the Black Friday Sale in March at https://celebratecalm.com/black-friday/


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0:00.0

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0:11.2

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1:02.5

off. So I hope you can relate to this email, which is the inspiration for this podcast.

1:08.7

A mom wrote, I've been working through the 30 Days to Calm

1:11.4

program, making good progress, controlling my parental anxiety, practicing imperfection,

1:17.2

demonstrating self-respect, making myself a priority so that I don't end up resentful like my mom,

1:24.8

recognizing my own control issues and sitting in my discomfort while purposely not

1:30.7

trying to fix situations and my kids. And by the way, that's a lot of work. So kudos to you.

1:37.7

But she goes on and says, but then I hit the section on healing childhood wounds and I just bawled.

1:46.8

I hadn't realized a degree to which so many of my adult choices, my husband, my career, my friendships, my daily life have been

1:52.8

dictated by the patterns I learned as a child. We are now breaking those patterns and reparenting

1:59.3

ourselves, learning new skills, and giving our kids

2:03.2

things we never got as kids. And I have to say, I am proud of what we are doing here.

2:10.1

Darn right. Look, I am super proud of you moms and dads. This is hard work. So that is what

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