Welcome to the Calm Mom podcast, the show for ambitious women ready to get off the Hot Mess Express.

I know you've got a lot going on. You work so hard. You're raising an incredible family.

And sometimes it can be overwhelming. I'm your host, Michelle Grocer. I'm a certified master life coach, attorney,

wife, and mom. And years ago, I was right where you are. I was running a busy law practice

while raising a family, and I was on the fast track to burnout. I thought I just needed to be more

organized or have better routines, but it was learning

how to heal and regulate my nervous system that expand in my capacity to gracefully hold more

of this big, beautiful life.

You too are worthy of an extraordinary life in and beyond motherhood.

Learning to be a calm, anchoring presence in your home and at work

is going to be your superpower. If you're here to do the inner work that brings a sense of calm

amidst the chaos, I'm here to join you on that journey. Each time you press play, your growth

continues. So let's get at it.

Welcome, you're listening to the Call Mom podcast.

I'm Michelle Grocer, and I'm really excited you guys are here to listen to this episode today.

On the show, we have Dr. Chinway Williams, and she is a trauma therapist.

She's a board certified counselor.

And her specialty is something that I think is really going to be eye-opening and encouraging for us parents.

And she talks about how our own life experiences, the traumatic ones the painful ones the ones that we maybe would have rather not had experienced um how those are impacting our parenting

what we can do about it how to deal with it it, and then ultimately how to heal. So in this conversation,

you're going to hear about trauma and the way it affects our parenting. And you're going to be

encouraged that it does not make us a bad parent, right? We all have our stuff. We all have a past.

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