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HERself

343: How To Deal With Your Sh#* So Your Kids Don't Have To with Eli Harwood

HERself

Abby and Amy

Self-improvement, Best Self, Future, Grow, Mental Health, Vulnerable, Honest, Comparison, Purpose, Health & Fitness, Education, Opportunity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Real

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Growing up as millennials, we were often told not to be too loud, not to ask for help, and to push our feelings down. Attachment therapist and author Eli Harwood joins us to unpack how our upbringings shaped us and how we can break generational cycles as parents. Eli opens with a powerful reframe: our parents truly did the best they could with what they knew. From there, we dive deep into what childhood trauma actually looks like (and why so many of us don't recognize it as trauma), how to bu...

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millennial parents having so much shame and self-doubt. And again, some of that is that we were

0:04.8

parented was like, get them to do the thing no matter what. So like if you have to say, I'm going to,

0:11.1

you know, wash your mouth out with soap, I'm going to ground you for the next three weeks.

0:15.8

You threaten and you barter and you do whatever you can so that your kid gets out on the damn field.

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That's what we were taught.

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And so we have often inside of our brains, what's wrong with you?

0:28.3

I'm Amy.

0:29.8

And I'm Abby.

0:31.4

And as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.

0:35.5

But your life isn't supposed to look like hers.

0:38.8

Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions and always being willing to grow

0:43.5

with a purpose.

0:44.2

We get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face.

0:50.9

Every woman listening gets an opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself.

1:00.4

Herself listeners, we have an awesome interview today with Eli Harwood. She has several different

1:05.4

books and she really talks about raising securely attached kids. And throughout this episode,

1:10.0

we were talking about

1:10.9

our own childhood dynamics and how they play a role in how we parent and ultimately how that

1:15.8

impacts our kids. She has three kids of our own and she understands it. That's one thing we

1:20.4

loved about this interview is that she gets it. It's not black or white parenting. It's

1:24.6

figuring out what can we do in the little and big ways to make this

1:27.8

motherhood experience so much better for us and the experience for our children growing up even

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