42. Parenting Mistakes and Self Forgiveness
Insource
Ashlie Molstad
4.2 • 940 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
I made a huge parenting mistake recently that sent me into a tailspin of guilt and regret. I felt like I had let my daughter down in a significant and irreversible way… but showing up from a place of regret and guilt over a mistake doesn’t have me showing up as my best self. I knew I deserved forgiveness, and my child deserved a mom who showed up from strength and love.
In today’s episode I walk you through what happened, and how I was able to overcome the shame spiral by choosing a better thought.
BUT, this episode isn’t just for parents. Its for anyone who has ever made a mistake, or done something they regret, or finds themselves arguing with reality and wishing they could change the past… because while I am talking specifically about how I let my daughter down, I’m also talking about how you can offer yourself forgiveness and love WHEN mistakes happen.
I’d love to hear something you’re going to work to forgive yourself for, so you can set yourself free.
See you inside💥
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| 0:00.0 | The other thing that I always fall back on when I'm arguing with reality or if I'm feeling guilt, shame, remorse, regret about something that happened, I always fall back on the thought nothing happens that isn't supposed to. So it was painful for me that this |
| 0:14.9 | thing happened that I did this thing but the suffering is then all of the mess that |
| 0:19.2 | came after it all the beating myself up and the shame and not letting it go. |
| 0:22.9 | Now I know a lot of you are listening to this like it's totally fine forget about it. |
| 0:26.4 | But I want you to see where in your life you can apply this sort of thought work, |
| 0:30.8 | where you are having a hard time forgiving yourself and wishing that you could |
| 0:35.2 | change the past. Oh well-o-a-wella welcome back to the in source podcast my name is Ashley |
| 0:55.3 | Molstead and I'll be your coach for the next 30 minutes 20 minutes we'll see we'll see |
| 1:02.2 | you guys know me, right? I always, I create a little |
| 1:06.4 | outline and then I just show up and talk. I don't like to read things. I don't like to |
| 1:11.2 | write it all out. I don't like to be like I don't like to write it all out I don't like to be like to |
| 1:13.8 | rehearse it's just like you and me sitting down having a chat and today I want to |
| 1:19.1 | tell you a story about something that I did a mistake that I made as a parent, and how I kind of got |
| 1:30.5 | through it, I guess. Because parenting comes with a lot of mistakes |
| 1:35.0 | but even if you don't have kids this episode like don't leave |
| 1:39.0 | because I feel like this episode in all of my episodes |
| 1:42.0 | I'm sort of coaching you just or |
| 1:44.4 | sharing with you how I'm coaching myself and the thought principles can be |
| 1:49.1 | applied to anything in life so any mistake you make, this will be kind of an episode on that, I guess. But what |
| 1:59.3 | happened was my kindergartner just started school this year. |
| 2:05.4 | And so she has an after school program |
| 2:08.7 | that she does three days a week, |
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