Body Awareness in Parenting :: Mary Van Geffen [Ep 333]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

How we feel in our bodies affects so many facets of parenting-- and in some ways you might now expect. My guest Mary Van Geffen joins me to talk about 4 Ps that can help us practice body awareness as we work on parenting our kids (even the spicy ones) with empathy and connection.

“When in doubt I say choose connection rather than control. We're not going to have a lot of control and we don't have the time or the energy to follow through on things. So let's make sure we're connected because connection is the honey and it will help us to have more control.”

We go in depth on how paying attention to your Presence, Posture, Proximity and Phase of your Cycle can change how you parent and bring awareness of how to honor your body and rest when you need it.

Connect with Mary:

Links Mentioned:

Embodied Motherhood Worksheet with 4 Ps
Coaching with Mary use code: PODCAST for $5 off
Dr. Carolyn Leaf, neuroscientist
Parenting Siblings School — Join Mary’s Parenting Siblings School to treat jealousy, constant bickering, mean words, and tattling with confidence.
How To Stay Calm When Your Child is Acting Crazy PDF

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone Podcast.
0:10.9	I'm your host, Heather McFadden.
0:13.6	And this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and connect you with people and
0:18.9	with resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:23.9	And in this episode, number 333, I get to connect you with parent coach Mary Van Geffen.
0:32.7	It's a lot like a wartime medic and I hate using war as a metaphor for parenting.
0:38.8	But sometimes it feels like that to our senses.
0:41.0	We're being bombarded.
0:42.0	It's too much.
0:43.0	We're overstimulated.
0:44.0	And a lot of times we think I got to go to the patient.
0:46.1	I got to go to the child and figure out what they need.
0:48.9	But really the medic has to start with them.
0:51.1	Like what if the mom went off and they actually don't have a leg?
0:54.3	They need to probably like first stop their own leaving, get okay, and then go help the
1:00.0	other person.
1:01.2	So that happens by checking in with what's happening with my body.
1:05.8	Our body makes decisions way faster than our brain and they're not always rational.
1:10.1	So we kind of want to check into that.
1:13.0	I don't remember how I found Mary Van Geffen or when.
1:19.0	It was this summer and her posts and her Insta stories were influencing my daily interactions
1:25.9	with my spicy kids because she has a Zartagline that she's a parenting coach for spicy kids.
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