EFR 095: Parenting Without Sacrificing the Self with Heather Chauvin

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Chase Chewning

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5 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

After being diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and having three boys at home, Heather Chauvin quickly rose to the occasion and chose to build the life she wanted. Facing death was a revelation, to say the least. It forced her to ask, “Why am I fighting so hard to live when I don’t even know how to live?” Life had to mean more than just barely surviving, living paycheck to paycheck, and believing existence meant taking up space.

Heather Chauvin, BSW has been named the next generation’s thought leader in parenting and women’s leadership. Her mission is to crack women open to their deep potential and help them create the life their soul craves. Heather hosts the Mom Is In Control Podcast, and has been featured on the OWN network, Huffington Post, TV outlets and others. With wit and wisdom, Heather inspires a global community of women to take back control of their lives and evolve how they lead, work, play, and parent.

Heather and I talk about:

Being a parent at age eighteen
Battling stage 4 cancer while being a mom of four and wife
Her time as a social worker, seeing first hand how hurt people hurt people
Teaching other parents how to heal their children, their family, their world by first healing themselves
Learning how to be a good parent before having children
My own experience with PTSD around my father's terminal illness (ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease)
And more!

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0:00.0	Episode 95 with Heather Chauvin
0:05.0	Welcome back everyone.
0:08.0	This is your number one source for inspiring content from people who are putting a purpose to their passion
0:14.4	and truly living a life ever forward.
0:17.4	Conversations and messages that will take your fitness,
0:20.9	nutrition, and mindset to the next level.
0:24.0	I am your host, Chase Chuning.
0:26.0	This is Ever Forward Radio. All right. I'm just going to give a full disclosure from the beginning. First of all welcome everyone but here we go episode 95
0:50.7	Disclosure. This one got me in my feels. I'm going to give a quick
0:56.7	backstory for maybe some new listeners here. If you don't know or maybe you've
1:01.5	forgotten the meaning behind Everford came from a message, a mantra, a family belief system.
1:10.6	From our late father, who unfortunately lost his battle in 2005 from an 18-month
1:16.8	terminal illness. He was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease and this was something that really took a toll in our family.
1:25.1	It brought us together of course, but it left really unique scars in all of us.
1:30.4	My self, my brother, my sister, my mom, my stepmom, my grandmother, anyone
1:36.2	and everyone who knew my father was to love my father.
1:41.6	And so this one, it's taking me a long time to get to a point where even
1:47.8	talking to my friends and family I'm comfortable and was able to work through my own traumatic disorder, my traumatic stress disorder from it.
1:56.1	And that's a topic for a whole other episode.
1:58.9	It took me the better part of a decade to just be able to watch a movie that had someone in a hospital to go to my
2:06.4	father's grave site to talk about his passing to talk about his sickness I
2:10.3	would get panic attacks I would completely freak out and I would just go to that
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