Eli Harwood: "How to Move Past 'Monster Mom' Mode into 'Secure, Connected Mom' Mode"

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Ever feel like you’re the only mom who loses her cool? In this honest and empowering session, attachment expert and therapist Eli Harwood reveals why “monster mom mode” happens to all of us—and how compassion, not shame, is the real path to connection and repair. Discover the science behind parental overwhelm, the surprising power of self-acceptance, and practical steps to break the cycle of guilt. If you’ve ever wondered how to be a “good enough” parent in a messy world, this conversation will leave you feeling seen, supported, and ready to try again. Press play to join the Not Perfect Parent Club! ⁠Get the Basic Pass⁠ to watch and/or read each speaker session for free through Sunday, October 12th. Upgrade to the All-Access Pass for ad-free listening on a private podcast feed, + lifetime access to all content visual, audio, and written. FREEBIE for all: Mastering Your Calm class This webinar helps parents learn the skills needed to regulate ourselves so that our children can borrow our calmness when they are in a state of distress or dysregulation. BONUS raffled off to All-Access Pass Holders: Raising Securely Attached Kids book Eli Harwood is a licensed therapist, author, creator of the social media platform @attachmentnerd, and mom of three on a mission to help make the world a more secure place one parent-child relationship at a time. FOLLOW ON IG WEBSITE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,
0:06.2	The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,
0:11.9	habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available
0:17.1	on the public about progress feed through Sunday, October 12th. For ad-free video and
0:22.1	audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the
0:27.4	conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com slash more for moms. Now on to
0:33.9	our special session.
0:43.7	Music on to our special session. Eli Harwood, welcome to The Moore for Moms Conference.
0:47.2	Thank you so much.
0:48.3	So good to be with you all.
0:50.0	It really is an honor to have you.
0:51.9	I have benefited so much from your work online, especially since the majority of my kids tend to be spicy kiddos.
0:59.7	So your work has been so instrumental. That's what I love so much about what you teach. It's not only, it doesn't make me feel more shame about the ways I mess up. And we're going to be kind of talking about
1:11.9	messing up a bit today, which I think is going to be really nice to start with, not like how to be
1:16.6	a perfect mom, but how to deal with your imperfect moments better. You talk so much, though,
1:21.3	about attachment. So before we dive into the topic, can you just define for us what it means to be
1:27.3	securely attached? Yes.
1:29.7	The easiest way to understand this is that every relationship has a quality to it, right?
1:35.2	So we'd say some of our relationships feel really good and we feel connected and understood
1:40.2	and some of our relationships are a little bit shifty or they're tense, right? In a secure
1:45.2	relationship, the overall experience is positive. Now, that does not mean the daily experience
1:54.8	is without stress or without conflict or without boo-boos or mess-ups. It just means that our children have a sense that they can
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