Ep. 31 - Becoming Cycle Breakers

Barb Knows Best

Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt

Education, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Journals, Spirituality, Relationships, Parenting, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

TW: This episode discusses the topics of sexual abuse, addiction, and family dysfunction.

This week, Barb and Michelle discuss the topic of cycle breaking, what it means to become a cycle breaker, and how we can all start to identify toxic family patterns we want to end. Follow us @MichelleMaros and @Peaceful_Barb and share your experiences with us @BarbKnowsBestPod or at www.michellemaros.com/podcast.

Episode Notes:

Cycle breaking - the concept of identifying negative, toxic, dysfunctional family patterns that are passed down from generation to generation. Cultivating the awareness about it and making conscientious changes to not pass this on to further generations.

Steps to Becoming a Cycle Breaker:

Have awareness. Identifying the patterns or traits you would like to change.
Have an outlet to discuss or understand the dynamics
Make the decision that you are not going to carry this. Open yourself up to the healing process
Consciously deciding to make new patterns while understanding you are not perfect.

Helpful Ways to Choose New Patterns:

Set boundaries
Allow yourself to remove the unhealthy people in your life.
Attend therapy or a support group.
Show yourself the kindness and support that you needed as a child.
Learn healthy coping strategies for managing big emotions and triggers.
For parents, don’t play favorites or pitting children against each other.
Release unrealistic expectations for yourself and others.
Learn to talk about your feelings and your needs without apologizing.

References Mentioned in Today’s Podcast:

If you are anyone you know has been a victim of any kind of sexual assault help is available. https://www.rainn.org/resources

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello everyone. Hello friends welcome
0:17.0	welcome back to Barb knows best the podcast. I am your co-host Michelle Marros and yet again, as if I would be with anybody else,
0:27.4	maybe one day, I'm not quite sure, but I am with my mother, Barbara, who quite often tends to know best. Hello mom.
0:37.0	Hi Michelle, hi everyone.
0:38.4	How are you?
0:39.4	I'm good.
0:41.4	So I'm I'm feeling very excited about our talk today.
0:47.0	So it's a rainy day here in Florida,
0:50.4	when thundering rainy day.
0:51.4	The day that we are recording and we are on take too because
0:56.2	our first time I first go about this we had a thunder and lightning situation completely cut our power so we're having a bit of a
1:06.0	groundhog day but I believe as we all believe that it must not have been
1:12.4	meant to be that that was meant to be listened to so now
1:17.2	we have something even better to share. I love that. You just got to go with the
1:21.2	flow sometimes you got to pivot with the flow sometimes. You got to
1:22.7	pivot when you need to and you got to just
1:25.6	understand when you don't have control and breathe. Yes we never have control.
1:29.6	But interestingly enough today we want to talk about something that we've been researching and
1:39.3	it seems to be trending online and on Tik-Toc and on social media right now where and we're getting a lot of people commenting about it
1:47.6	Yes, we've had a lot of comments and it is an element of of picking out areas of control in our lives.
1:54.7	And I think that so often we talk about the intention on the point of this
1:58.9	podcast is to help whoever is listening, tap into themselves, establish a solid relationship with themselves,
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