Happy Bit: How to Stop the Mom Guilt
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Do you have moments when you feel like the WORST MOM EVER? Yep. Been there, done that. How do you stop yourself from spiraling down the rabbit hole of mommy guilt? In this episode, I share 2 ideas that will stop the downward slide and help you keep moving forward without the guilt.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to Vibrant Happy Women and this is a happy bit. And this happy bit is brought to you by |
| 0:05.4 | Health IQ. Hey friends, do you ever feel guilty about your parenting? You're worried that maybe you're |
| 0:10.7 | screwing your kids up so much that they're going to have to go to years of therapy to recover? |
| 0:15.6 | Well, the funny thing is, I am leading a retreat. So that means I'm in Florida right now, away from my family, |
| 0:22.9 | which is pretty amazing. It's not only 30 degrees warmer here, but I get to sleep in and I'm |
| 0:29.2 | with adults and there's less drama. It's just, you know, amazing. Retreat plus mom equals happiness. |
| 0:36.2 | However, tonight I was leading the heal your heart group, a self-love |
| 0:40.4 | group that I lead, and we were talking about childhood traumas. And if you think you don't have |
| 0:46.6 | trauma, we all have childhood traumas, some worse than others, of course, but there are times in our |
| 0:51.7 | lives when we have these memories of our parents, especially our |
| 0:54.7 | parents, saying or doing things that didn't make us feel loved, or times when we were seeking |
| 1:01.3 | approval, we wanted to impress them and they weren't impressed. And we have these gaping holes |
| 1:06.5 | sometimes in our hearts. And if it wasn't your parents, maybe it was a sibling or an aunt or an |
| 1:11.0 | uncle or a friend or just some type of experience that gave you trauma. So today I was hearing the |
| 1:16.2 | stories from all those heal your heart women and thinking of all of my shortcomings as a parent |
| 1:21.8 | and feeling guiltier and guiltier. And of course, my kids are over a thousand miles away and I can't do anything about it |
| 1:29.5 | except send them, send them a text and say, hey, I love you guys. I'm sorry for all the things I do |
| 1:34.5 | wrong as a mom. I'll keep trying. Well, we're going to have a quick break for our sponsor. And then |
| 1:39.3 | I'm going to come back and tell you what I do to create a vision for the mom I want to be instead of wallowing |
| 1:46.4 | in all of my mistakes. And that makes all the difference for moving forward and being a better |
| 1:51.0 | mom. Okay, welcome back. I promise to tell you how I create a clear vision of the mom I want to be |
| 1:57.6 | rather than wallowing in all of my mistakes. Now, we all have moments where we have |
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