Hey everyone, I'm Shurona Drake Henderson, your guest host this week. Welcome to Radio

Headspace and to Tuesday. If you listen yesterday, you know that this week is all about restorative

parenting and how understanding our past can help us raise our children in a more caring way

than we were raised. Now, we've all heard the phrase hurt people hurt people. This idea that when

we feel bad, we want others to feel bad too, and it's a messy ripple effect. But I like to focus

on a more productive saying, healed people, healed people, and how working through our own personal

trauma can create peace and joy, not only for us, but for our kids. So let's talk about healing,

while we should make it up priority, especially as caregivers, and how to begin the healing process

today. I was dealing with my kid recently, and I just felt like, man, this child is off the

chain right now, bouncing off the walls. He's not listening. He's doing this, all the things.

Everything was getting on my nerves, and that's not something I always feel all the time.

I found myself having to walk out the room and taking more time out personally than I would typically

have to. And I was going to my therapist as I feel like we all should. She said, you know,

I think you need to see a sleep doctor. I think you're not resting. I realized that I still had

some fears from when my child was sick, and sometimes I don't go to sleep or rest or allow my

mind to, because I'm worried about what he's doing. I would worry about the next day what work,

and I was like, well, what if I sleep too hard? And she says, well, what's happening with you not

sleeping enough? I was like, wow, okay, yeah, you're right. And I started getting sleep,

and my parenting changed. Some of us need to heal the things that keep us from sleeping at night,

and from those healed spaces, from a happier space, when I'm less tired, I could play more.

I show up with my child, and in every space with a little more joy. And so I've started to ask

myself this question when parenting. And I think that it would be helpful for you all listening to.

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