How to be Truly Strong :: Aundi Kolber [Ep 401]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Parenting, Leisure, Education

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What does strength look like to you? Does it look like white knuckling it, holding your breath? Or does it look like putting your oxygen mask on first, and then attending to the needs of others?

We all want to, need to be strong for those around us. But my guest this week reminds us there is a cost to being certain kinds of strong. Aundi Kolber is an author and therapist and her new book, Strong Like Water, helps unpack what true strength looks like and feels like and how to get there. In our conversation she encourages us in the practices of self-compassion and grounding and helps us see how white knuckling it is actually detrimental to our relationships and if we will pay attention to ourselves we can show up better for the people we hold dear.

Connect with Aundi Kolber:

Website: https://aundikolber.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aundikolberwrites
Instagram: @aundikolber
Twitter: @aundikolber

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0:00.0	Hey y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. I'm your host, Heather McFadden,
0:12.0	and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and connect you with people and
0:17.2	resources so you know that you don't mom alone. And in this episode, number 401, I am
0:24.1	welcoming to the show, OnD Colbert. The expansive strength looked like being like, oh we have
0:30.6	choices here. We don't have to keep banging our head against the wall and create these relational
0:41.9	dynamics in our family where we're just living from anger and being tense and nothing's ever good
0:48.8	enough all the time. Like what would it look like to do this differently? OnD is a licensed
0:56.2	professional counselor mom to an 11 year old daughter and six year old son and she's the author
1:01.0	of the critically acclaimed book Try Software. She also has a new book coming out called Strong
1:06.6	Like Water. Today we are focusing in on what does real strength look like. As mom so often we are
1:13.8	walking through our own hard things and past challenges wounding trauma or just life and we sometimes
1:22.7	feel like we need a white knuckle our way through it particularly being quote unquote strong for
1:28.7	our kids. Well, OnD is going to offer us a compassionate way to walk through life and I really
1:35.3	enjoyed my conversation with her. Let's get right to it. Here we go. OnD, welcome to the Don't Mom
1:43.5	Alone podcast. It is about time. Thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here. I mean,
1:49.8	we could hang out just the two of us because we are similarly wired and we really I'm just meeting
1:57.3	someone who's similarly wired as such a joy. So I'm really excited to chat with you and I think I've
2:04.4	covered the topic of trauma and brokenness in a way that's a guest of sharing their own experience.
2:12.2	How they have walked through something hard and got it used it. But to talk to you as a counselor
2:19.3	about some practical ways that moms can live the day to day where people are needing them all the time
2:28.0	and they feel like and this is I'm using my quote fingers. You need to be strong for everyone.
2:34.9	But we can take a second and talk about what that trauma, what that pain is actually done to
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