You are listening to episode 68.

How to stop losing your beep with your kids with author Carla-Nomberg.

Welcome to this episode where I welcome Carla-Nomberg,

who is an author, clinical social worker, and mother of two girls.

And we're here to talk about her book, How to Stop Losing Your Ship with Your Kids.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. Well, I love this book. You know, the title is definitely

I grab her. And I know a lot of my listeners, you know, maybe listening to this with kids

in the room. So for the rest of the episode, we're going to be referring to it as how

to stop losing your cool with your kids, just in case you are listening to it in the room

with your children. But again, thank you for joining us. I'm so happy you're here. Yeah,

let's dig into it. So why did you write this book? Oh, because I was totally losing my

cool with my kids all the time. I mean, let's be honest. So I had two daughters under the

age of two. And even though I'd never been a Yeller screamer before I had kids, all of

a sudden, I found myself absolutely losing my temper with them. And I felt horrible about

it. This was not how I ever imagined myself parenting. It certainly wasn't how I wanted

to interact with my daughters. And so that set me off on this, really, it was a journey

that took years, even as a clinical social worker, I was literally working on my PhD in

social work. Then one night I sat down and Googled, how do I stop yelling at my kids? So

here I am getting this advanced degree in like big feelings and confusing thoughts and

unhelpful behaviors. And I couldn't handle this. So it took me on this journey with a lot

of learning, a lot of practice, a lot of research, a lot of trying stuff out. And once I finally

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