Mindfulness for parents

My New Life

Kate Garlinge

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4.7 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

So many parents find themselves flying through the day, constantly running through a mental to-do list. It seems there is always room to squeeze in more. To be focused on one moment in time feels next to impossible, but there are ways to get present, even with with all this mental clutter.

Jessica Rolph welcomes Hunter Clarke-Fields to today’s episode. She’s the Mindful Mama Mentor, author of Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids, parenting coach, and host of the podcast Mindful Mama.

Key Takeaways:

[1:51] How did Hunter become the Mindful Mama?

[4:28] Hunter shares two important steps that are backed by research to stop yelling.

[11:09] Why does taking breaths actually help? What is the science behind it?

[13:30] How can parents bring themselves back to the present moment?

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Mindful Mama Mentoring

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0:00.0	Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby.
0:13.8	A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life.
0:20.1	I'm Jessica Rolfe and this is my new life,
0:24.1	a love every podcast. While the science aligns on what's healthy for a baby's brain development,
0:30.1	when it comes to how to care for our babies, there's a seemingly endless supply of competing
0:35.0	perspectives. Parents are swimming in advice on sleep, feeding,
0:39.5	and parenting philosophies. In this season of the podcast, we aim to provide a variety of curated
0:46.2	perspectives so you can make informed choices for your family.
0:54.7	Hello, busy parents.
0:56.5	For those of you listening to this on the go,
0:58.7	maybe you're doing drop off or on your way home from work.
1:01.6	Stealing a 30-minute workout.
1:04.0	So many of us find ourselves flying through the day.
1:07.9	Well, I can relate.
1:09.9	I feel like I'm constantly running through my mental
1:12.5	to-do list, the problems I need to solve, and the big dreams. There's always more I can squeeze in.
1:19.6	I pull myself in countless directions. To be focused on one moment in space and time feels so hard. But there are ways to get present,
1:30.6	even in the face of all this mental clutter. Here to help us is Mindful Mama, Hunter Clark
1:37.5	Fields. She is the author of Raising Good Humans, a parenting coach, and hosted the podcast Mindful
1:43.9	Mama. Welcome, Hunter.
1:46.3	Thanks, Jessica. So happy to be here. So how did you become the mindful mama? What led you to this
1:52.1	practice of mindfulness? I think I became the mindful mama because I was failing at being of
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