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MOMENT | A new way to free yourself from unnecessary guilt

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8863 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This Moment is with Dr. Becky Kennedy. She is a clinical psychologist, mom of three, and founder of the incredibly popular Good Inside. When she first started out, she practiced a popular behavior-first, reward-and-punishment model of parent coaching. But after a while, something struck her: those methods felt awful — for kids and parents. So she got to work, taking everything she knew about attachment, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and internal family systems theory, and translated those ideas into a new method for working with parents. I hope you find this Moment supportive, and if you want to catch the full episode, click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You mentioned guilt there because sometimes I've done things like that and then I've walked down

0:08.0

the stairs feeling guilty, guilty that he's doing something he doesn't want to do, guilty that I'm not

0:12.7

the one doing well time, guilty that I'm about to go out and do yoga or something for me.

0:16.8

What is that about? There's a saying, I don't know if you have it in America in the UK,

0:20.4

people love to say, oh yeah, you give birth to the baby, you give birth to the guilt. They come hand in hand. And I really hate that. I really hate it.

0:28.0

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Shop sambacol at boots.com. So here's how I see guilt. I feel like there's two ways

1:14.2

we feel guilt and the way I think about it is one is guilt and one is not guilt. And I think the

1:19.2

one that you're describing is not guilt. So I'll explain. Guilt in my mind, true guilt is a

1:24.4

feeling we have when we watch ourselves act in a way that's not in accordance with

1:29.8

our values. So if I snap at my kids, because really I'm annoyed that I went over on my cell phone

1:37.5

bill and I'm like stressed and I'm annoyed. And then my kid asked for something and I'm like,

1:42.0

essentially my body's like, this is someone small you can take

1:44.1

out your own upset with right and then I yell like no you can't have you know this thing you ask for

1:48.9

then after I'm like I feel guilty I think that's guilt doesn't mean I'm a horrible person that shame is

1:54.4

when our behavior we see as a reflection of our identity but if we go back to wait I'm good inside

1:59.2

I'm a good parent who yelled at my kids that That's not in accordance with my values. Like my value is treating my kid with respect

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