MOMENT | How to protect your children from your own toxic parent, with Harriet Shearsmith

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Our guest this week is Harriet Shearsmith, family dynamic's coach and author of 'Unfollowing Mum: Break unhealthy patterns and become the parent you wish you'd had'. In this Moment, Harriet shares how you can manage your kids' relationship with your own toxic parent, and how to to find the courage to leave a challenging relationship - and make it stick. For more powerful insights from Harriet Shearsmith listen to the full episode here: Generational trauma expert: How to break unhealthy patterns and become the parent you wish you'd had Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’ This show is proudly sponsored by Stokke Bioglan is available now instore and online at Holland and Barrett For a £100 sponsored job credit visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind To find out more text ‘Kumon’ to 60777 for the UK or 51777 for Ireland to book your Free Trial today! Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:52.6	Get yours at Holland and Borough, either in store or online. So how did you, something that I hear from my community people struggle with a lot is they'll say, you know, I can see that the relationship of my parent is, is not great actually.
2:15.2	It's not making me feel like that sort of autonomous it's just bringing me
2:18.6	more stress than joy but what about the kids because I think it's one thing isn't it the relationship
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