What Does Messy Look Like? Podcast #546
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Todd and Cathy discuss what it means to experience messy and how messy, but necessary, conversations can cause discomfort and uncertainty. They discuss why others are not always bad or wrong, and how we can see the nuance and grey in every situation. They discuss how enlightening or self-aware moments can look different for everybody, and how a Good Will Hunting moment isn’t the only example of catharsis.
3:06 What’s messy look like?
6:37 Good Will Hunting Clip
9:03 Emotional labor
17:22 The toilet seat
29:09 Teeth Brushing
34:10 Team Zen
35:45 Examples of messy
37:30 Awakening
40:58 Short-term vs long-term
45:00 The word nag
52:40 How to fight
59:07 When kids don’t do what we want them to do
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do to do. |
| 0:05.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:06.1 | My name's Todd. |
| 0:06.8 | And this is Gabi. |
| 0:07.5 | Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:11.2 | This is podcast number 546. |
| 0:14.7 | Why listen to Zen Parenting Radio? |
| 0:16.1 | Because it will help you to feel outstanding. |
| 0:18.3 | And always remember our motto, which we took from a guy we interviewed |
| 0:22.2 | named Dr. Dan Siegel, and it's this. |
| 0:25.2 | The best predictor of a child's well-being is a parent's self-understanding. |
| 0:29.1 | Well, we took it from him like 10 years ago, but then we interviewed him later. |
| 0:33.4 | Eight years later and said, listen, Dr. Segal, just you know, we've based most of everything we've ever talked about on you. |
| 0:39.0 | On that, well, on that quote. |
| 0:40.8 | On that quote. |
| 0:41.8 | Yes. |
| 0:42.6 | It was kind of weird because we get all these, you know, it's easy to do searching parenting podcasts and we're amongst the ones that are on the first page. |
| 0:52.0 | So we get people that want to come on and most of the time we say no because that's not the that are on the first page. So we get people that want to come on. |
| 0:55.6 | And most of the time we say no because that's not the type of podcast we are. |
| 0:59.0 | But Dr. Siegel called us. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm like, oh, my gosh, the guy. |
| 1:03.6 | Well, when you are, when you have a book coming out. |
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