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#039 Mother's Day Plus

#039 Mother's Day Plus

FromPower Your Parenting: Moms With Teens


#039 Mother's Day Plus

FromPower Your Parenting: Moms With Teens

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

I hope that Mothers' Day was all that you hoped it would be. But if you ended up  disappointed, you are definitely not the only one.
Heres the problem with Mother's day. I think you come to that day with huge expectations that your kids and partner will somehow make up for everything that was not right in the past year.
Realistically on Mother's Day you are still dealing with teen issues and are in the kitchen cooking a meal for your mom or your mother in law. Even on Mother's Day it's hard to have a whole day that you are actually off duty.
That's why moms need more than a day!
Often moms are influenced by implicit messages in the culture like, "it's selfish to pay attention to me." It feels like that this message is true, so many moms feel guilty if they spend time taking care of themselves. They wait for someone to give them permission to invest in themselves. This results with moms feeling "all mothered out" and resentful for not being appreciated enough.
Actually, it's not selfish to pay attention to you; it's CRUCIAL. 1. it's crucial to pay attention to you . . .So you can honor and appreciate you for everything you do for your family.
2. It's crucial to pay attention to you . . .
to reclaim your self awareness. This is the first step to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you want.
If you don't know what you need, a good place to start is the 5 essential areas of feeling good. In order to feel your best, you’ve got to focus on five essential needs: foundational, maintenance, relational, self-enrichment, and spiritual.
3. It's crucial to pay attention to you . . .
every day. See part of each day needs to be mothers day. What I mean by this is that YOU needs to get in your calendar. 
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Released:
May 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Colleen O'Grady, MA. is a speaker, trainer and author of the award-winning and best-selling book Dial Down the Drama: Reduce Conflict and Reconnect with Your Teenage Daughter---A Guide for Mothers Everywhere. Colleen shares her wisdom from twenty-five years of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist which translates into over 50,000 hours of working with parents and teens. Colleen, known as the parent-teen relationship expert helps you raise the bar of what's possible for the teenage years. Colleen not only knows this professionally she has been a mom in the trenches with her own teenage daughter. You really can improve your relationship with your teen and dial up the joy, peace, and delight at home and work. Every episode is geared to uplift you, give you practical parenting tips that you can apply right away and keep you current on the latest in teen research and trends.