Parenting

What Can You Do About Your Mother?

I’m a mother, so this isn’t a “let's blame the mothers episode.” And… the truth is most of us have been challenged with setting boundaries with our mothers and knowing how to handle situations that upset them. I know I have! 

There’s a good reason for that. For many of us, it was our relationship with our mother, or other primary caregiver that set our people-pleasing habits into motion. 

It can be a challenge to recreate our relationship from one of parent - child to parent-empowered individual. It’s possible to have empathy for your parents and know that they did the best they could to raise us, and have empathy towards yourself for the ways your childhood was difficult or painful to you. 

In today’s episode of Liberate Your People Pleaser I outline the process that you can use to look at the relationship with your mother, question it, and do a reset to create the exact relationship that you want with her as an adult.

Listen to today’s episode HERE.

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Is Parenting Hard? Duh.

This year has been difficult for parents in many ways. Having to manage remote learning for school-age kids, everyone being home so much, having most, if not all, of our kids activities canceled, and we’re home more too! NO ONE is getting a break from each other! 


I have four adult children ranging from 33 - 40 years old. I’m grateful I didn’t have to manage a pandemic while my kids were young. I admire and respect all of you who are living this “new normal.” 


One of the hardest parts about being a parent is having healthy boundaries with our kids so that we can play the role of guide and not get enmeshed with them. 


What does it mean to be enmeshed with our kids? 


How do we create an environment that allows our kids to become the unique expression that they are, rather than overly influencing who you want them to become?


In today’s episode of Liberate Your People Pleaser I’ll explore the controversial role of parents in their kid’s lives. 


When are we giving too much? When are we over-functioning? When do we empower them? When do we take-away their power? 


Join me in this special episode of Liberate Your People Pleaser, then leave a comment and share your struggles and triumphs as a parent. 


Listen to today’s episode HERE.