Healthy family, happy family - A traumatic past turns into a positive present through self care and healing.

The Touched Out Podcast

On this episode of the Touched Out Podcast episode Fiona and I discuss various aspects of parenting, shedding light on the impact of emotional burnout and the significance of self-care not just for the individual but also for everyone around them. Fiona opens up about her personal journey, sharing her diagnoses of OSDD, complex PTSD, and disordered eating, which stem from past traumas and greatly affect her daily life.
Other topics discussed include:

• Unlearning negative parenting patterns from Fiona's upbringing
• The misconceptions surrounding gentle parenting
• Fiona's decision to go no contact with her family
• Breaking the cycle of negative behaviors in parenting
• Modeling self-regulation and owning mistakes for children
• Embracing diverse family dynamics and avoiding comparisons
• The importance of open communication and non-judgment in the parenting community
• External influences: Internet, media, and their impact on raising children
• Balancing work, parenting, self-care, and relationships
• Fiona's conflicting feelings of loving her son but struggling with motherhood
• Carter's emotional reflection on holding his daughter for the first time
• Fostering bodily autonomy from a young age for children's empowerment
• Transforming a traumatic past into a positive present through self-care and healing.

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