46. Reinforcing lovability = regulation
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
Release Date: 02/01/2025
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Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
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Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
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Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
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info_outlineI know we've talked a lot about regulation lately - and for good reason. Dysregulation is so common, and it's impacting our relationships, our work, our progress towards goals.
In this episode, we'll touch on the connection between regulation and lovability, it's impact on our body, and a few steps you can take to make the change you seek.
About your host, Angie Grandt – Transformational Parent Coach
Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Certified Family Coach & an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.
Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm.
If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this video Angie made for you: https://youtu.be/qCL1SIe8kG0?si=B68dqmzmDFLT3zSZ
And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://calendly.com/angiegrandt/free_session
If you are looking to better understand you – your unique challenges, gifts, and your purpose in life – book a Quantum Human Design reading! You’ll leave with an action plan to tackle your most important relationships, as well as some key insights about your next steps towards your goals! Book here: https://www.connectedparentswithangie.com/quantum-human-design
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❤ Angie Grandt, The Adoption Coach