Parenting with the Enneagram Without Knowing Our Kids' Type
Confessions of a Parent Coach
Do you know what you're really feeling in any given moment? There's a core emotion inside each of us. It is a big driver our personalities - our motivations, avoidances, habits and behaviors are all determined in large part by this current of sensation flowing within us all the time. And when we are unaware of that current, we show up in the world as a bundle of all those protective elements and not a whole lot more! On this week's episode of the Confessions Of A Parent Coach podcast, I walk you through the core emotions for each triad of the Enneagram, show you where they came from, how...
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Deep Emotions - What Are You Actually Feeling?
Confessions of a Parent Coach
Do you know what you're really feeling in any given moment? There's a core emotion inside each ot us. It is a big driver our personalities - our motivations, avoidances, habits and behaviors are all determined in large part by this current of sensation flowing within us all the time. And when we are unaware of that current, we show up in the world as a bundle of all those protective elements and not a whole lot more! On this week's episode of the Confessions Of A Parent Coach podcast, I walk you through the core emotions for each triad of the Enneagram, show you where they came from, how...
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Intuitive Parenting
Confessions of a Parent Coach
What if you always knew how to parent your kid? Sound preposterous, and maybe so. No matter what evolution we go through, we will always be human beings and parenting will always have surprises. But on this week's episode of the Confessions Of A Parent Coach podcast, I will make the case that it's a Hell of a lot less preposterous than you might think. There are lots of intuitive approaches gaining popularity these days: intuitive eating, medical dosing, massage, therapy, teaching, listening...why not intuitive parenting? And what does it feel like to parent from that inner knowing? And what...
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Are You Throwing Your Kid Into the Deep End of the Pool?
Confessions of a Parent Coach
What is a growth edge? This week on the Confessions Of A Parent Coach podcast, my littlest kiddo, Skye, is helping me make my confession! I asked him if he could think of a time I pushed him to do something that was just too much for him, and he came up with a great example that helps me talk about the idea of a growth edge with you. Listen to the podcast to hear: · My awesome eleven-year-old ;) · What a growth edge is and why it's important, and · How to parent to your child's growth edge Coaching is all about hanging out in your growth edge, and doing this work teaches you how to know...
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Internalize, Externalize or Repress?
Confessions of a Parent Coach
What is your default coping style? This week on the Confessions Of A Parent Coach podcast, we're doin' it for the 'gram (the Enneagram, that is)! I'll go around the 'gram with you to talk about the three different coping styles of the nine Types: Externalizing, Repressing, and Internalizing. Understanding which is your default style is SO POWERFUL in parenting. Are you an internalizer, making everything a reflection on yourself (I'm the problem. I'm a bad mom)? Or maybe you repress your emotions, telling yourself everything's fine when deep down you know it's not. You could be an...
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Why Am I Talking?
Confessions of a Parent Coach
WAIT! This week on the Confessions Of A Parent Coach podcast, I'm talking about this acronym that has been bounced around in corporate, communication, and coaching circles for years. It stands for: Why Am I Talking? And I recommend you run it through your mind almost every time you're about to open your mouth around your kiddo. Listen to the podcast to explore: · The many answers to this question that point to a need other than talking, · What to do instead of talking, · The changes you can create with your child simply by asking yourself this question Coaching helps make this question a...
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Giving Kids (and Ourselves) Agency
Confessions of a Parent Coach
It's important to have agency, ok? Have you ever said things like, "5 more minutes of screentime, OK?" or "You can stay up 15 minutes later, but then no fighting about bedtime, OK?" This is just one example of how we find ourselves putting our kids in charge and literally asking for their permission instead of the other way around! We often relinquish our agency in subtle ways, and that can really sabotage our ability to raise kids who respect others' agency and are in touch with their own. In this week's episode of Confessions of A Parent Coach, I'm talking about the difference between...
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Parent Coach Podcast Episode 122 - Your Brain is A Superhighway
Confessions of a Parent Coach
A superhighway...to disaster? This week on the Confessions Of A Parent Coach podcast, I'm talking about the idea of rewiring our brains. I's a big part of what’s happening in coaching, but what does it really mean? Your habits and defaults are well-trodden neurological pathways, which make them superhighways that we use to zip from impetus to reaction at lightning speed. Unfortunately, those reactions are often childish and unproductive. Better responses, on the other hand, require us to carve new paths, and that is a lot slower and requires a lot more intention. Coaching makes this...
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Are you real or fiction?
Confessions of a Parent Coach
Do you have a fantasy of who you should be? Most of us do - we have an idea of how we should think, react, behave, or feel if we were the best version of ourselves. But unfortunately, that person doesn't exist. They are just as fake as a character in a novel. The person you're trying to be is as real as Anne of Green Gables or Princess Buttercup. She is nonsense. But we often have a deeper, more intimate relationship with this fictional character than we do with our true selves! Or we have a relationship with our true selves that's predicated on trying to change, force, or shame ourselves...
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The Only Thing You Need to Know
Confessions of a Parent Coach
Parenthood is mostly unknowns. In this week's episode of Confessions of a Parent Coach, I'm talking about how we deal with uncertainty, worry, and fear in parenthood. Listen to hear: • My own stumbling block when it came to this concept (I was paralyzed by uncertainty), • One tool to combat our craving for certainty and future information, and • The only thing you need to know to parent well, no matter what comes your way With this tool under your belt, you are ready for whatever parenthood has in store for you, and it becomes so much easier (and more enjoyable) to do right by your...
info_outlineWhat if you always knew how to parent your kid? Sound preposterous, and maybe so. No matter what evolution we go through, we will always be human beings and parenting will always have surprises. But on this week's episode of the Confessions Of A Parent Coach podcast, I will make the case that it's a Hell of a lot less preposterous than you might think.
There are lots of intuitive approaches gaining popularity these days: intuitive eating, medical dosing, massage, therapy, teaching, listening...why not intuitive parenting? And what does it feel like to parent from that inner knowing? And what is needed in order for us to access and parent from that level of consciousness? Listen to hear answers to all of this and more.
And when you're ready to undertake that consciousness-raising work, when you're ready to unlock intuitive parenting and experience the deep ease and connection it offers, set up your Discovery Call. It's been here waiting for you all along, just like the intuitive parenting guidance that has been speaking you internally since day one. https://calendly.com/annkaplan/discoverycall