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37. Raising Empowered Kids, with Isabella Catena

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Isabella Catena is an expert on kids, more specifically raising empowered kids! She helps parents navigate parenthood in a more easeful, aligned and  empowered way. Supporting with things like boundary setting, behaviours and navigating big emotions. Isabella is someone I personally love to learn from and have learnt so much about not only empowering kids, but also parenting my inner child!


In this episode, Isabella shares:

  • Noticing kids be more receptive based on the ways she was showing up.
  • How inner child healing benefited her approach to supporting children.
  • How to navigate tantrums in private and public.
  • Understanding that kids don’t have the capacity to regulate their emotions and need a calm adult to soothe.
  • Creating a safe space for your children.
  • Loving kids through their full range of emotions.
  • How our relationship with our emotions impacts our children.
  • Learning not to take things personally.
  • The importance of regulating your own nervous system around children.
  • Exploring our triggers and healing underlying wounds.
  • Ways reflection can be a game-changer.
  • Setting healthy boundaries with kids.
  • The ‘this or that’ technique.
  • Giving kids the opportunity to be involved and have a choice.
  • Cultivating patience and how this impacts our ability to parent.
  • Allowing kids to have a go and dropping our perfectionism.
  • Helping your kids believe in themselves and develop confidence, self worth and competence.
  • What she would change about the schooling system and why.
  • Learning through play.
  • Being open to learning from our kids, not just teaching them.
  • Remembering that kids are humans too.
  • Being present with children.
  • Building a deep connection with our kids.
  • How to get kids to respect you.
  • And so much more!


    • Learn more about Isabella and her offerings via her website https://www.raising-empoweredkids.com/ and follow her on instagram @raising.empoweredkids for lots of supportive content.

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