Bryana Kappadakunnel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a board-certified Perinatal Mental Health Specialist, and an endorsed Infant-Family Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. For the past decade, she has worked exclusively with new moms and families with very young children to work through issues related to trauma, attachment, family needs, life adjustments and transitions, grief, loss, and more. Bryana runs her own mommy center in Redondo Beach, California, where she leads new mom and baby groups for infants and toddlers, as well as conscious mothering circles for mothers of older children. She is the owner of Conscious Mommy, is an online forum for women seeking to enhance their conscious awareness in motherhood and parenthood. Her mission is to help parents make sense of their need for power and control, unearth the ways they've been conditioned to people-please and reject emotions in childhood, and resolve the fact that when a child triggers us, it's about those unhealed parts of ourselves...not the child. Bryana offers individualized conscious parenting coaching sessions and online workshops and groups. Most importantly, though, Bryana is a mother of 2 children: 3.5 year old Matteo and pandemic-baby Giovanni, who is 13 months. McKenzie sits down for a talk on gentle parenting what that means and why stickers charts are not a thing anymore!