In this episode you will learn a new tool to help increase mindfulness.  Mindfulness is the intentional practice of bringing ones awareness to the present moment without judgement.  This practice is helpful to reduce high stress and anxiety.  I will teach a spiritual discipline called "Breath Prayers" that I learned from my therapist Ms. Kobe Campbell.  Please see her details below and follow her and her husband's amazing podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-healing-circle-podcast/id1448504061

In the last episode we defined what Self-Compassion is and you were asked to take sometime to reflect on how you treat "YOU" when it feels like you have falling short. Are you hard on yourself? Does it make you feel like a failure? Inadequate? What emotions does it bring up for you? Now that you have taken some time out to increase your self-awareness, lets look at some tools to help eliminate the inner critic and begin the journey of extending compassion to yourself, and equipping yourself to pass it on to your children and those around you. Join in on the conversation!!!!

Along the parenting journey we are prone to make mistakes as there are no perfect parents.  But just how do you treat yourself when it feels like you have falling short?  Are you hard on yourself?  Does it make you feel like a failure? Inadequate?  What emotions does it bring up for you?  In this podcast we will discuss a topic to help increase our awareness of the inner critic, and in a future episode how we can embrace ourselves even in the midst of parenting failures.  This is the first installment of our topic "Self Compassion".

Additionally, if you are interested in learning more about Latoya Bryant who was mentioned in the episode, please see links below.

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