Michelle sits down with practicing psychologist Dr. Susan Pollak, MTS, Ed.D., author of the Psychology Today blog and Compassion for Parents: Nurture Your Child By Caring for Yourself and explores why it's particularly hard to be a parent right now and how self-compassion is the key to both feeling better and parenting better, too. The advice she gives to parents applies to anyone who feels like they have to control everything right now, but are failing and who needs to extend a little kindness to themselves.