Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens

Eps 224: SOLO - Creating mindfulness in our romantic partnerships


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Today is a solo show – woop woop!

Being in a mindful relationship…

  • What is mindfulness?
  • Why is it important on the parenting journey?
  • Why is this important in life?
  • I went to a mindful couples workshop with my husband this weekend

    • Why did we go?

    Morning of…

    • How I did my work when it was hard to do

    Modeling setting intention

    Letting go of being attached to the experience of my husband

    • Why this is relevant to our kids and parenting and life

    Setting the context with how I showed up and what I was willing to own

    Offering lots of loving support, acknowledgement, options

    • While also leaning in and inviting vulnerability – speaking into the elephants in the room, making things explicit

    Learning processes for deeper listening and communication

    • SO MUCH like PD
    • Connect before correct/redirect
    • Positive Intent
    • Looking for solutions not blame
    • The iceberg
    • Process over product –
    • Relationship is everything!!!
    • Took the trainer aside to share….
    • One of the processes reminded me so much of the Family Meeting, but instead of using the model for the family, you use it as a couple.

      • Safe space for venting about a few things that rubbed you wrong
      • A useful place for problem solving
      • I would add time to celebrate each other before getting into it….
      • One of our “issues” is talking about money – ben makes most of it, I budget and try to save it. This is a hard one for us to discuss without having clear goals that are the boss.
      • Come together to have a vision
      • What is this going to take
      • Weekly check ins on how we are doing
      • I also have some amazing clients that are such an inspiration to me.

        • Super intentional with checking in on relationship
        • Super articulate in how they are celebrating each other
        • 20 years later…. It takes work

          • Awareness that we are in an ebb
          • Willingness to do something about it
          • Kristen Bell – “I will be with Dax on the porch at 80” – we can get through anything

            So yeah, tend to your relationships – we talk so much about our relationship with our teens and younger kids here – equally if not more important is our relationship with our partners.

            Hope you are feeling inspired!!

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