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Guilt as a Tool for Growth

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Guilt - specifically parent guilt - can be such a heavy emotion. In this episode, we acknowledge and sit with this uncomfortable emotion and look at the gifts we can receive from truly allowing and being with our guilt.


You'll hear some of our own experiences and examples of parent guilt as well as strategies we've used to cope with it. Let's celebrate that love is at the core of guilt, and we're all doing the best we can!


Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:

  • what guilt is and the different types we might experience
  • the balance between feeling the emotion and nurturing yourself and relationship/situation
  • finding community so you don't feel alone
  • societal pressures
  • reframing guilty thoughts + perspective
  • guilt as part of growth and expansion as a parent
  • our own parental guilt experiences


    • Resources:

    1. Post Partum Depression help
    2. Episode: "Taking Extended Solo Time and Separation from Our Babies (of all ages)"
    3. Episode: "Co-creating and Finding Spaces To Play (without your children) While Being a Parent"


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      Just ThisBy Amanda Scharpf and Jennifer Renee