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Elise Knox is a former middle school teacher turned life and wellness coach. Mama to 2 and step-mom to 1, her passion is helping moms and preteen/teen girls get through challenging times with more connection and ease.

Elise is a Certified Trauma-Informed Life Coach. She knows that if we do not heal our own wounds, we bring them into our parenting as a means of protection.

You’re gonna love our conversation today!

What you will learn:

• How do our parental wounds as children affect the way we parent our kids? 
• The purpose of asking ourselves "why is this so triggering for me?"
• What happens with our relationship with our teens when we are constantly looking for the negative. 
• Challenges of being in a step-family and relating to step-kids.
• How noticing where we want to control things with our children can help us have better reactions to our teens. 
• Getting comfortable saying sorry to our teens.
• Admitting to our kids when we don't know the answer to something.
• What questions to ask your teens instead of giving advice.
• Fallback questions or statements to respond to your that gives you time to compose yourself.
• Changing our role from fixer to listener.
• The burden moms put on themselves around guilt and how it sucks our joy.

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