Early parenting is an intense time that can challenge us physically, emotionally, and mentally. A wonderful tool for coping with the intensity, challenges, and changes that come with parenting a young child is mindful parenting. 

In this episode I’m joined by Sultana Karim, a therapist with a specialty in both the perinatal period and trauma. Our conversation springs from a wonderful parenting group she runs and focuses on regulation, mindfulness, and self compassion. 

We discuss:

• Radical acceptance, and how not accepting our reality creates more suffering.
• Mindful parenting and how it can help you be aware of your own needs and balance meeting your needs with meting your babies needs.
• How we can regulate ourselves so we can approach parenting with more creativity and problem solving abilities.
• The importance of coregulation and how our littles look to our nervous systems to help them regulate.
• Mindfulness as a regulation tool in parenting.
• Self compassion, self kindness, and reframing negative thoughts.

It was so fun seeing how much of my work overlaps with Sultana’s work as far as the non-therapy specific suggestions she shares. There’s so much great wisdom in this conversation, and Sultana is deeply knowledgeable. I hope you enjoy it.

About Sultana
Sultana Karim is the Owner and Licensed Therapist at Karim Counseling Services, PLLC. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in MD, VA, DC, & MI, a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP), Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified EMDR Therapist, and a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH-C). She has over 12 years of clinical experience and
specializes in treating sexual and domestic violence, perinatal/ maternal mental health, pregnancy and infant loss, birth trauma, and childhood/attachment trauma in her practice. She strives to help parents to connect to their minds, bodies, and relationships.

She also co-facilitates monthly healing circles for moms with Villa Advocacy Group. She is one of the founding members of the Virginia Maternal Quality Care Alliance and a member of the Perinatal Mental Health Coalition of Virginia and the PUSH Coalition. In these organizations, she strives to advocate and educate the community on maternal/perinatal mental health, maternal mortality, community-based collaboration and solutions, trauma-informed care, cultural humility, and implicit bias.

Connect with Sultana
Website: www.karimcounseling.org
IG: www.instagram.com/karimcounseling
FB: www.facebook.com/karimcounseling

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