The Expat Mom Podcast

What keeps you from emotion coaching your kids?  Do you feel like you just don’t have time?  You are just too reactive?  Your kids are too young or too old?  There are lots of things that keep us from coaching our kids through emotions.  This episode addresses some of the most common questions and issues parents have about emotion coaching.

 Things you’ll learn on the podcast:

• When is too young or too old to emotion coach
• How to adapt emotion coaching for different ages
• What to do if your child gets MORE upset when you emotion coach them
• How to feel less reactive when your kids have a big emotion

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Studies show that kids’ emotional success is much less dependent on the quantity of difficult things that happen to them and much more on their experience with them.  As parents, we can’t always control what happens to our kids—nor would we want to.  But we can control how we support our kids through whatever does happen.  And, this support piece is much more powerful to their emotional health anyway.  On this episode we break down the “how-to” of emotion coaching.  We discuss five simple steps to walk your child through a big emotion.  This is the third in a series on emotion coaching kids.  If you haven’t listened to episode #137-#138—those are helpful precursers to this episode. 

On this episode you’ll learn:

• The five steps to emotion coaching
• How to help your kids feel understood but still set limits and move forward
• If emotion coaching can be used for positive emotions
• Practical applications and examples for emotion coaching for young kids and teens

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Most of us think that we’re being a good parent if we keep our kids happy.  But that’s not true.  In fact, some of our best parenting can occur when our kids are experiencing a negative emotion. That’s because studies show that kids’ emotional health is less dependent on the amount of negative emotion they experience and more on how they were supported through it. When we are able to coach our kids through negative emotions and companion them along the way—we offer them a much more valuable gift than simply trying to eliminate stressful things or act like everything is fine all the time.  

Having a mindset that allows you to help you children deal with big emotions depends on being comfortable with some important beliefs about emotions.  Some of these beliefs are a bit counter-culture, meaning they aren’t beliefs we absorb naturally in our modern society.  We’re often taught that negative emotions are bad and something to avoid.  But negative emotions have MANY benefits for us and our children.  But as parents, we get to be on the cutting edge of creating a healthier society for ourselves and our children to live in.  We get to be the change.
 
On this podcast you'll learn:

• The mistake lots of parents make when addressing kid's big emotions
• Why mindset matters
• Why negative emotions might be exactly what your child needs
• Five essential beliefs that establish a healthy mindset to coach kids through emotions

Resources
Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily and Amelia Nagoski

Brene Brown Podcast feature the authors:
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-emily-and-amelia-nagoski-on-burnout-and-how-to-complete-the-stress-cycle/

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Kids and big emotions often go together like peanut butter and jelly.  It’s part of the business of childhood and our teen years to figure out how to deal with our emotions.  And, as parents we can be a help or a hinderance in that process.  It isn’t always intuitive to know how to help kids with emotions—in fact we often want to avoid negative emotions for our kids.  This week on the podcast we examine some of the mistakes parents make when responding to kids’ negative emotions.  
 
On the podcast you'll learn:

• Four parenting approaches to kids' negative emotions
• What the impact of each is on kids according to research
• Which one is most successful

Resources
John Gottman,  Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

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I don’t know many people who LIKE to fail.  But like it or not, life includes lots of failure.  That is—if you’re stretching yourself enough to actually be growing.  The reason most of us fear failure is we don’t like feeling humiliated, disappointed and frustrated.  But did you know that it is possible to have a different experience with failure.  Did you know failure could be fun?  This week on the podcast I’m going to teach you how to fail in a way that’s useful…and maybe even fun.
 
 In this episode you’ll learn:

•  Why we don’t like to fail
• How to shift the way you feel about failing
• Why failure can actually be useful
• Different types of failure and why some are better than others
• How to convert your worst critic into your best cheerleader

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While many of us love to set goals, being consistent with them can be challenging.  They are challenging because new behaviors take more effort and they can be uncomfortable.  It’s easier to just do what we’ve always done…and our lower brains like ease.   If we haven’t set up the right systems for ourselves, the lower brain often wins out and we procrastinate or give up on our goal.  In order to be consistent we can use a couple of tools to help our lower brains work for us, not against us in accomplishing our goals.
 
 On the podcast, you’ll learn: 

•  Why it’s so hard to be consistent with our goals
•  Why our brain is the problem AND the solution
• Two tools for being more consistent with our goals
• Practical examples of how you can use these tools for accomplishing your goals.  

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When we plan out our goals we often assume it will be like driving to the grocery store, hitting all green lights, getting a front row parking spot, not waiting in line and zipping home.  But it never is.  There are always obstacles that come up.  Today on the podcast I’m sharing 3 common mistakes we make that derail our goals so you can be more successful at avoiding these mistakes.  

On this episode you’ll learn:

•  A healthy way to define if you’re being successful at your goal day to day
• How to anticipate obstacles head of time and how to prepare for them
•  How to change your self-talk so you don’t sabotage yourself

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Did you know 80% of New Year's resolutions fail?  And most of them fail by mid-February.  That is a sobering statistic.  I've been part of that statistic until a few years ago, when I learned some simple tools that have helped me and my clients actually accomplish our goals instead of just make them.  Accomplishing goals is actually like creating and following a recipe.

In this episode you'll learn:

• How to move past overwhelm
• How to stop procrastination
• How to accomplish goals when it feels like you don't have time
• What to do when you don't feel like it 

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What kinds of feelings does setting goals bring up for you?  This year goals setting brought up anxiety and lack of motivation.  I’ve felt a bit sluggish nailing myself down with one goal.  I was feeling overwhelmed with all the goals I WANT to do but knowing I only have the capacity to do some.  Choosing can be tough!  And, as I look back on some of the past years, it can feel discouraging to think about goals I’ve set and never accomplished.  But, I pulled myself together and applied some of the strategies and tools I’m teaching in this podcast, and I chose a goal for the year that I’m really excited and motivated about.

 What you’ll learn on the podcast

• Why goals matter
• How many goals are realistic
• Which goal to choose
• A step-by-step process for choosing a goal in less than 10 min

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Most of us have known someone at some time that was grieving.  If you’re like most people you want to help!  You don’t want the person to suffer.   But, it can be challenging sometimes to know how to help.  On the podcast this week, I share 5 common mistakes we may make in trying to help someone who as lost someone.

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