In today's episode we chat with a parent coach regarding reparenting ourselves so we can be better parents for our children. This takes us reflecting on the messages we received as children and how we either continue to pass those messages along or break the cycle. We talk about how children act in ways to get their needs met and often what triggers us are opportunities for healing. It begins with us, reflecting and learning to soothe so we can pass these skills to our children. We can learn so much from our children but we need to take the time to reflect and remain attuned to ourselves and our kids. It is not about blaming or shaming our parents but acknowledging that we all have childhood wounds that may require us to reparent ourselves so that we can break the cycle. Leslie Priscilla also touches on her mission to end chancla culture buy educating parents  so that we do not continue to oppress and exert control over our children. 

Leslie Priscilla Arreola-Hillenbrand is a first generation non-Black Xicana with Rarámuri lineage. She is a mother to three biracial children and a certified Parent Coach with over 13 years of experience. Leslie shares her medicine by offering coaching, workshops, support and advocacy for Latinx/Chicanx families locally, nationally and internationally via Latinx Parenting. Leslie’s vision is of a movement rooted in children's rights, social and racial justice, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and ancestral healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive practices in our families towards liberation.

For more information [email protected] and @Latinxparenting on Instagram and Facebook.