Yelling at your kids sometimes feels like a dirty little secret in the mothering world - especially if you practice gentle parenting, conscious parenting, attachment parenting, or any other label that implies you are trying to do things different than the mainstream mothering paradigm.

In this episode, I'm breaking down why I don't think yelling at your kids makes you a bad mom, what it does mean instead and give you some tips to change the narrative you have around it and interrupt the cycle of yelling, feeling shame and then yelling some more.   I'll walk you through the behavior of yelling from a nervous system perspective and give you some ideas for ways to shift the need it's meeting.


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A radical mother is a woman poised in her power ready to disrupt cycles of generational trauma running through her family like wildfire. She's working to improve her life, the lives of her children, and shape the landscape of her community. If that's you - you're in the right place. 

This podcast is designed to connect you with resources, inspiration, and the reminder that you are not alone as you embark on your journey of radical mothering.

I’m your host Christa Bevan and I’m a certified TRE provider (which stands for tension & trauma releasing exercises), trauma-informed yoga instructor, and also a dynamic self-care coach for moms. And of course, a fellow radical mother. My approach to this work blends neuroscience-backed tools and heart-centered intuition.

Did you enjoy today’s episode?  Be sure to head to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate & review the show.  Not only do these help me know you’re enjoying the content, but they help this work be seen by even more Radical Mothers that need it in their lives too.

Today I’m chatting with Inez Natalia, the founder of the Inner Mother Power movement, creator of The Uncaged Mamas, and a Certified Conscious (Re)Parenting Coach.  Inez and I discuss:

• Inez’s Inner Mother Power Movement
• Breaking generational patterns through conscious reparenting your own inner child
• How you can have an inner mother within you even if you don’t have children yet.
• The impact of cultural conditioning on our experience of trauma and how trauma could have existed in your life even if you had “a happy childhood.”
• The things that Inez believes cause us to become “divorced from our true selves.”
• Triggers - where they come from, what they mean, and how can we can choose to consciously interact, learn and grow from them.
• The pivotal moment where I realized that my parents “were just people” and how that allowed me to shift from blaming them for my adult behavior to taking radical responsibility for it.
• Using the power of the present moment to make different choices in our lives.
• How we can get it right as Radical Mothers even when we’ve gotten in “wrong” in the past.
• The important difference between guilt and shame.

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https://christabevan.com/podcast-inez-natalia

To connect further with Inez -->
ineznatalia.com

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A radical mother is a woman poised in her power ready to disrupt cycles of generational trauma running through her family like wildfire. She's working to improve her life, the lives of her children, and shape the landscape of her community. If that's you - you're in the right place. 

This podcast is designed to connect you with resources, inspiration, and the reminder that you are not alone as you embark on your journey of radical mothering.

I’m your host Christa Bevan and I’m a certified TRE provider (which stands for tension & trauma releasing exercises), trauma-informed yoga instructor, and also a dynamic self-care coach for moms. And of course, a fellow radical mother. My approach to this work blends neuroscience-backed tools and heart-centered intuition.

Did you enjoy today’s episode?  Be sure to head to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate & review the show.  Not only do these help me know you’re enjoying the content, but they help this work be seen by even more Radical Mothers that need it in their lives too.

In this weeks' episode, I'm talking about why I hate the advice "try meditation for anxiety."  I break down the reasons I don't like from a nervous system perspective and then discuss what approach I do like instead.

Some of the key points discussed in this episode:

• What's happening in your brain when you experience anxiety.
• How meditation, when you're feeling anxious, can make those symptoms WORSE and not better.
• Why you might be resistant to change, even if the change is objectively for the better.
• How shame perpetuates activation in your nervous system.
• How meditation can further disconnect us from listening to our body's messages.
• The potential for meditation to be retraumatizing for people who have experienced being physically or emotionally overpowered.
• The 3 step approach to combatting anxiety that I find the most effective.
• My thoughts on what it means to reach out and get help when you need it.
  
  
  

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A radical mother is a woman poised in her power ready to disrupt cycles of generational trauma running through her family like wildfire. She's working to improve her life, the lives of her children, and shape the landscape of her community. If that's you - you're in the right place. 

This podcast is designed to connect you with resources, inspiration, and the reminder that you are not alone as you embark on your journey of radical mothering.

I’m your host Christa Bevan and I’m a certified TRE provider (which stands for tension & trauma releasing exercises), trauma-informed yoga instructor, and also a dynamic self-care coach for moms. And of course, a fellow radical mother. My approach to this work blends neuroscience-backed tools and heart-centered intuition.

Did you enjoy today’s episode?  Be sure to head to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate & review the show.  Not only do these help me know you’re enjoying the content, but they help this work be seen by even more Radical Mothers that need it in their lives too.

Today I’m chatting with Irene McKenna, a conscious parenting & relationship coach for growth-orientated moms who want to feel grounded and present in their life and have amazing relationships with their partner and kids.  Irene and I discuss:

• The pivotal moment when Irene knew it was time to start taking better care of herself.
• What radical motherhood is not about
• The missing middle ground between chaos and control
• How Irene takes care of herself during her current season of mothering 
• Irene’s Quantum Self Model 
• The 4 behaviors that show up when you’re living as your Quantum Self
• Why we should all have a proactive responsiveness plan in our lives, especially as mothers
• Why craving alone time after bedtime might not be giving you what you need
• The lessons that can be learned about meeting our needs from our kids whining
• Why Irene thinks striving for patience in motherhood should never be the goal

For the full show notes -->
https://christabevan.com/podcast-irene-mckenna

To connect further with Irene -->

www.instagram.com/thrive.in.motherhood
www.thriveinmotherhoodpodcast.com

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A radical mother is a woman poised in her power ready to disrupt cycles of generational trauma running through her family like wildfire. She's working to improve her life, the lives of her children, and shape the landscape of her community. If that's you - you're in the right place. 

This podcast is designed to connect you with resources, inspiration, and the reminder that you are not alone as you embark on your journey of radical mothering.

I’m your host Christa Bevan and I’m a certified TRE provider (which stands for tension & trauma releasing exercises), trauma-informed yoga instructor, and also a dynamic self-care coach for moms. And of course, a fellow radical mother. My approach to this work blends neuroscience-backed tools and heart-centered intuition.

Did you enjoy today’s episode?  Be sure to head to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate & review the show.  Not only do these help me know you’re enjoying the content, but they help this work be seen by even more Radical Mothers that need it in their lives too.

In this weeks' episode, I'm diving into my history with panic attacks & anxiety and how I eventually came to find TRE (tension and trauma releasing exercises) and how it changed my life.   TRE is a set of physical exercises designed to elicit a natural shaking mechanism in the body.  This shaking helps to complete a stress activation cycle and restore fluidity of response to the nervous system.  Developed by Dr. David Berceli, TRE has been safely used around the world. 

I also discuss:

• The panic attack I had that led me to surrender to the universe’s help and the aha realization that came through about them.
• What TRE is and how it can help with anxiety, depression, and more.
• The surprising time you may have experienced neurogenic tremors in your life and not known it.
• How our body keeps the score for us.
• Why teaching boys not to cry is so harmful and interrupts natural stress discharge pathways
• The innate wisdom of the subconscious mind for healing
• The cup metaphor for stress in our lives and how TRE helps both in the moment and in the long term to manage our stress levels.
• Why TRE is so mom friendly
• How TRE can help achieve my idea that "when mothers heal the world heals."
  
  
  

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A radical mother is a woman poised in her power ready to disrupt cycles of generational trauma running through her family like wildfire. She's working to improve her life, the lives of her children, and shape the landscape of her community. If that's you - you're in the right place. 

This podcast is designed to connect you with resources, inspiration, and the reminder that you are not alone as you embark on your journey of radical mothering.

I’m your host Christa Bevan and I’m a certified TRE provider (which stands for tension & trauma releasing exercises), trauma-informed yoga instructor, and also a dynamic self-care coach for moms. And of course, a fellow radical mother. My approach to this work blends neuroscience-backed tools and heart-centered intuition.

Did you enjoy today’s episode?  Be sure to head to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate & review the show.  Not only do these help me know you’re enjoying the content, but they help this work be seen by even more Radical Mothers that need it in their lives too.

This week's episode is a Quick Bite on why celebrating is the most underrated tool for improving your life and changing the world.

I discuss:

• The five reasons we should all be celebrating more, especially as Radical Mothers.
• Examples of what to celebrate even when it feels like you're playing the "motherhood monotony game."

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A radical mother is a woman poised in her power ready to disrupt cycles of generational trauma running through her family like wildfire. She's working to improve her life, the lives of her children, and shape the landscape of her community. If that's you - you're in the right place. 

This podcast is designed to connect you with resources, inspiration, and the reminder that you are not alone as you embark on your journey of radical mothering.

I’m your host Christa Bevan and I’m a certified TRE provider (which stands for tension & trauma releasing exercises), trauma-informed yoga instructor, and also a dynamic self-care coach for moms. And of course, a fellow radical mother. My approach to this work blends neuroscience-backed tools and heart-centered intuition.

Did you enjoy today’s episode?  Be sure to head to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate & review the show.  Not only do these help me know you’re enjoying the content, but they help this work be seen by even more Radical Mothers that need it in their lives too.

In today’s episode…

I’m chatting with Jem Minor, L.Ac, MAOM, is a licensed Acupuncturist, Herbalist, Alchemical Sacred Embodiment Coach, Feminine Power Facilitator, and Healing Tao Instructor of Internal Alchemy Meditation & Qi Gong — and the mother of a spirited seven-year-old son and an infant daughter. Jem and I discuss:

• The traumas Jem’s first birth brought up for her (TW: some of it includes sexual abuse).
• How womb healing work helped transform Jem’s experience of trauma with her son’s birth and the radically different experience she had giving birth to her daughter.
• Jem and I discuss how common a traumatic birth experience is and how underrecognized that event for a lot of women.
• Listening Partnerships and how they helped Jem connect the dots on her trauma patterns.
• Womb healing from a Chinese Medicine & Daoist perspective.
• Why it’s important to not only clear out stuck or stagnant energy but also replace it with intentional energy that we do want to exist in ourselves.
• Why we need to befriend our bodies and our wombs and use embodied healing for lasting change.

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https://christabevan.com/podcast-jem-minor

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A radical mother is a woman poised in her power ready to disrupt cycles of generational trauma running through her family like wildfire. She's working to improve her life, the lives of her children, and shape the landscape of her community. If that's you - you're in the right place. 

This podcast is designed to connect you with resources, inspiration, and the reminder that you are not alone as you embark on your journey of radical mothering.

I’m your host Christa Bevan and I’m a certified TRE provider (which stands for tension & trauma releasing exercises), trauma-informed yoga instructor, and also a dynamic self-care coach for moms. And of course, a fellow radical mother. My approach to this work blends neuroscience-backed tools and heart-centered intuition.

Did you enjoy today’s episode?  Be sure to head to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate & review the show.  Not only do these help me know you’re enjoying the content, but they help this work be seen by even more Radical Mothers that need it in their lives too.

In this weeks' episode, I'm discussing how rest can be a radical act - especially for Radical Mothers.

I also discuss:

• How not getting enough rest goes against our very nature.
• Why mothers especially are prone to forgoing rest.
• What needs to change on a cultural level to let mothers get more rest.
• How resting can be a form of embodied prayer.
  
  
  

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A radical mother is a woman poised in her power ready to disrupt cycles of generational trauma running through her family like wildfire. She's working to improve her life, the lives of her children, and shape the landscape of her community. If that's you - you're in the right place. 

This podcast is designed to connect you with resources, inspiration, and the reminder that you are not alone as you embark on your journey of radical mothering.

I’m your host Christa Bevan and I’m a certified TRE provider (which stands for tension & trauma releasing exercises), trauma-informed yoga instructor, and also a dynamic self-care coach for moms. And of course, a fellow radical mother. My approach to this work blends neuroscience-backed tools and heart-centered intuition.

Did you enjoy today’s episode?  Be sure to head to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate & review the show.  Not only do these help me know you’re enjoying the content, but they help this work be seen by even more Radical Mothers that need it in their lives too.

I’m chatting with Amanda Gorman, a wife, mother of two, and the host of the Finding Your Village podcast. The goal of her podcast is to make the early days of parenting more connected and focuses on birth, postpartum, and parent mental health.

In addition to her family, Amanda is passionate about: writing, speaking, trauma recovery, music, racial reconciliation, and birth work. She is currently getting certified to be a childbirth education mentor through Birthing From Within.

Amanda and I discuss:

• Amanda’s concept of “completitors” and how we both see that as a strength and not a weakness when it comes to doing this work - both in business and in motherhood.
• How Amanda came to realize she was living in “the well of victimhood” and what changed for her around that.
• The two things that 2020 helped Amanda chase after “with full fury.”
• Why Amanda did not think self-compassion was for her and what helped her change her mind.
• How perfectionism steals our ability to let help into our lives and what we can do to help release that.
• How Amanda learned to connect to her body and how that allowed her to heal trauma from her past.
• How EMDR helped me start painting my life with a full palette of colors

For the full show notes -->
https://christagowen.com/podcast-amandagorman

How to connect further with Amanda:

instagram.com/findingyourvillage

Follow the Finding Your Village podcast on Spotify:

https://podcasters.spotify.com/podcast/6KszWo5dm0Dsjw6GLOmCBK/overview

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A radical mother is a woman poised in her power ready to disrupt cycles of generational trauma running through her family like wildfire. She's working to improve her life, the lives of her children, and shape the landscape of her community. If that's you - you're in the right place. 

This podcast is designed to connect you with resources, inspiration, and the reminder that you are not alone as you embark on your journey of radical mothering.

I’m your host Christa Bevan and I’m a certified TRE provider (which stands for tension & trauma releasing exercises), trauma-informed yoga instructor, and also a dynamic self-care coach for moms. And of course, a fellow radical mother. My approach to this work blends neuroscience-backed tools and heart-centered intuition.

Did you enjoy today’s episode?  Be sure to head to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate & review the show.  Not only do these help me know you’re enjoying the content, but they help this work be seen by even more Radical Mothers that need it in their lives too.

In today’s episode…

I discuss the difference between stress and stressors and the big implications this has for us as Radical Mothers.  I also discuss:

• Why you might still feel stressed even when you should be relaxing on the beach during a vacation.
• What stressors are and how they're different than stress.
• The hormones of survival and why they're important, but also how they're detrimental in high, sustained doses.
• What the saber tooth cats of modern life look like and how they're different than actual threats of danger.
• The basics of burnout and the three components that make it up.
• The built-in ways your body has to complete a stress activation cycle and ideas for how to do them as mothers.
• How to know when you've discharged stress from your system.

For the full show notes head to -->
https://christagowen.com/podcast-stress-vs-stressor


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A radical mother is a woman poised in her power ready to disrupt cycles of generational trauma running through her family like wildfire. She's working to improve her life, the lives of her children, and shape the landscape of her community. If that's you - you're in the right place. 

This podcast is designed to connect you with resources, inspiration, and the reminder that you are not alone as you embark on your journey of radical mothering.

I’m your host Christa Bevan and I’m a certified TRE provider (which stands for tension & trauma releasing exercises), trauma-informed yoga instructor, and also a dynamic self-care coach for moms. And of course, a fellow radical mother. My approach to this work blends neuroscience-backed tools and heart-centered intuition.

Did you enjoy today’s episode?  Be sure to head to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate & review the show.  Not only do these help me know you’re enjoying the content, but they help this work be seen by even more Radical Mothers that need it in their lives too.