Episode 2: I'm super excited about today's episode because I get to talk about my favorite topic. Reactivity.  I can talk about this topic all day long. About how our brains work and triggers the stress response that drives our reactivity.

Moms want so much to be more patient, yet, what if having enough patience wasn't the goal? I'm going to introduce you to what I call patience fatigue and empowered parenting.  We're going to dive deep into the inner work we must do to create the change we desire.  For ourselves & for our families.  

Reactivity simply stated is the activation of our stress response. We're then trained to look outward to explain our reaction. We see life happening & we react to it.

What I truly want you to know is this... reactivity's never about the outside world, but about what’s going on within you.  

Reactivity is demanding the world shape up so we get what we want. We're stuck waiting for everything and everybody else to change so that we get what we want. We focus on what our children or our partners are doing/not doing. We're giving our power away. 

“Reacting is human.  It's a biological process. It's part of who we are as humans.”

The stress response is a primal one.  It isn't going away.  Yet, when the goal's to simply try and have more patience when faced with a triggering situation, we will at some point always fall short.  This is patience fatigue.  

Patience fatigue comes because we're using up our reserves all day. Our trigger for reactivity gets shorter and shorter as the day goes on.  No wonder bedtime sucks.  There will never be enough patience.   This is why it's time to change the approach.