A Letter to the Mother Who Is Trying to Make It to Bedtime without Yelling
🎧 You get early (and ad free!) access to my conversation with Johanna Seagren
I’m sitting here at the dining room table typing up this note to you as Ada naps and
William plays with every single toy we own. Not an exaggeration. We’re in the middle of our Holy Week deep clean and we’re tackling toys today. Once we pick Miss Maeve up from preschool we’ll finish sorting through toys and helping them find their place again. But until then, William is enjoying the mountain of toys at his disposal.
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Today, I’m sending you access to an episode that won’t release until Tuesday, “A Letter to the Mother Who Is Trying to Make It to Bedtime without Yelling ” featuring Johanna Seagren, a licensed professional counselor and the creator of the Interior Kingdom emotional regulation program for families.
In this fourth episode of the Letters to Mothers series, Johanna and I are discussing emotional regulation, our interior life, and burnout in our motherhood.
Parenting is hard work, and sometimes it’s louder, messier, more complicated, and packed with more tantrums (yours included!) than you expected. And so many times we end up exhausted and feeling like this can’t be the vision that God had for our family. We’re diving into a conversation about what it means to be an emotionally-healthy family without losing your mind.
If you’re ready to understand your own emotional triggers, learn how to connect with your kids instead of reacting to their big feelings, and grow closer to each other and God, this episode is for you.
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