Mindful Moments Blog

Reclaiming Authenticity Through Self-Love

A mama shares a poem about shedding old narratives and expectations so that she can be her authentic self, and in doing so, her six-year-old son is empowered to do the same.

3 Successful Alternatives To Yelling For A More Peaceful Home

One of the hardest parts of parenting is not the learning. It is the unlearning. When yelling is your natural impulse, these three tips can help you channel what you are feeling in a healthy, productive way.

5 Ways To Do Self-Care For Busy Moms

For so long, us mothers have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist. But we don't have to. Here are 5 ways to nurture yourself in small, manageable ways. Because, mama, you matter, too.

Determination May Feel Unpleasant, And It's Useful

Determination isn't a bad emotion. It is an informative one. And while determination isn’t necessarily a pleasant sensation in the body, it is an important edge that brings about resilience and grit.

Building A Resilient Brain Through Spirituality

So many of us are here, questioning if we are “too broken” and “not enough” while equal parts terrified that we will “ruin our children” while also desperately trying to do things differently than were done to us. Maybe this one thing is the answer to our mental health crisis.

20 Parenting Phrases to Use in a Pinch

These tried and true phrases will help you respond to your child in a way that keeps the peace, shows empathy, holds boundaries and brings calm to the situation. Test out a few and use the ones that feel right when you need to.

3 Powerful Ways Parents Can Break The Cycle Of Emotional Wounding

Want to react to your children less with yelling, lecturing, and punitive measures - to parent differently than you were parented? This is how we break the cycle.

This is the One Thing All Children Need

Can you guess what it is?

20 Ways to Speak Your Child’s Love Language

What love language does your child speak and how can you speak it so they feel deeply valued and loved?

Helping Your Highly Sensitive Child Gain Confidence

When our children are highly sensitive, rejection and criticism hurt more deeply. They get embarrassed easily and have strong emotional reactions, which can make them the target for bullying. Here are 5 tools to boost your child's confidence.

Breaking The Cycle: A Shift from Punitive to Positive Parenting

A shift from punitive punishment to positive parenting. One mama shares her story of breaking the generational cycle of spanking to connection-based childrearing.

The Harm Of Forcing Manners On Our Children (And What To Do Instead)

If we want to step away from punitive measures and towards a deep understanding of manners, and an internal motivation to practice them, it stops with “say the magic word” or “say you are sorry” or “what do you say???” And it starts with these 5 tools.

Make Connection a Habit

mindful parenting

Reclaiming Authenticity Through Self-Love

3 Successful Alternatives To Yelling For A More Peaceful Home

5 Ways To Do Self-Care For Busy Moms

Determination May Feel Unpleasant, And It's Useful

Building A Resilient Brain Through Spirituality

20 Parenting Phrases to Use in a Pinch

3 Powerful Ways Parents Can Break The Cycle Of Emotional Wounding

This is the One Thing All Children Need

20 Ways to Speak Your Child’s Love Language

Helping Your Highly Sensitive Child Gain Confidence

Breaking The Cycle: A Shift from Punitive to Positive Parenting

The Harm Of Forcing Manners On Our Children (And What To Do Instead)

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