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The Follow-Up: Parenting Triggers
Dr. Mona revisits a conversation with licensed clinical social worker and childhood trauma educator Patrick Teahan. Together, they unpack how parenthood acts as a mirror, exposing hidden triggers and unhealed wounds from our own upbringing. Key Takeaways The Inner Child in Parenting: Unresolved feelings from your family of origin often resurface during everyday interactions with your children, such as playing on the floor or managing toddlers' independence. Pattern vs. Bad Day: Distinguishing between normal parenting exhaustion and a recurring emotional pattern that signals a need for self-reflection. Breaking Generational Cycles: Recognizing...
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Welcome back to the show. It's Dr. Mona and this is a series on the podcast where we revisit a past episode in less time than it takes you to figure out why you just snapped at your kid over a pair of shoes that were not even on the wrong feet.
I'm bringing this one back because I think we need to talk more about the inner child, not as a buzzy therapy phrase, but as a real thing, living inside every parent, listening to this. So many of us are raw dogging parenting, meaning we are just white-knuckling through the hard moments without ever asking what our inner child needs.
And here is what I have come to believe, not only from parenting and all the experience I have as a pediatrician, but also in my marriage. So many conflicts between grown adults, especially in marriages, are actually two inner children fighting. Two little kids inside two adult bodies, each reacting, defending, and coping, the only way they know how, because that is the only way they were ever taught.
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