Compassionate Heart Parenting
Compassionate Heart Parenting | Peaceful Parenting for Real Life
You love your kids deeply — and you still lose it sometimes. You're in the right place.
This podcast is for parents who are drawn to gentle parenting, peaceful parenting, conscious parenting, and Hand in Hand Parenting — but who also know how hard it can be to stay calm in the real, messy, overwhelming moments of family life.
Hi, I'm Michelle — mom of 3, recovering yeller, and Emotionally Focused Family Therapist. I've been through parent burnout, depression, and anxiety, and I climbed my way out using the very tools I share here. Now I help parents find their inner calm so they can show up the way they actually want to — with patience, connection, and confidence.
Each episode gives you:
- Practical tools to stop yelling and start connecting
- Relief from parenting shame, guilt, and the feeling you're failing
- Science-backed strategies rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy, mindfulness, and self-compassion
- Ways to pause and respond rather than react in your hardest parenting moments
- Playful parenting ideas that strengthen your bond with your child
- The deep reminder that you are not alone — and you are a good parent
Topics covered include: Gentle parenting tools · conscious parenting · peaceful parenting · Hand in Hand Parenting · parenting with self-compassion · yelling and parenting shame · emotional regulation for parents · parenting burnout · mindful parenting · sibling conflict · setting loving limits · attachment parenting · parenting anxiety · Dr. Laura Markham · Dr. Daniel Siegel · connection before correction
This podcast is for you if:
- You want to parent gently but keep getting stuck
- You're exhausted from trying to hold it all together alone
- You want to strengthen your relationship with your child, not just manage their behavior
- You're ready to do the inner work that makes outer calm possible
✨ Free Guided Pause + Regroup:
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🌐 Learn more: https://compassionateheartmindfullife.com/
🎓 Ready to go deeper? Yelling to Connecting is Michelle's 6-week online parenting course — grounded in science, rooted in compassion, and designed to help you finally yell less and connect more.
This content is intended for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment. Compassionate Heart Parenting does not provide psychotherapy services. If you need mental health support, please seek a qualified professional in your area.
Compassionate Heart Parenting
How to Parent Through Divorce Without Losing Connection
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If you’ve ever worried that a hard season in your family may have impacted your relationship with your child… this episode will give you real hope.
Today, we’re talking about something most parenting conversations avoid:
what actually happens to the parent-child relationship during major life transitions like divorce.
I’m joined by therapist, speaker, and founder of the Center for Growth and Connection, Michelle Cantrell, who shares both her professional insight and deeply personal experience of going through a gray divorce after nearly 30 years of marriage—while parenting her adult daughters.
Inside this conversation, we explore:
- How to stay emotionally connected to your kids during divorce
- The difference between being honest and oversharing
- Why “getting it wrong” doesn’t damage your relationship
- How repair (not perfection) builds secure attachment
- What to do when your child is in pain and you want to fix it
- How self-compassion changes everything in parenting
This episode is for any parent who:
- Feels guilt about how they’ve shown up
- Is navigating divorce or a major life transition
- Wonders if it’s “too late” to repair connection
The truth? It’s not.
Connection can deepen—even through the hardest seasons.
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Join me each week for a tail from the trenches of parenting burnout and how I (and you) can use mindfulness, mediation and self-compassion to find your inner calm and a little more sanity in your parenting.
You’ll get a story from my heart and a quick win you can use the same day.
A free gift for you: the RAGE Break, a free guided audio pause for when you are about to lose or have just lost it with your kids and you need a moment to regroup. Find the audio download in the links. I created the Rage Break because it is exactly what I needed when I was struggling with anger and yelling in parenting.
This story was brought to you by “Yelling to Connecting.” If you or someone you know struggles with yelling at your kids, losing it, or being constantly on edge this course will be a helpful tool.
A reminder: This content is intended for educational purposes only and should not be used as a replacement for private psychotherapy services. Compassionate Heart Mindful Life does not provide psychotherapy services in any capacity.
I am a therapist but I am not your therapist and this is not therapy and should not be a substitute for mental health treatment. If you need mental health treatment please find a qualified professional in your area.
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