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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
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: When Your Marriage Is Affecting Your Parenting — Dennis & Kim Eames
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What if the thing standing between you and the parent you want to be is not a technique — but the unhealed places in your closest relationship?
Dennis and Kim Eames are certified Emotionally Focused Couple, Family, and Individual Therapists and Supervisors at Infinity Family Therapy — and they bring something to this conversation that no clinical training alone could provide: they have lived it. Twenty years into their marriage, with their relationship highly strained. Their children were quietly learning to duck and cover. Kim privately believed it was too late to have a real relationship with her daughter.
That family looks completely different today. And in this episode they share exactly what changed — and what Emotionally Focused Therapy made possible for their marriage, their children, and their own healing as parents.
In this episode you'll learn:
- How disconnection between partners ripples directly into the parent-child relationship — and what children absorb that parents often cannot see or name
- Why the negative cycle between parent and child scrambles loving parental intent into a message that lands as "you don't like me" — and how EFFT helps families see that cycle together
- What Emotionally Focused Family Therapy actually looks like in a family session — and why bringing the whole family in changes everything
- The Hold Me Tight Let Me Go workshop for parents and teens — what to expect and why Dennis recommends doing the couple work first
- Why curiosity is a superpower — and how starting with curiosity toward yourself changes the entire emotional climate in your home
- What real repair sounds like — and why a superficial apology can actually make things worse
- Why it is never too late — with teenagers, with adult children, and even with parents who are no longer living
Topics: Emotionally Focused Family Therapy · EFFT · Emotionally Focused Therapy · EFT for couples and families · EFCT · Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy · Hold Me Tight workshop · Hold Me Tight Let Me Go · parent-child repair · negative cycle in families · couple conflict and parenting · parenting teens with attachment · gentle parenting · peaceful parenting · conscious parenting · family repair · attachment parenting · parent burnout · parenting and marriage · generational healing
Guests: Dennis Eames and Kim Eames — Certified Emotionally Focused Couple, Family, and Individual Therapists and Supervisors
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🎓 Ready to go deeper?
🎓 Yelling to Connecting — 6 week online parenting course ✨ Free Guided Pause + Regroup:
🌐 compassionateheartparenting.com
This content is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment. Compassionate Heart Parenting does not provide psychotherapy services.
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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