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Ep #28: Giving Emotional Consent

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Last week, we talked about emotional consent and why asking people if they want your input before speaking can be such a supportive practice. Building on that, today we’re talking about the opposite side of this interaction and being the person who’s sharing. If your conversational partner asks you for emotional consent before sharing their…

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Learn How to Get Emotional Consent

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Emotional consent is a way to show up with greater love, care and gentleness for the people in our lives by checking in before we dive in. Have you ever had a conversation with a friend where you wanted to tell your story only to have your amiga launch into advice-giving? Have you ever found yourself…

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Ep #27: Getting Emotional Consent

woman getting emotional consent from their friend

Have you ever wanted to talk to a friend about a problem – not because you wanted advice, but just to vent – and they jumped immediately into telling you how you should handle the situation? Or have you ever done this to someone else? It doesn’t feel very good to be on either side…

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Reparenting in Action-Top Tips and Methods

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How to Begin Reparenting Yourself Reparenting ourselves is a daily dedication to living our lives in alignment with our goals. Reparenting ourselves is when we do the work of actively showing up for the child selves within us.  We ask them what they want and need and we support those parts of ourselves with love,…

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Ep #26: Reparenting In Action

smiling woman with coffee mug reparenting herself

Reparenting ourselves is one of the most healing, transformative things we can do for our overall wellness. Understanding and tending to wounds that have been affecting us since childhood requires patience, self-compassion, and daily dedication – but I promise this process is so worth it. It can be hard to know where to start with…

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Begin Reparenting Your Inner Child Today

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Reparenting your inner child can relieve burdens that you’ve carried for far too long. When our wounded inner child is at the helm of our emotions, we can feel like we’re waiting around to be rescued, to be saved, for someone outside of us to take care of us. We can be quick to anger,…

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Ep #25: Reparenting Your Inner Child

woman on beach reparenting their inner child

All of us experience scary, unsettling, or patronizing events when we’re children – often many times. Kids are incredibly sensitive to both sorrow and joy, and it makes sense that our early impressions of these emotions (and the experiences that are linked to them) stick with us well into adulthood. And sometimes, the adults in…

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Learn How to Enter Emotional Adulthood

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Our inner child is that child part of us that continues to inhabit us into adulthood and can guide us to act in ways that we may not love as adults.  When we don’t learn to regulate our emotions as children, we can carry those lessons of feeling disappointed or anxious into adulthood. When we’re…

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Ep #24: Emotional Adulthood

woman in emotional adulthood practicing yoga on rooftop

As adults, we sometimes do things that seem totally out of alignment with our grown-up sensibilities. Like flipping someone off in traffic, or having a meltdown about missing the train that’s supposed to take you to yoga class, or snapping at your family for being vaguely annoying. These are great examples of moments where we…

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Ep #23: Emotional Childhood

If you’ve spent any time around kids, you’re probably familiar with their general fear of being in trouble, getting yelled at, etcetera. Think of a kid sneaking some dessert before dinnertime – they’ll claim that they didn’t, even with crumbs all over their faces. In response to their fears, they don’t take responsibility for their…

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