Compassionate Heart Parenting
autor: Michelle Puster
Big Kid Meltdowns: Why Your Older Kiddo Still Need You
O tomto podcastu
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
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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
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🎓 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.
Epizody
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- Big Kid Meltdowns: Why Your Older Kiddo Still Need You · 38 minYour 8-year-old slams the door. Your 11-year-old melts down over homework. Are they too old for this? In this episode, I explain what big kids are really asking for when they…
- No to the Behavior, Yes to the Feelings: Hand In Hand Lens on Meltdowns · 58 minA physiotherapist, craniosacral therapist, and Hand in Hand Parenting instructor joins Michelle to unpack what's really happening underneath kids' big behaviors — and why "fixing…
- The Time-Out I'll Never Forget: An EFFT Therapist's Parenting Confession · 31 minA therapist trained in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) shares the parenting moment she's kept private for years — and the attachment-based shift that changed how she…
- When Your Child Shuts Down — What Their Nervous System Is Really Telling You — Aware Parenting Joss Goulden · 53 minYour grade-schooler shuts down after school. Your preteen slams their door and won't talk. It's one of the hardest moments in parenting — and one of the most misunderstood. In…
- Play First, Limits Second — What Aware Parenting Teaches Us About Connection — Rebecca Sheikh · 52 minWhen Rebecca Sheikh lost her mother, something in her shifted beyond grief. She found herself understanding, in a deeply embodied way, just how enormous separation actually feels…
- You Raise Them to Let Them Go — Emotionally Focused Family Therapist Rachel Thomas on Parenting Through Every Stage · 48 minJust when you finally understand your child's current stage — they move into the next one, and you have to learn everything all over again. In this episode Michelle sits down…
- Validate the Feeling, Hold the Limit — What EFFT Teaches Us About Screens and Connection — Allison Zangari Arnett · 1 h 1 minHave you ever felt like you had to choose between understanding your child and actually holding the limit? Between empathy and authority? Between connection and correction?…
- Navigating Sibling Fighting WITHOUT Losing Your Cool (REPLAY) · 6 minSibling conflict can push even the most patient parent to their limit. Michelle breaks down what's really happening beneath the bickering and fighting, and offers grounded…
- Why Your Child Pushes You Away When They Need You Most — An EFFT Conversation with Corien Boers · 52 minWhen your child is struggling — really struggling, in a way that scares you — the hardest part is often not what is happening with your child. It is the helplessness. The fear…
- When Stress Becomes All Consuming In Parenting (REPLAY) · 34 minWhen the weight of parenting starts to feel like too much, it's easy to lose sight of the calm, connected parent you want to be. In this episode, Michelle explores what happens…
- She Dreaded 3pm Every Day — What Her Child with ADHD Taught Her About Parenting — EFFT Therapist Katharina Sandizell · 49 minIn this episode Michelle sits down with Katharina Sandizell — Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, ICEEFT Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor across Couples, Individuals…
- Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: When Your Marriage Is Affecting Your Parenting — Dennis & Kim Eames · 1 h 4 minWhat 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…
- How to Repair with Your Kiddo (Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Tools) — with Stephanie Chimient · 41 minDo you love your child with everything you have — and still lie awake wondering if you're the reason they're struggling? That guilt is one of the heaviest things a parent can…
- What It Really Takes to Go From Reactive to Regulated — Guest Sarah Rosensweet · 48 minYou believe in peaceful parenting. You’ve done the reading. You know that connection comes before correction, that empathy matters, that your child’s behavior is a signal—not a…
- Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: What Your Child Is Really Asking for When They Fall Apart — Kathryn de Bruin & Ronda Evans · 49 minWhen your child is at their most dysregulated — melting down, shutting down, pushing you away — the moment they need you most is also the moment it's hardest to be present. Why…
- Peaceful Parenting: How to Handle Gamer Rage Calmly (Replay) · 24 minGaming battles can quickly turn into fear, yelling, and power struggles—but underneath it all is often a parent trying deeply to protect their child. In this replay episode…
- How to Parent Through Divorce Without Losing Connection · 38 minIf 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…
- Your Parent Guilt Is Not Evidence You're Failing — Here's What It's Really Telling You" · 16 minJoin Michelle, fellow parent, Mom of 3, and recovering yeller, in uncovering what we, as parents, need to parent peacefully, where we get stuck & why. Parent guilt is one of the…
- The Hidden Truth of Tantrums with Helena Mooney · 53 minDoes your child’s yelling, crying, or intense meltdowns leave you feeling overwhelmed and unsure? In this episode, we sit down with Helena Mooney, a certified Hand in Hand and…
- Why You Can’t “Fix” Your Emotions (another way) · 21 min"I’ll give you something to cry about." Most of us grew up with messages telling us that our emotions were problems to be solved or inconveniences to be hidden. Even as a…
