Podcast Episode #29 – Transforming Your Triggers

Taming, Transforming, and Transcending Your Triggers

Unless your parents were highly unique and parented consciously ahead of their time, you were likely disciplined and/or punished for behaviors in an effort to be “socialized.” Mainstream or traditional parenting centered around creating submissive and compliant children who “knew their place.”

The shift is underway, however, and children are coming into a place of more respect and understanding. Parents must consciously attend to their own conditioning and wiring in order to parent this way. It takes awareness and commitment to overcome the past and move toward a different future for your family.

Transforming reactivity to a conscious response is a continuous practice. It’s done in millimeters, not quantum leaps. Little by little we change and grow, by acknowledging our stress triggers and how they feel in the body. Noticing stress and turning it away from our children is the work. Simply naming our stress is wonderful – it shows awareness and inner sensitivity. Modeling how to connect to our internal guidance system is a priceless tool we can offer our children.

Setting the bar too high (ahem, perfectionists) is a recipe for additional stress. Using parenting as a personal growth practice requires us to be more in tune with ourselves in order to connect to others. Kids need to see us authentically transforming stressful reactions so they can do the same.

Listen in on our passionate conversation where we discuss the process of transformation around our stress triggers, as well as the top things parents can do to begin to transform triggers today.

Carrie Contey, PhD is an parenting coach, speaker and author. Her background offers a unique perspective on children, parenting, family life and what it means to be a healthy, happy, whole human being. In her work with thousands of parents all over the world, she guides, supports and inspires her clients to live with a wide-open and courageous heart so that they can approach parenting with both skill and spaciousness.

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  • Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT is the founder of The Consciously Parenting Project (2007) and Thriving Humans (Thrivinghumans.org). For over thirty years, she has walked alongside individuals, couples, and families as they find their way back into relationship with their children, with each other, and with themselves. Her approach reaches beneath behavior to the earliest experiences and nervous system patterns that shape how we connect. With gentleness, deep listening, and no pathologizing, she helps people so see themselves and the ones they love with new eyes. She offers online consultations and groups, and works with people all over the world, supporting the transformation needed in the world starting with our closest relationships. With over 30 years of professional experience working with individuals, couples, and families, Rebecca is dedicated to transforming our relationships stories, one relationship and one family at a time. Rebecca is the author of four books and the mother o...

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Rebecca Thompson Hitt

Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT is the founder of The Consciously Parenting Project (2007) and Thriving Humans (Thrivinghumans.org). For over thirty years, she has walked alongside individuals, couples, and families as they find their way back into relationship with their children, with each other, and with themselves. Her approach reaches beneath behavior to the earliest experiences and nervous system patterns that shape how we connect. With gentleness, deep listening, and no pathologizing, she helps people so see themselves and the ones they love with new eyes. She offers online consultations and groups, and works with people all over the world, supporting the transformation needed in the world starting with our closest relationships. With over 30 years of professional experience working with individuals, couples, and families, Rebecca is dedicated to transforming our relationships stories, one relationship and one family at a time. Rebecca is the author of four books and the mother of two young adult sons, whose growing up was a part of her own healing work. Reach her at rebecca@thrivinghumans.org

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