Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast - A practical yet heartfelt podcast for parents who are overwhelmed by unique challenges in parenting.
Join Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist – as she leads you on a journey to rebuild a relationship with your child – you know – the one who you promised to love unconditionally, but who keeps pushing you away and displaying such unsettling behaviors, and now you find you are so easily triggered by all their behaviors and can’t seem to find joy in your relationship? Yeah, that relationship.
I know right where you are because I’ve been there too. With my bio child, I felt like I was doing pretty great! I could handle any challenges thrown my way, kept my cool, and was fully present and engaged in our relationship. As an adoptive mom however, I gave all of my time, my love, and my energy to my son in a desperate attempt to help heal his trauma. It didn’t work. In fact, our relationship became so strained, and it showed in behaviors. As our relationships was falling apart, my resent, fear, frustration, and regret grew. I was desperately trying to help, and sacrificing my own happiness and other important relationships along the way. I felt like such a failure as a mom - why couldn’t I figure this out?
Sometimes love isn’t enough. When it comes to raising kids from trauma and disrupted attachment, the truth is that all too often, you need unconditional love paired with key mindset tools, energetic psychology, and Human Design to help you keep your head in the game – in the trickiest times (aka when your child needs you the MOST!). The same can be true for our bio kids too - sometimes there’s a glitch in our ability to connect - we become easily frustrated with their behaviors and as a result feel like we are failing in the parenting game.
This is where a trauma-focused Human Design coach comes in!
What I didn’t know then… I had the right tools inside me all along (although I needed a coach to help me see them! As my coach will say, “we can’t see the end of our own nose!”). The solution to our relationship wasn’t in another book, podcast (yes, I get the irony here!), therapist, teacher, etc. The solution was in me – learning to use strategies like respond vs react and key mindset tools to tap into my strengths, and shift my mindset. I also now see how we are each so uniquely, and perfectly, designed to parent our kids - we have simply forgotten how to tap into our inner guidance to do what's right for us, so we can in turn, do what's right for them.
I am on a mission to help parents to access the right tools to rebuild their relationship, tackle behaviors, and work on building connection again – for one of THE MOST important relationships in their life.
Thank you for joining me on this powerful journey to creating beautiful parenting relationships!
Be sure to grab my top strategy for building connection here: https://connectedparentswithangie.ck.page/respondvsreact
Connect with me here: www.connectedparentswithangie.com
And when you’re ready to create lasting shifts in your most powerful relationships, book a free consult here: https://www.connectedparentswithangie.com/connection-clarity-call
XOXO Angie, Generational Healing Specialist
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 77
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
37. Regulation to address trauma
When we, and our children, are dysregulated, it is impossible to make logical, effective choices. When we are dysregulated, our brain's capacity to problem-solve, communicate, and make sound decision…
36. Ask better questions
When people, including our kids, misbehave, it's easy to ask, "What's wrong with you" or "Why did you do that?" What if we approached people, especially our kids, with more compassionate questioning …
35. Alphabet soup of diagnosis
When our children are experiencing behaviors, we want to understand why. A diagnosis can help us better understand, right?
In this episode, we'll discuss the seemingly relentless pursuit of diagnoses…
34. What is trauma anyway?
What is trauma? Is it an event, or a series of events? Does it include neglect, or abuse? How can 2 children experience the same event, and have very different responses, both short- and long-term ab…
33. Responsibility
What does it really mean to take full responsibility, especially when raising children with significant behaviors? Are we responsible for their actions, their choices?
Listen to this episode to learn…
32. Your child knows the truth about your feelings
So many times, I'd feel frustrated, annoyed, even angry - but I'd put on a happy face for my son and pretend that all was well. He saw right through me every time. Somehow he knew how I was feeling, …
31. My child hates me
Many parents go through the "I hate you" phase. When raising a child with attachment difficulties, this can be tenfold. I often hear from adoptive & foster parents words like "I hate you," "you're no…
30. Resiliency
When we're raising children from a tricky past, we often have much work to do to help raise happy, confident children. The more resilient we are, the more resilient we can help our kids to be - to mo…
29. Breaking the Praise Habit
Praise is a good thing, right? Perhaps not quite what we once thought - certainly not what I was trained to think!
In this episode, we'll talk about how we inadvertently discourage children. Then …
28. The Urination Situation
For those of us raising kids from trauma - the behaviors we experience can be bizarre, unsettling, downright frustrating.
In this episode, we'll discuss one of the most frustrating, and talk about …
27. More on Power Struggles
Do you feel like you are in a constant battle with your toddler, or your teen? You are not alone.
Power struggles are developmentally EXPECTED - yes - it's a normal part of your child's development, …
26. Did you know kids really DO come with an instruction manual?!
Raising a child is terrifying!
We are expected to feed, love, clothe, bathe, and nurture our child's well-being to support their development. While there are tons of "experts" out there to help us be…
25. I don't like my child
Let's get real, I hear this more often than you'd think. As parents we love our kids, but behaviors are relentless, our kids repeatedly tell us how much they hate us, and we are exhausted from tryin…
24. Are you parenting with Fear or Love?
Do you parent with fear, or with love? I think if we're being really honest about how we handle challenging behaviors in our home, we may have a realization that a shift in how we respond to behavior…
23. Does praise create People Pleasers?
Praise has it's place in life…. But have you every really thought about it's impact on the giver and the receiver? In this short but powerful episode, let's dig into praise, people pleasers, and ways…
22. Lovability
Have you ever thought about what LOVABILITY really means? This one is short and sweet- so listen on repeat to really let this one sink in!
About your host, Angie Grandt - The Adoption Coach
Angie Gr…
21. Attachment difficulties?
Attachment difficulties are at the core of what we're discussing here. This week, we'll discuss what leads to attachment difficulties, what behaviors you might notice, and some key strategies to star…
20. Victim vs Victor
When we're experiencing a challenge, a crisis, or a trauma - it's natural to feel like a victim. In fact, we're designed with defense mechanisms in our brain to create a fear response and help us avo…
19. Be authentically you (and help your child to do the same)
How often do you make decisions, and worry how others will respond? Or how often do you make decisions that are true to what you want (and not what you've been conditioned to think is best)?
In this …
18. Is your child good or bad?
When you look back on your childhood - were you a "good" child or a "bad" child? How do you know? Was this a fact, or a story? In this episode, we'll discuss the truth about "good" and "bad" kids, …