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
17. Unmet needs create behaviors?
We all know the obvious needs our children have - hunger, comfort, sleep, health - which when left unmet create all kids of behaviors. But what about the "less obvious" needs?
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16. Shifting your mood IN THE MOMENT
Often when we're learning new tools - we feel so pumped up to change the way we approach our child's behaviors… but then in the moment, we go right back to our habitual way of reacting. In this epis…
15. You are not broken
When our kids are struggling - we are often struggling. We look outside our home and see other parents having fun, enjoying their kids. We see other parents raising kids who aren't defiant, disrespec…
14. Trauma and the brain
When a child experiences early trauma, various changes can happen to the brain. As parents, we see the effects - in behaviors, learning difficulties, developmental delays.
Let's discuss key changes t…
13. Human Design and My Relationships
Have you ever wondered why you connect with some people better than others? This can be especially true with our kids - and can cause us parents so much distress, as we interpret this as "liking" one…
12. I'll be happy when...
When I meet parents who are stressed, overwhelmed, or even at the end of their rope, I often hear a common theme: "I'll be happy when my child stops (you can fill in the blank here)," or "I'll stop f…
11. Experts vs Intuition
When facing a new challenge, where do you turn first for answers?
In the past couple of decades, many of us would say the experts (or Google, lol!). We feel frustrated, overwhelmed, uncertain - and…
10. Connection vs spending time together
The parents I serve, the parents I connect with, the parent I was... would all say something along this line: "I am giving all of my time, my attention, my energy, my (you can probably add more here!…
9: Fix your face
At a recent in-person workshop I held for adoptive parents, we discussed how perceptive and intuitive our kids can be! When our face shows frustration, overwhelm, or unhappiness. Some of us even hear…
8: Enjoy Mother's Day?
As Mother's Day approaches, how are you feeling? For so many of us, it can come with more disappointment than joy, more frustration than fun, more sadness than flowers.
When raising children with i…
7: But I adopted my child is a tiny infant
So often I hear parents describe their adoption experience, and share that their early adoption means that attachment difficulties are unlikely. I'm here to challenge that, to help you see things dif…
6: Creating a vision for your family
You're in the thick of it - daily, overwhelming behaviors. You spend your "free" time worrying about when the next blow-up, aggression, destruction, self-mutilation, or worse will happen. You see fam…
5: If I'm so smart, why can't I connect with my child?
If I'm so (fill in the blank - smart, experienced, resourceful, patient, etc.), why can't I connect with my child? We can feel so accomplished in so many areas of life… yet when it comes to our most …
4: What does my child need from me right now?
When we are facing constant behaviors - we tend to become quick to react. We might react with consequences, with "teaching," with reminders of "the rules."
But what if our children's behaviors are dr…
3: The catalyst to my change
As my daughter was growing up, I felt pretty confident in my skills. I didn't second-guess myself that often, and I trusted my inner authority to do what was best for her. I would've referred to myse…
2: Trauma & Attachment
I know some don't want to hear this… but adoption is a traumatic event. If we as adoptive parents pretend like it's a beautiful gift that we give or child - we are fooling ourselves, and creating an …
1: Intro - Sometimes Love isn't Enough
Our stories are such a powerful way to help others. I created this podcast to help you to not only shift your most important relationships, but also to help you see that you are not alone! Join me on…