We're sharing some stories about our religious upbringing in the Catholic church and how what we learned (and didn't learn) impacted our parenting and spiritual journeys were on today

1:15 We as adults are not superior to our children

2:00 Give yourself and your kids patience and grace

2:29 Parenting is a trial and error

2:48 Finding your voice and standing in your integrity 

3:05 Being raised by and raising siblings

3:54 Mistakes on the first child

4:12 Our childhood programming and how our words impact our kids

5:56 Teaching our kids spirituality through affirmations, gratitude

6:58 Giving our parents grace 

8:42 Giving our parents compassion

9:29 It’s not hard to love your kids

10:00 Holding grudges against our parents stays in our bodies and passes to our kids

11:36 How we’re changing the cycles from our childhood to our kids

13:20 Unrealistic expectations we have of kids to be perfect

14:55 Listening to your body to figure out your emotions

15:32 Mastering your emotions/energy to avoid projecting on our kids

16:47 Being prideful and not asking for help

18:05 Moms asking for help to maintain mental/emotional health

19:23 Teaching our kids to ask for help

20:18 Trusting people to watch your kids

21:03 Teaching our kids to live from the inside out

23:13 Parenting with intention 

24:57 Spanking isn’t an effective form of discipline

25:48 Time ins instead of time outs to reflect and talk

26:45 Choosing how you react and spend your energy

29:00 Learning to decompress, set the example an validate emotions

31:55 Teaching my son how to regulate anger 

33:19 As a single mom having to raise a boy into an emotional intelligent man

35:00 Mireya crying as a child and being shamed

37:11 Encanto a great representation of generational trauma healing

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