Maggie Nick, LCSW
Abbey Williams, MSW, LSW
Chazz Lewis
Logan Cooper, LMHC
😵💫 In the bedtime meltdowns when your kid is refusing to put on their freaking pajamas.
😵💫 When you find out your teen's been lying + sneaking around.
😵💫 When your toddler's legs "stop working" + they "can't" get up (😂🫠)
😵💫 When you ask your kid to do something + they just calmly say..."No." And you see red.
😵💫 When your teen shuts down + storms out. And you see red.
😵💫 When you want to scream at them:
"Why don't you try + find out what happens??!!??!?!"
You're worried you're damaging your kid when you lose your temper.
You want to have a connected, loving relationship.
You want them to WANT you in their lives when they're older.
We get it. This ish is TRICKY.
It’s not a question of IF we’re going to scare our kids - it’s a matter of WHEN.
IT IS TIME to let go of the damaging expectation that we “SHOULD” be able to heal to a place where we NEVER scare them.
It's just NOT realistic. For any of us.
Our parents yelled at us + threatened us into compliance.
We were taught to push down our feelings so we could BEHAVE + alwayssss be respectful.
So sometimes we are GOING to yell.
All of us.
The 4 of us very much included.
Sometimes despite the best of intentions to parent more gently, we're GOING to get hijacked + move into threatening + intimidating our kids into compliance or obedience. And/or we're GOING to run out of bandwidth + be overwhelmed/overstimulated... + we're going to EXPLODE like a volcano.
What we WANT to do is to strive to make it feel ✨SAFE ENOUGH for our children to come + tell us, “Hey, when you yelled at me - that scared me. You hurt my feelings.”
So we can own that we hurt them, see our impact + say we're sorry.
Or when our kid doesn’t tell us but we can tell because we see That Look on their face 😣 — we circle back + check in with them — and say, “How did that make you feel when I yelled at you? I bet that was really scary for you. I’m really sorry + you don’t deserve to be treated that way.”
Being a Cycle Breaker + giving our kids the parent they deserve means —
🔥 A different way to respond in these triggering moments.
🔥 A different way to think about YOURSELF - ✨NOT✨ as a monster but as someone who is showing up to learn who doesn’t need to feel ashamed for struggling.
🔥 A different way to actually freaking care for yourself so you don’t explode like a volcano.
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Abbey is a behavioral health therapist, Founder of You, The Mother, Coach, and mother of 4. For 10 years, Abbey has provided direct clinical services to families as well as write and speak about various parenting and mental health topics.
Abbey focuses on helping moms heal from motherhood identity issues, burnout, estrangement, and breaking generational trauma. She is committed to supporting, empowering, and connecting with all parents in all seasons of parenthood by providing accessible information on her podcast, "You, The Mother Podcast," social media platforms, coaching, support groups, and webinars for people all over the world.
She has been featured by PopSugar, Parents, SheKnows, and Romper, and was named a top 50 parenting podcast by Podcast Magazine in 2022.
Abbey navigates her blended family/coparenting life in Cincinnati, OH with her husband, four kids, and two sister labs.
With her revolutionary insights, Maggie is a Thought Leader and Therapist who now coaches clients worldwide on reparenting/inner child work, parenting, healing low self-worth and cultivating Inner Critic/shame resilience, and recovering from perfectionism, people pleasing and self-hatred.
Maggie is a Recovering Perfect Child who helps you to understand yourself on a profound and healing level so you can be the parent you needed to your inner child AND your actual child, if you are a parent.
Maggie is the Founder of Parenting With Perspectacles, a framework to support parents of toddlers to teens in finding their way through the hardest, most impossible moments of parenting by providing them with the tools to help both their child AND their inner child feel seen and loved.
Maggie is passionate about helping others release the shame of feeling not good enough, like a disappointment to others and needing to hustle for your worth. Maggie shares insights from her own 15+ year trauma healing journey, helping people in 75 countries to heal themselves and learn how to believe they deserve love without conditions.
Maggie lives a messy, imperfect, wonderful life in Northeast Florida with her family - husband Matt, daughter (8), son (6) and her beloved dogs, Hazel and Everest.
Chazz’s mission is to help adults truly See, Guide and Trust children.
He is pushing the needle a little closer toward world peace with his approach.
He is a consultant, Parent coach, Conscious Discipline practitioner, Podcaster, and Content Creator.
He goes by, “Mr.Chazz” and he even has a song to prove it.
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