146: Taming Your Parenting Triggers w/ Jen Lumanlan

05/23/22 • 48 min

Ever been triggered by your child’s behavior? It can feel uncontrollable. No matter how hard we try to hold ourselves back when our child behaves a certain way, it immediately puts us into triggered mode.

Jen Lumanlan addressed this in her talk at my recent Parenting is Revolutionary conference. Jen holds an MS in Psychology (Child Development) and is the host of the Your Parenting Mojo podcast. She is an amazing reference guide for parents of young kids and shares great parenting advice based on scientific research and the principles of respectful parenting.

In this episode, I’m sharing a snippet of Jen’s talk from the conference. She shares a little more about her background and experience with parenting triggers and teaches us how to tame these emotions when they come up. This topic is extremely important for parents at this time so tune in to learn from Jen.

Show Highlights:

Where triggered feelings come from.
The window of tolerance.
Big T trauma and little T trauma.
The many different fronts we have to heal on to tame our parenting triggers.
How to get more of your daily needs met.
How to widen your window of tolerance.
Physical habits you can implement to remind yourself to pause.
Why it’s important to share our authentic feelings with our children.
The different triggers that come with having toddlers, adolescents, and teenagers.
What it means to feel flooded.

Links (affiliates included):

Jen’s website - https://www.parentingmojo.com/

Parenting is Revolutionary Conference Recordings: https://www.parentingforwardconference.com/2022-sessions

Parenting After Religious Trauma Membership - https://cindy-brandt.mykajabi.com/partmembership

Help keep the podcast going by joining the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt

Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/3g0LJPn1Little

You Are Revolutionary - https://www.beamingbooks.com/store/product/9781506478302/You-Are-Revolutionary

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Show Highlights:

Where triggered feelings come from.
The window of tolerance.
Big T trauma and little T trauma.
The many different fronts we have to heal on to tame our parenting triggers.
How to get more of your daily needs met.
How to widen your window of tolerance.
Physical habits you can implement to remind yourself to pause.
Why it’s important to share our authentic feelings with our children.
The different triggers that come with having toddlers, adolescents, and teenagers.
What it means to feel flooded.

Links (affiliates included):

Jen’s website - https://www.parentingmojo.com/

Parenting is Revolutionary Conference Recordings: https://www.parentingforwardconference.com/2022-sessions

Parenting After Religious Trauma Membership - https://cindy-brandt.mykajabi.com/partmembership

Help keep the podcast going by joining the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt

Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/3g0LJPn1Little

You Are Revolutionary - https://www.beamingbooks.com/store/product/9781506478302/You-Are-Revolutionary

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145: Is it Religious Trauma or Childhood Trauma? w/ Corey Wayne

The Parenting is Revolutionary Conference is over! It was an incredible time connecting with other parents and parenting influencers in the online space. I myself learned so much and, though I’m exhausted, I feel so fulfilled by the experience.

Throughout many of the sessions of the conference, childhood trauma was discussed. A question popped up over and over in my mind: if our parents had had the resources we have today and access to information on mental health and validating emotions, would we have all had better childhoods?

I brought my partner in crime Corey Wayne onto the show this week to discuss this. Corey helps me build and maintain the Parenting Forward Conferences and I truly could not do the work that I do without him. Tune in to hear us analyze our own childhoods and more on religious trauma vs. childhood trauma.

Show Highlights:

How parenting styles are a generational thing.
Some background on Corey’s childhood.
How he discovered his wounds were mainly childhood trauma, not religious trauma.
How Corey has mended his relationship with some of his family members.
How ending generational trauma is like a wave.
How the concept of “breaking toxic cycles” has become combative rather than a means of building community.
Why self-compassion is such an important part of healing your inner child.
How to balance grief about your past and gratitude that it made you who you are.
Some resources Corey loves.

Links (affiliates included):

Parenting is Revolutionary Conference Recordings: https://www.parentingforwardconference.com/2022-sessions

Parenting After Religious Trauma Membership - https://cindy-brandt.mykajabi.com/partmembership

Help keep the podcast going by joining the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt

Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/3g0LJPn

You Are Revolutionary - https://www.beamingbooks.com/store/product/9781506478302/You-Are-Revolutionary

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147: The Evangelical College Experience w/ Scott Okamoto

If you’ve got a child nearing college or already there, this episode is for you.

We’re going to take a critical look at evangelical colleges and universities and analyze the experience they provide our kids. Having attended the evangelical college Wheaton, I have firsthand experience to bring to the table that we’ll discuss throughout today’s show.

Joining me is the host of the Chapel Probation podcast, Scott Okamoto. He grew up in a conservative Christian family but began deconstructing when he went away to college. Eventually, he became a professor at an evangelical university and started to clarify his progressive Christian beliefs. This led to him stepping away and becoming a stay-at-home dad.

Tune in to hear my conversation with Scott on the evangelical college experience from each of our unique perspectives.

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