Compassionate Heart Mindful Life Audio Essays

About Compassionate Heart Mindful Life Audio Essays

Compassionate Heart Parenting | Peaceful Parenting for Real Life You love your kids deeply — and you still lose it sometimes. You're in the right place. This podcast is for parents who are drawn to gentle parenting, peaceful parenting, conscious parenting, and Hand in Hand Parenting — but who also know how hard it can be to stay calm in the real, messy, overwhelming moments of family life. Hi, I'm Michelle — mom of 3, recovering yeller, and Emotionally Focused Family Therapist. I've been through parent burnout, depression, and anxiety, and I climbed my way out using the very tools I share here. Now I help parents find their inner calm so they can show up the way they actually want to — with patience, connection, and confidence. Each episode gives you: Practical tools to stop yelling and start connecting Relief from parenting shame, guilt, and the feeling you're failing Science-backed strategies rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy, mindfulness, and self-compassion Ways to pause and respond rather than react in your hardest parenting moments Playful parenting ideas that strengthen your bond with your child The deep reminder that you are not alone — and you are a good parent Topics covered include: Gentle parenting tools · conscious parenting · peaceful parenting · Hand in Hand Parenting · parenting with self-compassion · yelling and parenting shame · emotional regulation for parents · parenting burnout · mindful parenting · sibling conflict · setting loving limits · attachment parenting · parenting anxiety · Dr. Laura Markham · Dr. Daniel Siegel · connection before correction This podcast is for you if: You want to parent gently but keep getting stuck You're exhausted from trying to hold it all together alone You want to strengthen your relationship with your child, not just manage their behavior You're ready to do the inner work that makes outer calm possible ✨ Free Guided Pause + Regroup: https://link.innovorise.com/widget/form/Pm5Uy0ezEwvqKxwlL8Ik (https://link.innovorise.com/widget/form/Pm5Uy0ezEwvqKxwlL8Ik) 🌐 Learn more: https://compassionateheartmindfullife.com/ 🎓 Ready to go deeper? Yelling to Connecting is Michelle's 6-week online parenting course — grounded in science, rooted in compassion, and designed to help you finally yell less and connect more. This content is intended for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment. Compassionate Heart Parenting does not provide psychotherapy services. If you need mental health support, please seek a qualified professional in your area.

Publisher

Michelle Puster

Category

health & fitness · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

15 Jan 2024

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

127 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   The Time-Out I'll Never Forget: An EFFT Therapist's Parenting Confession

   A therapist trained in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) shares the parenting moment she's kept private for years — and the attachment-based shift that changed how she responds to her kids' hardest behaviors. Michelle breaks down why difficult behavior is a signal of distress, not defiance, using Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), attachment science, and brain development research (Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Laura Markham, Hand in Hand Parenting). She shares her own story — including...

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   When Your Child Shuts Down — What Their Nervous System Is Really Telling You — Aware Parenting Joss Goulden

   Your grade-schooler shuts down after school. Your preteen slams their door and won't talk. It's one of the hardest moments in parenting — and one of the most misunderstood. In this episode, Michelle sits down with Joss Goulden — a Level 2 Aware Parenting Instructor and mother of two now-adult children, ages 22 and 20 — for a conversation that reframes difficult behavior entirely. Joss explains what's actually happening in a child's nervous system when they withdraw, melt down, or become defia...

3. 

   24 Sept 2026

   Play First, Limits Second — What Aware Parenting Teaches Us About Connection — Rebecca Sheikh

   When Rebecca Sheikh lost her mother, something in her shifted beyond grief. She found herself understanding, in a deeply embodied way, just how enormous separation actually feels — and how desensitized we, as adults, have become to how big that experience is for our children. In this episode, Michelle sits down with Rebecca Sheikh — a certified Level 2 Aware Parenting Instructor and regional coordinator for the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa — for a conversation that moves fluidly between deep per...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.2 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

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56

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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