Last week, we swirled around the impossible questions of paradigms – What stories did we inherit? What stories are we passing on (intentionally & unintentionally)? Enter – Abbie VanMeter. Abbie is the executive director of the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution, the host of the Stories Lived. Stories Told. podcast, the host of the CosmoParenting Podcast, and an incredibly insightful and curious communicator. On this episode, Abbie meets us in the chaotic center of our swirls and offers us new frameworks and tools for the messy work of re/building paradigms as parents and people. We hope you enjoy our sprawling, juicy conversation!

Tune in to hear us talk about:

💭 What it looks like to embody a communications perspective (hint: communication is more than what is being said).

🧰 Instead of a script or map, building a toolbox we/our kids can carry into the unknown future.

🛠️ Good tools for the box, like resilience, curiosity, improvisation, and repair.

🌱 Taking good care of ourselves as good parenting (and the scripts that make us feel selfish for doing it).

❓ Questioning the common phrase "My parents did their best."

🌀 Leaning in, not pulling away from, complexity.

📚 Building paradigms that leave room for multiple stories.

📝 Empowering ourselves/our kids to be meaning makers in our worlds.

We would love to hear from you! What tools do you have in your toolbox? What tools are you trying to pass along?