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2070: How to Get Comfortable with the Discomfort of Parenting by Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui with EricaLayne.co on Emotional Resilience

Feb 16, 2024

Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui delves into the transformative journey of parenting, sharing five essential lessons including curiosity, support, connection, acceptance of messiness, and full presence. She encourages parents to grow alongside their children, fostering relationships built on love, understanding, and mutual growth.

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Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui

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Parenting requires learning to love, helping children identify their gifts, and growing ourselves.

Embracing forgiveness and allowing ourselves to make mistakes is important in parenting.

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Lessons in Parenting

Parenting is a challenging journey that requires learning to love, helping children identify their gifts, and growing ourselves. It is important to get curious about our children, listen to their dreams, and support their interests. Enlisting help from others can provide valuable support and perspective. Focusing on connection, capturing our children's hearts, and creating a safe space is crucial. Making peace with the messiness of parenthood, both emotionally and physically, allows for growth and enjoyment. Being fully present and modeling self-awareness and self-compassion is essential for ourselves and our children.

“It takes a village to raise a mom “

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Introduction

2min

Lessons for Comfortably Embracing the Discomfort of Parenting

4min

Comforting Words and Encouragement for Parents

2min

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Episode 2070:

Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui, in her heartfelt exploration with EricaLayne.co, delves into the raw and transformative journey of parenting, inspired by the profound legacy left by her own mother. She shares five essential lessons to embrace the inherent challenges and joys of raising children, focusing on curiosity, support, connection, acceptance of messiness, and full presence. Her insights encourage parents to grow alongside their children, fostering relationships built on love, understanding, and mutual growth.

Read along with the original article(s) here: https://ericalayne.co/get-comfortable-with-the-discomfort-of-parenting/

Quotes to ponder:

"Parenting can feel like incredibly hard work at times, but it can help to remember that the parenting journey is not primarily about our comfort. It’s about learning to love, about helping our children identify the gifts they are meant to bring to the world, and about doing our own growing up along the way."

Episode references:

The Love Languages: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/the-5-love-languages-explained

The Four Tendencies: https://gretchenrubin.com/books/the-four-tendencies/

Enneagram: https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions

Myers Briggs: https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/myers-briggs-overview/

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