Over It And On With It

This episode is about being the parent you always wanted and wanted to be. Today’s caller, Carrie, wants to repair a strained relationship with her children. She feels shame about her past behaviors and wants guidance on how to build a connection with them and their children. There is a lot of vulnerability and courage in this honest conversation.   It can be scary to be a generational pattern breaker and it takes a lot of courage to follow through but it can transform our relationships.   [For show notes, go here: Christinehassler.com/episode368]   Many parents carry around a silent shame about some of the choices they made as parents. Parenting is hard. It doesn’t come with a manual. Creating a healthy environment for our children is challenging when we don’t have good parenting ourselves. We are still impacted by our trauma and our hurt; it can feel impossible not to pass it on.   The hard part about trauma, or behavior we categorize as hurtful or bad, is that it is not due to anyone setting out to hurt an