Zen Supermom: The Mental Fitness Podcast
I'm not a supermom. But I always wanted to be one and have it all: family, career/business that I love, AND the time for myself. But that ambition without proper stress resistance and resilience killed my mom (cancer at 48) and drove me to the edge of burnout twice. Only when I saw the disastrous effects of my anger, stress, and resentment on my little daughter, I knew I had to change... Since then, not only have I healed but I also helped thousands of other women all around the world through trauma-informed therapy and mental fitness training. And I decided to share the most vulnerable and valuable pieces of my and their journey here. Because if we got out of that dark, stuck place of feeling like a terrible mom, YOU CAN DO IT TOO. So choose the episode that speaks to you and tune in!
Zen Supermom: The Mental Fitness Podcast
Why Hiding in the Bathroom to Calm Down Is Not Working (And What Mental Fitness Actually Is
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Have you ever locked yourself in the bathroom to avoid losing it with your kids? Only for them to knock on the door two minutes later and make everything ten times worse?
You are not alone. And it is not working because removing yourself was never the real solution.
In this updated episode of the Zen Supermom podcast, Alena revisits the mental fitness topic she first introduced in Episode 18 back in February 2023, this time going deeper with a live exercise you can try right now and a breakdown of the specific stress coping patterns that are keeping you stuck.
What you will learn in this episode:
- Why removing yourself from stressful situations with your kids often makes things worse
- Where mental fitness originally came from and why it was developed for people under extreme professional pressure
- A live mental fitness exercise you can do right now anywhere without leaving the room
- Why parenting scripts, gentle parenting techniques, and ChatGPT advice all fail when your nervous system is dysregulated
- The step zero that every parenting course skips and why it is the only thing that will actually make the difference
- How to identify your specific stress coping pattern and where it came from
- Why your pattern goes directly back to whose approval you craved most as a child
- How mental fitness creates the space between trigger and reaction that changes everything
Alena also shares details about a new 6-week beta mental fitness program she is designing. If you are interested, reach out directly.
First introduced in Episode 18, February 2023: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2069721/episodes/12295782
Next step: join Alena live in the free Mommy Tantrum Masterclass:
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Book — I Yelled I Cried I Healed: https://www.amazon.com/Yelled-Cried-Healed-Supermom-Tantrums-ebook/dp/B0FNS4QRNC
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