Compassionate Heart Parenting
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
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🎓 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.
Episodes
112 episodes
Validate the Feeling, Hold the Limit — What EFFT Teaches Us About Screens and Connection — Allison Zangari Arnett
Have you ever felt like you had to choose between understanding your child and actually holding the limit? Between empathy and authority? Between connection and correction?Allison Zangari Arnett — Licensed Mental Health Counse...
Navigating Sibling Fighting WITHOUT Losing Your Cool (REPLAY)
Sibling conflict can push even the most patient parent to their limit. Michelle breaks down what's really happening beneath the bickering and fighting, and offers grounded, science-backed strategies to help you stay calm, set loving limits, and...
Why Your Child Pushes You Away When They Need You Most — An EFFT Conversation with Corien Boers
When your child is struggling — really struggling, in a way that scares you — the hardest part is often not what is happening with your child. It is the helplessness. The fear that no matter how much you love them you cannot reach them. And wha...
When Stress Becomes All Consuming In Parenting (REPLAY)
When the weight of parenting starts to feel like too much, it's easy to lose sight of the calm, connected parent you want to be. In this episode, Michelle explores what happens when stress takes over, how it shows up in our bodies and our react...
She Dreaded 3pm Every Day — What Her Child with ADHD Taught Her About Parenting — EFFT Therapist Katharina Sandizell
In this episode Michelle sits down with Katharina Sandizell — Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, ICEEFT Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor across Couples, Individuals, and Families, and Certified AEDP therapist — for one of the most cl...
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: When Your Marriage Is Affecting Your Parenting — Dennis & Kim Eames
What if the thing standing between you and the parent you want to be is not a technique — but the unhealed places in your closest relationship?Dennis and Kim Eames are certified Emotionally Focused Couple, Family, and Individual Therapis...
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How to Repair with Your Kiddo (Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Tools) — with Stephanie Chimient
Do you love your child with everything you have — and still lie awake wondering if you're the reason they're struggling? That guilt is one of the heaviest things a parent can carry. And in this episode, Stephanie Chimienti is going to help you ...
What It Really Takes to Go From Reactive to Regulated — Guest Sarah Rosensweet
You believe in peaceful parenting. You’ve done the reading.You know that connection comes before correction, that empathy matters, that your child’s behavior is a signal—not a problem.And then the moment comes… a...
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: What Your Child Is Really Asking for When They Fall Apart — Kathryn de Bruin & Ronda Evans
When your child is at their most dysregulated — melting down, shutting down, pushing you away — the moment they need you most is also the moment it's hardest to be present. Why does that happen? And what does it actually take to become the safe...
Peaceful Parenting: How to Handle Gamer Rage Calmly (Replay)
Gaming battles can quickly turn into fear, yelling, and power struggles—but underneath it all is often a parent trying deeply to protect their child. In this replay episode, Michelle explores how fear impacts our nervous system, why gaming feel...
How to Parent Through Divorce Without Losing Connection
If you’ve ever worried that a hard season in your family may have impacted your relationship with your child… this episode will give you real hope.Today, we’re talking about something most parenting conversations avoid:what actually ...
Your Parent Guilt Is Not Evidence You're Failing — Here's What It's Really Telling You"
Join Michelle, fellow parent, Mom of 3, and recovering yeller, in uncovering what we, as parents, need to parent peacefully, where we get stuck & why.Parent guilt is one of the most universal experiences in parenting — and...
The Hidden Truth of Tantrums with Helena Mooney
Does your child’s yelling, crying, or intense meltdowns leave you feeling overwhelmed and unsure? In this episode, we sit down with Helena Mooney, a certified Hand in Hand and Aware Parenting coach, to flip the script on "bad behavior".W...
Why You Can’t “Fix” Your Emotions (another way)
"I’ll give you something to cry about." Most of us grew up with messages telling us that our emotions were problems to be solved or inconveniences to be hidden. Even as a seasoned therapist, I fell into the trap of trying to "muscle through" my...
The Surprising Truth About Self-Compassion
"If I stop criticizing myself, I’ll just stop trying." If you’ve ever felt like self-compassion is just "letting yourself off the hook" or lowering the bar for your parenting, this episode is for you.Michelle (EFT Therapist) challenges t...
The Lie We Were All Told About 'Negative' Emotions
Do you ever feel an immediate wave of shame the moment you feel angry at your kids? In this episode, Michelle (Emotionally Focused Therapist) pulls apart the dangerous myth that "good parents" don't feel rage, resentment, or despair.Disc...
The Cycle No One Talks About (and How to Escape It)
Do you ever find yourself in that agonizing loop: stress builds, you lose your cool and yell, and then a wave of soul-crushing shame hits you? You promise yourself you’ll never do it again, only to find yourself back in the same spot tomorrow.<...
Navigating Sibling Fighting WITHOUT Losing Your Cool
Join Michelle, fellow parent, Mom of 3, and recovering yeller, in uncovering what we, as parents, need to parent peacefully, where we get stuck & why.Sibling fighting is normal—but how we respond as parents makes all the d...
Your Greatest Weakness May Also Be Your Greatest Strength
Join Michelle, fellow parent, Mom of 3, and recovering yeller, in uncovering what we, as parents, need to parent peacefully, where we get stuck & why.What if the parts of yourself you’ve struggled with the most are also yo...
Locked in a Cage of My Own Making - Fear
Join Michelle, fellow parent, Mom of 3, and recovering yeller, in uncovering what we, as parents, need to parent peacefully, where we get stuck & why.Have you ever felt locked in a cage of your own making—afraid to fully b...
Is Isolation Keeping You Stuck in Unhappiness
Join Michelle, fellow parent, Mom of 3, and recovering yeller, in uncovering what we, as parents, need to parent peacefully, where we get stuck & why.Is isolation quietly keeping you stuck in unhappiness? In this episode, ...
Befriending Your Emo In Parenting
Join Michelle, fellow parent, Mom of 3, and recovering yeller, in uncovering what we, as parents, need to parent peacefully, where we get stuck & why.Want to learn with Michelle: <...
Why Am I still Yelling (Even though I'm making changes)
Join Michelle, fellow parent, Mom of 3, and recovering yeller, in uncovering what we, as parents, need to parent peacefully, where we get stuck & why.Want to learn with Michelle: <...