How to parent yourself first and break unhealthy cycles

In this Episode

This episode explores the profound impact of childhood experiences on parenting styles, emphasizing the importance of self-reflection and emotional healing. Brianna shares insights on building connections with children through understanding and compassion while setting healthy boundaries.

• Understanding how childhood wounds manifest in parenting
• Importance of self-reflection for emotional health
• The role of connection in nurturing healthy relationships
• Practical strategies for engaging with emotions
• Defining and communicating boundaries effectively
• Navigating partner dynamics in the parenting journey
• The need for compassion and curiosity in parenting conversations

About This Week's Guest

Bryana Kappadakunnel is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (90464), an Infant-Family Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist, and a Perinatal Mental Health Specialist-Certified. She earned her Conscious Parenting coaching credential from Dr. Shefali’s Conscious Parenting Institute.

Since 2011, Bryana has worked exclusively with families with very young children to navigate challenges related to child development, ADHD, behavioral & emotional issues, attachment problems, family dysfunction, poor boundaries, discipline challenges, and trauma.

Guided by attachment theory and the neurorelational framework, her approach is unique in that she works primarily with parents by helping them discover their child’s nervous system and developmental needs. In this process, parents also learn about their nervous system, and the ways it supports – and sometimes conflicts – with their child’s. She also guides parents to develop vital skills in self-reflection & deconstructing familial cycles of guilt and shame, which aims to drastically shift the child-parent relational patterns.

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