Elise Knox is a life and wellness coach and a former middle school teacher. With two children of her own, Elise is helping parents and preteen/teen girls get through this challenging time with more connection and ease. Parents might feel like they never have any time to themselves and that they’re pretty much living in survival mode to keep their teens healthy and well. However, this leads to burn out and not showing up as the best parent you can be. In this episode, Elise shares how to make time for yourself and take care of your needs while going through the different stages of parenthood.
Key Takeaways
- Parents often feel like they have no time to themselves.
- What are some of the ways you can get reconnected with yourself?
- After 5 years of being jolted awake to serve her kids, Elise realized she needed to take control.
- What is Elise’s morning practice?
- How do you become more responsive to your team as opposed to reactive?
- Ed noticed himself reacting in the moment instead of taking a breathe and processing his teenager’s request.
- You don’t always need to give your answer right then and there.
- How much should you share with your teen?
- What do you need? Turns out this question is a very challenging one to answer!
- What do you do if you express your needs, and your partner gets upset?
- Under each uncomfortable feeling there’s an unmet need.
- Remember, it’s a different world that your teens are growing up in today.
- What do you do if your teen only wants to connect digitally?
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Quotes:
“Life is very busy at all stages of parenthood.”
“Sometimes as parents we think we need to have the answer and give the solution right then and there, but we don’t.”
“Repair is stronger than rupture. When we show our teens that we’re human and we make mistakes, then they know that they can be human and make mistakes.”
