What is it about feelings that can be so overwhelming?

Honestly, for me, even really happy feelings on an intense level was overwhelming to me as a mom of young kids.

Having three little boys with big emotions sometimes just was overwhelming.

And then to add my own emotions on top of it was a little much.

Here are 5 easy steps I now use to safely feel my feelings.

[00:02:42] Step 1 - Acknowledge you are feeling something

[00:04:05] Step 2 - Accept it is ok to feel this way

[00:07:14] Step 3 - Let the Feelings Flush Down and Out

[00:07:36] Step 4 - Choose what you want to feel

[00:07:45] Step 5 Practice Thinking and Feeling what you WANT!

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My children have done things that make me feel furious.

Bryson, when he was a new driver, he had an 11:30 PM curfew.

Well, one night, very soon after he started driving, he didn't get home until 1:00 AM

He did call us and say he was going to meet his brother Carson at In n Out.

and we were like,

“No, don't do that. You need to come home.”

But he didn't listen to us.

Of course our natural inclination was anger or frustration and really furious.

Here is how we shifted to curious and how it helped!

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Parenting Challenging Children Calmly and Confidently in only Three Months!

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My oldest son is what propelled me into becoming a life coach. 

I learned a lot of tools and loved to use them and teach them.

They were put to the test when he was kidnapped in Mexico when he was 16 years old. 

Would they be helpful in a time of extreme stress?

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Parenting Challenging Children Calmly and Confidently in only Three Months!

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Do you Feel Guilty when you learn a new tool?

It's okay That you didn't know all these things sooner.

The experiences you have had with your challenging child are okay,

and you don't need to judge yourself for it.

Sometimes when I learn a new tool, I think if only I'd known this sooner, it would've prevented so many problems.

Then I start judging all the things I did wrong parenting my challenging child.

In Tibet, they do not have a word that equals guilt.

Instead, they have a word that means

“Intelligent regret that decides to do something differently.”

In this episode we delve deeper into that and I share a tool to help stop the internal judge that may come up when you learn a new tool!

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This works with all ages of children.

However, it looks different at different ages.

Here's the thing that makes this so tricky.

Logically, we know,

“Or course, if my child is having a tantrum, I don't need to.”

But our challenging kids know exactly how to push our buttons, and they get our internal saboteurs all riled up and suddenly we are spinning in our own thoughts and emotions. And they are spinning in their thoughts and emotions and we create what my youngest likes to call a spinning war.

Learn my 2 tips to help!

TOPICS COVERED

[00:00:35] Our Challenging Children Know Exactly How to Push our Buttons!

[00:01:01] Tantrum in a Food Court

[00:01:58] Hiking Trip Cut Short

[00:02:50] Teenage Tantrums Sometimes Look Like Lawyer Logic

[00:03:32] Tip #1 - Recognize Tantrums (more obvious when they are younger)

[00:04:33] Tip #2 - Use PQ Reps to stay calm!

[00:05:06] Parenting Challenging Children Calmly and Confidently in only Three Months

[00:06:42] The next time your child is having a tantrum - try these tips!

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I am shifting my podcast from Finding Joy in the Journey to Parenting Challenging Children.

In this weeks episode, I explain why I am changing focus 

and also the start of my journey parenting a challenging child, 

how for years we were so lost and confused 

and what made the biggest shift!

[00:00:54] My Challenging Child

[00:01:27] Pregnancy and Birth

[00:02:42] Developmental Delays Addressed - but Doctors still Perplexed

[00:03:47] Finally Some Help!

[00:05:30] I was inspired to learn more!

[00:06:37] Our children are our greatest teachers!

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God told me, “Your phone has hacked your brain, so you need to use your brain to hack your phone!”

I pondered on that for awhile and then asked for clarity, what did I need to do?

Here are the steps I took to hack my phone

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https://sheridanripley.com/find2023word/

Nope!

In fact I think it is pretty normal for people to struggle with the holidays.

Remembering 1/24/50/24/1 can help!

In fact, I imagine for Mary, the original Christmas Day was only 1% wonderful!

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How much time do you spend thinking about the things you need to do?

If you are like me, I make lists that contain many, many things to do and I can always think of more things to do.

Someone presented a question to me and it has been a game changer.

What should I NOT do today?

In this episode I talk about how pausing and asking that question has helped me to find more joy in my journey. And frankly, helped my family find more joy in their journey as well!

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I know the power of affirmations, indeed today I was planning on just reposting my awesome snow affirmation podcast, 

but then realized I needed to share some holiday affirmations to go along with it. So I am going to start with the holiday affirmations I have gathered and then will repost my snow affirmation podcast to demonstrate how powerful affirmations can be.

If you feel you need some more specific ones in certain areas, go google it and copy and paste your favorites.

Or You can download these affirmations on mywebsite at sheridanripley.com/holiday-affirmations

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