Episode 16: Parenting Your Child, Parenting Yourself with Nic Strack
“ I know you better than you know you"
is really prevalent in parenting.”
-Nic Strack, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Nic Strack (they/them). Nic is a Parenting Coach; supporting parents to custom-create their own parenting styles, in order to make more conscious choices with confidence and grace. Nic uses a parent-centered approach which focuses on addressing the parent's responsibility & understanding (instead of automatically trying to change the child). They teach the 5 C's of Bespoke Parenting framework so people can ground and orient them Selves as they cultivate understanding and make conscious choices in their parenting (and everywhere else in their lives). Nic is currently enrolling Being & Becoming, a yearlong community for cultivating alignment, connection and ease. Learn more here. In this episode, Madison and Nic discuss choice, consent and contempt within the dynamics of parenting and being a parent in this culture. Nic discusses the nuance of being a parent who is allowing their child to explore who they are and deconstructing the "parent knows best" programming, both as a parent and within other adult relationships. They also have an expansive conversation of these concepts within self and their own experiences of it as an adult. Listen in…
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In this episode we have a conversation about:
How to get curious about who your child is and allowing them to explore that
Supporting parents in learning how to live a life of choice, contempt and consent so they can model it for their children
Moving out of and through "I know best" parenting dynamics
Contempt, why we use it in our relationships to get what we need and how Madison & Nic experience it and navigate it
Consent versus compliance in parenting and within yourself as a parent
Navigating our false beliefs about ourselves separate from the relationship that may activate it
Realizing that there is a 3rd way, instead of either "I am right. I'm good." or "You are right. I'm bad."
Regarding your choices and understanding your own conscious choices
