13. Mom's Mental Health, Our Drive for Perfection, Joy in the Valley - Val interviews Marriage & Family Therapist Amanda Colliatie with a LIVE studio audience.

 Episode 13, Mom's Mental Health, Our Drive for Perfection, The "Hurt Cycle," and Finding Joy in the Valley - Val interviews Amanda Colliatie, Marriage and Family Therapist with a Live Studio Audience.Mom, you’re committed to monitoring your child’s mental and emotional health, but what about your own?  Today we’ve got a LIVE studio audience and a marriage and family therapist to help us turn the mirror on ourselves, take a gentle look to make a doable action plan for heading toward healing.You are a mom who is seriously trying your best to be a great mom. You are all in. You are focused and you are daily growing and seeking new ways to better be there for your family to pull your family to a better place. You’re a marathon mom!  Sometimes we marathon moms can quickly slide into perfectionism -seeking perfect actions, decisions, and results.  What pressure!  When we get our expectations set on perfection and it doesn’t come, what’s our response then?Amanda Colliatie will walk us through four buckets - Blame, Shame, Escape, and Control-  that moms find themselves pulling from in their moments of distress. We’ll learn to recognize this in ourselves and get some action items for stopping the cycle? Regardless of if we're struggling with perfectionism, anxiety, depression O. C. D. parent-child conflict, the “Hurt Cycle” is one to be aware of and have solution steps in place for stepping out of the cycle of blame, shame, escape, or control (from the Restoration Therapy Model). Amanda Colliatie is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Wichita, Kansas. Her practice at Encounter Freedom Therapy Center website or Facebook page is dedicated to providing skilled therapy that is safe, affordable, and practical. Amanda likes to talk emotions! She is passionate about mental health and creating space for intentional conversations about difficult thiSend Val your encouragement and thoughts about the show.Support the showVisit Val's website: PracticallySpeakingMOM.comJoin Val's Facebook Group Intentional Mom, Strong FamilyFollow Val on Instagram and her Facebook Public Page Practically Speaking MOMWe're on a mission to strengthen families.Want to help cover some of the costs of the show? click here. A few dollars a month would help so much!Here's some other ways to give:Cash App: $valPSMPaypal: [email protected] with a credit card HEREAll donations will be used for the ministry. Gifts are not tax deductible. THANK YOU for partnering in this ministry to strengthen families and encourage intentional moms."May the Words of my mouth and the medit...