29. Emily Hughes on Finding Soothing & Grace in Your Parenting Journey

Listen in to join this conversation and feel a little less alone on your parenting journey. Give yourself some grace and remember you are the perfect parent for your child.  Today we welcome Emily Hughes to Live Wildly, to help us feel a little less alone and a bit more resourced as we navigate our parenting journeys. Becoming a parent is one of life’s greatest gifts and biggest challenges. Whether you're on your journey to becoming one or well-seasoned with multiple kiddos, this episode will help you. We talk about the philosophy of conscious parenting and what it means to live with our values, beliefs, and awareness at the forefront. We cover navigating anger and overwhelm, how these days we are not set up with a village to care for our children, and how we can begin to solve these things. Emily also shares her top three things to help parents be better parents; soothing, resourcing, and grounding.  Emily is a Conscious Parenting Coach and Somatic Therapist. With her business, Finding Flow Parenting, she works with parents who feel frustrated, overwhelmed, and in conflict, to find more ease and flow in family life. She empowers parents to stay centered and grounded, to improve their communication skills, emotional intelligence, and peaceful boundary-setting skills.  In This Episode We Talk About: Her story of becoming a conscious parenting coach What is conscious parenting Areas she often sees families struggling How we build our own village Why mothers often take the burden of the household on and how we find better balance Why anger and postpartum range are having a spotlight and what can we do about it How ancestral trauma and our family dynamics affect us as parents Why is it important that partners nurture their relationship in parenthood and tips for it What somatic therapy is and how we can integrate it into our days How we help teach our children these tools Top foundation practices to leave us with soothing, grounding, and resourcing Where to Find Emily Hughes: ⁠Website⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ Facebook Where To Find Olivia Ashley: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.olivia-ashley.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@wildlyolivia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠