How to Raise  Kids with Love and Emotional Intelligence. Episode 276

Hey hey friend! If you’ve been here for a while, you know I am passionate about emotional health. I want good emotional health for all my friends (yes, you!), and I brought in one of the smartest people I know to help us get there.

Terra Mattson is a licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed professional counselor who has practiced for nearly two decades and oversees a team of 20 clinicians. 

She’s a wife, a mom of two teenage girls, and passionate about helping moms raise their kids well. Terra and I go all in today on a conversation about my favorite topic: emotional well-being in moms and kids.  

Listen in as Terra and I talk about: 

• Women discovering who they are apart from a specific role, even in the trenches of motherhood
• How to disentangle ourselves from unhealthy messaging about the calling of motherhood, even within (maybe especially within) the Church
• Why emotional regulation is an important piece of raising kids who love like Jesus
• How our emotions reflect our being made in the image of God

Listen now:

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Favorite quotes:

“Our identity especially in the Christian community gets wrapped up in motherhood in good and not healthy ways.”

“The power of knowing our story and how it has influenced us is so important.”

“Emotional regulation is one of the number one resources and modeling that we have to give our children.”

“Each of us have something to offer and teach each other.”

“We don’t have to be in competition. We can link arms and model a different way to our children.”

“The work that you are doing at every stage of your children’s lives is affecting the relationship even today.” 

“Think about the long haul while you are figuring out who you are.”

Links to great things we discussed: 

• Terra Mattson Website
• Living Wholehearted Podcast
• Anatomy of the Soul – Curt Thompson
• Grove Co. Kitchen Wipes.
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Epionce Daily Shield Tinted SPF 50
• Remaining You While Raising Them

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xo,

Alli