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    Joyful Courage: Calming the Drama and Taking Control of Your Parenting Journey
    Joyful Courage: Calming the Drama and Taking Control of Your Parenting Journey
    Joyful Courage: Calming the Drama and Taking Control of Your Parenting Journey
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    Joyful Courage: Calming the Drama and Taking Control of Your Parenting Journey

    By Casey O'Roarty

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    Parenting is messy.
    Alongside all of the joy comes an emotional freight train full of challenges and frustration. Your child can instantly trigger strong emotional reactions that leave you feeling angry and out of control. What if you didn't respond so emotionally every time? What if you could learn to be more present to the experience you were having? Might you begin to feel like a better parent?

     

    Joyful Courage: Calming the Drama and Taking Control of Your Parenting Journey helps parents navigate the roller coaster of parenting to reveal:

    How identifying your body's physical reaction to stress is the first step to taking control of your parenting.
    Why our past experiences add to the conflict with our kids and what to do about it.
    Real-life stories from parents riding the emotional freight train.
    The Three B's method to change your reactions anytime, anywhere.
    How to grow your relationship with all of the people that you love.
    From toddler to teenagers, Joyful Courage is the practical and thoughtful resource for parents to navigate the challenge of raising children while choosing to be connected and engaged. Parents can learn how to be their best for their families with Joyful Courage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCasey O'Roarty
    Release dateMay 20, 2019
    ISBN9781733571517
    Joyful Courage: Calming the Drama and Taking Control of Your Parenting Journey

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      Book preview

      Joyful Courage - Casey O'Roarty

      CHAPTER ONE

      I Cannot Believe I Just Did That!

      What Is the Emotional Freight Train?

      You know that moment when you go from calm and happy to totally pissed off? When you find yourself blaming, shaming, or criticizing others? When your body is hot and tense, and logic has left the building?

      Yeah, that moment.

      That’s your emotional freight train.

      When you go from being totally Zen and present to irrational and mean? Yup, that’s it too.

      We all have visits from the emotional freight train. Some of us have trains that pull up slow and give us all sorts of signals that it’s about to pull into the station. Some of us have trains that zoom in, leaving us no time to prepare.

      Let me tell you a story about one of my own emotional freight train experiences (one of many…)

      Years ago, we would take the kids, Rowan and Ian, up skiing at our local mountain on Sunday mornings. They were doing a six-week ski lesson program and this particular day was the morning of week five. When we got up to the parking lot, my son, Ian, who was six at the time, was really dragging his feet and didn’t want to get his gear on. As my husband helped our daughter get ready, I tried to engage Ian to move along.

      He wasn’t having it. I don’t want to go, was what he said, scowling at me with his arms crossed so I’d know that he meant it.

      I went to the back of the car and told my husband to take Rowan up to the ski area, and that I was going to sit in the car with Ian and give him some space and time to work it out. We had an hour before lessons started, plenty of

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