UNTANGLE YOUR PAST | Noah Crane & Kathy DiMario | Welcome Home Podcast Have you ever accomplished something wonderful and immediately focused on the one thing you could have done better? Or heard that little voice in your head saying, You’re not good enough. You should have done more. Someone else is doing better than you. Where does that voice come from? In this episode of the Welcome Home Podcast, I sit down with Kathy DiMario, an award-winning children’s author, psychology professor, speaker, and creator of the Think Positive program, to talk about something that affects us long after childhood: the beliefs we form about ourselves when we’re young. Kathy explains how our minds can turn thoughts into stories that feel completely true, even when they aren't, and shares a simple practice she teaches children: Catch the thought. Check the thought. Change the thought. Instead of automatically believing Nobody likes me, I’m not good enough, or I failed, we can learn to pause, look for evidence, challenge the story, and choose a healthier response. We talk about: ✓ How childhood experiences can shape self-worth for decades ✓ Why comparison can make even our accomplishments feel like they’re never enough ✓ How to recognize when a thought is a story rather than the truth ✓ Kathy’s “Catch it, Check it, Change it” method for negative thinking ✓ What happens in the brain when fear takes over and how we can interrupt it ✓ How parents can correct behavior without creating unnecessary guilt or shame ✓ Why children need to feel loved, heard, valued, and important ✓ How unconscious parenting patterns can be passed from one generation to the next ✓ Why listening and asking the second question matters so much in our relationships ✓ How screens may be changing the way children play, connect, socialize, and experience the world ✓ Why free play, imagination, real-world experiences, and human connection still matter ✓ How Kathy turned the story of her rescue dog, Pasha, into a way of teaching children about identity, confidence, courage, and belonging ✓ Why awareness is the first step toward changing the stories we have carried for years So many of us grew up carrying words, comparisons, expectations, and experiences that eventually became part of the way we spoke to ourselves. But those stories do not have to remain our truth. Whether you’re helping a child discover their worth, unlearning the beliefs you carried from your own childhood, or simply trying to speak to yourself with more love, remember this: you are worthy, you are valuable, and you are enough. Welcome Home. 💚 _____________ 🔗 CONNECT WITH KATHY DIMARIO & PASHA: 🌐 Website: https://www.whatkindofdogami.com 📷 Instagram: @poshatherescueddog ⓕ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PoshaTheRescuedDog/ ℹ️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahcranewht/ Twitter: @poshatherescueddog YouTube-https://www.youtube.com/c/poshatherescueddog 🐾 Pasha Tonie: pashatoney.com 🔗 CONNECT WITH ME (Noah Crane) 🌐 Website: https://www.noahcrane.com 📷 Instagram: @noahcrane_ ⓕ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/noahcraneauthor/ ℹ️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahcranewht/ ♪ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@noah_crane 📖 The Grass Grows Where I Am: https://www.amazon.com/Grass-Grows-Where-Am-Holistic/dp/1733172823 🎙️ Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@noahcraneauthor/podcasts
