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The Expat Mom Podcast Jennie Linton
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This is a podcast for expat moms who want to improve their emotional health as they navigate the unique challenges of living and mothering abroad. Each episode shares one tool, idea or perspective shift you can apply immediately to your life and your family. I'm a certified life coach, an expat mom of 4 daughters, and married to a US diplomat. I’ve been abroad many of the last 20 years; I’ve lived on four continents, and in six different countries. I know what it’s like to be stuck emotionally and I know how to get unstuck. This podcast will show you how. You can connect with me at my website http://theexpatmom.com, Instagram @theexpatmomcoach, Facebook @theexpatmomcoach, or Schedule a free, 30-min. mini-coaching session http://theexpatmom.com/schedule
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Emotion Coaching Kids Part 4: Trouble Shooting
What keeps you from emotion coaching your kids? Do you feel like you just don’t have time? You are just too reactive? Your kids are too young or too old? There are lots of things that keep us from coaching our kids through emotions. This episode addresses some of the most common questions and issues parents have about emotion coaching.
Things you’ll learn on the podcast:
When is too young or too old to emotion coachHow to adapt emotion coaching for different agesWhat to do if your child gets MORE upset when you emotion coach themHow to feel less reactive when your kids have a big emotionSend me an email with a question or with an experience
jennie@theexpatmom.com
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One-Minute Wisdom
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Emotion Coaching Kids Part 3: Five Steps to Help Kids Through Big Emotions
Studies show that kids’ emotional success is much less dependent on the quantity of difficult things that happen to them and much more on their experience with them. As parents, we can’t always control what happens to our kids—nor would we want to. But we can control how we support our kids through whatever does happen. And, this support piece is much more powerful to their emotional health anyway. On this episode we break down the “how-to” of emotion coaching. We discuss five simple steps to walk your child through a big emotion. This is the third in a series on emotion coaching kids. If you haven’t listened to episode #137-#138—those are helpful precursers to this episode.
On this episode you’ll learn:
The five steps to emotion coachingHow to help your kids feel understood but still set limits and move forwardIf emotion coaching can be used for positive emotionsPractical applications and examples for emotion coaching for young kids and teensSend me an email with a question or with an experience
jennie@theexpatmom.com
Free Coaching Session
Sign-up for a free coaching session. (I'm currently not offering free coaching sessions, but hope to again in the future!)
Schedule
One-Minute Wisdom
Each week I carefully craft a short perspective shift or tool that you can read in about a minute or two. You can sign up here.
Follow me on Instagram: @theexpatmomcoach
Find more resources at my website: http://theexpatmom.com -
Emotion Coaching Kids Part 2: Mindset is 3/4 of Success
Most of us think that we’re being a good parent if we keep our kids happy. But that’s not true. In fact, some of our best parenting can occur when our kids are experiencing a negative emotion. That’s because studies show that kids’ emotional health is less dependent on the amount of negative emotion they experience and more on how they were supported through it. When we are able to coach our kids through negative emotions and companion them along the way—we offer them a much more valuable gift than simply trying to eliminate stressful things or act like everything is fine all the time.
Having a mindset that allows you to help you children deal with big emotions depends on being comfortable with some important beliefs about emotions. Some of these beliefs are a bit counter-culture, meaning they aren’t beliefs we absorb naturally in our modern society. We’re often taught that negative emotions are bad and something to avoid. But negative emotions have MANY benefits for us and our children. But as parents, we get to be on the cutting edge of creating a healthier society for ourselves and our children to live in. We get to be the change.
On this podcast you'll learn:
The mistake lots of parents make when addressing kid's big emotionsWhy mindset mattersWhy negative emotions might be exactly what your child needsFive essential beliefs that establish a healthy mindset to coach kids through emotionsResources
Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Brene Brown Podcast feature the authors:
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-emily-and-amelia-nagoski-on-burnout-and-how-to-complete-the-stress-cycle/
Free Coaching Session
Sign-up for a free coaching session. (I'm currently not offering free coaching sessions, but hope to again in the future!)
Schedule
One-Minute Wisdom
Each week I carefully craft a short perspective shift or tool that you can read in about a minute or two. You can sign up here.
Follow me on Instagram: @theexpatmomcoach
Find more resources at my website: http://theexpatmom.com -
Emotion Coaching Kids Part 1: What NOT to Do
Kids and big emotions often go together like peanut butter and jelly. It’s part of the business of childhood and our teen years to figure out how to deal with our emotions. And, as parents we can be a help or a hinderance in that process. It isn’t always intuitive to know how to help kids with emotions—in fact we often want to avoid negative emotions for our kids. This week on the podcast we examine some of the mistakes parents make when responding to kids’ negative emotions.
On the podcast you'll learn:
Four parenting approaches to kids' negative emotionsWhat the impact of each is on kids according to researchWhich one is most successfulResources
John Gottman, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
Free Coaching Session
Schedule a free coaching session! (I'm currently not offering free coaching sessions, but hope to again in the future).
Schedule
One-Minute Wisdom
Each week I carefully craft a short perspective shift or tool that you can read in about a minute or two. You can sign up here.
Follow me on Instagram: @theexpatmomcoach
Find more resources at my website: http://theexpatmom.com -
How to Fail...And Why You Might WANT To
I don’t know many people who LIKE to fail. But like it or not, life includes lots of failure. That is—if you’re stretching yourself enough to actually be growing. The reason most of us fear failure is we don’t like feeling humiliated, disappointed and frustrated. But did you know that it is possible to have a different experience with failure. Did you know failure could be fun? This week on the podcast I’m going to teach you how to fail in a way that’s useful…and maybe even fun.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Why we don’t like to failHow to shift the way you feel about failingWhy failure can actually be usefulDifferent types of failure and why some are better than othersHow to convert your worst critic into your best cheerleaderJoin the Free Getting it Done Bootcamp!
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Brain Hacks to Stay Consistent With Your Goals
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While many of us love to set goals, being consistent with them can be challenging. They are challenging because new behaviors take more effort and they can be uncomfortable. It’s easier to just do what we’ve always done…and our lower brains like ease. If we haven’t set up the right systems for ourselves, the lower brain often wins out and we procrastinate or give up on our goal. In order to be consistent we can use a couple of tools to help our lower brains work for us, not against us in accomplishing our goals.
On the podcast, you’ll learn:
Why it’s so hard to be consistent with our goals Why our brain is the problem AND the solutionTwo tools for being more consistent with our goalsPractical examples of how you can use these tools for accomplishing your goals. Free Coaching Session
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Free Resources
One-Minute Wisdom
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Instagram
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Customer Reviews
Must listen to podcast for all military spouses
This podcast has been incredibly helpful to me as a military mom. I’ve been listening to Expat Mom for several years during which I’ve weathered two moves and a deployment. Jennie’s advice and reframing tips were instrumental in getting through those big changes. This podcast is one of my top three most recommended shows!
Not just for ex-pats
Every time I listen to this podcast I go away inspired and I’m an empty-nester and don’t need ex-pat advice. Her advice is general for everyone! Today her “ruminating” podcast made me realize i think about exercising so much, but never do it - I didn’t want to be a “ruminating cow” so I jumped up and went for a walk! Thanks Jenny!
Great resource
Love this podcast and the great perspective she brings in to the unique circumstance of living overseas as an expat (and especially with kids).