This month on the Well Woman Show, I sit down with Dr. Mercedes Samudio, an inclusive, anti-racist psychotherapist and parent coach who's revolutionizing how we think about raising children and healing families. She is the bestselling author of “Shame-Proof Parenting: Find your unique parenting voice, feel empowered, and raise whole, healthy children”. Her work focuses on parent coaching and guiding families to reduce unwanted behaviors, developing effective parenting strategies, creating healthy communication habits, and designing social media/tech plans for their household. What makes her approach so powerful, and frankly, innovative, is her belief that we can’t heal families by shaming parents. Instead, she offers a roadmap for understanding how our childhood experiences shape our parenting. In our conversation, we explore:

• what shame really is and how it shows up in parenting
• the intersection of identity, oppression, and raising children
• how to find joy in difficult stories of our life
• practical ways to break the cycles of shame in our families
• how to raise emotionally safe kids in a world that often feels unsafe
• building future voices by how we raise our children

Whether you're a parent, caregiver, or someone who was raised by imperfect humans - which is all of us - this conversation offers profound insights into breaking generational patterns and creating the kind of family environment where everyone can thrive.

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The Well Woman Show is thankful for support from Collective Action Strategies—a consulting firm dedicated to driving systemic change so that women and families thrive. And don’t forget to take the Well Woman Life Movement Challenge Quiz at https://wellwomanlife.com/quiz. Resources Mentioned Shame-Proof Parenting: Find Your Unique Parenting Voice, Feel Empowered, and Raise Whole, Healthy Children by Dr. Mercedes Samudio The Red Cross Advisory - Extreme Heat is Too Dangerous to Be Invisible: Knowing what to do to protect yourself and your loved ones can save lives The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Connect with Dr. Mercedes Samudio Website: http://shameproofparenting.com/ Phone #: 714-758-5988 Email: mercedes@shameproofparenting.com Connect with Giovanna Rossi Website: https://wellwomanlife.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/wellwomanlife FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheWellWomanShow# LinkedIn: Giovanna Rossi, MSc, ICF-ACC | LinkedIn

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