Parenthood is such a reminder of your own childhood in the best and worst ways and the things that you wish happened for you.
And now those gaps are big and glaring and they become the driving force behind your parenting style.
Why is parenting so hard?
Why is parenting also so hard on our partnerships?
Why are we so hard on ourselves when we have a hard time with parenting?
Well, today I'm talking with Kier Gaines.
Kier is a husband, he's a father, he's community leader, and he's a licensed therapist.
And he is honestly just an amazing thought partner on all of these questions.
You're gonna get so much from this episode.
Kier and I talk about whether compassion is dangerous and why we treat compassion
like it is dangerous.
And over the course of this conversation,
Karen and I get to a really personal place where we end up sharing things from our own parenting journey that we have held with a lot of shame and self-criticism.
I'm Dr.
Becky, and this is Good Inside.
We'll be back right after this.
So I think we'll talk about parents and mental health and therapy and how it all kind of relates,
but maybe we'll just start with mental health.
How do you think about that?
I think about it often.