Episode 42: Understanding and Meeting Our Basic Needs with Kate Smith

Kate Smith is a mother, early childhood educator, Certified Children's Yoga Teacher, and founder of the Conscious Mamas Movement, an educational platform that empowers caregivers with mindful tools to raise the next generation of conscious humans. Her work guides parents to do their inner healing work, build their emotional literacy skills, and show up as the present parents they want to be. She combines her decades worth of experience in holistic health to model a way of living well in parenthood. Kate embodies these skills as a single mother to her two year old Jefferson. 

What we discuss in this episode:

• Kate shares her journey to single-motherhood and how she found her calling and started her business
• What is emotional literacy and how can we learn to be more aware of our own emotions as we teach our kids about theirs
• Kate shares a parenting moment where she got triggered by her toddler and how she identified her emotions and processed through them
• What to do when we know we need something, but aren't sure what that thing is
• How to break the cycle of defining motherhood as "self-sacrifice"

Resources and Links:

• Website: https://www.consciousmamasmovement.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/consciousmamasmovement/
• Membership: https://www.consciousmamasmovement.com/join-the-movement

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