16 | Parenting After Trauma: 3 Tips to Help You Show Up Well For Your Kids

Parenting While Healing – Loving Your Children Through Your Trauma

Parenting while healing from trauma is challenging, but it’s possible to raise emotionally healthy children—even when you're still on your own healing journey. Unhealed trauma can lead to emotional reactivity, triggers, and unhealthy parenting patterns, but with intention and God’s grace, you can create a strong, healthy family.

In this episode, we’ll explore:
✅ How parenting with trauma affects your reactions, discipline, and connection with your children.
✅ Why healing your own trauma is essential for breaking generational cycles and creating a stable home.
✅ Healthy parenting tips to show up with love and patience, even when you feel overwhelmed.
✅ How to prevent parents’ trauma dumping onto children and instead model emotional regulation.
✅ Biblical encouragement from Lamentations 3:22-23 on parenting through trauma with God’s grace.
✅ 5 ways to strengthen your family while navigating your own healing journey.

Whether you're parenting after trauma, struggling with parenting while depressed, or looking for guidance on how to parent healthy, this episode will give you faith-filled encouragement and practical steps.

Keep listening, and add more of our episodes to your cue to learn how to keep your family healthy—mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—while healing beyond trauma!

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