Compassionate Heart Parenting

By Michelle Puster

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Compassionate Heart Parenting | Peaceful Parenting for Real Life


You love your kids deeply — and you still lose it sometimes. You're in the right place.


This podcast is for parents who are drawn to gentle parenting, peaceful parenting, conscious parenting, and Hand in Hand Parenting — but who also know how hard it can be to stay calm in the real, messy, overwhelming moments of family life.


Hi, I'm Michelle — mom of 3, recovering yeller, and Emotionally Focused Family Therapist. I've been through parent burnout, depression, and anxiety, and I climbed my way out using the very tools I share here. Now I help parents find their inner calm so they can show up the way they actually want to — with patience, connection, and confidence.


Each episode gives you:

  • Practical tools to stop yelling and start connecting
  • Relief from parenting shame, guilt, and the feeling you're failing
  • Science-backed strategies rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy, mindfulness, and self-compassion
  • Ways to pause and respond rather than react in your hardest parenting moments
  • Playful parenting ideas that strengthen your bond with your child
  • The deep reminder that you are not alone — and you are a good parent

Topics covered include: Gentle parenting tools · conscious parenting · peaceful parenting · Hand in Hand Parenting · parenting with self-compassion · yelling and parenting shame · emotional regulation for parents · parenting burnout · mindful parenting · sibling conflict · setting loving limits · attachment parenting · parenting anxiety · Dr. Laura Markham · Dr. Daniel Siegel · connection before correction


This podcast is for you if:

  • You want to parent gently but keep getting stuck
  • You're exhausted from trying to hold it all together alone
  • You want to strengthen your relationship with your child, not just manage their behavior
  • You're ready to do the inner work that makes outer calm possible


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🌐 Learn more: https://compassionateheartmindfullife.com/



🎓 Ready to go deeper? Yelling to Connecting is Michelle's 6-week online parenting course — grounded in science, rooted in compassion, and designed to help you finally yell less and connect more.


This content is intended for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment. Compassionate Heart Parenting does not provide psychotherapy services. If you need mental health support, please seek a qualified professional in your area.


Episode Date
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: What Your Child Is Really Asking for When They Fall Apart — Kathryn de Bruin & Ronda Evans
May 21, 2026
Peaceful Parenting: How to Handle Gamer Rage Calmly (Replay)
May 15, 2026
How to Parent Through Divorce Without Losing Connection
May 07, 2026
Your Parent Guilt Is Not Evidence You're Failing — Here's What It's Really Telling You"
Apr 30, 2026
The Hidden Truth of Tantrums with Helena Mooney
Apr 23, 2026
Why You Can’t “Fix” Your Emotions (another way)
Apr 16, 2026
The Surprising Truth About Self-Compassion
Apr 09, 2026
The Lie We Were All Told About 'Negative' Emotions
Apr 02, 2026
The Cycle No One Talks About (and How to Escape It)
Mar 26, 2026
Navigating Sibling Fighting WITHOUT Losing Your Cool
Mar 19, 2026
Your Greatest Weakness May Also Be Your Greatest Strength
Mar 12, 2026
Locked in a Cage of My Own Making - Fear
Mar 05, 2026
Is Isolation Keeping You Stuck in Unhappiness
Feb 26, 2026
Befriending Your Emo In Parenting
Feb 19, 2026
Why Am I still Yelling (Even though I'm making changes)
Feb 12, 2026
When Parenting Your High-Need Child Feels Like Too Much
Feb 05, 2026
Understanding Your Highly Sensitive Boy
Jan 29, 2026
How to Calmly Respond When Gaming is a Constant Fight?
Jan 22, 2026
A Calm Connected Parenting Path for Your New Year
Jan 15, 2026
Repairing After A Rupture with Your Kiddo
Jan 08, 2026
How to Find Play, Connection, and Regulation in Your Parenting
Jan 01, 2026
How Do I Get My Kids to Bed Peacefully?
Dec 18, 2025
Self-Compassion: A Secret Ingredient to Calmer Parenting
Dec 11, 2025
4 Steps to Escaping the Parenting Shame Spiral
Dec 04, 2025
When Your Inner Voice Calms, Your Parenting Changes
Nov 25, 2025
Respond vs React: Why Pausing As a Parent Feels Impossible
Nov 20, 2025
Triggers: What They Are and How to Catch Them
Nov 13, 2025
Why Parenting Feels So Stressful (and What to Do About It)
Nov 06, 2025
Your Body on Stress- Why Yelling Happens Before You Realize It
Oct 30, 2025
The Negative Cycle With Our Kids (And How to Step Out of It)
Oct 23, 2025
Why Kids Whine (and What You Can Do About It)
Oct 16, 2025
Play Your Way Through Needle Fears
Oct 09, 2025
How to Stop Arguing Over Homework (and Even Laugh Together)
Oct 02, 2025
A Science-Backed Way to Stop Yelling (That You Can Use Today)
Sep 25, 2025
Parenting With Depression
Sep 18, 2025
Why Am I So Irritable
Sep 11, 2025
Why Did I Yell
Sep 05, 2025
Back to School: More Play Less Stress
Aug 28, 2025
Back to School: Smoothing Out Our Mornings with More Play
Aug 21, 2025
Back to School: Reverse Engineering Our Mornings
Aug 14, 2025
Back to School: Less Stress More Intention
Aug 07, 2025
When Our Kids Don't Want to Go to Summer Camp
Jul 31, 2025
Summer Blues: Responding Calmly to Sibling Fighting
Jul 24, 2025
Summer Break Blues: Coping w/ The Pressure to Entertain Our Kiddo(s)
Jul 17, 2025
Summer Break: Maintaining Your Cool while Keeps Our Kids' Brains Busy
Jul 10, 2025
Summer Break Blues: Stepping Out of Screen Time Battles
Jul 03, 2025
Summer Break Blues: Maintain Your Sanity Through Changes to Routines & Schedules
Jun 26, 2025
Traveling w/ Kids: How to Avoid Losing It & Stay In Your Calm
Jun 09, 2025
When Stress Becomes All Consuming In Parenting
May 20, 2025
Letting Go of Our Too High Parenting Expectations
Apr 07, 2025
Shifting from Self-Criticism to Self-Compassion
Mar 24, 2025
Parenting: My Favorite Tool, Play
Feb 25, 2025
How to Be Less Stressed and More Playful
Feb 11, 2025
What Gets In the Way of Being a Playful Parent?
Feb 03, 2025
Why Don’t I Play More with My Kids?
Jan 29, 2025
Playful Parenting: Navigating Sibling Fights
Jan 14, 2025
Parenting Challenges: When We Love Our Kids BUT Struggle to Like Them
Jan 07, 2025
Surviving Holiday Meltdowns: Why They Happen and How to Respond
Jan 06, 2025
Surviving the Holiday Upheaval and Long Days with Everyone Home Together
Dec 30, 2024
A Surprising Tool to Respond Rather Than React in the Toughest Parenting Moments
Dec 03, 2024
Postpartum Anxiety: How Yoga Helped Me Release My Anxiety
Nov 26, 2024
Parenting Through Depression: Why We Isolate Ourselves and How to Break Free
Nov 18, 2024
Parenting with Anxiety: Screen Time Stress, How to Acknowledge Your Worries and Find Balance
Nov 11, 2024
Parenting Stress: How to Name Our Stress and Tools to Tame It
Nov 04, 2024
Finding Balance in Parenting Overwhelm: Work vs. Home
Oct 28, 2024
Overcoming Parenting Stress
Oct 22, 2024
Navigating Our Thoughts: Balancing Reality and Magical Thinking
Oct 14, 2024
Finding Calm and Patience During Parent Burnout
Oct 07, 2024
How to Be Mindful of Your Thoughts When Exhausted
Sep 30, 2024
What to Do When We CANNOT Find Compassion for Our Kids
Sep 23, 2024
How to Cope When Negative Thoughts Hijack Your Mood
Sep 16, 2024
Finding Balance with Spending
Sep 09, 2024
Self-Compassion for Our Hurt Parts
Sep 02, 2024
Am I a Highly Sensitive Person?
Aug 26, 2024
Am I Experiencing a Deeper Hurt?
Aug 19, 2024
Obsessive Mind
Jul 29, 2024
When Stress Hijacks Us: Navigating with Mindful Meditation
Jul 22, 2024
Second Arrow
Jul 15, 2024
Managing Stress Amidst the Riptide of Emotions
Jul 08, 2024
Perfectionism is Sly, Crafty, & Cunning
Jul 01, 2024
Social Support for Depression
Jun 24, 2024
STRUGGLING TO BE PRESENT
Jun 17, 2024
OVERCOMING PARENTING TRIGGERS WHEN FEELING STUCK
Jun 10, 2024
I’M IN THE NEGATIVE THOUGHT SPIRAL
Jun 03, 2024
Navigating Sibling Fighting WITHOUT Losing Your Cool
May 27, 2024
FLIPPING THE SCRIPT ON YOUR CHILD’S BEHAVIOR
May 20, 2024
PARENTING CHALLENGES
May 13, 2024
EMBRACING GUILT
May 06, 2024
SHAME AND ANGER
Apr 29, 2024
EXPERIENCING ANXIETY
Apr 22, 2024
PARENTING INSECURITIES
Apr 15, 2024
HOLDING ON TO EXPECTATIONS
Apr 08, 2024
The Reality Check That Changed My Parenting
Apr 01, 2024
My Biggest Blindspot With Toddlers
Mar 25, 2024
The Tool I Wish I Had Coming Into Parenting
Mar 18, 2024
The Hidden Cost of Structure and Routines in Parenting
Mar 11, 2024
This Will Change How You Think About Stress
Mar 04, 2024
I Stopped Listening to the Advice "Be Grateful"
Feb 26, 2024
How to Escape Racing Thoughts
Feb 19, 2024
The Surprising Truth About Your Emotions In Parenting
Feb 12, 2024
The Real Reason You Lose In On Your Kids
Feb 05, 2024
The Secret Habit of Calm Parents
Jan 29, 2024
The Truth About Shame and Parenting
Jan 22, 2024
What if you could reduce being triggered with a 30 min practice?
Jan 15, 2024