Soulful Stories with Steph

Healing While Parenting: Breaking Cycles, Not Kids

Steph McCarter Season 1 Episode 3

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Parenting while healing is brave work — and let's be real, bloody hard some days.

In this episode, Steph opens up about what it really looks like to raise a child while reparenting yourself. She talks about breaking intergenerational patterns, the guilt that shows up when we get it wrong, and the emotional whiplash of trying to stay regulated when your nervous system is fried.

You'll hear about co-regulation (and what it actually looks like in real life), the role of inner child work, and how tending to your own emotional needs is not selfish, it’s foundational. She’ll also share a channelled message from the Akashic Records about what it means to be a cycle breaker and how your healing echoes through your lineage.

This episode is for every parent who's ever whispered, “I don’t want to do it the way it was done to me”, and is figuring out, step by step, how to create something new, something softer, something more soul-aligned.

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