Resilient Parenting with Dr. Kate
Jun 18, 2026 · 29 min · 11 segments
Many highly capable professional women find themselves trapped on a frantic hamster wheel, balancing successful careers with deep parental devotion yet feeling entirely overwhelmed and disconnected…
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And, you know, I am absolutely passionate about helping working moms specifically build their resilience, because most of the women that I work with are incredibly capable.
They are deeply committed mothers, but many of them feel like they're in this kind of hamster wheel, rushing through their days, holding all this pressure that we all hold, wondering why life feels just overwhelming, and unable to really be present.
And I, I really, my passion is to see women being present in the wonder and the joy of this moment, whether it's at work, whether it's with their children, whether it's with themselves, in their own health and their own wellbeing, and just to know that that is possible for every single woman out there.
Yes, absolutely, and this whole idea of our wellbeing as moms being something that is not only vital, but possible.
And sometimes we lose sight of the possible piece, I think, in the midst of everything that's happening for us as moms, particularly if we're working.
And talk a little bit about that, how you help moms specifically hold on to that sense of wellbeing, the possibility that, okay, it's not only important for me to focus on my wellbeing, but it's possible within the context of everything else that I'm trying to do.
Yeah, so I often draw a triangle for my clients, and look at, you know, what is resilience in relation to our wellbeing.
I used to be a personal trainer for our bodies, and I actually now call myself a personal trainer for our minds, or for, for her mind, the woman that I'm working with.
I am a personal trainer because you have these mental muscles of resilience, and the trick is to, to strengthen them.
So it's not that some people are born resilient and other people, uh, are not.
It's actually that we have these muscles that we can build in response to life.
So, so I draw this triangle and I look on each side at the core pressures that women are experiencing specifically, obviously, in the working relationship, you know, these two domains that we have.
And they, these pressures are around, on one side of the triangle, time, the other side, emotional capacity, my ability to show up emotionally, responsively rather than reactively.
You know, who am I, and who am I trying to be or wanting to be seen as? And when we build resilience in these three areas, then women's wellbeing is so much more looked after physically, emotionally, socially.
Their leadership at work is better, and so they feel like they are achieving, uh, but, but from a place of certainty and, uh, steadiness.
One of the things that I, one of the myths I love to bust is this idea of balance.
What I want to say to women is that when we can find internal equilibrium, internal balance, then the external, it doesn't matter what's going on outside of ourselves.
And, you know, I am absolutely passionate about helping working moms specifically build their resilience, because most of the women that I work with are incredibly capable.
They are deeply committed mothers, but many of them feel like they're in this kind of hamster wheel, rushing through their days, holding all this pressure that we all hold, wondering why life feels just overwhelming, and unable to really be present.
And I, I really, my passion is to see women being present in the wonder and the joy of this moment, whether it's at work, whether it's with their children, whether it's with themselves, in their own health and their own wellbeing, and just to know that that is possible for every single woman out there.
Yes, absolutely, and this whole idea of our wellbeing as moms being something that is not only vital, but possible.
And sometimes we lose sight of the possible piece, I think, in the midst of everything that's happening for us as moms, particularly if we're working.
And talk a little bit about that, how you help moms specifically hold on to that sense of wellbeing, the possibility that, okay, it's not only important for me to focus on my wellbeing, but it's possible within the context of everything else that I'm trying to do.
Yeah, so I often draw a triangle for my clients, and look at, you know, what is resilience in relation to our wellbeing.
I used to be a personal trainer for our bodies, and I actually now call myself a personal trainer for our minds, or for, for her mind, the woman that I'm working with.
I am a personal trainer because you have these mental muscles of resilience, and the trick is to, to strengthen them.
So it's not that some people are born resilient and other people, uh, are not.
It's actually that we have these muscles that we can build in response to life.
So, so I draw this triangle and I look on each side at the core pressures that women are experiencing specifically, obviously, in the working relationship, you know, these two domains that we have.
And they, these pressures are around, on one side of the triangle, time, the other side, emotional capacity, my ability to show up emotionally, responsively rather than reactively.
You know, who am I, and who am I trying to be or wanting to be seen as? And when we build resilience in these three areas, then women's wellbeing is so much more looked after physically, emotionally, socially.
Their leadership at work is better, and so they feel like they are achieving, uh, but, but from a place of certainty and, uh, steadiness.
One of the things that I, one of the myths I love to bust is this idea of balance.
What I want to say to women is that when we can find internal equilibrium, internal balance, then the external, it doesn't matter what's going on outside of ourselves.
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