The Empowered Parent with Dana Baltutis
Aug 13, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
Send us Fan Mail Sam was a full-time nurse who couldn’t stop moving, couldn’t sit with herself, and felt like rest meant failure. Then she became a…
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But how have you balanced being the mum and feeling like, I know some mums would be listening and go, I feel like I've never got enough time for my kids and myself.
How do you, is there such a thing? And maybe just to deal with it, right? That's life.
It's that self-compassion.
It's that I accept that things don't all get done.
No, yeah.
They shouldn't all be done.
Yeah.
And, you know, I'm pretty spent.
I'm really spent.
But I've got these little practices in the day, especially like after work, you know, accepting that there's a lot of negative energy that you absorb and you bring back.
You hold in your being.
And, you know, I love my crystals and I bring an armory of crystals with me to work to push off that negative energy and transmute stuff.
And I have a crystal bowl, like a literal crystal bowl with salt water that's been charged by the moonlight.
Yeah.
And I will cleanse these crystals and then I lay them out on the ground, on the dirt or the grass.
Yeah.
And that is a thank you for your support and what you've done for me.
But then I also then go into the shower and I will scrub with salt.
Yeah, okay.
You know, those are – that is this – You've got your
anchors.
Yes,
But how have you balanced being the mum and feeling like, I know some mums would be listening and go, I feel like I've never got enough time for my kids and myself.
How do you, is there such a thing? And maybe just to deal with it, right? That's life.
It's that self-compassion.
It's that I accept that things don't all get done.
No, yeah.
They shouldn't all be done.
Yeah.
And, you know, I'm pretty spent.
I'm really spent.
But I've got these little practices in the day, especially like after work, you know, accepting that there's a lot of negative energy that you absorb and you bring back.
You hold in your being.
And, you know, I love my crystals and I bring an armory of crystals with me to work to push off that negative energy and transmute stuff.
And I have a crystal bowl, like a literal crystal bowl with salt water that's been charged by the moonlight.
Yeah.
And I will cleanse these crystals and then I lay them out on the ground, on the dirt or the grass.
Yeah.
And that is a thank you for your support and what you've done for me.
But then I also then go into the shower and I will scrub with salt.
Yeah, okay.
You know, those are – that is this – You've got your
anchors.
Yes,
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