What Your Child Is Really Triggering In You with Gabor Maté

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<strong>What if your child’s behaviour isn’t something to control… but something to understand?</strong>In this powerful conversation, Zoe sits down with one of the world’s leading voices on trauma, attachment and child development to explore the invisible patterns many of us carry into motherhood.Why do our children’s big emotions feel so triggering? Why do we instinctively want to shut down tears, tantrums or "difficult" behaviour? And what if so much of what we’re reacting to has very little to do with our children at all?This episode is a compassionate invitation to look beneath behaviour - theirs and ours - and understand how our own childhood experiences shape the mothers we become.<strong>💡 In this moment, you’ll learn:</strong><ul><li><p></p></li></ul>Why your child's "acting out" may actually be communication<ul><li><p></p></li></ul>The difference between behaviour that needs controlling and needs that need understanding<ul><li><p></p></li></ul>Why motherhood can bring unresolved parts of our own childhood to the surface<ul><li><p></p></li></ul>What it really means to be "triggered" by our children<ul><li><p></p></li></ul>Why caring for ourselves is one of the most important things we can do for our childrenThis conversation may completely change the way you think about tantrums, emotions and your own reactions.<p><strong>Watch every full episode on </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Zoe-Blaskey"><strong>YouTube</strong></a><strong> and subscribe.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>Loved this episode?</strong></p><p>Follow or subscribe so you never miss an episode of Motherkind. It helps more mothers find the show and keeps our community growing.</p><p>If you enjoyed this episode, you can listen to the full episode - <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-our-childhood-shapes-every-aspect-of-our-lives/id1295306961?i=1000442299907">How our childhood shapes every aspect of our lives with Dr Gabor Maté</a></p><p><strong>Feeling different since becoming a mother? Get clarity on who you’re becoming now and download your</strong> <a href="https://course.motherkind.co/the-matrescence-podcast-epiodes-cheat-sheet">FREE Matrescence Cheat Sheet</a></p><p><strong>Connect with Zoe:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Follow Zoe on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zoeblaskey/">Instagram</a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoelevings/">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@zoeblaskeymotherkind?lang=en">TikTok</a></p></li><li><p>Get Zoe’s Sunday Times bestselling book, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Motherkind-happiest-fulfilled-empowering-podcast/dp/0008650829/ref=zg_bsnr_g_books_d_sccl_2/260-9943622-5435716?psc=1">'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>This Motherkind episode is sponsored by:</strong></p><p>Headline sponsor Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at <a href="http://wildnutrition.com/motherkind">wildnutrition.com/motherkind</a>. Ts and Cs apply.</p>