Zen Supermom: The Mental Fitness Podcast
Ep 164: Why Even the Best Childhoods Create Reactive Parents
17 Oct 2025
Send us a textParenting techniques didn’t fail us, they broke us.Even moms with “happy childhoods,” therapy degrees, or calm voices can still find themselves yelling, shutting down, or people-pleasing. Why? Because most parenting methods focus on behavior, not the root: unhealed generational developmental trauma.In this raw and eye-opening episode, Alena Gomes Rodrigues, creator of Intergenerational Developmental Trauma Repatterning (IDTR) and author of I Yelled, I Cried, I Healed, explains why even the most well-intentioned parents unconsciously pass on emotional wounds and how healing your nervous system changes everything. In this episode, you’ll discover:Why CBT and parenting scripts don’t rewire emotional patternsHow “good childhoods” can still create people-pleasing, overachieving momsThe hidden trauma psychologists aren’t trained to recognizeWhy stress, ADHD, or burnout aren’t the real reason for yellingHow IDTR helps moms create emotional safety for their children without perfectionismThis is your invitation to stop parenting from trauma and start healing with compassion, clarity, and confidence.Support the showPrefer watching this podcast on video? Find us on YouTube!Zen Supermom YouTube Channel About the Author:Alena Gomes Rodrigues is a mommy tantrum specialist and the founder of the Zen Supermom method. She's definitely NOT a supermom. But through her own journey as a recovering perfectionist, hyper-achiever, and a 'Momzilla', she discovered the most effective strategy and tools to help busy moms stop yelling at their kids and set & keap healthy boundaries so that they stay calm, at peace, and happy no matter how stressful their life gets.Want to know HOW? And WHY you can't stop yelling/stressing? Get the new Yelling Breakthrough here. Have feedback & comments? Email [email protected] more about the Zen Supermom Method and the author of this podcast on the Zen Supermom webZen Supermom Cafe FB Community: JOIN US HERE Music by HarumachiMusic from ...
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