Bryana Kappadakunnel
Parent Yourself First: Become The Parent You Want to Be
Virtual Event
Program Takeaways:
Your child’s behavior is a mirror, not a problem to fix. Children’s big emotions often reflect unresolved experiences within the parent—not defiance or manipulation.
You can’t control your child—but you can understand yourself. Real change begins when parents shift from controlling behavior to exploring their own triggers and reactions.
Your past shapes your parenting. The way you were loved, disciplined, and supported directly influences how you respond to your child today.
Healing your “inner child” improves your parenting. Parenting activates old wounds—but working through them creates more connection and less reactivity.
Connection—not control—builds emotional safety. Kids don’t need perfection; they need attunement, curiosity, co-regulation, playfulness, reflection, and repair.
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Kappadakunnel comes to GPS with a compassionate and powerful guide that demonstrates you can still be a great parent even if you didn’t have one yourself.
She argues that the secret to successful parenting is to UN-learn the wounded patterns you might have grown up with and understand how your upbringing may be impacting your parenting style in ways you don’t fully recognize. Healing allows a parent or caregiver to reshape their parenting for good and truly connect with their children while guiding them to live the happy, authentic lives that they deserves.
Kappadakunnel is a licensed marriage and family therapist, an infant/early childhood mental health specialist, and a perinatal mental health specialist. She is the CEO and founder of Conscious Mommy, and Child Parent Connection. She is the author of “Parent Yourself First: Raise Confident, Compassionate, Kids by Becoming the Parent You Wish You’d Had.”
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