The CALM Parent - with Katie McKenna
You did the work to understand your childhood – so why do you react in ways you swore you never would? The CALM Parent is for the parent who had to grow up too fast — and knows exactly which parent they don't want to become. The roles were reversed – your parents were the ones who needed regulating, but you were the one who had to do it. This is how it ends with you. Katie McKenna is an Accredited Psychotherapist, Author of the Sunday Times Bestseller 'You're Not The Problem', Host of 'Beyond Survival' - The Therapy Podcast, creator of The CALM Method, and Mother of four.
Episodes
You've said the same thing a hundred times.
It's the same conversation — and now you're standing there thinking, this can't be my life.
Surely it's easier in everyone else's house.
This week, I name the trap almost every parent falls into without realising it: denial.
Not the big, obvious kind — the quiet kind, where you're standing at the bottom of the stairs for the third time going, I can't believ...
This week, I get into the tug of war on power — the daily battles where so many of us hand our authority straight back to our kids without even noticing.
I introduce dropping the rope: not giving in, not going passive, but the real shift from pleading with your kid to holding a limit that isn't coming from fear.
It's the difference between managing their reaction and actually holding the line — and once you can see ...
You've asked your kid to so something three times now.
Your voice is getting louder.
What happens next tells you everything.
In episode three, Katie breaks down the four F's — and shows you which one you default to when frustration finally tips over.
- Do you blow up after holding it in too long?
- Give in and just do it yourself?
- Go quiet and avoid the conflict altogether?
- Or stay so busy y...
Are you the one who does everything yourself because relying on people always ends the same way?
Or the one who'd rather swallow it than risk someone being annoyed with you?
In episode two, Katie shows you why those two look nothing alike but run on the exact same fear — and what's actually happening in your brain the moment you go from "fine" to "fight or flight" in under a second.
She shows you why your smoke...
In the first episode of The CALM Parent, Katie McKenna opens with the gap she built this whole podcast to close — the space between knowing which parent you don't want to be and actually knowing what to do instead.
She talks about why gentle parenting scripts fall apart the second you're dysregulated, what your baseline number actually means, and why the goal was never zero.
And for the first time, she turns the foc...
This isn't going to be another podcast handing you scripts written for someone who had a calm parent to copy.
In this trailer, Katie McKenna — psychotherapist, mother of four, and author of You're Not the Problem — introduces The C.A.L.M. Parent: the podcast for the version of you that's not calm, not regulated, and sick of being told it's about willpower.
Three minutes on the gap between knowing who you don't...
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