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I have been coaching women who shy away from empathy in their motherhood and relationships.  Sometimes this is because they can't see it as a part of a solution, maybe it doesn't come naturally to them. Most often we don't bring empathy into parenting because we don't want to enable our kids or express any permissiveness of their poor behaviour.  I want to unpack what empathy is, the two types of it, and how to bring it into your parenting without using it as a way to enable poor behaviour. Empathy can increase our connection and relationship - which helps us work on conflict resolution together.  Find the full transcript at the end of this post (Books or products recommended here may include referral links to Amazon. If you click through and take action I will be compensated at no additional cost to you.)   This is part one. In this episode we cover: The two types of empathy How empathy helps make our lives better The phenomenon of having empathy for 'the bad guy'  Empathy is not enabling