Flushing It Out16 Feb 2021

Episode 59 - Dawn Geschiere: Living Authentically

This week, Samantha talks with empowerment coach, Dawn Geschiere about authenticity. Dawn opens up about her struggles while parenting her 5 children (now grown) and how she realizes looking back that she had created a container to shelter her kids that didn’t allow for authenticity. Dawn discusses one of the four cornerstones of her coaching model; that people are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole, and what a liberating thought that can be for people that hold it. It’s the thought that anybody, and especially our own kids bear the image of God and already have all the tools they need.

Dawn explains that the most important thing to do for your kids is to listen to them, but also how hard that is as parents. She explains that children may be the most authentic human beings and that they can teach us a lot about how we, as adults, should be living our lives. Then, she explains what “healthy detachment” is and how we should be practicing that with our children, as well. We need to detach ourselves from the “should’s” in our lives so that we can avoid putting those same “should’s” on our children and creating unhealthy expectations because of that. All of this, Dawn explains, creates a safe environment for our children to feel seen and heard.

Dawn continues to explain that if we end up ceasing to see our children as ‘beautiful’ when we interact with them, that’s the first sign that we ourselves need self-care. If we can’t be a ‘mama-bear’ or a ‘papa-bear’ for ourselves, we can’t give our kids, our friends, or our family the most we have to offer. Listen in as Samantha and Dawn “Flush It Out.”

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