Overcome Self-Criticism and Become a Better Father | Mike Forrester | Feel Good Fatherhood EP 1
Channel: Feel Good Fatherhood
Date: 2022-12-05

Do you want to heal from your past traumas, unworthiness, and the lies you tell yourself? Some of the trauma and limiting beliefs you carry into your role as a husband and father stem from your childhood, and to avoid passing them to your children, you must be willing to heal.

In this episode of Feel Good Fatherhood, Mike Forrester, coach and host of the Living Fearless Today podcast. He is dedicated to coaching men with life strategies to achieve the confidence & self-worth they're currently missing. 

Listen in to learn how to start your healing journey by changing your habits and building a peer group of like-minded men to support you. You will also learn from an experienced parent how to parent with a balanced view where you’re not too lenient or too stringent. 

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Key Takeaways:
- How to build a strong and trustworthy community where everyone can be open and honest. 
- How to work on your limiting beliefs and lack of self-worth to move through the anger. 
- The importance of having a relationship with a peer group to support you during your healing journey. 
- How to balance the way you parent to ensure you’re protecting your kids from risks. 
- Learn different ways to create memories with your kids, even without the money for opulent events. 

What You Will Learn in This Episode:
[03:02] Mike explains the importance of cultivating relationships where you can express vulnerability. 
[09:36] How to change your habits by working on yourself, growing yourself, and surrounding yourself with growing people. 
[12:30] He explains how he moved through his anger by working on the lies he believed and his lack of self-worth. 
[17:42] How healing has enabled Mike to turn his self-loathing into self-love and love for his family. 
[24:58] The importance of making the choice to shield your children from generational toxicity. 
[32:26] Why you should have a community of other men to support you in your healing journey. 
[36:00] The F.O.C.U.S method – the habits to develop around your family, occupation, circles, uplifting, fun, and state. 
[44:58] Mike on how he handled the tech/social media issue in his family to avoid dependency. 
[50:23] How he created balance in the way that he parented his kids not to be too lenient or too stringent. 
[1:00:30] Mike shares a scary situation that happened with his daughter and how he navigated it. 
[1:08:51] How he and his family curated the idea of fun from the big vacations to smaller things. 

Standout Quote:
“It’s not so much creating this wonderland event as creating a memory, so give yourself the space to create memories and be the dad doing it without having that Pinterest expectation.”- [1:11:30]

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