April 21, 2024 • 15 mins
Join the conversation as we sit down with Julie Marrast, a woman with a revolutionary perspective on parenting. Every parent feels the weight of shaping a life, and Julie's transformative experiences have birthed her book, "Different Than Your Parents." It is a beacon for those navigating the uncharted waters of raising emotionally intelligent children. Our discussion cuts to the core of parenting, challenging listeners to see their children as mirrors reflecting their deepest selves—a realization that turns every outburst and milestone into a chance for personal growth and a stronger parent-child bond.
To learn more about Julie, visit her website HERE.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, beautiful listeners and viewers, it is so
great to be back with you.
We took a little bit of a break, but here we are and we are
back with a wonderful guest,julie Morast.
And I met Julie a couple ofyears ago and have been so
impressed by her enthusiasm andcommitment to life, commitment
to herself, commitment to growth.
(00:23):
She is very brave and I'm surewe'll talk more about that.
Julie has been certified inmultiple modalities she's an
author, she's a parent coach,she's a yoga teacher and, most
of all, what we're going to talkabout today, she is a parent,
and a parent who is making adifference.
Her book is called DifferentThan your Parents how to feel
(00:44):
your emotions, build healthyrelationships and help your kids
do the same, which I think is ahuge key.
Julie's website is hero lifehappycom.
Welcome to the show, julie.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hey, thank you.
Thanks for having me.
It's really nice to connect.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here and
you know you use the wordconnect and I know connect is a
big part of your vocabulary andlifestyle and that you truly
believe in authentic connectionwith others.
Can you tell us what inspiredyou to really pursue connection?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, and I'll go back to the beginning of how I
became a parent.
So I had a really long journeyto becoming a parent.
It took me five years to becomea mom toward to my son.
I had a lot of infertilityissues and a loss of my daughter
the year before, so I had thisstrong desire to become a parent
.
And then when I finally becamea parent, it was really hard and
(01:46):
it wasn't what I expected.
It wasn't what I prepared forand as I was going along, I was
trying to do things differentthan my parents in terms of
being more compassionate, morepresent and more available
emotionally available towards myson.
But I wasn't able to maintainthat and one night, when I was
trying to put him to bed, I wasoverwhelmed with big, big
emotions and was kind of whatthe heck is going on.
(02:09):
So I switched out with myhusband and that's when I
started to look within myselfand like, well, why am I like
this?
Why am I not different than myparents?
And this was like a pivotalmoment in my life because I
started to reflect on how.
You know how much I wanted tobecome a parent, but yet I
wasn't able to deeply connectwith my son, and then memories
from my childhood were startingto come up, this longing to have
(02:29):
this connection with my parentsthat I didn't have.
So then I started to learn howto feel my emotions again and
try different self-discoverymodalities to seeing what was
out there that could help me.
And then over time I started toquestion as well, like well,
what?
Well, what is parenting?
And then I kind of merged themtwo together that I could use
parenting and self discovery todeep the connection with myself
(02:52):
and then in turn with my son.
And then it went on this wholejourney that we're kind of
walking on together, okay sothis book different than your
parents is coming out May 7, onAmazon.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
This book Different Than your Parents is coming out
May 7th on Amazon.
And from what I just heard yousay and tell me if I'm wrong so
with parenting and making adifference in our child's life
and giving our child the skillsto pass that on to the next
generation, do you believe thatour parenting is led emotionally
or more structured?
(03:25):
Or help me understand.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think parenting is an emotional experience.
Maybe some people would evencall it a spiritual practice.
Our children are mirrors ofwhat's going on inside of us and
we are kind of mirroring itback to them.
So it's this like ebb of flow,of this energy working together.
And I think parenting is hardwhen we don't know that, when we
don't know that that's kind ofwhat's going on, because there's
(03:49):
triggers there.
But the triggers could begrowth, growth opportunities,
growth points.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh, that's the truth and I can say, as a mother of a
35 and 38 year old, that ithasn't stopped yet.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, I like that.
You mentioned that, that.
So there was one point in my,in my journey over the past four
years, I, um, I was workingreally hard.
I'm like I gotta get this done,I gotta get this healing done
so that I can connect with myson, and then I realized that
it's a lifetime.
Um, this is a lifetime and it'sthis process of we're both
learning how to like, expressourselves and live authentically
and deepen our connection witheach other, and it's like a
lifetime of authentic relating.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So Okay, it is really beautiful, and, and I think
when we remember to look forthat lesson in the experience,
we can, we can sort our waythrough it a little bit easier.
So one is for those parents whoare like me, and I had this
(05:00):
strategy and I'm sure it was thesame strategy my mother had and
probably her mother had whichis I'm going to do things
different than my parents.
So, instead of just modifyingyou know, I pardon the
expression threw the baby outwith the bathwater and just did
everything the opposite.
And that was not the answer,because I ended up raising
children who didn't have theskills that I had because of my
parents, you know, decisionmaking, dealing with stress and
so on, and so I needed to find amiddle ground.
(05:24):
But by the time I realized thatmy children were young adults.
So how do we become aware, moreself-aware as parents?
Like, how do we become moreself-aware when our children are
still young and living at home,instead of just being
completely reactional?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Of that.
Well, that's a good questionI'm going to come back to in
just one second, but I just wantto touch base on the opposite
thing that you had said.
So when I went into parenting,I intentionally did the opposite
.
So I had a permissive parentand I had an authoritarian
parent and so I didn't reallyknow what was going on with
rules and what expectations andstuff like that.
But the main message I did getwas emotions equals bad, like do
(06:08):
not have any sort of emotion.
So when I started to parent myson I was he didn't cry at all
for like three years.
There was always soothing,rationalizing and distracting,
and that's what I based myparenting on, just from what I
knew.
But when I started to do myhealing journey and I started to
feel my emotions, I started tohave awareness of how, when I
(06:29):
had that in my childhood, theimpacts of that.
So I feel like there's this bigpiece when we examine our
childhood, we get to have theawareness in the present of the
impacts of what we're having onour children, and that gives us
the opportunity to heal the pastbut also bring awareness to
change in the present.
So learning about parentingstyles and approaches and the
history of them and where theycame from and what the kind of
(06:50):
entail gave me a foundation forchange and this is a big part of
what I teach in the beginningpart of my book or my framework.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, that makes a lot of sense to me.
It really does, and I thinkthat it is age appropriate for
if your children are still indiapers or if your children have
children, because you know Ican say, as a grandmother, I'm
still learning parenting and,again, it's a never-ending
(07:20):
journey.
So you, because I know you, Iknow that you have always dug a
little deeper when it comes toemotions.
You're very courageous anddigging in and exploring and
saying hmm, what is this?
Julie and I first met throughthe Heal your Life training
certification that Julie tookand one of your favorite
(07:44):
affirmations is I am open andreceptive to all of the goodness
life has to offer.
I love life.
And what does that mean to you,that affirmation?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah to like.
There's no good or badexperience.
Everything is a learningexperience.
If I could take and I do, I dothis now.
So for most of my life, for 35years, I thought life was kind
of like against me and was likebringing me all these things and
I didn't know why and I waspushing back.
There was a lot of resistance,but now I feel open and
(08:19):
receptive to all that it brings,that there's all these
opportunities, there's all theseopportunities for growth.
There's all these opportunitiesto feel my emotions, to
question what are my beliefsabout myself, are they true?
Where do they come from?
And then coming back to thatdeep connection with myself,
with my truth, so that I canconnect with other people
authentically, so thataffirmation is everything,
(08:40):
everything everything.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It really is a good way of explaining it and I think
that doing it the way that youare saying, using this
affirmation, open and receptiveto all the goodness life has has
to offer, what it does is itcreates space for our children
um, you know, speaking ofparenting, right?
So whether our child is, uh,five and and learning a lesson,
or 25 and learning a lesson, uh,when we say I'm open and
(09:06):
receptive, it creates space forthem to grow, for us to grow.
And so often, as parents tellme if I'm wrong here, we seem to
think we have ownership overour children, and I remember a
lady telling me many, many yearsago that they're not just an
(09:28):
extension of me, that they havetheir own minds, their own likes
, their own desires, and my kidswere in high school when she
told me this, and I was tryingto control everything.
How do you help parents learnto let go of of the control?
Control?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
well, in my own experience, the control was
coming from, because I wastrying to control my inner world
.
Um, so anytime there was my sondoing something that like
playing messy or being loud ornot listening, doing something
that I didn't want him to do, itwas always bringing up
something inside of me.
So I think the key thing isbeing proactive and having a
lifestyle that allows you toconstantly questioning your
(10:10):
beliefs about yourself andreleasing those emotions from
your body, gives you theawareness to step back when our
children do something and beinglike I'm just going to like,
observe and see what's happening, obviously stepping in if
there's a safety thing right, ifthere's a safety thing going on
.
But most often, well, from whenI grew up, we weren't able to
do that, and that's obviouslywhat we're doing, differently
(10:30):
than our parents.
But it allows the children thespace to explore, because
ultimately, this is about thembeing themselves, having that
freedom of expression but havingthat safe container that's
provided by their parents.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So okay, good, good, now tell me, what are you?
Do you have a program that isgoing on with your book that
you're doing?
Are you offering any coachingor sessions to people who are
reading your book and wanting toknow more?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, so in the book there's a.
The framework is called theHero Life Happy Experience and
it's a three-part experimentmoving through mindset shifts,
lifestyle kind of set up andunderstanding villages or
relationships so that peopleparents can feel their emotions
and build out the relationshipsand do it with their kids.
And I'm working on a programright now, so that's going to be
(11:20):
coming out shortly.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Oh great.
So it's an interactive bookwhere they're learning as they
read.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh yes, yeah, they're learning as they read and then
as they go they can self-inquireabout things and then do little
lifestyle setups as they go andthen reach out to me at the end
for further support.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Oh, wonderful, wonderful.
So when you were writing thisbook, can you tell us about some
of the things that maybe youcame up against from other
parents in your life, pardon,what do you mean?
So what I'm wondering is thewriting a parenting book and you
(12:01):
know, we've all, as parents andas non-parents, we all have, we
are all the experts, we allhave the advice and are you
finding that people are open tothis type of work as a parent,
or did you find that you gotpushed back from other parents
that you were sharing what youwere?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
writing.
Yeah, it was a little bit ofboth.
There's definitely somepushback, um, from, I would say,
older generations.
Uh, maybe, yeah, yeah, who did,who might not have been wanting
to or able to feel that what'sgoing on?
Because what I'm talking about,even just reading the title,
offers healing I'm finding withpeople and, yeah, but most, the
(12:40):
majority people are very, verysupportive and could actually
relate to this one thing of haveyou ever made yourself a
promise that you want to bedifferent than your parents?
And that's like a real hook ora real relatable thing that many
of us have said to ourselvesmany times, subconsciously or
not.
Yeah, so throughout the process, I've been met with a lot of
(13:01):
like, thank you for saying this.
Actually, like, that's whatpeople are saying.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh, wonderful.
And you are right.
Reading that title is healing.
I sincerely felt it in my bodyreading that title Difference in
your parents, how to feel youremotions, build healthy
relationships and help your kidsdo the same.
I mean that's what we want.
We want the best for them ineverything that they do.
The same, I mean that's what wewant.
We want the best for them ineverything that they do.
(13:26):
But you're teaching us how tonot manage the best for them,
how to not control the best andhow to let them grow up as
little humans and and just keepour own peace as well.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And then I'll mention too.
It's really interesting.
So throughout this wholeprocess, it's like my son is
being different than me too, sowe're actually being different
together, and this, this healingthat I've done on my own, has
spread up to generations behindme.
So my mom's doing her work now,so it's like all three
generations are becomingdifferent than our parents
together.
It's been really reallybeautiful.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Very beautiful.
That is.
That is very beautiful.
Before we started recording, wetalked about motivational
quotes and how we can beinspired by writers, even as
writers ourselves, and somethingthat you quoted to me, I think,
something that you mentioned tome, I think you said maybe was
a presentation or a speech youdid from Denzel Washington.
(14:17):
Tell me if I get this rightDon't inspire to make a living
instead, and aspire to make adifference.
Did I get it right?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I think, well, from an
author's point of view, maybesome people are wanting to make
money, but I think the lens ofanything that I do, because I'm
very intentional with what I'mdoing, but inspired to make a
difference or to make an impactor to love, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yes, that passion, absolutely.
Well, that's fantastic.
Okay, so release date is May7th.
We're going to make sure thispodcast gets out before that.
If you are listening after therelease date, you can find it on
Amazon.
Julie Marast and the DifferentThan your Parents bright,
colorful cover.
(15:03):
You're going to love the book.
I have read the book myself.
I was fortunate enough to beable to read the manuscript.
I highly recommend it.
You're never too old to work onyour parenting.
Your kids are never too old andwe just want to create this
really loving and openenvironment where we can all
(15:25):
grow.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, and be ourselves.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And be ourselves.
Thank you, yes, julie.
I loved connecting with youtoday.
Thank you so much for being onthe podcast.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Thank you so much.
I look forward to connectingagain.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Thank you.
Hello, beautiful listeners and viewers, it is so
great to be back with you.
We took a little bit of a break, but here we are and we are
back with a wonderful guest,julie Morast.
And I met Julie a couple ofyears ago and have been so
impressed by her enthusiasm andcommitment to life, commitment
to herself, commitment to growth.
(00:23):
She is very brave and I'm surewe'll talk more about that.
Julie has been certified inmultiple modalities she's an
author, she's a parent coach,she's a yoga teacher and, most
of all, what we're going to talkabout today, she is a parent,
and a parent who is making adifference.
Her book is called DifferentThan your Parents how to feel
(00:44):
your emotions, build healthyrelationships and help your kids
do the same, which I think is ahuge key.
Julie's website is hero lifehappycom.
Welcome to the show, julie.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hey, thank you.
Thanks for having me.
It's really nice to connect.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here and
you know you use the wordconnect and I know connect is a
big part of your vocabulary andlifestyle and that you truly
believe in authentic connectionwith others.
Can you tell us what inspiredyou to really pursue connection?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, and I'll go back to the beginning of how I
became a parent.
So I had a really long journeyto becoming a parent.
It took me five years to becomea mom toward to my son.
I had a lot of infertilityissues and a loss of my daughter
the year before, so I had thisstrong desire to become a parent
.
And then when I finally becamea parent, it was really hard and
(01:46):
it wasn't what I expected.
It wasn't what I prepared forand as I was going along, I was
trying to do things differentthan my parents in terms of
being more compassionate, morepresent and more available
emotionally available towards myson.
But I wasn't able to maintainthat and one night, when I was
trying to put him to bed, I wasoverwhelmed with big, big
emotions and was kind of whatthe heck is going on.
(02:09):
So I switched out with myhusband and that's when I
started to look within myselfand like, well, why am I like
this?
Why am I not different than myparents?
And this was like a pivotalmoment in my life because I
started to reflect on how.
You know how much I wanted tobecome a parent, but yet I
wasn't able to deeply connectwith my son, and then memories
from my childhood were startingto come up, this longing to have
(02:29):
this connection with my parentsthat I didn't have.
So then I started to learn howto feel my emotions again and
try different self-discoverymodalities to seeing what was
out there that could help me.
And then over time I started toquestion as well, like well,
what?
Well, what is parenting?
And then I kind of merged themtwo together that I could use
parenting and self discovery todeep the connection with myself
(02:52):
and then in turn with my son.
And then it went on this wholejourney that we're kind of
walking on together, okay sothis book different than your
parents is coming out May 7, onAmazon.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
This book Different Than your Parents is coming out
May 7th on Amazon.
And from what I just heard yousay and tell me if I'm wrong so
with parenting and making adifference in our child's life
and giving our child the skillsto pass that on to the next
generation, do you believe thatour parenting is led emotionally
or more structured?
(03:25):
Or help me understand.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think parenting is an emotional experience.
Maybe some people would evencall it a spiritual practice.
Our children are mirrors ofwhat's going on inside of us and
we are kind of mirroring itback to them.
So it's this like ebb of flow,of this energy working together.
And I think parenting is hardwhen we don't know that, when we
don't know that that's kind ofwhat's going on, because there's
(03:49):
triggers there.
But the triggers could begrowth, growth opportunities,
growth points.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh, that's the truth and I can say, as a mother of a
35 and 38 year old, that ithasn't stopped yet.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, I like that.
You mentioned that, that.
So there was one point in my,in my journey over the past four
years, I, um, I was workingreally hard.
I'm like I gotta get this done,I gotta get this healing done
so that I can connect with myson, and then I realized that
it's a lifetime.
Um, this is a lifetime and it'sthis process of we're both
learning how to like, expressourselves and live authentically
and deepen our connection witheach other, and it's like a
lifetime of authentic relating.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So Okay, it is really beautiful, and, and I think
when we remember to look forthat lesson in the experience,
we can, we can sort our waythrough it a little bit easier.
So one is for those parents whoare like me, and I had this
(05:00):
strategy and I'm sure it was thesame strategy my mother had and
probably her mother had whichis I'm going to do things
different than my parents.
So, instead of just modifyingyou know, I pardon the
expression threw the baby outwith the bathwater and just did
everything the opposite.
And that was not the answer,because I ended up raising
children who didn't have theskills that I had because of my
parents, you know, decisionmaking, dealing with stress and
so on, and so I needed to find amiddle ground.
(05:24):
But by the time I realized thatmy children were young adults.
So how do we become aware, moreself-aware as parents?
Like, how do we become moreself-aware when our children are
still young and living at home,instead of just being
completely reactional?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Of that.
Well, that's a good questionI'm going to come back to in
just one second, but I just wantto touch base on the opposite
thing that you had said.
So when I went into parenting,I intentionally did the opposite
.
So I had a permissive parentand I had an authoritarian
parent and so I didn't reallyknow what was going on with
rules and what expectations andstuff like that.
But the main message I did getwas emotions equals bad, like do
(06:08):
not have any sort of emotion.
So when I started to parent myson I was he didn't cry at all
for like three years.
There was always soothing,rationalizing and distracting,
and that's what I based myparenting on, just from what I
knew.
But when I started to do myhealing journey and I started to
feel my emotions, I started tohave awareness of how, when I
(06:29):
had that in my childhood, theimpacts of that.
So I feel like there's this bigpiece when we examine our
childhood, we get to have theawareness in the present of the
impacts of what we're having onour children, and that gives us
the opportunity to heal the pastbut also bring awareness to
change in the present.
So learning about parentingstyles and approaches and the
history of them and where theycame from and what the kind of
(06:50):
entail gave me a foundation forchange and this is a big part of
what I teach in the beginningpart of my book or my framework.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, that makes a lot of sense to me.
It really does, and I thinkthat it is age appropriate for
if your children are still indiapers or if your children have
children, because you know Ican say, as a grandmother, I'm
still learning parenting and,again, it's a never-ending
(07:20):
journey.
So you, because I know you, Iknow that you have always dug a
little deeper when it comes toemotions.
You're very courageous anddigging in and exploring and
saying hmm, what is this?
Julie and I first met throughthe Heal your Life training
certification that Julie tookand one of your favorite
(07:44):
affirmations is I am open andreceptive to all of the goodness
life has to offer.
I love life.
And what does that mean to you,that affirmation?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah to like.
There's no good or badexperience.
Everything is a learningexperience.
If I could take and I do, I dothis now.
So for most of my life, for 35years, I thought life was kind
of like against me and was likebringing me all these things and
I didn't know why and I waspushing back.
There was a lot of resistance,but now I feel open and
(08:19):
receptive to all that it brings,that there's all these
opportunities, there's all theseopportunities for growth.
There's all these opportunitiesto feel my emotions, to
question what are my beliefsabout myself, are they true?
Where do they come from?
And then coming back to thatdeep connection with myself,
with my truth, so that I canconnect with other people
authentically, so thataffirmation is everything,
(08:40):
everything everything.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It really is a good way of explaining it and I think
that doing it the way that youare saying, using this
affirmation, open and receptiveto all the goodness life has has
to offer, what it does is itcreates space for our children
um, you know, speaking ofparenting, right?
So whether our child is, uh,five and and learning a lesson,
or 25 and learning a lesson, uh,when we say I'm open and
(09:06):
receptive, it creates space forthem to grow, for us to grow.
And so often, as parents tellme if I'm wrong here, we seem to
think we have ownership overour children, and I remember a
lady telling me many, many yearsago that they're not just an
(09:28):
extension of me, that they havetheir own minds, their own likes
, their own desires, and my kidswere in high school when she
told me this, and I was tryingto control everything.
How do you help parents learnto let go of of the control?
Control?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
well, in my own experience, the control was
coming from, because I wastrying to control my inner world
.
Um, so anytime there was my sondoing something that like
playing messy or being loud ornot listening, doing something
that I didn't want him to do, itwas always bringing up
something inside of me.
So I think the key thing isbeing proactive and having a
lifestyle that allows you toconstantly questioning your
(10:10):
beliefs about yourself andreleasing those emotions from
your body, gives you theawareness to step back when our
children do something and beinglike I'm just going to like,
observe and see what's happening, obviously stepping in if
there's a safety thing right, ifthere's a safety thing going on
.
But most often, well, from whenI grew up, we weren't able to
do that, and that's obviouslywhat we're doing, differently
(10:30):
than our parents.
But it allows the children thespace to explore, because
ultimately, this is about thembeing themselves, having that
freedom of expression but havingthat safe container that's
provided by their parents.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So okay, good, good, now tell me, what are you?
Do you have a program that isgoing on with your book that
you're doing?
Are you offering any coachingor sessions to people who are
reading your book and wanting toknow more?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, so in the book there's a.
The framework is called theHero Life Happy Experience and
it's a three-part experimentmoving through mindset shifts,
lifestyle kind of set up andunderstanding villages or
relationships so that peopleparents can feel their emotions
and build out the relationshipsand do it with their kids.
And I'm working on a programright now, so that's going to be
(11:20):
coming out shortly.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Oh great.
So it's an interactive bookwhere they're learning as they
read.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh yes, yeah, they're learning as they read and then
as they go they can self-inquireabout things and then do little
lifestyle setups as they go andthen reach out to me at the end
for further support.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Oh, wonderful, wonderful.
So when you were writing thisbook, can you tell us about some
of the things that maybe youcame up against from other
parents in your life, pardon,what do you mean?
So what I'm wondering is thewriting a parenting book and you
(12:01):
know, we've all, as parents andas non-parents, we all have, we
are all the experts, we allhave the advice and are you
finding that people are open tothis type of work as a parent,
or did you find that you gotpushed back from other parents
that you were sharing what youwere?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
writing.
Yeah, it was a little bit ofboth.
There's definitely somepushback, um, from, I would say,
older generations.
Uh, maybe, yeah, yeah, who did,who might not have been wanting
to or able to feel that what'sgoing on?
Because what I'm talking about,even just reading the title,
offers healing I'm finding withpeople and, yeah, but most, the
(12:40):
majority people are very, verysupportive and could actually
relate to this one thing of haveyou ever made yourself a
promise that you want to bedifferent than your parents?
And that's like a real hook ora real relatable thing that many
of us have said to ourselvesmany times, subconsciously or
not.
Yeah, so throughout the process, I've been met with a lot of
(13:01):
like, thank you for saying this.
Actually, like, that's whatpeople are saying.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh, wonderful.
And you are right.
Reading that title is healing.
I sincerely felt it in my bodyreading that title Difference in
your parents, how to feel youremotions, build healthy
relationships and help your kidsdo the same.
I mean that's what we want.
We want the best for them ineverything that they do.
The same, I mean that's what wewant.
We want the best for them ineverything that they do.
(13:26):
But you're teaching us how tonot manage the best for them,
how to not control the best andhow to let them grow up as
little humans and and just keepour own peace as well.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And then I'll mention too.
It's really interesting.
So throughout this wholeprocess, it's like my son is
being different than me too, sowe're actually being different
together, and this, this healingthat I've done on my own, has
spread up to generations behindme.
So my mom's doing her work now,so it's like all three
generations are becomingdifferent than our parents
together.
It's been really reallybeautiful.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Very beautiful.
That is.
That is very beautiful.
Before we started recording, wetalked about motivational
quotes and how we can beinspired by writers, even as
writers ourselves, and somethingthat you quoted to me, I think,
something that you mentioned tome, I think you said maybe was
a presentation or a speech youdid from Denzel Washington.
(14:17):
Tell me if I get this rightDon't inspire to make a living
instead, and aspire to make adifference.
Did I get it right?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I think, well, from an
author's point of view, maybesome people are wanting to make
money, but I think the lens ofanything that I do, because I'm
very intentional with what I'mdoing, but inspired to make a
difference or to make an impactor to love, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yes, that passion, absolutely.
Well, that's fantastic.
Okay, so release date is May7th.
We're going to make sure thispodcast gets out before that.
If you are listening after therelease date, you can find it on
Amazon.
Julie Marast and the DifferentThan your Parents bright,
colorful cover.
(15:03):
You're going to love the book.
I have read the book myself.
I was fortunate enough to beable to read the manuscript.
I highly recommend it.
You're never too old to work onyour parenting.
Your kids are never too old andwe just want to create this
really loving and openenvironment where we can all
(15:25):
grow.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, and be ourselves.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And be ourselves.
Thank you, yes, julie.
I loved connecting with youtoday.
Thank you so much for being onthe podcast.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Thank you so much.
I look forward to connectingagain.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Thank you.
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