# How to Deal with Parenting When You’re Trying to Break Cycles (with My Mom, Babs Slaton)

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Podcast: [How To Deal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-deal-6351386)
Published: 2026-01-12T15:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

What would you tell your younger mom self? In this deeply personal first episode, Eli sits down with **Babs Slaton, MA, LPC**—fellow therapist, colleague at the PASS Center, and the original cycle breaker in Eli's family. Babs was the first person in their family system to look around at the dysfunction and say, "This feels insecure. We need to figure something out." Babs shares the five things she wishes someone had told her when she was a young mom in the trenches—wisdom refined through decades of parenting, therapy, and watching her grandchildren thrive.

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