# Parenting Without Losing Yourself: Tools for Calm, Connection & Balance with Todd Sarner

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Podcast: [Ignite Your Power: The Kathy Mou Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ignite-your-power-the-kathy-mou-podcast-6467118)
Published: 2026-06-12T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Are you feeling overwhelmed trying to balance motherhood, business, relationships, and your own emotional well-being? In this powerful episode of *Ignite Your Power: The Kathy Mou Podcast*, Kathy Mou sits down with psychotherapist, MFT, and parenting expert Todd Sarner, author of *The Calm & Connected Parent*, to discuss how high-achieving parents can create more peace, connection, and emotional resilience at home. Todd shares practical parenting tools to help mompreneurs and busy parents move away from burnout, emotional blowups, perfectionism, and power struggles — and toward calm, connection, and healthier family dynamics. With over two decades of experience helping families thrive, Todd offers compassionate, real-life strategies that help parents regulate emotions, break generational cycles, and stay connected without losing themselves in the process. In this episode, we discuss: ✨ Parenting without burnout ✨ Emotional regulation tools for parents ✨ How mompreneurs can find balance ✨ Breaking generational parenting cycles ✨ Connection over control parenting ✨ Managing stress and overwhelm as a parent ✨ How to stay calm during emotional moments ✨ Parenting and relationship balance ✨ The truth about perfectionism in parenting ✨ Creating a more peaceful home environment If you’re a parent, entrepreneur, or someone trying to juggle it all while staying emotionally grounded, this episode is for you. 🎧 Listen now and learn how to become a more calm, connected, and empowered parent. Make sure to LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE, and SHARE this episode with someone who needs this message 💫 Follow Kathy Mou: Instagram: @kathy.mou Todd Sarner's Bio: For over 20 years, I’ve been working with one question: Why do some families flow while others struggle constantly, even when the paren…

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