Grow Yourself Up

Catherine Counihan

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Ep 172: Giving Up on Being Good, Fawning, Shame and Discomfort

6/1/2026 • 37 min

In this episode Cath talks about her concept 'Giving Up on Being Good' and the 'Good Girl Grid'. The experience of emotional neglect produces a set of coping strategies based on our stress responses and unwinding these as we grow and develop as adults is really important so that we can live our own TRUE lives. This work happens on multiple levels - cognitive, em… Play episode

Ep 171: Anxiety, Somatics and Growing Up in Motherhood with Colleen Adrian…
Ep 170: Longing, Adult Love Relationships and Feeling Seen and Heard
Ep 169: Ambivalence, Love and Hate in Motherhood and Parenting
Ep 168: Sensory Systems, Integration, Trauma and Family Considerations
Ep167: Rage, Vitality, Agency and Growing up in Motherhood with Lisa March…
Ep 166: Overfunctioning, Emotional Neglect and the Circle of Care
Ep 165: Ancestral Healing and Wisdom, Power and Growing Up in Motherhood w…
Ep 164: Neurodivergent Family Life, Home Education and Breaking Cycles wit…
Ep 163: Neurodivergence, Unmasking, Late Diagnosis and Growing Up with Dr …
Ep 162: Guilt and Shame in Parenting: Ask Cath (Re-release)
Ep 161: Control and the Chaotic Shit Show (Re-release)
Ep 160: Sovereignty, Secure Attachment and Unconditional Love
Ep 159: Attachment Styles, Finding our Voice, Avoidance, Grief and Growing…
Ep 158: Complex Trauma, Mother Wounds and Generational Healing with Dr Ari…
Ep 157: Generational Clashes and Parenting as Gardening
Ep 156: Earned Secure Attachment
Ep 155: Attachment Theory, Reparenting and Earned Secure Attachment
Ep 154: Fantasy, Family Nervous Systems, Stress Responses and Success
Ep 153: Rage, Shame, Terror and Making Space for your Inner Baby
Ep 152: Bibliotherapy: Books for a Healing Journey
Ep 151: Progressive Education, Neurodivergence, Healing and Growing with K…
Ep 150: Generational Trauma, Shame, Emotional Neglect and Sugar Addiction …
Ep 149: Self Care for Winter, How to be Selfish and Self Advocacy with Suz…
Ep 148: Our Humanity and the Paradox of Healing
Ep 147: Your Body Really Does Remember and Shifting Patterns with Dr Kathr…
Ep 146: Narcissism, Emotional Neglect and Perfectionism with Dr Kathrin St…
Ep 145: Relationships, the Mental Load and Growing Up in Motherhood with C…
Ep 144: Emotional Neglect and Experiencing our Children’s Emotions
Ep 143: Shame, People Pleasing, Fawning and our Kids
Ep 142: Trauma Recovery, Justice and Mothering the Mother with Dr. Judith …
Ep 141: Chronic Stress, Urgency and Nervous System Repatterning
Ep 140: Context, Holidays and Being the Default Parent
Ep 139: Control and the Chaotic Shit Show
Ep 138: Transitions, Expectations and First Times
Ep 137: Needs, Our Humanity and Shame
Ep 136: Neediness, Choice and Growing Up in Motherhood with Mara Glatzel (…
Ep 135: Overworking, Redefining Success and Growing Up with Tamu Thomas
Ep 134: Fertility, Longing , Fantasies and Growing up in Motherhood with J…
Ep 133: Childhood Trauma, Embodiment, Parental Burnout and our Nervous Sys…
Ep 132: ADHD, Executive Functioning and Shame
Ep 131: Growing Up and Tending to Ourselves in Motherhood with Dr Jenny Tu…
Ep 130: Secure Attachment, Postpartum and Growing up in Motherhood with Jo…
Ep 129: Healing and Breaking Cycles in Parenting with Maggie Viers (Re-rel…
Ep 128: Am I Failing My Kids and Secure Attachment
Ep127: A Mother's Journey to Conscious Parenting and Parenting Teens with …
Ep 126: Creativity and Growing Up in Motherhood with Flora Cruft
Ep 125: Burnout and Parenting When Our Kids Struggle with Kendra Wilde (Re…
Ep 124: The Good Girl Grid and Owning our Own Motherhood Experience
Ep 123: Ancestral Healing and Wisdom, Power and Growing Up in Motherhood w…

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