Happy Friday, Freckled Foodie Family. Today we are joined by another wonderful gem that Tiktok has blessed us with.

Destiny Anne is a peaceful parent, but she's also real fuck, which I appreciate. It's not like, parenting is so easy. Just like, go ahead and do everything with a smile.

She is a very realistic, and she, like, does wonderful human, but she also gives tactical advice, and I'm like really interested in the concept of peaceful parenting, because I want to raise Liam very consciously, if that makes sense, like I'm putting a very conscious effort into our parenting style, and this is something that really interests me. She answers a lot of my questions. She explains it for anyone who is not familiar with the term, and then we dive into some

examples. Overall, I think this is a really helpful episode, whether you're a parent or not, because we reflect a lot on a topic, I talk about a decent amount, but reflecting on how we were raised, and how that is playing role, and how we want to raise our children, or how we don't want to raise our children, and I think that we all were raised in a specific way, and it's just an interesting thing to reflect on whether you have children or not. So with that further ado, here is Destiny.

Destiny, I'm so excited to have you, because I feel like I have so many questions after following you on TikTok, and I'm really excited to have you.

I'm so excited to have you, because I feel like I have so many questions after following you on TikTok, and then on Instagram, there's just so much that I'm curious about, and need help explaining, but also just guidance, because I'm really interested in your content, so I'm very excited to have you here.

Thank you. I'm so glad we're finally having the conversation. I know that it's been a minute since we said we were going to, so I am glad that we are finally doing this.

I'm not the guru. I don't have all the answers, but I hope that I have some today.

Well, you definitely seem to have some. So I want to, for people who are listening who are not familiar with you, can you introduce us just to yourself, give us your short version story of who you are?

Absolutely. So I go by Destiny, and I am a parenting coach, a positive discipline coach. That's what I like to call it. I'm a really focused on respectful parenting, peaceful, gentle parenting.

But that's real, and that is tangible, and not just cookie cutter approach. I am very loud and rambunctious, and extra and all of the things, and I'm so very respectful to my children.

And so I try to bridge that gap, because I feel like there was a space missing for people like me who have, you know, I always say, I don't talk like Elmo.

And so peaceful parenting sometimes was hard for me, and I feel like I finally found a groove with all of my research and all of my setting, and with working with other parents. And so that is what I do.

I share tips and advice for relatable parents that go through the messiness of parenting, but still, you know, want to raise our kids with as little trauma and baggage as possible.

Yes, and I think that's the goal exactly what you just said at the end, like it's something that really terrifies me about being a parent, and it excites me also, but it really terrifies me that like

what I do, what I say, whether it's directly to him or indirectly, like so much is being picked up on by his brain, and it's really molding this human's brain who will eventually go through life on his own.

And like even I reflect in my therapy about things that were happened in my childhood that weren't done in any negative type of way, but they definitely impacted me and not always the best of ways.

Like what was your childhood, like did that play a role that you're doing?

That definitely that my childhood, I had a lot of trauma in my childhood, I was definitely the black sheep, I was the bad kid, and just very misunderstood.

I had wonderful parents, wonderful parents, they were together and they both brought different dynamics, but I did not see a comprehensive approach in either of them.

They were complete opposite ends, so I'm glad that I got two different approaches, but that meant that my parenting or excuse me, my experience as a child was very up and then down and then turbulent and then calm, and so it did create a sense of insecurity, I would say.

And I do have that fear as well from that, I don't necessarily want my children to experience that, but the other side of that is that I can't control everything, you know, and things are going to happen.

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