My Strength is My Story with Tiffany Benyacko, Lose the Cape: Ain’t Nothing but a Teen Thang.
Have you ever wonder how to talk with your teenager, handle conflict once divorced, and get through your past to enjoy the present? Tiffany Benyacko shares how her life changed after children and divorce.
Tiffany Benyacko: A wife of 6 years and mother to her 12 year old daughter and 22 year old son.
Being previously divorced herself, she understands the complications that go with it.
Tiffany uses her voice to reach and support parents struggling with co-parenting. Her work has introduced many parents in the U.S. and abroad to parallel parenting for high conflict parents.
Tiffany is a mentor and writer. She’s been featured in Huffington Post and several other online parenting and divorce journals along with her own blog, Unrehearsed.
She is also an author with 20 other women who together wrote their new book, Lose the Cape: Ain’t Nothing but a Teen Thang.
“Part of how I’m able to do the things that I’m doing now is because of her.” ~ Tiffany Benyacko
BOOK: Lose the Cape
Connect with Tiffany Benyacko
Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including joy, parallel parenting, divorce, and menstrual cycles! Be inspired to create your now as you first turn inward!
- How we met
- Joy in the heart
- Church
- Divorce
- Co-parenting
- High conflict divorces
- Change the Ex
- 10 years
- 5 Stages of Grief
- Shielding your child
- Readiness
- Blended families
- Strength and Value
- Growth
- Parallel Parenting
- Applying it
- Communication
- Stick to the facts
- Emotional Powder Keg
- Reacting vs Responding
- Lose the Cape
- Menstrual Cycle
- Am I doing too much?
- Period pouches
- Bite-size conversations
- Watching TV
- Switched at Birth
- Open Door Policy
- Presence
- Girl Scouts
- Camping
- Fear
- Getting along
- Tit for tat
- Ireland
- Change Brokenness
BOOK: Lose the Cape
Connect with Tiffany Benyacko
“You’ve gotta come inward.” ~ Tiffany Benyacko
Quotes and statements within the interview:
“I found that joy is something that’s inside of you. It’s not anything on the outside that’s gonna bring it. It’s something that ou really have to start on the inside.”
“You’re not going to get along with everybody.”
“Cause everybody’s not gonna get along. And that’s OK as long as the focus is still on the child.”
“Don’t use the child as a messenger.”
“There is one thing you can change and that is YOU!”
“I still go to the same church, yes!”
“It strengthened me; it prepared me for my husband.”
“My kids immediately gelled with my husband.”
“My voice has value. I bring something to the table.”
“This was the byproduct of the divorce — I came out a whole lot stronger than I even thought I would be.”
“I don’t like math.”
“You both have the same end goals, which is parenting. However, you’re not going to influence each other’s parenting abilities.”
“Emojis get people in trouble.”
“I’m vowing right now. When I grow up and if I have a daughter, this is not going to happen like this.”
“I think boys should know, maybe not a lot of detail, but they do also need to know what this is and why it happens kind of thing.”
“We talk about all things puberty.”
“Having those bit-size conversations, it’s like having the door constantly open, an open door policy.”
“Be who you needed when you were younger.”
“Part of how I’m able to do the things that I’m doing is because of her.”
“She has taught me to really not have any fear.”
“I wasn’t the same person back then when you were twelve.”
“I have to always be mindful of kind of like not returning a tit for tat kind of thing.”
“However, I like this other side that I’m on so much better.”
“You have to come inward. The work has to start inward before you can see any change with another person, another situation in your life. You’ve gotta come inward.”
What has your story gifted you?
- Feeling comfortable in my skin
- “I like me! I LIKE ME!!!”
“My story has gifted me a life where I finally feel comfortable being in my own skin.”
“On a Facebook LIVE that was one of the things someone talked about is when they first started writing, they tried to be the ‘Pinterest Mom’. And when I heard that, I was like — Oh wow! I know her because I tried to be her too.”
“I’m good in my own skin.”
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- BOOK: Lose the Cape
- Connect with Tiffany Benyacko
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unrehearsedtiff/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/unRehearsedTiff
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beunrehearsed/
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