3.8 | Parenting Beyond Worry: Breaking Cycles & Building Hope this Mental Health Month (with Lauren Errington)

The Parent Hope Podcast · Oct 2, 2025 · 48m

As parents, our worries can quietly slip onto our children’s shoulders.

But what if there’s another way?

This Mental Health Month (in our State: NSW), the Parent Hope Podcast explores how parents can support children’s well-being by first steadying themselves. Jenny Brown, founder and director of the Parent Hope Project, and Lauren Errington, executive Director of The Family Systems Institute, draw on Bowen Family Systems Theory to unpack how parental worry - often inflamed by mental health messaging - can be projected onto kids and how parents can step out of those cycles.

We’ll look at:

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