Intentional parents are some of the most motivated people in any room. They understand nervous system regulation in theory. They know about generational patterns. They have made a deliberate, conscious decision to parent differently from the way they were parented.

And the Accommodation stage catches them anyway. Not despite those qualities — because of them.

In this episode, Philippa Scott goes deep into the first two stages of The Mother Awakening Cycle — Initiation and Accommodation — and makes the case that the skills most associated with intentional parenting are precisely the ones that extend Accommodation. The ability to reframe, to regulate enough to keep going, to prioritise others and call it strength — all of these keep capable parents in Accommodation far longer than is sustainable.

The result, eventually, is a nervo ...