Marriage, pregnancy, and early motherhood are when you discover how entitled everyone feels to influence YOUR life choices. And we're not interested...
Sadly, most boundary advice is garbage. It teaches you to build emotional walls, set limits, push back. But you don't want to lose the people you love - you want them to feel that you love them and that you care AND truly listen to you and actually respect you.
Every boundary you don't set, every conversation you avoid, every time you cave to keep the peace - you're training people how to treat you. And once you're a mom, it gets 10x harder to change those patterns. So, we have to master your relationship with conflict before your in-laws, parents, partner think they have your life choices in the palm of their hand.
You're a strong, self-respecting, wise woman. And it's time your relationships reflect that.
Your husband can't afford to be 'the nice guy' when you're pregnant. He needs to have your back and help you hold your boundaries. And, your mother-in-law can't project her expectations onto you and expect you to just assimilate. But they think they can, because you let them...
The good news is that you don't have to. Not to keep the peace. Not to keep them happy. Not to keep growing closer as a family. You can turn their pushback into respect. And turn even your most challenging family members into your supporters.
I'm on a mission to disrupt the silly social expectations being passed down through generations and create a world where women are immune to cultural and family pressure around their pregnancy, birth, and parenting choices and the next generation never even witnesses it.
While most people avoid conflict to keep the peace, I teach you to use conflict to create more peace. After figuring this out for myself, I've helped 500+ women transform their most challenging relationships into their greatest sources of support.
"I learned so much from Lena!
I'm all about making people feel seen, and I felt like setting boundaries would be hurting the people I love but Lena helped me realize it's actually empowering them.
I wouldn't have been able to see that without Lena and her support."
"Lena, I want to thank you from the absolute depth of my soul for teaching me how to communicate better with myself, with other people, how to approach things that matter to me, how to have conversations that are hard...
I am endlessly grateful for you and my life would not look the way it does today if it wasn't for you."
"If you are looking for someone who can help you navigate the uncomfortable conversations and situations in your relationships, Lena is your go-to.
Her knowledge and peaceful approach was eye opening and easy to apply...
It has made a huge impact on the relationships that are the most important to me."