What's Holding You Back and How It's Affecting Your Kids

What's Holding You Back and How It's Affecting Your Kids

From Solo Parent by Solo Parent

May 4, 2026 · 38 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the hidden patterns that can hold solo parents back and their impact on children.

This week we're discussing What's Holding You Back and How It's Affecting Your Kids . Growth doesn't always announce itself as something you're missing. Sometimes you're functioning, even thriving in some areas, and still carrying patterns that are quietly working against you. Denial, shame spiraling, overcompensating, running to busyness or numbing out. You don't have to be falling apart to need this. You just have to be human. And the way you're handling the hard things right now is already shaping the way your kids will learn to handle theirs. Robert Beeson, Founder and CEO of Solo Parent, and Elizabeth Cole, single parent and co-host, sit down with Amber Fuller, a counselor with a Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy and a single parent herself, to name the patterns that quietly keep solo parents from growing. Amber brings both clinical insight and lived experience, speaking not just as a therapist but as someone who has navigated the same hard terrain. Together they get honest about the traps, and the part nobody talks about enough: how those patterns find their way into our kids. Key Insights from This Episode Naming the trap is the most courageous first step. Whether it…

People in this episode

Hosts: Robert Beeson, Elizabeth Cole

Guest: Amber Fuller

Topics covered

  • personal growth
  • parenting
  • mental health
  • single parenting
  • emotional resilience

Keywords

  • growth
  • denial
  • shame
  • overcompensating
  • emotional skills

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Organizations: Solo Parent

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