You’re Doing Better Than You Think: The Evidence You Keep Ignoring
About this episode
This episode discusses how overwhelmed dog parents can recognize their progress through an evidence audit, countering the negativity bias that often clouds their self-assessment.
An evidence audit for overwhelmed dog parents - five areas that prove you’re making more progress than you realise. If you’re an overwhelmed dog parent who feels like you’re not making progress, like the dog parent guilt never lifts and nothing is working, this episode is for you. Today I’m sharing what I call the evidence audit: a way of looking at what’s actually there, rather than what your brain keeps telling you. In Episode 41 of The Mindful Dog Parent, I’m exploring why hard moments stick and good ones slide off (the science is real and it’s not your fault), and walking you through five areas of evidence that prove you’re doing better than you think. Because most overwhelmed dog parents aren’t failing. They’re succeeding in ways they’ve completely stopped noticing. This episode is rooted in the Nervous-System Aware Dog Parenting™ framework and is for every dog parent who has ever looked at their dog at the end of a hard week and wondered if they’re enough. Main Topics Why you can’t see your own progress The negativity bias is real - a deeply wired tendency to give more weight to negative experiences than positive ones. In dog parenting, this means hard walks and difficult…
People in this episode
Host: Sian Lawley-Rudd
Topics covered
- dog parenting
- self-assessment
- negativity bias
- evidence audit
- progress recognition
Keywords
- dog training
- overwhelmed dog parents
- parenting guilt
- Nervous-System Aware Dog Parenting
- self-reflection
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