Welcome to my podcast, I’m Kelly Ramsey CEO of Developing People, Inc. sharing inspiration about life, parenting, living with intention, and sharing stories about how it all happens in the background of life.

In today’s episode Kelly revisits her journey map and shares lessons learned and the impact of the relationships in her life that support her and celebrate her identity.

Our identity is carefully defined by how we show up in relationships with others. Deciding to show up authentically defines the quality of our relationships.

In relationships, consider who we show up as and how we interact with those we treasure most.

Mutual friendships and relationships yield fruit that remains. At the roots, we nourish one another and provide nutrients to cause us to flourish. This nourishment is what we don’t see in the forefront of our lives but it’s what supports healthy relationship development. A celebration of 25 years of marriage is a vivid picture of how we are rooted in love and care for each other. Our tree is producing a harvest because of the constant care and attention to the soil of our lives through the seasons of life.

Let’s keep nurturing our relationships with one another, and see the benefit of our care and attention to each other.

Today’s Action Steps:

Place a circle around the relationships that you treasure the most. How do you continue to fuel the relationships you circled? Looking at those relationships creates action steps toward the goal you have set for yourself.

References:

For more on Kelly’s story of living through divorce and redefining her life as a wife and mother. You can check it out here: Loving and Living After Tragedy: Stories of Restoration and Renewal by LaTara Bussey https://a.co/d/0MdNLDX

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We have a purpose and are knitted together from the beginning of time in our mothers’ womb. The destiny that unfolds is held in the relationships we embark on from childhood to adulthood. Our understanding of who we are as individuals in the context of our families and community shapes us.

This episode will explore the following topics:

Creating Supportive Relationships

Connecting our Journey of Parenthood to our own childhood

Relationship development

Our identity

In Family and the home

In Community - School, Workplace, and Social settings

Milestones and Celebrations

Cultivating Relationships

Key learnings:

Our identity is connected to our purpose in life.

How we are affected by one another determines how we interact with each other in relationships.

Responsibilities of being in a relationship with one another

Partnership in parenting with our children

Cultivating relationships and actions to affect change.

Action Steps:

Create a map of your life from childhood to adulthood and identify key moments at each stage. What did you notice about yourself in your map? What were traits that were present in the beginning? If there are changes in your identity from the beginning, what are they?

Make a list of all of your relationships that you are in currently, and those relationships that you are serving others in. Examine your list of relationships to notice any patterns in who supports you, and how you support others. Journal your thoughts, and determine how to cultivate those healthy relationships.

Today’s episode shares a few highlights from Ellen Galinsky’s book The Six Stages of Parenthood. Join us for a rich discussion about the imagery of parenthood and the parallel process of child development and the stages of parenthood.

Our topics today will discuss parenting through the stages of your children’s development

,the parenting journey and the first stage of the Six Stages of Parenthood by Ellen Galinsky

Parenting is a journey. Including ourselves in the journey. Raising our children.

We partner with parents as we move through the stages of development with children.

The Image-making stage - What will it be like as a parent?

Natural child-birth process

Adoption

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Cultural Influences

Our Story of Parenting

My childhood story

Creating a Legacy

Communities to Support our parenting journey

From an image to a reality

Passing on a servant leadership legacy

Our matriarch: Alester Easter Taylor a legacy of servant leadership

Action Steps:

Look for the things you want to see more of in your parenting journey

What brings me joy today?

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