Coaching Meeting Parenting Part 2: Empathy, Emotions & The Way We Show Up

In Part 2 of our conversation with parenting coach Alex McKenzie Johnston, we move from awareness into application, exploring what parenting looks like in the everyday moments that truly shape our children.

Alex shares her experience of home-schooling and offers powerful analogies that invite us to gently examine how we show up as parents. We explore how children learn emotional regulation not through instruction, but through experience, and how empathy is taught not by demand, but by being modelled.

In this episode, we dive into:

• Helping children navigate big emotions without trying to fix or silence them • Why empathy must be experienced before it can be expressed • How our responses shape our children’s emotional literacy • Practical shifts that make parenting feel lighter and more connected

This is a light and compassionate continuation of a conversation that has already resonated deeply with our audience, offering reassurance, and real-life wisdom for anyone raising (or supporting) children.

If Part 1 helped you exhale, Part 2 will help you reflect and embed insight into how we all behave the way we do and how we can show up differently.