❤️Love, Backpacks, & Big Feelings ❤️

A soulful convo on parenting, presence, and the emotional swirl of back - to - school season.

❤️🎶☕️ Love Beats & Brew / Episode 5 Recap ❤️🎶☕️

🛋️ From the Couch 🛋️

✨ Back-to-school season isn’t just pencils, planners, and lunchbox notes - it’s a reset of the heart. In this episode, we explore how love shows up during transitional moments as parents, caregivers, and co-parents. From early morning chaos to quiet reflections after drop-off, this one’s for the village, the mamas, bonus dads, aunties, mentors, and everyone in between who’s helping raise little souls.

🎙️ Highlights From This Episode 🎙️

🎧 The Sacred Chaos of Back - to - School 🎧

✨ From drop off-tears to first day of school confessions, we talk about the swirl of emotions that come with the start of a new school year. We reminisce on past years and the nostalgia of it being our “last year” of back to school before our youngest daughter leaves for college! 🥺 We share stories of forgotten shoes, lunch bag notes and that shift in the household rhythm when summer comes to an end and the backpacks return to the hallway. ✨

🎧 Love Languages for your Kids 🎧

✨ How do you make sure your kids feel seen? We unpack love languages for our kids, from morning affirmations to long morning hugs. Sometimes it’s the smallest gestures that can be the most grounding. ✨

💛 “Connection isn’t about time, it’s about presence.” 💛

🎧 Co-Parenting & Communication 🎧

✨ We open up about the beauty and complexity of co-parenting, and the different dynamics and rolls that parents play and how shared grace, open communication and team work go hand in hand. ✨

🌱 “You’re not always going to agree. But you can still always lead with love.” 🌱

🎧 A Surprise Call-In from Our Daughter, 💕 Lala 🎧

✨ This moment was special! We surprised everyone with a real-time unexpected call to our oldest daughter. ✨

• What the first day of school used to feel like for her growing up.

• What it feels like now as a mama herself.

• The sweetness (and struggle) of being the oldest sibling.

• A hilarious confession about Lex sneaking her clothes.

• How Yaya used to raid her candy stash

💕 This segment brought laughter, nostalgia, and the reminder that our kids don’t just grow up, they grow us too. 💕

💛 “It was you guys that made the first day of school feel special, your hard work, your dedication to us and to always making us feel prepared, ready, special and fresh ta death!” - Lala 💛

🎧 Brew Tips - For the Soul 🎧

✨ “Cinnamon cardamom oat milk latte to warm the nerves and ground the soul.” ✨

☕️ Soulful Morning Brew ☕️

• Heat oat milk with a pinch of cinnamon + cardamom

• Add espresso or tea

• Breathe deep and repeat: “I am present. I am patient. I am enough.”

💌 Kell’s Final Thought 💌

Maybe the backpacks aren’t the only things getting heavier this season.

Maybe we’re all carrying something…an old story, a hope, a fear we haven’t named yet.

But here’s the grace: you don’t have to carry it alone.

This year hits different for me.

It’s my last back - to -school season…my baby girl is a senior.

The final “first day.”

The last round of calendar reminders, school pictures, and have a beautiful day hugs before she steps into her next chapter.

and man…i’m feeling it.

So whether you’re braiding hair in the early morning, squashing sibling beef and early morning arguments, wiping tears at drop, off or sitting in a quite room after the door closes..

Let that moment be sacred. Let it be enough.

You’re not just raising a child.

You’re tending to a soul.

And yous matter too 💛

So breath deep, mama…or papa…or both

Love hard.

And remember… just because they’re growing up doesn’t mean you’re loosing them.

You’re loving them forward.

(This is my reminder too)

✨ Reflection ✨ Soul Questions ✨ Journal Prompts ✨

💭 What does back to school season stir in me?

💭 Where do I feel the need to control and what might it look like to gently let go?

💭 How did I feel loved as a child during transitional moments?

💭 What is one small ritual I can create to anchor myself (or my child) during chaotic mornings?

💭 How am I modelling emotional presence for my child watching me?

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❤️🎶 Ibrahim takes us on a soulful journey of the heart in this weeks playlist 🎶❤️

🎵 It’s a perfect vibe for the morning while the house is getting ready or in the car dropping the kids off at school. Either way, tap in and catch a vibe! 🎵