Break the cycle of generational trauma by doing your own work, connecting to your authentic self, so that you can raise children who won’t have to recover from their childhoods.
Our Motto is: Raising Our Children, Growing Ourselves.
Authentic Parenting explores how you can find more calm, connection and joy in parenting through the process of self-discovery and inner growth with a trauma-informed lens.
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RE-RELEASE: Why Keeping a Secret Can Do More Harm Than Good with Michael Slepian
Episode 417
Thursday, August 22, 2024 • Duration 01:08:18
Join us for LIVE Podcast The Art of Communication in Relationships: Navigating Needs, Feelings, and Deeper Connection on October 5, 2024, in Princeton, New Jersey with featured guest Yvette Erasmus.
If you want to revisit Yvette Erasmus’s previous appearances on the show, check out these episodes:
EP. 262: When Your Needs Are Not Met
EP. 308: How to Ask for What You Need in a Relationship
I’m thrilled to invite you to an intimate evening where you’ll get to meet me and my special guest, Yvette Erasmus, in person. This is your chance to connect with fellow fans and immerse yourself in a truly unforgettable experience. We’ll have delicious food, great music, exciting raffles, engaging activities, and fantastic prizes. Plus, there’s free parking and plenty of laughter and good times!
Parenting through Connection Instead of Coercion with Pam Leo
Episode 409
Thursday, June 13, 2024 • Duration 01:01:39
Author of Connection Parenting (the book is about 20 years old!) Pam Leo on why connection matters, how build and rebuild connection with our children on a daily basis, and what it looks like in reality.
Also, we talk about respecting children. the importance of play, literacy, and so much more. Pam shares a truly powerful exercise from her book to help you with your parenting goals and values.
The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success with Marc Brackett
Episode 298
Thursday, November 18, 2021 • Duration 57:08
For the past 25 years Marc Brackett, Ph.D has been researching and writing about emotions and running around the world talking to people about their feelings.
Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine at Yale University.
“Our emotional state is one of the most important aspects of our lives. It rules everything else. Its influence is pervasive. Yet it is also the thing we steer around most carefully. Our inner lives are uncharted territory even to us, a risky place to explore.
Our lives are saturated with emotions-sadness, disappointment, anxiety, irritation, enthusiasm and even tranquility. Sometimes-often-those feelings are inconvenient.
The irony, though, is when we ignore our feelings, or suppress them, they only become stronger. "
A thirteen year old Laney and her mom Julie are here to talk about how they transformed their relationship. They went from fighting daily into a more peaceful, positive and connected place. Julie is an active member of the Authentic Parenting community and has appeared on the podcast before.
Julie has made some big strides and major shifts in her parenting. She has been consistently learning and growing. It's pretty amazing how far she has come. Turns out her daughter wanted to come to the podcast and share about their struggles and challenges and transformation.
In this episode we talked about:
How she navigates puberty, middle school and social media
What was it like to be diagnosed with ADHD in the pandemic
How she monitors her own screen time after having had a dependent relationship with it
The tools she discovered that help her with her anxiety and emotion regulation
And finally her sound, down to earth advice to parents everywhere
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Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation
Episode 296
Friday, November 5, 2021 • Duration 01:15:25
The core struggle for most of us is we want things to be different than they are. How can we free ourselves from unnecessary suffering and experience freedom that is already present in our lives.
Ask yourself, what am I feeling right now that I don’t want to feel? And is that a problem?
Often we look outside ourselves either for problems or solutions. Couples blame one another-you should change so that I won’t feel disturbed. By placing the cause of our disturbance outside of ourselves they miss the opportunity to develop a capacity to deal with our own disturbance.
What is our tendency? We avoid feeling discomfort. We get wrapped up in stories and interpretations. Our normal way of operating is to relate to our embodied sensation from the perspective of our interpretations.
According to my guest-Bruce Tift, the author of Already Free, the more we stay embodied with our moment to moment experience, the more confidence we have that we can work with whatever arises.
We all have an inner voice and how it manifests differs from person to person.
How well do you know your inner voice?
Rather than silencing the negative self-talk-the chatter, we need to learn how to harness it. This is the central question of my guest’s brand new book Chatter: The Voice In Our Head, Why It Matters and How To Harness It.
Ethan Kross, Ph.D is an award-winning professor and bestselling author in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business. He has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His pioneering research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, The Economist, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Time.
In this interview Ethan reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how we can harness it to live a healthier, more satisfying and more productive life.
The good news is we are already equipped with the tools we need to make our inner voice work in our favor. Yes, that inner critic can become your inner coach.
Key points:
When do we first become aware of our inner voice?
How does harmful mental chatter influence people’s emotional health and physical health?
Does venting emotions reduce harmful mental chatter?
(Special Episode) From Sibling Squabbles, Conflicts and Beyond
Episode 293
Thursday, October 14, 2021 • Duration 01:13:51
In this Special Episode, my freind and colleague Laura Froyen and I answer some of listener questions about siblings.
Questions range from keeping the older sibling from parenting the younger, parent’s worry about bringing home a new sibling, coming up with win-win activities to do when kids have opposite preferences, as well as how to respond when your child says they “hate” their sibling and how to navigate when your kids are so close in age and they compare and want everything to be fair/same?
SIGN UP FOR OUR WORKSHOP
We will be teaching a LIVE, dynamic two-part workshop to answer all of your sibling questions.
We are going to dive deep into the key mindset shifts you need to confidently navigate your kids relationships with each other.
And you will add critical tools to your toolbox that will help them take ownership of their relationship and start solving their own problems so that you can stop feeling like a referee or hall monitor.
The workshop is happening on:
October 21st, @11am Central/12pm Eastern (90 min with Q&A)
November 4th, @ 11am Central/12pm Eastern (90 min with Q&A)
There are so many therapeutic methods and healing modalities available these days.
One of them is IFS, or parts work.
I have the honor of speaking with the creator of IFS, Dr. Rick Schwartz.
He's the creator of Internal Family Systems, IFS, a highly effective evidence-based therapeutic model. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a
practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and more recently, corporations and classrooms.
In this episode we talked about:
The myth of the mono mind
The goal and the 4 main benefits of IFS
It’s origin, growth and milestones
Then Dr. Schwartz describes the parts and their roles
We do a live demo
We all have different parts. Think of an inner critic, for example, as one part. They all serve a purpose, even the most destructive ones have protective intentions.
Parts are often frozen in past traumas when their extreme rules are needed
When they trust it's safe to step out of their roles, they are highly valuable to the system.
I help overwhelmed, frustrated parents who want to parent differently than their parents, make sense of their early childhood experiences, connect to their authentic self and their children on a deeper level, reduce stress, bring more ease, calm and joy into their lives by yelling less, and practicing non-punitive discipline.
I help overwhelmed, frustrated parents who want to parent differently than their parents, make sense of their early childhood experiences, connect to their authentic self and their children on a deeper level, reduce stress, bring more ease, calm and joy into their lives by yelling less, and practicing non-punitive discipline.
I help overwhelmed, frustrated parents who want to parent differently than their parents, make sense of their early childhood experiences, connect to their authentic self and their children on a deeper level, reduce stress, bring more ease, calm and joy into their lives by yelling less, and practicing non-punitive discipline.
I help overwhelmed, frustrated parents who want to parent differently than their parents, make sense of their early childhood experiences, connect to their authentic self and their children on a deeper level, reduce stress, bring more ease, calm and joy into their lives by yelling less, and practicing non-punitive discipline.
We are going to dive deep into the key mindset shifts you need to confidently navigate your kids relationships with each other.
And you will add critical tools to your toolbox that will help them take ownership of their relationship and start solving their own problems so that you can stop feeling like a referee or hall monitor.
The workshop is happening on:
October 21st, @11am Central/12pm Eastern (90 min with Q&A)
November 4th, @ 11am Central/12pm Eastern (90 min with Q&A)
I help overwhelmed, frustrated parents who want to parent differently than their parents, make sense of their early childhood experiences, connect to their authentic self and their children on a deeper level, reduce stress, bring more ease, calm and joy into their lives by yelling less, and practicing non-punitive discipline.
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