The Masterful Parenting Podcast - Heal Your Childhood and Parent Better Through Relational Parenting – Details, episodes & analysis

🌪️ When emotions explode, what do you do? This week on the podcast, I’m joined by the incredible Bethany Bilodeau, and we’re diving deep into one of the toughest challenges so many of us face—meltdowns, anger, and those big, overwhelming feelings.

Whether you’re a parent, partner, educator, or simply a human navigating a stressful world, this episode is packed with real, actionable tools to help you stay grounded when everything around you feels anything but.

✨ Bethany shares: • Why meltdowns happen (in kids and adults) • The difference between anger and emotional overload • How to respond in a way that actually helps • What it takes to create safety during intense moments • Strategies you can use TODAY to bring more calm into your home and relationships

If you’ve ever found yourself whispering, “I don’t know what to do right now…” — this conversation is for you.

🎧 Tune in now and learn how to turn chaos into connection. Your future self (and everyone around you) will thank you.

Dr. B is an expert in human behavior. She has designed innovative programs to help people achieve socially, emotionally, and academically. She holds numerous certifications in behavioral therapies and has been recognized with multiple awards including rhe 2024 Business of the Year on Education, and Business Excellence for Social Equity.

Link: www.behaviorbootcamp.com

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For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Anne Alvares.  I came from childhood pain.  I suffered abuse, controlling parents, and was parentified.  My healing journey began almost 30 years ago when I first told my story.  When I became a mother, I was determined to heal and not repeat the patterns of my childhood in my own parenting with my children.

Now, I teach parents how to foster healthy relationships with their kids.  When we uncover our childhood story and become aware of our triggers, we can begin to heal and change.  When we do this, our children thrive and we can feel good about our parenting.

Let me help you to heal and to change.

Reach out for support at masterfulparenting@outlook.com. Free 30 minute helping call. Book it - it's free.

My mission is to help parents.

Much love,

Anne Alvares, Parent Coach, School Counsellor, Mom of Two

Contact:

👉 Website: https://www.annealvares.com/

Calendar to Book Your FREE 30 minute strategy session: https://calendly.com/annealvares/meet-up

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-alvares-parent-coach-school-counsellor-teacher/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/masterfulparenting 

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/masterfulparenting/ 

Podcast: https://masterfulparenting.podbean.com/ 

👉 https://www.youtube.com/@masterfulparenting

School of HumanKind: https://www.schoolofhumankind.com/library

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A small-town girl from Oklahoma, Vivian Cumins is the author of Break Down Better: 52 Restoring Devotionals for Burned-Out Women, a speaker, and host of the Juggling Life, Finding Balance Podcast. A retired career professional with over 26 years of service in the United States Air Force and Forest Service, Vivian draws from a wealth of experiences and a heart for helping others find peace amid life’s demands.

Vivian knows first-hand the challenges women face while juggling multiple personal and professional responsibilities. Having walked through her own season of burnout and breakdown, she now shares how partnering with God can bring calm, strength, and joy. With authenticity, warmth, and wisdom, Vivian equips women to honor God, care for themselves, and live a joyful, balanced life.

Vivian is married to her best friend, Eddy, and is the proud bonus mom to two adult children and a “Glammy” to five grandchildren.

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For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Anne Alvares. I came from childhood pain. I suffered abuse, controlling parents, and was parentified. My healing journey began almost 30 years ago when I first told my story. When I became a mother, I was determined to heal and not repeat the patterns of my childhood in my own parenting with my children. Now, I teach parents how to foster healthy relationships with their kids. When we uncover our childhood story and become aware of our triggers, we can begin to heal and change. When we do this, our children thrive and we can feel good about our parenting.

I have over 17 years of experience working with teens and their families as a high school counsellor and I'm the mom of two so I understand the challenges. I teach parents relational parenting so you can foster healthy relationships with your children.

Let me help you to change.

I have a parenting course and parent coaching program (9 weeks long) offered digitally with weekly coaching support.

Reach out for support at masterfulparenting@outlook.com.

Free 30 minute helping call. Book it - it's free.

My mission is to help parents.

Much love, Anne Alvares, Parent Coach, School Counsellor, Mom of Two

Contact Us: 👉 Website: https://www.annealvares.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-alvares-parent-coach-school-counsellor-teacher/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/masterfulparenting

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/masterfulparenting/

Podcast: https://masterfulparenting.podbean.com/

👉 https://www.youtube.com/@masterfulparenting

School of HumanKind: https://www.schoolofhumankind.com/library

Rachelle McGarry,MSW, is a Parenting and Life Coach with 40 years of experience helping families. She is the creator of Empowered Parenting--From Overwhelm To Calm, Confident and Connected, guiding parents to heal old patterns, release limiting beliefs,regulate their nervous systems and build strong, resilient bonds with their children.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelle-mcgarry-99874736a/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558719524794 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rymcgarry/

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For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Anne Alvares.  I came from childhood pain.  I suffered abuse, controlling parents, and was parentified.  My healing journey began almost 30 years ago when I first told my story.  When I became a mother, I was determined to heal and not repeat the patterns of my childhood in my own parenting with my children.

Now, I teach parents how to foster healthy relationships with their kids.  When we uncover our childhood story and become aware of our triggers, we can begin to heal and change.  When we do this, our children thrive and we can feel good about our parenting.

Let me help you to heal and to change.

Reach out for support at masterfulparenting@outlook.com. Free 30 minute helping call. Book it - it's free.

My mission is to help parents.

Much love,

Anne Alvares, Parent Coach, School Counsellor, Mom of Two

Contact:

👉 Website: https://www.annealvares.com/

Calendar to Book Your FREE 30 minute strategy session: https://calendly.com/annealvares/meet-up

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-alvares-parent-coach-school-counsellor-teacher/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/masterfulparenting

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/masterfulparenting/ 

Podcast: https://masterfulparenting.podbean.com/

👉 https://www.youtube.com/@masterfulparenting

School of HumanKind: https://www.schoolofhumankind.com/library

#masterfulparenting #parenting #parentingjourney #childhood #abuse #neglect #healing #love #ourkids #worthy #deserving #feelgood 

Special Guest Mah Ekonde. Mah Ekonde is a certified parental coach from IDEFAS, a mom of 2 adorable kids and Sunday School teacher for 10 years now in FGMC. Her passion to see children raised consciously made her create the Gift Handler Community where she helps parents sail through the challenges of parenting.

We, as parents, will need to have some tough talks with our kids.  These tough talks do not have to be difficult.  We start with a question, listen to our child's response.  Then we offer support.  Use words that invite conversation and allow our children to feel our care, concern, and love for them.  This is relational parenting.

#masterfulparenting #children #toughtalks #teenagers #parentingtips #parenting #parentingcoach #parentcoach #conversations #open #safeplace #invitations #care #love #relationships #relational #question #connection #ourkids

Parents, we need to remember that love is an action, not just a feeling.  When we act with love to our kids, they feel loved.  Just saying the words is not enough.  Our actions need to speak love or our children do not feel loved.  When you are yelling, demanding, controlling, and punishing, you are not acting in love with your children.  All our actions need to speak love.  Then our children feel loved, secure, safe, and connected to us.  This is how we build healthy relationships with our children.  Let's explore the 5 Love Languages of Children to learn how to act in loving ways to our kids.

My cousin and I grew up similarly as our moms are sisters and both parented us in the same way.  The control from our moms in our childhoods affected our adult lives and my cousin explains in detail how this affected her marriage and changed how she raised her three boys once she realized she did not want to repeat the pain she experienced with her own children.

#masterfulparenting #childhoodpain #childhood #children #teenagers #healingourchildhood #changinggenerations #generationalchange #healthymen #showingemotions #emotions #kids #emotionsaregood #feelings

So many times we get stuck in believing our negative, fear-based thoughts.  But the real lesson is to learn that our thoughts are not real and we can change them at any moment.  We must learn how to change our disempowering thoughts into strength based, empowering thoughts.  Then we can teach this to our children.  This will make the difference in their lives.

#masterfulparenting #changeyourthoughts #thoughtsarenotreal #empowering #disempowering #change #strength #thoughts #teachourchildren

This is the story of how I confronted my mom with my childhood pain story so that I could have a voice and share what my experience as a child was.  When we are ready to confront the people who may have hurt us, then we can release the pain and move forward to live more empowered lives.

#confront #healingtrauma #moveforward #release #masterfulparenting #healingthe past #reframe #empoweringthoughts #changeourthinking #changeourstory #love

When we have childhood pain, we were not role modelled healthy relationships in our home lives so we need to learn this.  When we know what healthy relationships are, we can teach this to our children.  The key is that healthy relationships feel good and unhealthy relationships feel bad.  Our feelings will tell us if we are modelling healthy or unhealthy relationships.  Let's model healthy relationships with our kids.

#masterfulparenting #healthy #relationships #children #teens #parenting #behealthy