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45: Why Creating Marriage Health is Good Parenting
Countless research articles all point to the benefits of children living with both of their parents, but outside of the external benefits, why is...
40: What Men In Failing Marriages Need To Know
Tired of your wife not being interested in sex, snuggling, or... you? Feel like your marriage is failing and you don't know what to do about it? Are...
36: What You Can Do If Your Husband Isn’t On Board With Getting Relationship Help
Frustrated because your husband won't go to marriage counseling, a coach, or therapy? Here's exactly what you can do: stop waiting! In episode 36...
35: Helping Kids Manage Their Big Emotions
Here's what to do when you resent your husband! In episode 35 of The Authentic Wife Show, we talk to Parent Coach Laura Reardon about helping our...
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Meal Planning for Dinner With Kids: My Short-Order Cook Experiment
How are moms supposed to feed our kids? Well, everyone tells us to do healthy meal planning for dinner with kids. They tell us to carefully organize...
Here’s The Difference Between Boundaries, Limits, Natural Consequences, and Punishments
A boundary is what we need to love ourselves. Example: respect for our body. A limit is when we stop something that’s happening before the natural...
How to Have a Difficult Conversation With Your Teen with Guest Parenting Coach Laura Lyles Reagan
In this episode, I quiz fellow Conscious Parenting Coach and one of my Family Alchemists, Laura Lyles Reagan, on what it takes to connect with a...
What is Authenticity?
The Authentic Choice is never about what you SHOULD do, what you've been conditioned to do, about a Book of Law rule or about past traumas. It's...
Why You Can’t Cry
Maybe as part of al-anon, therapy, or another intervention, you learned about boundaries and cut people out of your life that felt toxic. There's a...
How to Level Up Your Voice Health to Connect With Confidence
In this interview with voice health expert and Speech and Language Pathologist, Brienne Hennessy, we cover all of my questions about voice health,...
We Can’t End Racism When We Make Our Own Children Inferior
Yesterday I watched a man be murdered by a police officer. His name is George Floyd and he shared a security job with the same man that killed him....
What You Should Know About Inauthentic Shame
What is inauthentic shame and how can we get rid of it? Inauthentic shame is when another person shames you, yet you haven't done anything wrong. By...
Working at home with kids? Read my 10 best tips.
You know how you try to carry all the groceries in with one trip - sliding bag handles up your arm or grabbing as many as you can without asking for...
Fear as the Barometer of Soul-Alignment
I had a gut feeling from the time I read the email. Something was just off. I didn't care for the tone, the lack of personal greeting, the demands....
Embracing Your Feminine Energy is Not Submitting to a Gender Role
Picture it: Sicily Frigid Ohio, five years ago. The bottom of my stainless steel sink is buried under a layer of baby bottles that must be washed...
5 Ways to Fit in Self-Care When You Have Little Kids
Read more about Parenting. What is self-care? Self-care means taking care of yourself to refuel, or replenish your own energy. It starts with the...
How I Organized Our Toys to Get Our Sanity Back
Read more about finding your Soul Truth in Parenting. When we arrived home, the carpet was missing. Well, it seemed to be missing. It was covered by...
Angry? Where Are Your Boundaries?
If you’re an empath, having kids revealed any way you gave too much of yourself to the more narcissistic partner. Whatever imbalance existed--in...
What is a Conscious Parenting Coach?
A Conscious Parenting Coach is someone that has been extensively trained in child development, psychology, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence....
Mom, I’m Not a Crybaby
Imagine you're watching a child struggle at the playground. Tears start to fall as his big sister pushes in front of him. His mom pulls the phone...
6 Mistakes Most People Make When Setting Boundaries
Have you always wondered what boundaries really are and how to hold them with your family? In this six-part series called Getting The Love You...
Survival Swim Lessons: Paying for Trauma
"Survival" swim lessons can be traumatic experiences for a child and do not drown-proof them. Developmentally-appropriate alternatives include...
What Kind of Partnership Do We Have and How Will it Affect Our Kids?
We can usually understand where we fall on the narcissist-empath spectrum by the dynamic in our relationship. Find your Partnership Style and how it affects your kids.
Behavior: How Not Using Stoplight Charts Can Improve It
The use of stoplight charts negatively impact the child at worst and are an ineffective tool in managing classroom behavior at best. There are a variety of different evidence-based programs that teachers can utilize instead, and some that encourage the added component of mindfulness to take self-regulation and cognitive ability a step further. Work with your teacher and school to help them help your child today.
M.O.M. (Master of Meditation)
The four year old is screaming because she wants my help and her "legs are too tired" to walk the four feet over to me. I'm not sure...
Should you have kids?
Don't have kids.I love kids... they've been on my virtual vision board as long as I can remember. I love my own and I was so ready for them by...
When a Gift is a Burden
Let's say that you like going to church and someone from there gifts you a super fancy outfit for your baby; shoes, suspenders, a button-down shirt...
Then and Now
I sat down the other night to write up a table of how I've transformed since I started on this Conscious Parenting journey.It's hard sometimes to...
How To Be More Attractive To Your Child (Or Spouse!) Than A Video Game
In our homes, it's so easy to fall into the trap of being busy with all of the doing of adulting without even really connecting with our kids until...
Watch Now: Mini Masterclass from Fearless Parenting: Separation Anxiety at Drop-Off
Handing over my crying baby to a person I barely knew and having to leave her to go to work was a source of major anxiety for me as a new mom. The...
Responding to Tantrums
My daughter was screaming, crying, sobbing. "I want to watch Dory in the basement!" she repeated, over and over again. My dad and his wife...
Using Play to Teach Self-Soothing, Impulse Control, and Motor Planning and Sequencing Skills
One of the reasons why I love talking about using play with children is because it's such a BOGO. It moves the energetic state of parent AND...
Lessons on Trust From the Larry Nassar Case
I read a piece Glamour did, compiling parts of all of the victims' testimonies in the Larry Nassar case. It was heartbreaking. What...
The Blame Game – Saber Tooth Tiger Edition
Just a little bit ago I got up in my dark office and headed toward the kitchen. Suddenly I tripped on a package of boxes that someone must...
What is the number one cause of anger as a parent?
You know the feeling. Your blood starts to boil, you completely forget how to think for a minute, and something just snaps. Out of what seems like...
My Gift to You: Free Quick-Reference Child Development Guide for Ages 0-18
Part of my problem as a parent used to be just not trusting that I was doing the right thing for my children because I didn't always know what the...
You’re a NBI (Need Behind It) Detective!
As a parent coach, I specialize in ages 0-6, those super important programming years. Everything the parent does and says while the brain is still...
Christmas in Cleveland
Cleveland should really start to market itself as a major Christmas tourist destination. Between our fluffy snowfalls, myriad of festivals,...
The New Food Rules for Kids
Do you have anxiety around your child's eating habits? It's really no wonder: from the second they arrive, what and when they eat begins to take...
Finding Time for Self Care
When I recommend that clients make more time for self-care, they act like I'm nuts. Sleep?! What is that?! I can't do that! I know, I know. I'm...
Five Key Practices with Children Ages 0-6
You may know that as a parent, ages 0-6 are the most important years for you. Like a computer programmer, you are writing your child's future...
He’s Making a List..
Next Friday, the frenzy begins. Holiday shopping season is officially upon us. Parents are scrambling to discern their children's wants and needs,...
10 Alternatives to Time Out
Drum roll please! Presenting.... ... 10 Alternatives to time out! So we all know by now that spanking is essentially assault (don't believe me? ...
When One Parent is Behaving Badly
I have seen this question from parents countless times: My spouse is not a peaceful parent, what do I do?? I'm going to generalize here, as I know...
Do You Have a Sippy Cup Launcher?
My favorite approach to solid foods after 6 months is called "Baby Led Weaning". Have you heard of it? It's a fantastic way to introduce solid food...
The Great Binky Debate
While parenting has been such a beautiful awakening since I read The Conscious Parent when my first child was so young, it is rare that I have...
Judge a child by its mother
I feel like almost every parenting wrong move is predicated by one thing: fear of judgement. Whether it's from your spouse, your mom, your Facebook...
The Essential Respects
When I think about what boundaries to hold with myself and my children that serve our highest selves (and not my ego), they all come back to...
Should I control the Halloween candy?
Here, we are.... the most wonderful time of the year is upon us: Halloween. Hahhahaha... Not. There's all of that Halloween candy... and kids that...
How do I meditate?
Let's talk about meditation. Have you always thought of it as something woowoo that only yogis and Buddhists do? Do you think it might interfere...
Fun Ways to Play With Your Kids!
Play is vital for our connection with our kids. Having that light, playful, fun presence is so imperative for building connection! When my...
How do I stop my older child from pushing my toddler?
Sibling rivalry is always challenging, but let's talk about violent toddlers. Little brother or sister were cute the first year, but now they're...
Shame, Blame, and Anger: How We Set Our Kids Up for Failure as Adults
"Shame is a focus on self, guilt is a focus on behavior. Shame is “I am bad.” Guilt is “I did something bad.” How many of you, if you did something...
Do you regret having kids?
Let's talk about having kids and regretting having kids. I posted the comments below in a New York Times post that asked for parents that...
How do I pass on my values to my children? What are my values?
I believe that set-in-stone boundaries should be limited and not necessarily based on my values, because who am I to tell my children what to...
The Two Hardest Times of The Day For Any Parent
I know that I am not alone when I say there are still two extremely challenging areas of the day for ALL parents, those embracing peaceful/conscious...
Emotional Coaching through Tantrums
TANTRUMS. Whining. Crying. O.M.G. Every day, I see hundreds of questions asking, "What should I do when my child throws a tantrum?" We see it as...
The BS of Belief Systems
Did you know that our kids are basically in HYPNOSIS from ages 0-6? That's right - anything and everything you tell them and expose them to while...
Graded Through Childhood
From the time I was about four years old, I was homeschooled by my mother. She had always hated school and when she put my older brother into...
But can you HEAR me, now?
We have a friend, I'll call her Susie, who is a very hard person to connect with. This is what it's like to talk to Susie: Me: I'm just feeling so...
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Welcome! I am so excited to offer Building Connected Communities Workshops to parents, grandparents, pediatricians, teachers, and more in Northeast...
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