World-renowned trauma treatment expert, Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Frank Anderson on navigating difficult family dynamics and conversations, managing conflict, and dealing with emotional triggers. He discusses how to shift the focus from having the 'perfect' holiday to managing expectations, embracing all emotions, staying present with feelings of loss and grief, and challenging old family narratives.   

Support for Authentic Parenting comes from listeners like you. Since 2015, this podcast has been fully listener-supported, and we rely on your donations to continue bringing you valuable content. You can make a one-time or monthly donation at authenticparenting.com/support, or join us on Patreon at patreon.com/authenticparenting Returning guest, Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing, and family nurse practitioner at The Ohio State University Kate Gawlik on 3 ways to prevent parental...

Licensed clinical psychologist and author Emily Edlynn on how to practice autonomy-supportive parenting. What it is, what tools it involves, and how it looks and sounds in everyday life. Also, what autonmy is and how different it is from independence and importance of autonomy, competence, and relatedness as fundamental human needs for raising confident, resilient, and happy kids.  Get her book: Autonomy-Supportive Parenting: Reduce Parental Burnout and Raise Competent, Confident Children...

Content Warning: This episode includes mentions of rape and sexual assault. But there are no graphic descriptions. Jimanekia Eborn on what healing from trauma entails and why we shouldn't put healing on a pedestal. The importance of awareness, the power of silent retreats and building an active and intentional support system.  LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation (suggested amount $15) 732-763-2576 call to leave a voicemail.  [email protected] Send audio...

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Do you struggle with asking for what you really need? Do you feel underappreciated? Do you feel like you need external validation and approval for your own goodness? Do you struggle with self-acceptance? Learn to ditch the ineffective strategies that many of us are trained in a domination system to use like blaming, demanding, complaining, and really learn a new language to get your universal needs met. Learn to listen to a feeling underneath a message. Transfrom your most mportant...

Mind-body practioners Jennifer Mann and Karden Rabin on regulating your nervous system, healing your body and freeing your mind. Become aware of your dysregulated responses in your mind and body, interupt these unhelpful patterns and redsign and rewire them to transfrom your health and life.  Get their book: The Secret Language of The Body  OTHER EPISODES YOU MAY ENJOY Befriending Your Nervous System with Deb Dana How Trauma Gets “ Stuck” in Your Nervous System with Irene Lyon How to...

Dr. Nicole Cain on the difference between anxiety and panic attacks and what to do to end anxiety forever. Learn the 9 types of anxiety and see which type you are. Build your own panic pack with holistic tools and use it when you need it.  Get her book: Panic Proof: The New Holistic Solution to End Your Anxiety Forever LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation (suggested amount $15) 732-763-2576 call to leave a voicemail.  [email protected] Send audio...

Dr. Judy Ho walks us through the 4 main attachments styles, discusses the 2 main goals of attachment healing and gives us concrete tools (she shared so many great tools) to heal our attachment wounds. Powerfully practical. LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation (suggested amount $15) 732-763-2576 call to leave a voicemail.  [email protected] Send audio messages using Speakpipe. Join the Authentic Parenting Community on Facebook. Work w/Anna. Listeners get...

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.  Head over to authenticparenting.com/livepodcast to secure your ticket. LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation (suggested amount $15) 732-763-2576 call to leave a voicemail.  [email protected] Send audio messages using Speakpipe. Join the Authentic Parenting...

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.  Head over to authenticparenting.com/livepodcast to secure your ticket. LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation (suggested amount $15) 732-763-2576 call to leave a voicemail.  [email protected] Send audio messages using Speakpipe. Join the Authentic Parenting...

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.  Head over to authenticparenting.com/livepodcast to secure your ticket. LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation (suggested amount $15) 732-763-2576 call to leave a voicemail.  [email protected] Send audio messages using Speakpipe. Join the Authentic Parenting...

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.  Head over to authenticparenting.com/livepodcast to secure your ticket. LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation (suggested amount $15) 732-763-2576 call to leave a voicemail.  [email protected] Send audio messages using Speakpipe. Join the Authentic Parenting...

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.  Head over to authenticparenting.com/livepodcast to secure your ticket. LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation (suggested amount $15) 732-763-2576 call to leave a voicemail.  [email protected] Send audio messages using Speakpipe. Join the Authentic Parenting...

We're hosting another live event this year—our second one! If you missed the first event in April, you have another chance to join us. The LIVE Podcast returns on October 5, 2024, in Princeton, New Jersey.   I’m excited to announce that our featured guest will be Yvette Erasmus, who has been a guest on the show twice before.  The event is titled "The Art of Communication in Relationships: Navigating Needs, Feelings, and Deeper Connection." Head over...

Why your values matter and how can you uncover them. Through thoughtful questions and exercises we help you discover your own core values. Grab a pen and notebook.  Discovering what your core values are can increase your confidence and strengthen your decision-making skills because you’ve identified whether a decision aligns with your values or not. Knowing your values can guide your actions and give you inner peace. Download the PDF with all the excersies, list of values (over 200) and...

Bruce Tift, the author of Already Free, delves into our discomfort with being present with our embodied sensations and explores ways to improve this aspect of our lives. He addresses struggles with anxiety, relationship issues, and more. His insights into closeness and intimacy were particularly engaging. Tift pointed out that many of our issues predate our relationships, suggesting that our partners are neither the cause of our problems nor their solution. He articulated this point with...

We're hosting another live event this year—our second one! If you missed the first event in April, you have another chance to join us. The LIVE Podcast returns on October 5, 2024, in Princeton, New Jersey.   I’m excited to announce that our featured guest will be Yvette Erasmus, who has been a guest on the show twice before.  The event is titled "The Art of Communication in Relationships: Navigating Needs, Feelings, and Deeper Connection." Head over to authenticparenting.com/livepodcast...

Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate US/UK on the harms of social media and what could be done. As an authority on social and psychological malignancies on social media, such as identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories he discusses the lawlessness of tech companies and how we can protect our children.  LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation (suggested amount $15) 732-763-2576 call to leave a voicemail. ...

Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness argues that a sharp uptick in depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicide among young people is directly tied to the wide distribution of smartphones. Is there a mental health crisis in youth today? Is it worse than pre-pandemic? And are the smartphones to be blamed?  Returning guest, author and journalist Judith Warner on her review of The Anxious Generation in...

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Clinical counselor and educator Dr. Deborah MacNamara on how food has become divorced from attachment, how we make it so stressful, how food creates relationship issues and vice versa and why family meals are not the full answer. Also, how to handle picky eating, and treating feeding our children like we treat a bedtime routine. Her new book is Nourished: Connection, Food, and Caring for our Kids (and everyone else we love). LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation...

Dr. Judith Rabinor on why we hold onto grudges, the impact on our well-being and relationships, and practical strategies for letting go and finding peace.  We also explore why some people struggle more than others with letting go, examine the role of trauma and the transformative power of updating our life story to move past feeling stuck. And the significance of developing inner safety and resources in overcoming trauma, and the profound role of gratitude, among other insights. LINKS AND...

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. LINKS AND RESOURCES Support the podcast by making a donation (suggested amount $15)...