#192: Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening in, and for your incredible support, notes, comments, and stories that you have shared with me over the years. I feel so honored and grateful to all of you! It has brought me so much joy in creating and sharing through the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids Podcast.  It is a bittersweet moment as I share my joy in creating this podcast and my sadness at the fact that this is the last episode as I move in new directions. Although this is...

#191: Parenting is not just about your child. It is about you. Just as we are here to help our children grow and thrive, they are also here to help us grow. Parenting is about uncovering all that you carry with you; the conditioning, wounds, values, beliefs, and ideals. Listen in to learn more. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way....

#190: Do you ever find yourself joining your child or children in their overwhelm, frustration, sadness, anger, etc? Getting curious can really help shift the way we come to our children and support them when they are having a tough time. Listen in to hear some nuggets and wisdom to take forward on your parenting journey.   Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a...

#189:  Bedtime can be a tough time for all of our children. It is a transition that can create resistance and challenge. Bringing attention to these challenges with a routine that serves our children can make a huge difference. Listen in to learn how to serve your children!   Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global...

#188: When we beat ourselves up over things we have done or not done, we do ourselves a disservice. How can we rise when we are negatively pulling ourselves into the trenches? With each negative thought, negative statement, and overwhelmingly disappointing self-talk, we are carrying a heavy weight on our shoulders. Listen in to hear how you can bring a change to this in your life.   Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement,...

#187: Sometimes during our life, usually early on in our childhood, we begin to learn the art of creating a protective exterior. The protective exterior shields our true selves from the world while simultaneously detaching us from who we really are. Listen in to learn more about the masks we wear. This is an important topic for all of us. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s...

#186: Living a more conscious life is about actively evaluating your activities, decisions, values, and beliefs as well as questioning everything that you have been told to believe and conditioned to be. Listen in to hear more about this important topic. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked...

#185 As parents, we face great obstacles. From advancing technology, social and academic pressures, drugs and alcohol, and more, the obstacles are endless. Throughout the years, I too was faced with many parenting challenges that required me to change, find my inner wisdom, and shift the way in which I  parented. Listen in to learn more. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s...

#184: Growing up with a feeling of “value” and “self-worth” is important for all of our children. In my personal and professional experience, I have learned that many adults did not feel a sense of self-worth as children. What does this mean exactly, and how does this affect adulthood? Listen in to learn more! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and...

#183: Recently, I have been pondering fear and how it drives us. Fear is an innate human emotion—we all experience it from time to time. It helps protect us. Fear is such an important emotion to discuss, especially today. Listen in to hear more!   Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked minded...

#182: Do you find that you "should on yourself" often? Albert Ellis, Ph.D. coined the term “should-ing all over yourself” which references our tendency to overwhelm ourselves with should statements or things we think we ought to do. Do you find you should on yourself? Listen in to hear more about this process and how we can shift it! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s...

#181: For many of us, the word failure often conjures up negative emotions, disappointment, and pain. We were raised to believe that failure is a terrible thing we must avoid at all costs. However, we learn so much about ourselves and the world around us when we look at our failures through a different lens.    Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious...

#180: Growth is about letting go of our expectations and fantasies and focusing on our reality. My special guest shares how much she has learned and grown from raising her amazing daughter, Mira, a "shining light."  Listen in to hear more about Cindy's story and how she struggled and grew with hard work, letting go, and accepting the messy.  More is available in her book: "Freefall: One Mother's Journey Raising a Child With Special Needs"

#179: Oftentimes when we are looking to move forward and find our "new path", we might expect too much, too quickly. There is no destination in our personal growth. Please listen in to learn more about how you can become more aware of the present moment and see yourself more clearly.   Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join...

#178: The re-entry process is an important and powerful time in our day-to-day lives. When we are away from our children and homes for a period of time during the day, the re-entry process becomes a significant one, especially when it comes to our children. Listen in for techniques and ideas on how to create a smooth transition.   Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s...

#177: Self–care is about being compassionate toward self, allowing time to renew our energy, strengthen, reset, and recharge. Listen in to hear ideas, benefits, and the importance of creating your personal self-care plan. Ernest Hemmingway wrote in Men Without Women, “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that you are special too.”   Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for...

#176: What if your wounds become your strengths? These strengths not only support you on your parenting journey but also create amazing opportunities to see your children in a new light, helping them to feel worthy and enough as they are. Listen in to this rich and powerful conversation with my special guest, Veenu, as she shares parenting nuggets and strategies that will help create more peace and joy in parenting.   Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today....

Join Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. A rich conversation with Cecilia and Jason Hilkey where we discuss the beauty and benefits of sibling rivalry. When we look at this conflict as an opportunity to coach and teach skills to our children, we are, in essence, teaching social and emotional intelligence. Rivalry exists as a "normal" part of our children's lives. Listen to learn a little more about how...

Join Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. To be a thoughtful partner with our children involves a number of things. One of the most important is to look at our children through the lens of curiosity, interest, and compassion.

Join Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. Conscious parent, Randy Spelling, talks about how he reversed engineered his life to get to where he is today, raising his family and helping people worldwide to make choices to live a more conscious and fulfilling life.

Join Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. Learn some incredible techniques to help your children when tantrums arise. Also shared in this rich discussion is how you can help yourself through these challenges. Tantrums are a natural part of our children's development.

Join Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. The adolescent years are super special times filled with possibilities, complexities, nuances, and missteps.  Our children are all trying to answer the question "Who am I?" How we show up for them is of utmost importance. Listen in to this amazing discussion with Dr. Ken Ginsburg.

Join Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. We often give more power to our negative emotions. We tend to analyze the negative or be hyper-focused on the negative that we disallow ourselves from engaging in the positive emotions and moments that we experience.

Join Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. Oftentimes we create worry in our life by borrowing someone else’s problem, trouble, or pain. We also tend to hyper-focus on what might happen to us in our own life. The what-ifs can be endless. Worry does not take away tomorrow’s troubles; it takes away today’s peace. Listen in to hear more.