Episodes
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication, is a step-by-step guide for meaningful conversations that bring people together. It is the first book to integrate mindfulness with the modern discipline of Nonviolent Communication and somatic healing....
Published 12/14/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  As a former Buddhist monk of two years, Certified Instructor for Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (the mindfulness program born at Google), and Certified Integral Coach (from New Ventures West), Sean blends a combination of depth and practicality to his...
Published 12/07/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  As founder and Chief Storyteller at GoZen!, Renee is recognized as a pioneer in marrying technology and child psychology in a unique approach that nurtures the hearts and minds of kids. Through her writing, product invention and development, masterclasses for parents, and...
Published 11/30/18
Join Michelle as she explores early care and education from the perspective of a parent advocate. Autumn McFarland, founder of Family Factor and mother of two earned her Masters Degree from the University of Colorado at Denver in Educational Psychology with an emphasis on Human Development and Child Psychology. Autumn brings more than a decade of experience working with both academic settings and families. She has taught children both here in America and abroad and has a rich understanding...
Published 11/02/18
This conversation, rooted in how to bring more equanimity to our lives–finding our center of calm in the storm– Michelle draws on that training today as an advisor to organizations like Wisdom 2.0, in trainings with corporations like Disney and Google, for summits and workshops for parents that she organizes, and as a parent with her own two boys at home. An awareness of our impact in the day to day, through being a mindful parent, is something that Michelle embodies in her own parenting, in...
Published 10/26/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  Join Michelle and Malika as they explore her new book Just Breathe, which is a fun and accessible, fully illustrated go-to meditation guide for kids ages 8 to 12. This book is full of specific exercises to help deal with day-to-day challenges and tips to lead a healthier,...
Published 10/19/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  Resilience is the learned capacity to cope with any level of adversity, from a series of small annoyances to the struggles and sorrows that break our hearts to the utter disasters that change our lives forever.  Resilience is essential for surviving and thriving in a world...
Published 10/05/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  We are all creatures of habit aren’t we? Unfortunately,  some of our habits don’t bring out the best in us. So how can we change behavior, learn a new habit or just start over again? Listen in as Michelle interview Glen Lubbert who at the moment is experimenting living as a...
Published 09/21/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  Michelle explores the practice of presence with Dr. Dan Siegel along with its many positive effects on the parent child relationship.   Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus,...
Published 09/14/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  Michelle explores the practice of presence with Dr. Dan Siegel along with its many positive effects on the parent child relationship.   Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence,...
Published 09/07/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  Michelle has been reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s new book Falling Awake, How to Practice Mindfulness in Everyday Life and she wanted to share it with everyone. From Amazon... More than 20 years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we think about awareness in everyday life...
Published 08/31/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated. Michelle explores the four foundations of Mindful Parenting: breath, body, emotions, and thoughts.   Register for the free online conference Mindful Parenting in a Messy World which runs from September 18th-20th here. Sign up for the Mindful Parenting Online Course...
Published 08/17/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated. Join Michelle as she chats about being a working parent with Sara Mauskopf who is the co-founder of the website Winnie, whose mission is to create and organize the information parents need and make it accessible through products, technology & community. Whether you...
Published 08/10/18
Join Michelle as she is interviewed by Debbie Reber on the Tilt Parenting Podcast More than 20 percent of today’s kids are in some way neurologically atypical, or what Debbie refers to as “differently wired.” And because the world isn’t set up to accommodate their unique way of being, these exceptional kids, and the parents raising them, struggle to navigate their journey. Mindfulness can support that path. If you are raising an exceptional kid and want to find out how to tap into the...
Published 08/03/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated. Michelle is interviewed by Cecilia & Jason Hilkey for the bi-annual Happily Family Conference. Learn more about Jason & Cecilia and the wonderful work they do at https://www.happilyfamily.com/    
Published 07/27/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated. Michelle and Roshi Joan explore parenting through five psychological territories she calls Edge States―altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, and engagement―each epitomizing strength of character. Yet each of these states can also be the cause of personal and social...
Published 07/20/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated. There are millions of kids today who are stuck in a world that doesn’t respect, support, or embrace who they inherently are. These children are what Deborah calls “differently wired”- the more than one in five children with ADHD, dyslexia, Aspergers, giftedness, anxiety,...
Published 07/13/18
The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated. Listen in as Michelle explores mindfulness of thinking.
Published 06/29/18