Parenting is often lived in the extremes. It’s either great joy or chaotic overwhelm. One moment you’re nailing it and the next you’re losing your cool. I want to help you find your way to the messy middle, to a place of balance. You see, balance is a verb, not a state of being. It is a thing you DO, not a thing you ARE. It’s an action, a process, a series of micro-corrections that we make, each and every day, to keep ourselves feeling centered. We are never truly balanced, we are engaged in ...
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188: The Mental Load Is a Whole Family Problem But One You Can Solve with Samantha Kelly
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187: Disability Rights: Ins & Outs Parents Need to Know with Kelley Coleman
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186: How to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Teens with Melanie McNally
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185: The Yoga of Parenting with Sarah Ezrin
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184: The Benefits of Play-Based Learning with Rachel Robertson
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183: The Science of Playful Parenting with Dajana Yoakley
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182: How to Slow Down For a More Peaceful Life with Stephanie O'Dea
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181: How To Become More Intentional and Present in Your Parenting with Holly Swenson
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180: What's Really Going On with ADHD with Dr. Connie McReynolds
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179: How Acceptance Can Transform Your Parenting with Andee Martineau
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178: Parenting Beyond Power with Jen Lumanlan
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177: What Parents Need to Know About Teen Suicide with AnneMoss Rogers
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176: How Understanding Anxiety Styles Can Help You Be Unflustered with Amber Trueblood
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175: Why Moms Need Time Away: The Transformative Effects of Retreat with Dr. Jen Riday
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174: True Attachment Parenting - How Understanding Your Own Attachment can Change Your Parenting with Annette Kussin
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173: Why It's So Hard To Stay Organized and What To Do About It with Star Hansen
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172: Mindful Parenting During the Holidays: Staying Present and Enjoying the Moment
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171: Can You Use AI for Your Parenting - Answering Your Parenting Questions
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170: Discovering Rest: A Deep Dive into the Ins & Outs of Resting
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169: Loving Kindness Meditation for Busy Times
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168: Parenting in a Tech World with Titania Jordan
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167: Sitting with Discomfort with Jenna Hermans
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166: Siblings of Spirited Kids: Compassionate Strategies for Families
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165: Kindness Starts at Home - Parenting with Social Justice in Mind with Nat Vikitsreth
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164: Becoming a Safe Haven for Your Kids with John Sovec
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163: Learning to Process Big Emotions with Alyssa Blask Campbell
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162: Welcome Back - Navigating Challenges; Finding Purpose
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In this heartfelt episode of The Balanced Parent, your host returns from a summer sabbatical to share a deeply personal journey. After taking a break to reconnect with my children and my purpose as a parenting coach and educator, I faced immense challenges, including the diagnosis process for my daughter. During this time, maintaining authenticity …
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161: Getting in Touch with the Authentic Self through Mindfulness with Kelly Smith
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In this episode, we are joined by Kelly Smith, a yoga and meditation teacher and founder of Yoga For You. Kelly shares her insights into how mindfulness and yoga can help us connect with our authentic selves and cultivate inner joy and power. She encourages us to find our own personal practice, listen to our bodies, and access our most authentic se…
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160: Redefining Intelligence for Ourselves & Our Kids with Dr. Rina Bliss
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I'm excited to share that my latest podcast episode features a special guest, Dr. Rina Bliss. Dr. Bliss is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and the author of several books, including Rethinking Intelligence: A Radical New Understanding of Our Human Potential.
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159: How to Increase Connection through Mindful Eating with Dr. Caroline Clauss-Ehlers
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In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Caroline Clauss-Ehlers, an award-winning psychologist, researcher, and professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn, to discuss the power of mindful eating for family connections. If you're looking for practical ways to improve your family's eating habits and deepen your connection with your children, this epi…
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158: How Nutrition can Help Kids with ADHD with Momina Salim
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I am excited to share with you the latest episode of my podcast, where we explore the topic of nutrition and ADHD in children. As a parenting expert, I always emphasize the importance of a holistic approach to raising our children; this episode is no exception. I had the pleasure of interviewing Momina Salim, a certified Pediatric Functional Medici…
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157: Overcoming Burnout and Guilt with Andryanna Gonko
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As a parent, I know how challenging it can be to juggle the many responsibilities that come with caring for our children, partners, and ourselves. As you may remember, recently I've been struggling with health issues and burnout, and it has been a really difficult journey. I've come to realize that many other parents are experiencing similar strugg…
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156: Social Skills for Connection with Miriam Campbell
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This week on The Balanced Parent podcast, we will have a deep-dive discussion into how we can help our children develop crucial skills for building meaningful social connections, like perspective-taking and problem-solving. Miriam Campbell will be joining me in this discussion. She is a mom who uses her experience as a speech therapist, social work…
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155: Harnessing the Power of Kindness with Teresa Ramirez
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When I ask the parents I work with about their long-term goals for their children, kindness is one of the qualities I hear most about, and it's no wonder, right? Most of us have personal experiences where we have been on the receiving end of the kindness (and unkindness) of others, and it makes sense that we hope that our children will put good out…
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154: Doing the Work of Conscious Parenting with Dr. Shefali Tsabary
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Ok, so we've all heard the term "conscious parenting" before, right? We've even talked about it on the show, but out there in the online world I see a LOT of people talking about it in a lot of different ways and I'm not always sure we are talking about the same thing. In my mind there is a difference between respectful, collaborative parenting (wh…
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153: The Truth about Maternal Instinct with Anya Dunham
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A huge part of my mothering journey has been learning to quiet the fears and outside influences, and seek instead to truly learn with curiosity about my child and myself. The more I learned about the unique child I had been blessed with, the more I was able to see her true needs and trust myself to meet them. I kind of had to figure out how to do t…
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152: Navigating the World of Social Media with Kids with Lena Derhally
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As my child approaches ten and has started to ask for a phone, it is important that as parents we know how to guide our kids in navigating technology and social media with intention and safety in mind. An important aspect of this is figuring out how to model for our kids the boundaries and relationships with social media that we want them to have. …
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151: Helping Our Children Develop Self-Discipline with Carol Muleta
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On this week's episode on The Balanced Parent Podcast, I will be joined by Carol Muleta and we will be chatting about how we can help our children develop self-discipline and resilience. Something that I know we all want for our children but that can be difficult to figure out how to nurture respectfully. Carol Muleta is a Parenting Strategist and …
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150: How to Enjoy Play More with Sarah Scott Dooling
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We are nearing the end of my 30 Days of Play Challenge. And with that, I would like to thank those who have joined. I want you to know that I am proud of everyone who put in the work to know more about their children through play and made the effort to make independent play better. I am also proud of every parent in this community who committed to …
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149: How to Build Kid's Resilience with Structured Play w/ Dr. Deborah Gilboa
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We are now halfway through our 30 Days of Play Challenge. For the past few weeks, we've talked about unstructured, independent play and its wonderful advantages it has for kids. Today, I want to give you a full well-rounded picture of how play can help support your kids, and how you can harness the power of a specific type of play, "structured play…
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148: Five Things You Can Do to Boost Your Child's Play
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As you may have been aware, we are now in the midst of our annual 30 Days of Play Challenge. And when it comes to the play challenge, one of the main things everyone asks for is assistance in figuring out how to encourage your children to play independently more often. Last week we discussed the things your child needs in order to get into independ…
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147: Understanding Children's Needs for More Independent Play With Blanca of Whole Child Home
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We are now back on The Balanced Parent podcast! As you all know, we focus on our children's play every January. And I would like to invite you to join me in my 30 Days of Play Challenge. As part of this challenge, the episodes on the podcast for this month will be all about PLAY! Yay! To start the month off, I wanted to focus on one of the most c…
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Bonus Episode: A Little Bit of Break and Taking a Pause
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As we enter into a season meant to be filled with light, love, & joy, I wanted to just acknowledge that this can also be a time filled with pressure, stress, and overwhelm. We take on a lot as parents during this time, and just in case no one has said this to you yet, it's ok, more than ok, it's GOOD, to say "no" to some things. To release traditio…
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146: Aligning Your Parenting with Your Long Term Goals (Live Couples Coaching)
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This week's episode is going to be a little different. If you have been following me and The Balanced Parent Podcast, you know that there are times where members of my BalancingU membership community so generously allow us to "listen in" to their coaching sessions. It can be so helpful to hear others' experiences and I know that you may have simila…
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145: How Gratitude Can Change Your Life with Stef Tousignant
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This is a time of year where we are meant to reflect with gratitude on all that we have, and I just want to express how grateful I am for this beautiful community! And as a token of appreciation, every year for my birthday I put all of my courses & programs (and this year coaching) on sale for the week, STARTING NOW! Check out my Birthday Sale here…
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144: Re-Parenting Ourselves in the Here and Now with Christine Dixon
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For those of you who are working through Parenting from Within inside my BalancingU membership, this week's episode could not come at a better time! We are currently working through the process of uncovering our inner voices and children and starting the good (but hard) work of healing. If you're interested in this program you can learn more here. …
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143: Fed Up: How to Balance Emotional Labor in Your Relationship with Gemma Hartley
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Over the past year my husband and I have been on a journey in figuring out how to be more balanced in our roles at home. We noticed that my husband did a lot of the visible labor, like dishes & laundry, while I did most of the invisible work, like holding emotional space for my kids' big feelings, carefully considering the play and reading material…
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142: Learning to Trust Yourself as a Parent with Cathy Adams
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This week we will be talk about intuition and how we can learn to tune into and trust ourselves as parents and partners and create that beautiful relationship with ourselves as individuals. For many of us, our experiences out in the world have taught us to look outside of ourselves for answers, feedback, validation, and wisdom. Has that been your e…
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Bonus: Live Coaching - Helping a Child Take Responsibility after a Mistake
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This week will have another bonus episode - a live coaching I did with one of my BalancingU community members. We will be talking about how to help a child take responsibility after a mistake WITHOUT forcing apologies. I hope that as you listen, you can pull out meaningful takeaways that apply to your family. And if there are, I'd like you to share…
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141: What You Need to Know about Childhood Substance Use with Richard Capriola
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The topic that we will be tackling for this week's episode on The Balanced Parent podcast is a bit tricky, but it's also something we will all need to think about sooner or later: Substance Use. I don't love the idea of parenting from a place of fear, as I'm sure you know, but I also know the statistics about teenage substance use and the risks. I …
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