"The Fruit Snacks Podcast" with Emily Wardrop, the T1D Moms Coach

Summer is here! How are you feeling, Momma?! With the kids home from school, you have extra hours of managing the diabetes that you haven't been doing in a while, so... let it all out! Tell me ALL about it! That is what a coach is for. I am a safe place to release all the thoughts and feelings and start with a clean slate to intentionally think and feel what you want to in order to create the...

Who ARE you? Do you know? How do you find out? And live in alignment with your true self? What is your dream? Do you feel like you are trying to live someone else's dream? How do you find out what is authentically your purpose? Find out in today's podcast and hit me up for help at dropthewar.com/appointments cause sometimes getting to know ourselves is harder than it seems. But definitely...

We tend to be way way way Way WAY too hard on ourselves as Moms. And then especially as T1D Moms! So today I am not only giving you permission to let yourself off the hook, but I am begging you to do so! Just try it! Try cutting yourself some slack and see what happens. I promise it is counterintuitive. We think that if we give ourselves a little slack, that we'll just become slackers-and our...

My neighbor's granddaughter just got diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes so she reached out to me for advice. I went right over to her house to have a chat and mostly I just wanted to share hope with her. Hope that everything is going to be ok. Isn't that what we all want to hear? We're all going through hard. and we just want someone to witness the hard with us. Validate that we're not...

Sounds like Christmas around here this week! But who wouldn't want more Peace and Joy all year round? So today we are going to dive into the HOW of doing just that. At Drop the War Life Coaching we are all about dropping the power struggle wars with our T1D Kiddos to create more Peace in our Parenting! Peace is an overarching state of being that you can experience even amidst the chaos of kids...

#1 Stress-Relief Tool today! Ask yourself, "Is this in my control?" If the answer is yes, then decide what to do and do it! And if it's not in your control, Give it Back! Give the stress back to whoever is in control. Trust that they will decide and do. Then you can get back to sleep! So much more in today's episode. Check it out, try it out, and enjoy the relief!! And if it soun...

How is your relationship with your T1D Kiddo? What even is a relationship exactly? Have you ever paused to think of that? Relationships are a mental construct. There is not a definitive answer. Your thoughts, feelings, and actions toward your child make up your relationship with him. So…. What are you thinking, feeling, and doing in regards to your T1D kid? Today? Wanna chat about it?  This is wha...

As a mom, I am continually asking my kids what they DO want. If you don't want what I cooked for dinner, then what DO you want? If you say "i dunno" then how am I supposed to know what to get for you?! This perspective has helped me understand my relationship with God a bit better also. It is human nature to immediately notice what we do NOT want, but it is a more intense process to...

There is SO much information coming at us at all times! We have to develop the filter in our brains and bodies to determine whether someone else's thoughts jive with us or not. We need to determine whether we are feeling resonance or dissonance with any particular idea. In a world so saturated with voices, we need to develop the skill of hushing all the outside noise and getting in touch with...

Do you feel broken? Are there some thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that are just so hard for you to change? Jesus wants us to bring our broken hearts and lay them on His altar in order for Him to bind them up! He is the way, the truth, and the light. He is the master healer. He can and will work miracles in your life just as he did for the broken back in his day. In Old Testament times, God's...

A couple weeks ago we talked to my parenting coach Lisa Smith about how Identity can play a HUGE role in our parenting. Today I am delighted to have Kurt Francom from Leading Saints tap into more Identity work in a more religious frame. Because of all the Identities we take on, the most important is as a Child of God! And a Disciple of Jesus Christ! So listen in to hear more about Kurt's new b...

Now that we've explored our central nervous systems and know how to calm ourselves down, the first question I always get is how to I teach this to my kids? Well, my friends, as a reminder... Kids do what we do, not what we say. The best way to teach anything is by modeling it to them. Show them how to regulate by watching you regulate. You might already be co-dysregulating. That's ok. Very...

Lisa Smith is " The Peaceful Parent " and she is MY parenting coach! I've been working with Lisa since 2018ish so she has had a huge influence on how I parent and how I coach. I've adopted so many brilliant concepts from her like "get curious not furious" and that we need to scuba dive down under the behavior to find out what's really going on for our kids. I was so...

We want our kids to behave because their dis-regulation dis-regulates us. Plain and Simple. Behave children, so that I don't have to deal with my own big emotions. We want them to be emotionally mature enough to carry the whole family. Not. Going. To. Happen! They are children!! WE are the adults. WE need to learn how to regulate our own minds, bodies, feelings, and nervous systems in order to...

Last week we started talking about how to feel less scared. I have much more to say on the subject so join us today for How to Feel Less Scared Part 2! We are digging a little deeper into our nervous systems to explain why sometimes thought work by itself isn't quite enough to get us feeling less scared. When our brains are hijacked by our nervous system, we need to use a different set of tool...

My thesis for this podcast is to help other T1D Mommas feel less sad, scared, and stressed and start feeling more calm, confident, and connected! Today we are focussing on the feeling less scared part. When your child gets diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, you feel a lot of fear. You are living daily with the very real threat to your child's life. This is very taxing on your nervous system! So,...

Valentin's Day is tomorrow and I want to help you get the experience that YOU WANT! Listen in for all the tips tricks and tools to have the BEST Valentine's Day EVER! Because You ARE a Good Mom! And when you believe that, you can receive the love and compliments from everyone else around you. Happy Valentine's Day, my friends!! Be sure to listen TODAY so that you can make it all that y...

Happy Birthday to Me! I have a birthday gift for each of YOU to celebrate! 🎉 Go to the App store on your phone and download The Book of Mormon app and follow along with me as I share one of my favorite treasures in this, Another Testament of Jesus Christ! We believe the Bible and have been studying the Old and New Testaments the past couple years and now we are diving deep into Another Testament!...

Today's most special guest is none other than the one, the only, Creed Wardrop himself!! Creed is my husband and therefore the T1D Dad in my story! So I thought it would be fun to have him join me on the podcast to tell our story together. We now have 5 kiddos under 10 years old and two of them have Type 1 Diabetes. When our first was diagnosed in Dec of 2020, we only had 4 kids so yes, if you...

Anger is an emotion. And if you want to believe that no emotions are "Bad" Then listen in! Today we explore how emotions don't need to be a moral issue. You ARE Good! You are not your emotions. You are feeling Angry. Ok. That's fine. What is anger trying to tell you? What are the more vulnerable feelings underneath and what are they trying to tell you? All of this is the fun work...

Last week we discussed the importance of gauging your energy level and working within the limits you have. You can find ways to replenish your energy physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Today we'll dig deeper into how to replenish your energy mentally. Your attitude can actually deplete your energy faster than anything else. The way you are looking at your problems can make them bigger o...

Energy is one of your most important resources. We often think of time and money as limited resources that run out and need to be replenished, but what about your own personal energy? How to you restore your own energy? How to you rally to have more when you need more? Where does energy come from? Why does it seem to run out so fast sometimes? We discuss these questions and so much more in this fi...

How did your "most wonderful time of the year" go?! Christmas time is filled with joy and love. Laughter, giving, stress, frustration, melt downs, make ups, do-overs, mess, fun, sadness, and happiness. The full human experience packed into a few weeks! And now it's over. How do you feel today? Are you in the meh of the crash that comes after all the excitement? It is a brand New Year...

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas Day! If not, sign up for a free coaching session immediately and we can work through some of the drama! As we are on holiday breaks from school and work and spending more time together as a family, see if any of this has been coming up for you... Have you noticed that your kids are like little mirrors showing you all of your worst attributes? They are like mi...

I am wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas! I hope you are able to find joy and peace and love amidst the chaos and mayhem! As your year is wrapping up (and so are the presents! 🎁 ) take a moment to reflect on how you thought this year would go versus the reality of how it went. Let's get intentional about your upcoming year and open it up for miracles to manifest. This time last year,...