The Parent Inspiration Podcast

Dr. John Gottman's first principle in what makes happy, stable relationships and marriages is what he calls having a detailed "love map" of your partners likes, dislikes, hopes, dreams, fears, and stressors, etc.  The book has multiple helpful questionaires and exercises! 

Today we cover how Dr. John Gottman predicts divorce which such things as a harsh start-up, the 4 horseman which are criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonwalling, and many more.  

Today we cover Dr. John Gottman's chapter on "What Does Make Marriage Work" from his book The Seven Princiles of Making Marriage Work.  

I am applying for graudate school to become a marriage and family therapist so I am devoting the next year to reading all of John Gottman's books and podcasting about my discoveries.  The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work I consider is the best book on marriage and relationships out there.  It's based in research and packed full of exercises to do to strengthen your relationship. I'm excit...

Today we discuss steps of healthy and helpful communication from the consulting company Global Leader Group who trains businesses around the world on interpersonal relations and communication.  The steps are: ask if it's a good time to talk share positive feelings about the other person and your relationship play back a situation that happened as factually as possible get curious and ask for other...

Today we discuss healthy conflict vs. distructive conflict and how healthy families are not conflict-free.  Healthy families repair, communicate, and reconnect after conflict.  

Today we discuss what's underneath conflict as we learn from John Bowlby's Attachment Theory and John Gottman's research.  

My youngest daughter came to me and said "your phone is my enemy! I want to be with you!" We use our phones and devices for very important and also fun things so this episode is not about any amount of parent guilt but about inspiring us all to be fully present a little more.  Today we discuss leading experts words on the impact of parental tech use and what is recommened.  

Today we discuss 5 things that help create emotional safety in families and name some things that create unsafety.

Having more quality time together and becoming like a child or teenager again with our kids can be so bonding!

Here are some powerful tools to say and do when a child is on the verge of tears.  

Learn 3 ways family rituals help our children by providing emotional security, strengthening family bonds, and creating identity and family values!  

Letting our kids know mistakes are okay and we believe in them to make good choices helps them continue to make good choices in the future.   

Learn from the research organization the Human Improvement Project as well as Mr. Rogers on what our kids fear and how we can best help them.

Having this mindness that our struggles also hold our superpowers and our weaknesses are just overused strengths helps us: see the good in ourselves and others and  know when we can dial up or dial down our strengths to function at our best and know that WE ARE ENOUGH and beautiful exactly as we are 

Today we're rewinding 12 years to what life was like parenting in all the craziness of motherhood when my kids were little.  Come and relate to all my confessions and how I cope.  I hope you feel lighter and full of hope after listening! 

Come get inspired both by story and research how your children's next difficult moment can be a crucible for change and healing!

"When we become aware of the movies in our head, we do our children a great service.  We not only stop playing out our self-created fantasies, but we absolve our children of guilt and shame for not making our fantasies come true.  We release our children from the roles we cast them in, which are often not their voluntary choices, and instead help them to recast themselves in scripts that match who...

This episode helps us all relate to one another that we are normal!  "You are normal" are also a powerful mantra we can tell our kids and today we'll learn why.  

Here are statistics and research from offical government websites and other research organizations on the mental well being of parents!  You are not alone in what your thinking, feeling, and going through! 

Today we cover Laura Markham's tips on becoming a brilliant listener in her book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids.

Laura Markham in her book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids reveals what the essential secret ingredient is to being a happier parent.

In Laura Markham's book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids she lists out 10 tips for raising terrific kids and today we cover her #4 - creating a safe place to just listen.  She teaches that crys as well as laughter helps our kids release tension they have built up.  

As part of our series on Laura Markham's book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids, we learn about living in the moment more and what can heal us from our stresses.  

When we are buried in what seems impossible, it can be easy to see all the ways our famliies are struggling.  Seeing with new eyes can be so healing and seeing the divine can mean so many things whether you are religious or not.