Authentic Parenting

Melissa Schwartz is an author, parent coach and an avid advocate for highly sensitive children. She was born an intense, sensitive, empathic, power seeker. Her intuitive ability to decode misbehavior and her passion for giving  a voice  to the legitimate needs of children naturally evolved into becoming the co-creator of Leading Edge Parenting. Melissa has worked with children for over fifteen yea...

Super Joe Pardo talks openly about the realities of balancing a growing business with a growing family (toddler and a newborn). Try to hold a toddler in your arms while keeping an eye on a sleeping newborn while conducing a video interview. As much as Joe loves working from home and being part of his famille's life, some things had to change in order to maximize productivity and focus. He went fro...

Mickie Zada   chose to stay in a damaging relationship for 34 years because she thought it was her Calling.  She believed it was her responsibility to keep her husband between the lines. While living in abuse, for decades she didn't recognize herself as an abused spouse. She was not threatened with weapons, was not hospitalized, never called law enforcement and did not file a restraining order aga...

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Jeff Cox is a father, husband, student, teacher, scholar and in general an extremely curious individual who loves to share thoughts and discoveries with others. He writes  extensively on parenting in various outlets.  ABOUT ME I help overwhelmed, frustrated parents who want to parent differently than their parents, make sense of their early childhood experiences, connect to their authentic self an...

Laura Reagan, LCSW-C is an integrative trauma therapist and on this episode she talks about  childhood trauma: what it is, how prevalent it is in our society, what are its lingering effects on our life as adults and why childhood trauma is not over in childhood. Most importantly, what we can do to heal.   SUPPORT THE AUTHENTIC PARENTING PODCAST ON PATREON!!! Has the show been of value to you? Do y...

Marion Rose, PhD  talks about  what self-compassion is, how it has helped her, common myths about it and how can you cultivate a self-compassion practice. What makes parenting hard and are you hitting yourself with emotional sticks? She also walks us through a simple yet powerful practice she has developed called the Inner Loving Mother and more.  ABOUT ME I help overwhelmed, frustrated parents wh...

This is our monthly special episode where I co-host the show with another colleague.  We have 3 segments Examples from Our Homes What's Up with You? Answering listener parenting questions Favorite Finds In the first segment, I tell a story about a delayed Christmas gift I had ordered for my daughter. How she reacted triggered past hurts in me and I was stuck. It is hard to parent peacefully and re...

It was the 1950's, The Netherlands and people didn't know much about Autism. Born 18 months earlier than her, Carl's sister was severely autistic. She never spoke a word. For the first 3 years of her life she cried a lot. It was very difficult for her parents in many ways. Sometimes they couldn't even to find love for her. Carla's parents wanted her to be "normal' and that meant not showing emotio...

Mindfulness teacher Michelle Gale shares some practical, doable, parent-friendly practices that will truly make a difference in your life. It's all about those simple steps that accumulate and yield to big shifts.   SUPPORT THE AUTHENTIC PARENTING PODCAST ON PATREON!!! Has the show been of value to you? Do you find the show helpful? Have you gained from the show? Do you want the show to remain str...

Nancy Colier is a psychotherapist in private practice, an ordained interfaith minister, mindfulness teacher, relationship coach, author and blogger.  Technology has become an integral part of our life. We do everything with or on our smartphones (well, almost everything). Just think about how you use your phone daily? We are starting to realize that some boundaries need to be placed, some paramete...

This is the final episode of the 2017. I don't know about you but I feel like the time is really flying by. It seems like it was just yesterday when I was recording the final episode of the 2016, which is by the way the least downloaded episode of the podcast:) In preparation for this episode I went back and listened to it. It's a really good one. In it I compiled all of my guests wisdom, their an...

Christina Fletcher joins me for the December special episode. She is a returning guest and you can find her first episode here. Push The Reset Button Highlights: how Christina navigates her teenage daughter's social media experience, her daughter just launched her blog why setting limits is hard how to get rid of fear in parenting because it does show up quite often:) what to do when your own trig...

Are you caught up in the frenzy of day to day modern life? Are you busy, rushed, hurried and lacking time? How much time do you spend with your kids? How much time do your children spend away from you? As the year 2017 is coming to an end, I invite you to rethink your priorities. This is a good time to pause and set new intentions for the coming year. How do you want to spend your days? Where does...

Do you want to be part of the final episode of the year?  Send me your voice message now!   Here is the question: What's your definition of authenticity? What does it mean to live an authentic life?  Resources and Links: Grief Dreams Podcast Here is the episode with Joshua Black on my podcast. Joshua's website  Do you need an ongoing parenting support for free? I invite you to join my closed Faceb...

Description This is our monthly special episode where I co-host the show with another colleague. For now, I have a Mystery Seat for each month and I invite passionate coaches or parent educators to host the show with me. This should be fun. For the monthly special episodes the show has a different format. We have 4 segments. Examples from Our Home What's Up with You? Answering listener parenting q...

Communication is big part of any relationship. When we become parents our relationship with our parenting partner gains a whole new layer of complexity. Are you a good communicator? Is your relationship a challenging one? Do you keep having the same old argument? Are you in touch with your needs? Can you communicate them safely in your relationship to get them met? Highlights: -why marriage mediat...

Do you get triggered and hijacked by your emotions quite often?   Do you ever find yourself frustrated, disappointed, insulted, angry or annoyed in your house? Does your spouse or children do things that just bother you beyond measure? Do you carry those emotions with you throughout your day? In other words do you get stuck? Today, we will be learning a simple yet powerful 5 step self-help techniq...

We have made it! Yay! 100 episodes under our belt. Where did the time go? This special episode is for you. I want to celebrate, you, my dear listener! Audience participation. Woohoo! Thank you so much for being part of Authentic Moments community.  Listeners who appeared on this episode: Isabelle, Angela, Katja, Carla, Tina, Ashley, Corrine, Elizabeth, Melanie. Here are some of your favorite shows...

My guest for this episode is Christina Louise, The Peaceful Parenting Mentor and World's #1 Freedom Coach offers a unique understanding of what you and your child are going through right now, because she WAS a challenging child and troubled teen herself! Because her parents didn't understand how to manage their emotions without going into fight or flight mode, she wound up experiencing years of ab...

Do you sometimes feel tired, negative and overwhelmed? By chatting with Dr. Corrine Seeley it became clear that there is scientific reasons why you feel that way especially when you don't get enough adequate sleep. In this episode we talk about the importance of sleep both for parents and children. Corrine started doing fertility meditation on youtube, earned her PhD at 8 months pregnant and start...

How to find happiness and maintain it is a central question. Do you know that we have    what's called a set point for happiness? According to Dr. Puff we can change that. We can raise our set point and what he calls become superenjoyers.  We can raise our set point of happiness. Happiness is a lot like our weight. You have to do things to maintain your healthy weight. To begin to change our happi...

This is the monthly special episode where I am joined by my lovely friend and colleague Sarah MacLaughlin. If you are a regular listener then you know that we have 3 main segments: Examples From Our Home in which we both share parenting fails and triumphs. What's Up With You? in which we answer your parenting questions Favorite Finds in which we talk about what we have read, or found to be helpful...

Should parents sacrifice their own happiness, dreams, life for their children? Highlights: -as a child Katerina wanted her mom to be happy but as a mom she repeated the same mistakes -how she went from being a supermom to a happy mom -she almost lost her marriage to infidelity   What does it mean to create your own happiness? Don't focus on one aspect of your life Will the kids be fine? Are you pu...