Beyond Risk & Back

Dr. Charles Fay and Aaron Huey review the essentials of Love and Logic and how it can provide a clear path of boundaries, consequences, and responsibility for ANY child. Dr. Fay is a parent, internationally recognized author, consultant and highly skilled public speaker. Millions of educators, mental health professionals, and parents world-wide have benefited from his practical and down-to-earth s...

Talk about bodies, sex, birds, and the bees to your kids and teens. Leave space for family values. Leave space for your teen's ideas and values...that are in development. Mandi Nuttall is a former high school health teacher and collegiate volleyball player at BYU and has since adopted the self-proclaimed titles of a taxi driver, nutritionist, doctor, therapist, personal trainer, cancer fighter, in...

27 years as a High School Teacher, Marci Brockman is the author of Permission to Heal and this show helps clear the way for self-care. Empathy begins with the sharing of our stories. In this podcast, we engage in meaningful, deeply human conversations to inspire connection, compassion, understanding, and whole-hearted wellness. We all need to learn to give ourselves the grace and space to heal fro...

Foster Parenting - My talk with SAFY   Since our founding in Lima, Ohio in 1984, their work has rested on a single, radical idea – children belong in families. Every child and family deserves the opportunity to reach their full potential.  They are an extraordinary team of 500 employees in seven states including Alabama, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, Ohio and South Carolina who provide safe...

Online Learning and Teens Mark Taylor the founder of "Educator on Fire" is bringing the heat! This conversation is to support parents whose kids have struggled to get back into the "joy" of learning. Mark is the Vice-Chair of the National Association for Primary Education and is bringing his knowledge across the pond to help parents back into the saddle of keeping kids engaged at school    

Neuro - Linguistic Programming Gemma Bailey brings her toolbox of parenting techniques as she is the founder of "NLP for Kids". Gemma Bailey (born 3rd march 1979) is best known as a therapist who uses NLP and hypnotherapy with a specialism in working with children and young people. After training as a Nursery Nurse at Oaklands College, St Albans, she went on to work in a variety of child care sett...

One of Beyond Risk and Back's most popular guests! 3 time TEDx speaker, Katherine brings us the nuts and bolts of conscious parenting when our teens are struggling. Finding your center in yourself instead of your child's behavior!

In this episode of Beyond Risk and Back, I bring out one of my favorites! Lara Dawn is not just an expert in ADHD children and how to support them, she is a mom of ADHD children and has ADHD herself. She is also the founder of the ADHD village and spends her time gathering experts on ADHD from all over the globe to educate her village! She's done it again with 35 more experts! This is a FREE summi...

Brett Hill Mindfulness, communication, and Somatic understanding. This is a show about tools to "come back home" to the moment. The Language of Mindfulness is his podcast and the subject of his TedTalk, and upcoming book! https://www.languageofmindfulness.com/mindfulness-coach/

Have you ever heard of "Tapping"? EFT Emotionally Focused Therapy and Tapping is a WONDERFUL experience. We explore it as a technique and teach you the basics because this is something you can do at home.   ANN HINCE is our narrator and instructor here! From finding her mother dead on the bathroom floor at 16 years old to RESHAPING her body through her personal growth work and therapeutic interven...

I have the host of Coffee over Suicide Podcast, Chris Parker Howard, on to talk with humor, honesty, and a deep message about suicide.   Who he is is best Summed up in his own bio... "I used to wonder if I was stranded on a desert island, without anti-depressants or mood stabilizers, would my own brain be the thing that kills me? I spent a lot of time trying different coping mechanisms for my part...

Dr. Heim will quickly become your favorite source for understanding the human condition. He has become mine. Just listen and you WILL understand.   https://www.drchristianheim.com/ Dr. Heim is an award-winning Psychiatrist, Music Professor, and Churchill fellow. During his 18 years of continuing psychiatry practice, he has heard the stories of 1000s of people. Combining science, entertainment, and...

Video Games are not what they used to be...but are they dangerous? What's really happening when your child logs on to a game?   Jed Shaffer is a dad who uses video games as a connection with his kids and he gives us an insight to online language, sexism, racism, and the potentially violent behavior that takes place. Have you ever heard of "S.W.A.T-ing"?   Knowing that his own children are online,...

What is the difference between willingness and capability when it comes to dealing with anxiety?   Since Covid began, adolescents 13-17 reporting anxiety symptoms have skyrocketed to 25%. The brain spin is crippling.    Do you have knowledge of it or do you understand it?   Kyle Mitchell grew up with it. Survived it. Thrives with it. Kyle is a teen mental health advocate, podcast host, upcoming TE...

When children self-harm, we often are afraid of what they will have to tell people about their scars when they get older. How will they explain it to a friend, future spouse, a boss? How could they do this to their bodies and their future?   WHY would a child ever do this?   "I am not my mental health trauma. I am me."   I met with Amy Minh Hạnh Corey on the birthday of her 8th year of sobriety fr...

Spirituality is EASY when things are going well.   So how do you find your spiritual side when your teen is running away, cutting, using, and suffering from mental health issues.   How do you find the Light in the Darkness? How do you tend to your Faith when you are in Fight or Flight?   Stan Lewis the Host of the "Fearless Parenting" podcast brings us support when the price of our family struggli...

  This week's guest! Emily Ansell Elfer Editor of Autism Parenting Magazine brings us the expertise she has gained through her experience of putting together a monthly magazine for parents.   Emily Ansell Elfer, BA Hons, Dip is Editor of Autism Parenting Magazine, where she coordinates an extensive group of therapists, autism specialists, and writers to publish news and professional guidance for f...

Dr. Brassel is known as the Jim Carrey of reading. Danny Brassell is America's Leading Reading Ambassador...who grew up hating reading. Do kids read more or less now? How do you get teens who don't read...to LOVE reading? Does the internet count? "Captain Underpants is the gateway drug to Shakespeare." Since 1996, Danny has taught at California State University. A tenured professor in the Teacher...

Once you begin to understand that your experience as a parent was informed by your parents, and their parents...and their parents...then what?    Marci Brockmann,  a high school teacher for 27 years, tells her story of childhood pain and walking away from the legacy of trauma passed down in her family, generation after generation after finally giving herself...permission to heal.   Now it's your t...

Jayson Gaddis is a favorite guest on Beyond Risk and Back because of his work in relationships. Founder of the Relationship School in boulder colorado, Jayson is also the author of the newly released "Getting to Zero: How to Work Through Conflict in Your High-Stakes Relationships".   Chances are most of us deal with conflict on a daily basis with friends, family members, lovers, partners, and even...

Kolbe Testing was originally a brilliant business tool to understand employee strengths and utilizing them in the RIGHT place in the business. It is literally a tool to find out HOW people solve problems.   I've taken multiple Kolbe tests through the years and took one again recently. My guest interprets my results!   Gail Swift was part of the team that helped Kolbe create a testing procedure for...

No, I'm not joking. Before you roll your eyes, you need to know that I am a believer in essential oils and use them a lot.    After I heard about my guest, I had to ask her: Do they work with families that struggle? What is Bio-Hacking and can we use oils to hack our teen's brains? Is it actually a real thing? Like... with science? ...and every left hook question I could think of to understand thi...

Wilderness Programs v. Residential Treament. Examples of changes when drug abuse begins. Transport? Is Cannabis actually dangerous for children? ...and what parents can do...step by step. Richard Capriola, Author of "The Addicted Child- A Parents Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse" is my guest this week! Richard has been in the recovery industry for a long time now and can give parents a REAL ins...

Strategies from a survivor. 9% of the population will have an eating disorder in their lifetime. Faith Alicia helps THIS father and his careless comment understand how and why eating disorders work and hurt families. She also provides the support to get back on track.

Brian Clate and I talk about emotional intelligence in children, teens, and adults. Brian is a behavioral coach who focuses on emotional intelligence.