Come Back to Care

This episode is part two of the previous episode. If you haven’t listened to it, I highly recommend you first check out Ep 79: Power Struggles? Fight For What’s Right, Not Who’s Right . In this episode, you and I are going to explore one idea from child development science and practice one strategy that you can experiment with to meet your child in power struggles without giving up your power and...

In this episode, you and I are going to understand power struggle as a tension between what we want our kids to know to survive and what they need to thrive. Then, we’ll explore a question from the Social Justice Parenting Playbook you can use when you feel a power struggle starting. This question is there to help you decide your next parenting steps. We’ll revisit concepts like adult supremacy an...

In this episode, let’s explore whether you’re tired or morally injured and which medicine to pick for each wound. You’ll explore one action you can do with your child in everyday parenting to sustain the resistance. Let’s go. --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcast For more BTS of this podcast, follow @comebacktocare on Instagram! Sign up...

In this episode, you and I will explore three ways we can share power with our children to prepare them for the future without policing, prison, and punishment, all while promoting their development at the same time. You’ll also hear an excerpt from Raising Change Agents too. --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcast For more BTS of this po...

In this episode, Iris Chen @ Untigering and I invite you to explore what it means to make parenting political, especially when we want to protect our children from the world; what it means to be a change agent; how to practice liberation in hard moments like screentime; and so much more. --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcast For more BT...

To help us get organized and strategic, in this episode, you and I are going to explore how movements in the past won -- from the American Civil Rights movement to global nonviolence movements. Then, we’re going to use abolitionist organizing as a framework to help us sustain the spark and organize our advocacy. We’re going to be strategic about how to practice these skills too (hint: we practice...

In this episode, you and I are going to explore how we teach children to tolerate stress and sit with discomfort (and one thing our culture misses about how to do this). Then, you’re going to reflect on your patterns when you witness your child struggling. Once you know your pattern, we’ll unpack one action that you can experiment with today. You’ll also hear an excerpt from the book Raising Chang...

In this episode, I’d love to invite you to change care to be radical by changing how we look at our children and therefore changing the way we raise them. You and I are going to explore what it takes for our children to survive and thrive. Then we’ll explore what it means to raise them to become change agents- not just quote unquote successful, or kind, or compassionate, or conscious? And lastly,...

In this episode, we explore ways to make parenting less reactive and more revolutionary so we can prepare ourselves and our children for the chaos and uncertainty ahead. --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcast For more BTS of this podcast, follow @comebacktocare on Instagram! Sign up for our weekly Care Collective Newslette r for informat...

Before you set intentions for 2026, may I invite you to review one thing in 2025 first? So that you can begin 2026 with a lot of compassion that will ignite and sustain both your social justice parenting in your home and social justice advocacy in your neighborhood. In this episode, you and I are going to review moments when we made mistakes to see what those moments reveal about our tenacity, our...

In this episode, you’ll hear two excerpts from the Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice In Everyday Parenting book. One excerpt is for the part of you that’s been feeling frozen in inaction and overwhelmed by injustices this year. The other excerpt is a loving invitation for you to remember how far you’ve come and remember who you are.  There’s nothing for you to do, to plan, or t...

In this episode, you and I are going to experiment with two actions to metabolize our rage so we can get to a headspace and heart space to practice genuine (not performative) gratitude as a family. We’ll connect the dots between Audre Lorde’s teaching and applied neuroscience. --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcast For more BTS of this p...

In this episode, we’ll cover one question from my Classical Chinese Medicine teacher that you can play with during family gatherings when you want to stay on purpose and stay politically spicy. --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcast For more BTS of this podcast, follow @comebacktocare on Instagram! Sign up for our weekly Care Collective...

In this episode, you’ll hear six scripts that you can use or adapt when your little one is asking who immigrants are and why people are protesting. --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcast For more BTS of this podcast, follow @comebacktocare on Instagram! Sign up for our weekly Care Collective Newslette r for information and inspiration on...

In this bonus episode, Deepa Iyer shares her wisdom on staying engaged in social change when you’re a caregiver. You’ll explore the roles you can play in liberation and make your advocacy “sustainable and effective.” --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcast For more BTS of this podcast, follow @comebacktocare on Instagram! Sign up for our...

In this episode, you and I are going to roll up our sleeves and dig into how to build a parenting support system. We’ll explore what social justice actions like pod mapping can teach us about how to build a parenting support system that’s based on trust, reciprocity, and interdependence. We’ll also unpack how inner child wounds can sometimes make this interdependence and community building work so...

I first shared this episode with you last November and my mailbox got flooded with kind feedback from so many listeners saying how compassionate and concrete the strategy was. So, I’d love to share it with you again today, my dear co-conspirator. In this episode, you and I will explore a framework for strategic communications that a political messaging expert and campaign advisor, Anat Shenker-Oso...

Today’s episode invites you to take direct action and practice power-with at our children’s schools through a campaign called Drop the ADL from Schools .  --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcast For more BTS of this podcast, follow @comebacktocare on Instagram! Sign up for our weekly Care Collective Newslette r for information and in...

In this episode, you and I are going to explore one action to power-with with your child when they struggle. You’ll also explore the science behind how power-with nurtures your child’s motivation and perseverance. You can prepare your child for the real world using power-with. This way you get to practice what feels aligned with your values and promote your child’s development at the same time. --...

In this episode, you and I are going to explore one barrier that prevents many of us from meeting our children where they’re at. And that barrier is adult supremacy. Let’s unlearn this pattern of oppression together so that you can shift from power-over your child to power-with with them… most of the time. Then, we’ll pick one adult supremacy pattern to unlearn together and explore one fear that f...

In this episode, you and I will explore the both-and of voting and organizing in your community through the lens of disorganized attachment. Then, we’ll unpack what disorganized attachment can teach us about ways to get organized in this moment of uncertainty. --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcast For more BTS of this podcast, follow @c...

In this bonus episode, you and I are going to explore two invitations to stay grounded amid the changes and transitions of back to school. Then, we’re going to unpack the sense of “here we go again” you might be feeling when it comes to both back to school and social justice action during these times.  --------------------------- Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com...

This episode concludes our inner child re-parenting series (Ep 50-58). In this episode, you and I are going to recap some key concepts of inner child re-parenting that we’ve been talking about since episode 50. Then, we’ll explore some reasons why the people closest to you might not be the most supportive of you when you choose your own healing and choose to break the family cycles.  --------...

Our inner child re-parenting series (eps 50 to 58) continues. In this episode, you will hear the conversation that I had with Elisa about boundary setting, intergenerational family healing, inner child re-parenting, and parenting teenagers. At the end, you’ll have one reflection question and invitation to integrate this discussion into your own boundary setting practices.  -------------------...

In this episode, you and I are going to explore how our inner child wounds can complicate our ability to practice regulation. Then, we’ll discuss one action we can do to slowly cultivate regulation and safety, going beyond coping and surviving. So that you can offer regulation to your child and meet their needs where they’re at, most of the time. And this practice will help you stay centered in mo...