Fresh Start Family Show

In this week of Thanksgiving, what more appropriate to cover than gratitude.  Join Terry and Wendy, the Fresh Start Family Co-Hosts and positive parenting duo, as they express gratitude for their greatest teachers in this world -- Their children.  This episode is to help parents recognize their children as their greatest teachers and to walk through their parenting journey with a spirit of gratitu...

Join the incredible mommy daughter duo, Carmen & Olivia Isaacs, as they talk about how they incorporate charitable giving into their family holiday traditions. Carmen gives us the most beautiful example of modeling to our children and how as parents we can empower our kids to utilize their strong will and gifts to bring light to the world.  In this heartwarming episode you will learn: Ways to enga...

On the Fresh Start Family Show this week Wendy has a conversation with Ralphie Jacobs who has transformed thousands of homes through her positive parenting centered organization, Simply on Purpose. Wendy and Ralphie share the transformative power of positive parenting they have witnessed in each of their lives and the families they work with.  Walk away from this episode learning: How we can show...

Join Wendy today as she shares the transformative shift she had in her parenting once she decided to take the courageous step into new and beautiful ways of parenting & living life.  Today she utilizes her own family stories and parenting journey to talk about stepping beyond the feelings of fear and utilizing courage as our greatest parenting superpower. For links & more info about everything dis...

To kick off Season 2 of the Fresh Start Family Show and throughout the month of October we are talking about all things discipline!  Mr. Chazz ... the incredible and vibrant parent & teacher coach, is helping us to kick off this new season with an incredibly empowering conversation about how focusing on connection + disciplining with compassion will help our kids to learn 3 of the most important l...

Join the entire Snyder Crew for a fun celebration of 100 episodes of the Fresh Start Family Show on today’s special episode. Meet Stella, Terrin and Herbie Snyder as the family discusses what it’s like to be a Snyder and growing up in a home with the strong influence of positive parenting.  Listen to today’s episode to meet the Snyders, laugh, and see inside the world of a real life “dedicated as...

Let’s talk about triggers and what to do when our kids push our buttons!  Wendy sits down with her longtime mentor & friend Pam Dunn, coach, author, and creator of Your Infinite Life Training & Coaching Company, for a discussion on how to recognize triggers, accept responsibility for them, and how to heal from the root causes of them.  What to do when kids push our buttons… Having awareness around...

In Episode 98 of the Fresh Start Family Show, Wendy has a discussion with Laine Lipsky -- Elite athlete turned elite parenting coach.  Laine utilizes her passion to help parents attain excellence in their parenting - through: >> ending cycles of generational dysfunction >> and helping build UP their parenting toolkits Wendy and Laine both share stories, challenges and victories in their parenting...

Today’s episode is for parents all across the spectrum looking to bring some peace to their home, but especially for anyone parenting sensitive kiddos.  Wendy has a candid conversation with Jen Harrison about the ways she has helped thousands of parents worldwide improve their lives at home within a matter of weeks. Jen has been named “The Child Whisperer” by Moms worldwide and has an incredible t...

Wendy and Terry had the amazing opportunity to sit down with father of three and Child Play Advocate Drew Vernon, on Episode 96 on the Fresh Start Family Show to talk about how we can empower our kids to build critical thinking & creativity skills through play & literature!  Drew fell in love with encouraging play for children and talks to us about how creative play can be fundamental to our child...

Wendy sits down with registered dietitian and pediatric feeding expert, Rachel Rothman, MS, RD, CLEC to help families who struggle with mealtime to feel more empowered and less stressed, which is the primary focus of Rachel’s private practice, Nutrition in Bloom.  For links & more info about everything discussed in this episode, head to www.freshstartfamilyonline.com/95. Learn more about your ad c...

As parents one of the greatest ways to achieve the connection and understanding we strive for with our children is by becoming a safe place for them.  Conscious parenting coach, Vivek Patel speaks to this today on the Fresh Start Family Show.  answering the question, ‘how do we become a safe space for our children”.  Through stories of his own childhood experiences, his journey with his own childr...

The damage from trauma in our lives can last generations. Sometimes we may not even recognize how it creeps in and takes over our families through our patterns and behaviors. The inspiring Roma Norris, mother of two, parenting activist, facilitator and Hand in Hand Parenting consultant, talks to us on the Show today all about the subtle forms of trauma-- known as ‘complex trauma’-- that creep into...

Episode 92 of the Fresh Start Family Show is all about understanding sensory processing and how it can be linked to misbehavior, emotions, and learning in our children.  Pediatric occupational therapist, Jamie Chaves, takes the complex topic of sensory processing and simplifies it to help us better understand our children and families.  Jamie recognizes sensory processing as the foundation for reg...

On the Fresh Start Family Show today, Ms. Ann Dillard -- family and teen mental health consultant and mother-daughter coach -- discusses with us how she helps women of all ages to navigate challenges in their own mother/daughter relationships.  She walks us through how to overcome challenges and triumphs of recognizing, repairing, and building healthy mother/daughter relationships. Discussed in th...

It’s time to show up and speak out, families-- in today’s episode we are learning just how to do that from an expert in speaking truth, love and hope into the world-- Carlos Whittaker.  In a world where opinions and hot topics flood the internet, it’s easy to want to hide away from it all and not speak on anything.  Carlos powerfully reminds us we are called to speak up for what we believe in and...

On the Fresh Start Family Show today, Terry and I had a candid conversation with one of our dearest friends & mentors, Dan Sivils, on humbling ourselves as parents and being ok with being a work in progress, because the truth is, we all are! As parents we ALL have a multitude of core fears.. Fears of not being good enough parents, not ever truly connecting with our children, or even the fear that...

Today on the Fresh Start Family Show, Terry and I sit down to chat with Dr. Justin Coulson, author of 21 Days to a Happier Family and 9 Ways to a Resilient Child.  Justin is a father of SIX daughters (amazing … SIX daughters!) & an incredible parent coach who is talking with us how to foster a deep connection with our girls (and all of our children really).  Through Dr. Coulson’s own incredible st...

Today I am talking to parents about the MOST important form of self-care that is often overlooked in our society … While hot baths, reading your Bible and going for a jog may all be essential forms of self-care for many (including myself!) ... today I am discussing how we can experience life changing results through community, support, and consistent mentorship throughout our parenting journey.  T...

As the proverb goes...A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. In today’s episode, I am talking about having the courage to take that FIRST step wherever we find ourselves in our parenting journeys.  I was in a valley of deep overwhelm when someone introduced me to the work of positive parenting through a free parenting class... I’ve learned on this beautiful journey to take a deep breat...

Have you heard loads of “back in my day,” stories where reactive, controlling, old ways of parenting with fear and force are justified & advocated for?  Today -- Terry and I are inviting you to join us to rise up and choose a better way of parenting our children.  We don’t think these old school hand me down parenting tools - fear, force, and pain filled tactics - are intertwined with God’s messag...

It is no surprise that now more than ever families are starting to realize how addictive phones and devices can be and parents are now actively taking steps to limit screen time for their children.  Protecting our kids from all of the dangers that technology presents can fill our homes with power struggles, and leave our family feeling like the outcasts.  Well, families.. Sometimes to keep our kid...

As a country (and world), we often try to fit people into boxes regarding their race … Black.. White..  Asian..  Hispanic… But, we are missing a huge sector of the population (over 9 million people in the United States!!), that don’t just fit into one of those boxes.. They fit into two, maybe even three or four.  Many times, we are doing our world & our children a great disservice by forcing our k...

Our children are unique, differently wired little humans. No matter how much they may look like us, talk like us, act like us…. They all communicate in their own languages.  There is no handbook for this.  There is no parenting book or language crash course that teaches us the exact language of each of our kiddos.  But-- don’t let this discourage you, families, because there are still some BEAUTIF...

As our children move into their tween and teen years, this can be a feared & stressful time in our parenting journey..   Emotional outbursts, power struggles, complete withdrawal, hiding stuff, lying, engaging in sketchy activities … These reactions from our teens and tweens and how we respond to them can cause relationship damage and loss of connection, easily if we don’t use tons of care. The go...