Harmony in the Home

Have you ever heard of the 75 Hard Challenge? I had heard rumblings about it but decided to go for it to ring in my 50th bday. I will go over everything I learned through this challenge and a few surprises I wasn’t expecting. If you decide to do this challenge , please share with me what you learn and with these skills you will learn will help to have your stress lighten which will lead to you hav...

Do you find it nearly impossible to create habits that stick? Today I will go over how best to create habits that stick and you’ll understand why it is so hard . With these skills you may see your stress lighten which will lead to you having  more harmony in your home. Check out our sponsor Herbal Face Food and support the show by clicking the link https://tinyurl.com/KellysFavoriteAntiAgingSerum...

Do you ever get snarky comments from loved ones when you go to make a positive change in your life? I will share where this comes from and how to not take it personally. With these skills you may see your stress lighten which will lead to you having  more harmony in your home. Check out our sponsor Herbal Face Food and support the show by clicking the link https://tinyurl.com/KellysFavoriteAntiAgi...

Do you ever feel tongue tied in sticky situations with your kids? Today we are going to cover the gamut of one liners that help you squeak by in these situations instead of stuck . With these skills you may see your stress lighten which will lead to you having  more harmony in your home. Check out our sponsor Herbal Face Food and support the show by clicking the link https://tinyurl.com/KellysFavo...

When you have a problem in your life, does it feel better to talk with a friend about it or go on a long walk to think about it on your own? Today we are going to talk about different ways to process emotions and how we can appreciate and honor all different types of processing versus judging someone who is different than us in the way they process emotions. Email me at coachingkelly@aol.com   wit...

Have you ever had a break up or a falling out with someone that really broke your heart ?  Today we will unpack those emotions and look at a way to reframe it so it doesn’t have such a hold on you in your every day. Email me at coachingkelly@aol.com   with what you think about this episode and/or if you want to sign up for pocket coaching to have more harmony in your home! Check out our sponsor He...

Do you have a difficult person that you’re dealing with regularly or that lives rent free  in your head every day? If so, then today’s episode will apply to you on how to free those mental chains around that difficult person in your life and explain why they have such a hold on youEmail me at coachingkelly@aol.com   with what you think about this episode and/or if you want to sign up for pocket co...

Do you ever feel stuck in a rut and you don’t know how to get out?  Today I’m gonna tell you an inspirational story about love and loss and how it helped me and 100s of people  to get unstuck so you can use it too to free yourself of the mental chains you may be feeling  in any situation. Email me at coachingkelly@aol.com   with what you think about this episode and/or if you want to sign up for p...

Do you ever feel like the household chores are never ending and exhausting? Believe me, I know how that feels too so today we’ll unpack how to lighten the load with habits and mindsets blending together to take the pressure off your shoulders while getting stuff done at the same time! With these skills you may see your stress lighten which will lead to you having  more harmony in your home. Check...

Do you ever feel like your phone has a hold of you versus you having a hold of your phone? Today we will unpack where this addiction stems from and how to curb it to a healthy level of consumption. With these skills you may see your stress lighten which will lead to you having  more harmony in your home. Check out our sponsor Herbal Face Food and support the show by clicking the link https://tinyu...

How are we on our 200th episode???? And we have a giveaway!   And Holy moly guacamole look who we have with us today!! I was lucky and blessed enough to be asked to interview Dr. Shefali about her new book and how conscious parenting has completely transformed our home from stressed to blessed.  Listen below and reply to this email with your biggest takeaway. Check out our sponsor Herbal Face Food...

Today’s episode was inspired by the book, Hands Are Not for Hitting by Martine Agassi. We aim to stay out of the bickering when our kids get into it, but what about when it gets physical with each other or they are destroying toys/property?   Today we will talk about a cool strategy that works well when tempers are flaring and how to be the calm in their storm so you all can have more harmony in o...

Today you’re in for a real treat!   I was lucky enough to be asked to be on my friend Joelle’s podcast and we talk all things imperfect parenting. You can link hearts with her on IG  here .   We dive into the strengths and struggles that come with each age and stage in parenting. I don’t want to give away the punchline to our chat, but the entire parenting journey is filled with a lot of 50/50 exp...

What would you do if you had more time every day? What wonderful goals would you accomplish? What feats of parenthood would you achieve? Well, what’re you waiting for? Stop imagining it and start doing it! You may have seen Pomodoro timers (the little tomato-shaped kitchen timers) in many people’s houses. This is the hallmark of Pomodoro technique, a time management system developed by Francesco C...

I’m always trying to think of things that worked in my classroom with 20 kids so they’ll scale down and work in your four walls. One thing that helped my 1st-graders was teaching them tangible words to stand up for themselves and be assertive. At the beginning of the year, we’d teach them to counter teasing, bullying, etc. with a polite but assertive “please stop, I don’t like that.” Why this phra...

How can I have a loving family without falling into bad patterns? — Well, here are some of my thoughts. Think about your childhood family environment — not just your parents, but your siblings, your aunts and uncles, your cousins, your grandparents, friends of the family. You had a totally different “Saturn” growing up, with different people and different power dynamics orbiting your family. As a...

I often get asked, how do I deal with temper tantrums? Probably one of the hardest parts of parenting is working through your child’s temper tantrum. When I was a teacher and counselor, I dealt with a lot of tantrums, but the kids were generally able to keep it in during the day. I wasn’t privy to the post-school, in-car meltdowns, and I either had support, or I WAS the support. But as a parent, I...

How do you teach your kids to feel tricky emotions? This is an important topic — so important that we’ve addressed it a few times during the run of our podcast. This isn’t the first time, and it won’t be the last! Emotional regulation is a skill for life! Whether you’re new or seasoned, I hope this episode will be a great help, or a helpful review. In this episode, I’ll help you understand WHAT em...

I get so many questions about what parents should do when their child makes a bad choice of XYZ.  Today I will help you understand how to find the ABC to match the XYZ. You can plug and play this strategy into every situation to have more harmony in your home. Check out our sponsor Herbal Face Food and support the show by clicking the link https://tinyurl.com/KellysFavoriteAntiAgingSerum and using...

How do I get my kids to listen?! It’s no secret: getting kids to listen the first time is a huge point of interest for parents. It’s the topic that most often brings people to me. Now, while there is no single good answer, there are a lot of things you can and should try, and I’ll be introducing you to some ideas that I hope will help you on your quest for attentive children! I’ve sourced the titl...

Do you ever feel like happiness and joy is just on the other side of a smaller body, more money, a better marriage, or well behaved kids?   Today we will hear from a valedictorian who will talk about feeling joy for longer than 15 seconds and how to accomplish that. This will lead to having a lot more harmony in your home. Let me know your thoughts on pocket coaching and your biggest takeaway. Che...

Did you yearn for a relationship with your mom as a kid, but always seem to fall short? This can be a very lonely and confusing road; especially seeing all the magical mother daughter relationships online with your friends. Today we will unpack what mother hunger is and how to create connection with your kids today so they don’t have that same disconnect as an adult. This will lead to having a lot...

Do you ever wonder how kids can grow up in the same house with the same parents and grow up to be so drastically different?   Today we will hear from the infamous Gabor Mate on why this is understanding it at the root level. This will lead to dropping the comparison game and having a lot more harmony in your home. Let me know your thoughts on pocket coaching and your biggest takeaway. Check out ou...

Do you ever feel close to someone and then see them on social media surrounded by all of their closest friends at brunch that they threw, but you weren’t invited to?  It can feel lonely and confusing. It stings. Today we will learn a way to navigate this stinging feeling so we can help our kids when they aren’t invited to a party or don’t have anyone to play with on the playground. This will lead...

Do you ever want to change your child and their undesirable behaviors? Today we will talk about what an underbelly actually is with behaviors with our kids and even the adults in our life Learning this will help you have more harmony in your home. Let me know your thoughts on pocket coaching and your biggest takeaway. Check out our sponsor Herbal Face Food and support the show by clicking the link...