Sol Movement & Ritual

We are so excited to dive into wholehearted and respectful parenting and what it means with Minimalist Moms Host Diane Boden. This discussion will help you get to the heart of a wholehearted parenting approach by simplifying what you DO to get to the relationship you hope to have with your kid. We discuss how to both acknowledge parental emotions and needs and your child's emotions/needs and meet...

So many of us are facing a big decision this Fall, will we be teaching our kids at home? Or maybe we have no choice at all. So many of us are being thrown into the role as teacher and parent. This week Felica is interviewing Jen Lumanlan of Your Parenting Mojo. Jen Lumanlan holds an M.S. in Psychology (Child Development) and an M.Ed., and hosts the Your Parenting Mojo podcast which is a reference...

We ALL make mistakes. Every single one of us. Sometimes, even with the best of intentions, we hurt people. Although many of us are over apologizers for unnecessary things, we often become non-apologizers when it comes time to truly say we are sorry. We buffer it with defensiveness or ego, and our attempts at apologies fall flat. Our relationships suffer when this happens. In this episode, we addre...

In this special episode, we welcome a new host onto our show! Katelin is Taralyn’s sister and Felica’s sister-in-law, and we are so excited for you all to get to know her better. For many of us, this is a time when our current reality does not match our expectation of it. Even without a pandemic, sometimes our career, our relationships, or our health doesn’t line up with what we think it should be...

What do you do when you find in a circumstance that you don’t like? Do your thoughts make your situation feel better or worse? The concept that I have control over my thoughts and feelings, and therefore my actions and results was a mind blowing philosophy when I was first introduced to it years ago, and I have found this philosophy help me in so many situations since. This week, I had the chance...

Hey everyone! It’s Taralyn today. It’s no secret that I LOVE words. I love talking; I love writing; I love reading. I feel so much of who I am and how I think is a result of the ideas and philosophies I have read or heard over the years.  Words have the power to change the world! I have found that memorizing beautiful words from the masters who have come before me to be a powerful way to have thos...

Hey! It's Felica! I am solo this episode to share Wes' birth story! I am also sharing some of my favorite tips for regaining a feeling of peace, finding your why and some concrete systems you can implement in your home after you have a new baby. Hopefully this episode brings you some doable takeaways that you can try (or not!;). In this episode I discuss: My go to breathing techniques as a startin...

With all the change and emotional upheaval of the last few months, it is easy to feel a bit unmoored. In this episode, we take a nice big breath and go back to what we know for sure—our core pillars of wholehearted parenting. Whenever we find ourselves having specific issue with one of our children (or any relationships for that matter!), or we are feeling a bit overwhelmed with any aspect of life...

Communication is always an important space, and now more than ever, we are loving the communication philosophy developed by Marshall Rosenberg called Non-Violent Communication (NVC). The ground breaking assumption of NVC is that ALL human beings have the ability to connect with each other and have needs, and that our needs don’t conflict, but it is simply our strategies for meeting those needs tha...

We loved this melting pot of rapid fire questions from all of you! Remember to leave a review with any questions you’d like us to answer. In this episode, we answer a bunch of different questions on a wide variety of topics that apply to many parents out there.  We talk about our own bedtime routines (aside from our children—we need good sleep too!), what to do when your child is having a dispute...

Sleep. Blessed, sometimes elusive sleep. Sleep is such an important issue that parents of babies and toddlers often find themselves desperate for it, and it is surrounded by so many emotions. We questions ourselves constantly. Are we doing it right? How can we sift through all the information out there? How can we meet both our needs and the needs of our child? In this wide ranging conversation we...

For many parents, it can be difficult to respectfully parent while still holding strong boundaries. However, sometimes, as we try to avoid being an authoritarian tyrant, we go too far the other way and become permissive lambs without boundaries and our children are left with too much power, which in turn makes them feel unanchored and insecure. In the last few decades, our society has witnessed an...

Does anyone else out there find yourself reaching for an entire box of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (insert your kryptonite here) when you are feeling the big feelings that most of us are experiencing on a daily basis? During times of high emotions, boredom, and overwhelm, we have found ourselves grasping for something to hold on to. In this time, we have found that Gretchin Rubin’s strategy of usin...

There is no way around it, our stuff affects our lives.  Minimalism is a philosophy that invites us to find freedom and simplicity. We all know that minimalism applies to our material things, which is important, and today we discuss how we can apply minimalism to the way we parent. In this episode, we interview Diane Boden, host of the Minimalist Moms Podcast, and a mother of three kids who lives...

This is a time of self reflection, a slow down presented to us by COVID-19. It isn’t ideal; however,  ultimately, it has the potential to lead to a new level of self awareness. Finding your true self and acknowledging who you are fully can be scary and can challenge some of the long engrained thought patterns we all have. GUILT if we want more than caring for children at home. LONGING for somethin...

We are honored this week to have a special guest on the podcast this week, Dr. Mary Wilde. She has amazing tips for all of us about how to meet our children’s needs while still meeting our own and remaining whole. She shares useful analogies that will help us all improve our parenting, and help us find peace as we navigate these unique times with our children. Dr. Wilde is a board-certified pediat...

Do any of you have children who seem to turn up the squabbling and fighting when they are in close quarters? With schools being cancelled throughout the world, many families are finding themselves with all their children home under one roof all day, and although that presents us with many opportunities, it also has many parents pulling out their hair as their children seem to take sibling rivalry...

Amid the current events of the COVID-19 pandemic and other natural disasters, we have had so many listeners reach out about how to cope as parents during this time. In this episode, we discuss the balance of feeling and processing our own emotions authentically, while not overburdening our children with the full force of our fears. This allows them to also feel all of the big feelings that will co...

Wow world! As we live this beautiful life alongside the current events of our world (you know, like the pandemic we have happening), we have a really wonderful opportunity to deepen our compassion practice to help make the world, and inside our own hearts, a better place. We discovered the power of a practice called Tonglen from Pema Chödrön’s book, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficu...

Sometimes in life, but especially in parenting, we just feel like we don’t measure up—at all. We can end up feeling like we are failing at one of the most important things we have ever done, and it is disheartening, to say the least. This episode is for all you parents out there who, at the end of some days, have worried that you aren’t enough as you wrap yourselves in blankets of worry and overwh...

We all know that habits are a huge part of any amount of success. In his book,  High Performance Habits,  Brendon Buchard shares what habits he has found to be the highest contributors to success of all kinds in life during his career as a high performance coach and from studying countless high performers. We have adopted several of his habits in our own life, and we have found them to be immensel...

Many of us often hear the well meant advice to “enjoy every single second because it all goes by so fast!” Although there is so much wisdom in this advice, sometimes it makes us feel guilty when we are in moments that seem at best a drudgery and others that are downright miserable. This episode we hear a listener question about what do when our dreams seem to be deferred while we are in certain se...

Do you approach the dinner table with hesitation, anxiety or perhaps even dread? Food is an integral part of our lives. We feed our kids multiple times a day and yet it is often a source of contention for many families. We hope this episode can alleviate some of the stress surrounding mealtimes. We get into our favorite tips for cultivating a beautiful, joyful relationship with food. From our dail...

In part two of our discussion about raising boys, we review the four pillars of connection, getting outside, sleep, and nutrition, and we tackle the challenges and opportunities that boys face at school and learning. We also address the research on screen time and boys’ brains, and give you all sorts of tips to make screen time a pleasant activity with boundaries instead of an unlimited source of...

This AMAZING time we live in offers so many opportunities for us and for our children. However, it also presents many unique challenges as well. Girls growing up now face specific difficulties, and boys do too. In this episode, we address some of the issues that accompany raising boys, and what we have seen in our sons’ lives. We also bring in a lot of great info from authors who have done far mor...