"The Fruit Snacks Podcast" with Emily Wardrop, the T1D Moms Coach

We can drop some power struggles completely by picking our battles. But the diabetes war can't be dropped completely. So after we've picked our battles, there are still non-negotiable things that need to get done in order to manage our child's diabetes. That is when connection for cooperation comes in. We do need them to cooperate sometimes. How?! Through connection. So in today's...

Drop the War Life Coaching is all about helping us drop power struggle wars with our kids to create more peace in our parenting. Drop the War for Peace. That's what I'd been doing as a coach when the diabetes diagnosis came. Twice! All moms have to deal with the battle of wills. And as T1D Moms, we have to deal with even MORE power struggles!! In today's episode I share a couple tips f...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I sure am thankful for all of you listeners!! Thank you for supporting the podcast! Thank you for listening, sharing, rating, and reviewing. Your support really helps us support all other T1D Moms around the globe! In honor of diabetes awareness month, I am re-airing this fun episode with guest host, Andelin Price. You know that you have a relationship...

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving this week! So Grateful to all of you for reading, listening, applying, and learning and growing with me on our journeys! In honor of November being Diabetes Awareness Month, I am re-airing this interview episode with Dr OC. Enjoy! I am the T1D Moms Coach. Two of my five kids have been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in the past few years and so I love to s...

Jesus can help enable us to do the hard things that we have to do in the acute heat of the moments. And the eternal big picture that His plan presents can help give overview meaning to the long-term nature of our struggles. In this episode we explore both. How the Gospel of Jesus Christ can bring you peace amidst the chaos of diabetes and enable us to do the hard things that we cannot endure alone...

This week we have a guest on the podcast to help us with some ideas on how to handle overwhelm, worry, and guilt. These three emotions are normal for moms and can be amped up even more as T1D Moms, so listen in as the two of us life coaches geek out on all the ways we can still enjoy motherhood, even amidst the intense emotions. Kristen Mattison is founder of the blog This Routine Life. Kristen is...

After we get A wareness of what's happening in our minds and bodies with A cceptance and allowance, we then naturally live in A lignment with our true selves. God made us and said that it is good. And that's good enough for me. I AM good. You ARE Good. AND we do things, feel things, and think things that are not always good. That is our human condition. We are eternal beings living a limit...

Having a child with type 1 diabetes and Halloween may cause a lot of mental drama. And that's where I come in! As your coach, I'm here to help you drop the war on that mental drama-even in regards to Halloween! On this episode we explore a few of the possible problems that Halloween may be causing for you and yours. There are a lot of people with a lot of opinions about how you should mana...

As we work on our goal to feel less sad, scared, and stressed; and to feel more calm, connected, and confident, we have to first learn how to allow instead of resist emotions. Last week we learned the coaching tool to help us intentionally choose which emotions we want to feel on purpose, but in the meantime of figuring out how to do that, we cannot be resisting the reality of our current emotiona...

Before we get too far into this new "Fruit Snack Podcast", we need to get a foundational working knowledge of two of my favorite coaching tools which I will refer to over and over in future episodes. The first is "The Model" which Brooke Castillo trains us in at The Life Coach School and the second is my personal coaching framework which I refer to as the "Triple A Batteri...

Together Everyone Achieves More! Diabetes Parenting works better when you focus on being on the same TEAM. Not the same page. You don't actually have to be on the same page. Team members have different strengths and that's what makes team work so effective. We each play different positions. No one is right or wrong. We're all just cooperating together to meet the same goal. To get a co...

There are many, many virtual conferences you can attend nowadays. If you've never heard of General Conference, I am honored and excited to be the first to let you know that this is no ordinary conference of people with a similar interest getting together to learn more from experts and motivational speakers. The General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is an opportu...

Guilt says you've done something wrong. Shame says there is something wrong with you. Shame is a lie and there is no room for shame with diabetes! You didn't do anything wrong, your kid didn't do anything wrong. We just are here doing the best we can to manage blood sugar levels and no shame needed. We do need a healthy amount of guilt to keep us on track but if you are spending your w...

Welcome to the new "Fruit Snacks Podcast!" I have been "The T1D Moms Coach" for awhile now and going forward my podcast is going to reflect more of our focus on diabetes here also. The Believe you ARE a Good Mom podcast published at least one episode a week for exactly a year and now we are pivoting to focus more on the specific needs of our families who are managing their chil...

Sometimes when we grow up in a fairy tale culture, we think that we are not complete until we find and marry our "other half". Or maybe even after our "happily ever after" we still aren't feeling whole so we add babies to the mix in search of completing ourselves. This enmeshment and codependence can cause a lot of problems for us. What is the solution and how to we get to...

"Emotions are not a problem that need to be fixed. Feelings are just meant to be felt, not a fire to be put out." I say this all the time. But what does it really mean? In today's episode, we look into it with the feeling of resentment as the example. Feelings are not a problem but they are a message. And if we don't receive that message, it can become a problem. If the only thin...

Have you heard the phrase "get your own back"? What does that even mean exactly? Why do we say it? And why would "Get your own Heart" actually make more sense? Let's explore these questions and more in today's episode. Once you personally decide what makes you a Good Mom and you drop the rest of the expectations, you can know that others will have their opinions of your...

We can go through life following the rules that were handed to us. Some of us are very good and this and have "successful" lives. But do we love the life that was prescribed by others? Maybe you feel lost in your life. Maybe your children do too. Developing who we actually ARE and then modeling that for our kids so that they can learn how to discover who they really are is a skill we are...

As a mom, we know our job is to take care of the physical needs of our kids. We clothe them, feed them, feed them again, more food, brush teeth, get good sleep, and on and on. What about their emotional needs? The best way to take care of your kids emotionally, is to take care of yourself emotionally. (and physically also, actually) Learn more about how to raise your emotionally healthy family in...

Emily Hamblin from Enlightening Motherhood has put together an amazing virtual summit with 30+ experts teaching us more about how to raise emotionally healthy families. We all know what it's like to deal with a child who is having a melt down and how hard it is to control our own emotions when we are sleep-deprived and overwhelmed. Emily has brought together so many experts with so much help f...

Being a Mom can be very hard! And when we think that we are the only one who is struggling, it is also a very lonely hard time. Some of us think that just because we had the desire to be a Mom, that would qualify us to know how to do it and do it well. Then we actually have kids and it's a huge wake-up call! But it's hard to admit that we need support because everyone else looks like they...

Your brain controls everything else your body does. It is made up of tiny blood vessels and neuropathways that are quite sensitive and super powerful. Sometimes we treat the symptoms we are experiencing without knowing the core reason for them and thus miss an opportunity to heal the base of the problem. Bethany Lewis combines her expertise as an Occupational Therapist working in a Concussion Clin...

Every week I host a free T1D Moms support group call for fellow moms with kids that have Type 1 Diabetes. If no one else comes on the call, I share an idea that has been helping me and post it on our replay page. Today I'm sharing that video with all of you here on the podcast. This week on the support group call (and on IG and in "Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Wardrop" www.dropthewar....

Are you a Hot Mess Momma? Is there any other type? Maybe that one neighbor down the street or your sister-in-law or for sure those Moms at church who don't look like they've been to heck and back just to get their gaggle of children into the pew on time. Those moms all have "it together" but you? You are a hot mess! Actually, you ARE a Good Mom AND sometimes also a hot mess. And...

We've all heard of PTSD for veterans or car accidents but did you know that your own Mommy nervous system has been affected by legit traumatic experiences also? Trauma is not about what happened but how you responded to it internally. If you feel triggered throughout your day, you are experiencing a nervous system response that is understandable and with brain science on our side, we can actua...