The Masterful Parenting Podcast - Heal Your Childhood and Parent Better Through Relational Parenting

Do you know how to take care of yourself so you can be a better parent?  Please join me today with special guest, Stephanie Hoi-Nga Wong.  She is a wellness and life coach assisting overwhelmed parents. Her guidance encompasses stress relief, burnout recovery, enhanced well-being and rediscovering the joy of both personal and parenting experiences. Stephanie's compassionate approach is attuned to...

Dr. Blumberg is a parent and family coach who helps parents of tweens, teens and young adults who struggle with developing healthy communication, executive functioning and relationships in their lives. Before becoming a coach, she was a clinical psychologist for 20 years, working with children, teens, families, and couples. She has published numerous books on communication and parenting children w...

Please meet my special guest, Caprial Leung, my former high school student who was inspired to become a Counsellor because of our work together.  She will share her experiences as a teenager.  Caprial is a counselling intern registered with BCACC.  Caprial is passionate about advocating for children, and strongly believes in the importance of listening and showing respect to every child. Through v...

Do you focus on having a good relationship with your children? Learn why it's so important to put your relationship with your children first. #masterfulparenting #children #relationships #goodrelationships #healthyrelationships #teenagers #video #podcast #love #feelinggood #feelgood #kids #family #healing #feelgood #feelings #emotions

Special Guest: Christian Armstrong.  Christian is a professional speaker and actor who is a huge advocate for autism! Being diagnosed with autism at 7 years old, he was told by a lot of doctors that he couldn't achieve a lot, including his dreams and goals for his life. He now helps kids, families, teens, and adults reach their fullest potential and wants nothing more than to see them all succeed!...

Special Guest Mah Ekonde. Mah Ekonde is a certified parental coach from IDEFAS, a mom of 2 adorable kids and Sunday School teacher for 10 years now in FGMC. Her passion to see children raised consciously made her create the Gift Handler Community where she helps parents sail through the challenges of parenting.

We, as parents, will need to have some tough talks with our kids.  These tough talks do not have to be difficult.  We start with a question, listen to our child's response.  Then we offer support.  Use words that invite conversation and allow our children to feel our care, concern, and love for them.  This is relational parenting. #masterfulparenting #children #toughtalks #teenagers #parentingtips...

Parents, we need to remember that love is an action, not just a feeling.  When we act with love to our kids, they feel loved.  Just saying the words is not enough.  Our actions need to speak love or our children do not feel loved.  When you are yelling, demanding, controlling, and punishing, you are not acting in love with your children.  All our actions need to speak love.  Then our children feel...

My cousin and I grew up similarly as our moms are sisters and both parented us in the same way.  The control from our moms in our childhoods affected our adult lives and my cousin explains in detail how this affected her marriage and changed how she raised her three boys once she realized she did not want to repeat the pain she experienced with her own children. #masterfulparenting #childhoodpain...

So many times we get stuck in believing our negative, fear-based thoughts.  But the real lesson is to learn that our thoughts are not real and we can change them at any moment.  We must learn how to change our disempowering thoughts into strength based, empowering thoughts.  Then we can teach this to our children.  This will make the difference in their lives. #masterfulparenting #changeyourthough...

This is the story of how I confronted my mom with my childhood pain story so that I could have a voice and share what my experience as a child was.  When we are ready to confront the people who may have hurt us, then we can release the pain and move forward to live more empowered lives. #confront #healingtrauma #moveforward #release #masterfulparenting #healingthe past #reframe #empoweringthoughts...

When we have childhood pain, we were not role modelled healthy relationships in our home lives so we need to learn this.  When we know what healthy relationships are, we can teach this to our children.  The key is that healthy relationships feel good and unhealthy relationships feel bad.  Our feelings will tell us if we are modelling healthy or unhealthy relationships.  Let's model healthy relatio...

This is the story about how the Masterful Parenting Program began.  It all started with a dinner party with friends sharing about our childhood pain and how this experience impacted our lives.  In the end, we all were determined not to repeat the trauma, neglect, abuse with our own children but instead we would be committed to healing and change our parenting so our kids would be healthy and thriv...

How do you know we are still carrying childhood pain?  You tell your childhood story.  Then you begin to become aware when your pain is showing up in your life and in your parenting.  When you become more aware, you can change how you parent and begin to heal that pain. #masterfulparenting #healing #children #teens #parentingbetter #parentingtips #parenting #childhoodtrauma #childhood pain #change...

Is punishment your way of correcting your child's behaviour?  Punishment does damage to our kids.  As a High School Counsellor, I have many conversations with my teenage students about how punishment has affected their feelings about themselves.  Punishment changes how a child feels about him/herself.  It damages our children internally and they carry this pain into their adult lives.  Learn a new...

Welcome to the Masterful Parenting Podcast.  I'm Anne Alvares, Parent Coach, School Counsellor, Teacher, and mom of two.  My passion is helping parents to heal their childhood pain and learn how to nurture healthy relationships with their children through relational parenting.  I will speak on how I healed my own childhood pain so I could be the parent my kids needed.  As a high school counsellor,...