Voices of Your Village

Welcome back to another episode, villagers! I had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Gabor Mate, author of “The Myth of Normal.” We dive into his new book, and he shared his insights on the coping mechanisms that imprint on us in childhood and how that can affect our own parenting. We discuss what makes this culture toxic, why trauma is so wide spread and how best to support our tiny humans. He has...

Welcome back to the podcast villagers! On today’s episode I got to sit down with Wes Chernin, who is a wealth of knowledge on many topics. Wes is an SLP which is how we first connected, you know how we love an SLP over here at Seed! But today our conversation centered around a topic that can feel uncomfortable for some people to talk about, and that is how to discuss gender with kids. When to talk...

Are you all ready for part two of our conversation with Dr. Shefali? I had so much fun last week chatting with her about the book, her strategies and getting into the first few stages of her method. You’re not going to want to miss the second half of this amazing conversation.   Dr. Shefali shares more tips on the “how” as we dive into the upcoming release of her newest parenting book, The Parenti...

Welcome back villagers! We’ve been working on some fantastic content during our break and we can’t wait to share it with you all.    This week we’re kicking it off with the first half of my conversation with Dr. Shefali. She is the author of "A Radical Awakening" and "The Conscious Parent." And her new book “The Parenting Map: Step by Step Solutions to Consciously Create the Ultimate Parent Child...

Welcome back villagers! It's that time of year again, time for back to school transitions, childcare transitions and tackling the big emotions that come with big changes. In this 5 episode mini series we will be diving into the tools you'll need as a parent, caregiver or teacher preparing to help a child with a fall transition. In today's final episode we'll chat about the routines to put in place...

Welcome back villagers! It's that time of year again, time for back to school transitions, childcare transitions and tackling the big emotions that come with big changes. In this 5 episode mini series we will be diving into the tools you'll need as a parent, caregiver or teacher preparing to help a child with a fall transition. In today's episode we'll chat about you as the adult. How do we take c...

Welcome back villagers! It's that time of year again, time for back to school transitions, childcare transitions and tackling the big emotions that come with big changes. In this 5 episode mini series we will be diving into the tools you'll need as a parent, caregiver or teacher preparing to help a child with a fall transition. In today's episode we'll chat about when to talk about all this. When...

Welcome back villagers! It's that time of year again, time for back to school transitions, childcare transitions and tackling the big emotions that come with big changes. In this 5 episode mini series we will be diving into the tools you'll need as a parent, caregiver or teacher preparing to help a child with a fall transition. In today's episode we'll chat about all the big emotions that come wit...

Welcome back villagers! It's that time of year again, time for back to school transitions, childcare transitions and tackling the big emotions that come with big changes. In this 5 episode mini series we will be diving into the tools you'll need as a parent, caregiver or teacher preparing to help a child with a fall transition. In today's episode we'll chat about how to prep your kiddos for the up...

Welcome back to our Respectful Parenting: In Real Life Series! On today’s episode I had the pleasure of sitting down with Joel Castillo. Joel is the husband of one of our Seed team members, and a father to three young kiddos. We all come to parenthood with patterns and habits that we formed when we were just children ourselves. Joel and I chat about how we can rewrite the deeply ingrained patterns...

Welcome back to the podcast everyone! Today I am joined by Destini Davis, who you may know from her popular parenting instagram account @destini.ann and at home she’s a mom to two young kiddos. So today we chat about how she balances her busy life online with her very busy offline life. And what respectful parenting looks like in her household. She also shares tangible tips throughout this episode...

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On today’s episode I am joined by Jessica Slice. We chat about what respectful parenting looks like in her household as a parent with disabilities, and how the picture perfect advice on social media often doesn’t apply. Jessica and I talk about how she handles things like discipline, boundaries and playtime in this informative episode. Love this podcast? Scroll down to leave a review! I read every...

Welcome back villagers! Today I am joined by Marcela Collier, she’s a parenting coach and founder of the High Impact Club. Her focus is on Parenting with Understanding so Marcela and I chat about how to give yourself grace as a parent when triggers come up from your past or the way you were raised. As well as the ways respectful parenting comes up in her day to day life with her 5 year old twin bo...

Love this podcast? Scroll down to leave a review! I read every one and they fill my heart with joy. Connect with us on:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seed.and.sew/   Podcast page: https://voicesofyourvillage.com Music by: https://www.bensound.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamie Jones joins us on the podcast today to talk about what respectful parenting looks like in her household, she talks about how she navigates different sensory needs in her busy family of four, as well as her experience raising Black boys in today’s society. We chat about how she and her husband talk to her kids about how and where they can safely express their emotions as well as some of the s...

Welcome back after a long break! We've missed you all and we are so excited to bring you all the content we've been working on while we were missing from your podcast feed. Introducing our new Respectful Parenting: IRL Series! We hope you can see yourself and your children in these raw and honest interviews. On today's episode, mom of two and village member, Arna Meyer, joins us to talk about how...

Happy podcast Thursday village! This is a very fun episode because it's full of questions that were submitted by you all! In this episode we chat about coping strategies vs coping mechanisms, how to build coping strategies and why I think this is the most important and often missed phase of emotion processing.    Love this podcast? Scroll down to leave a review! I read every one and they fill my h...

Today is such a fun episode because I got to chat with Lori Gottlieb, the therapist and author of the NY Times bestselling book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. I devoured this book while on our trip to Europe and I was left anting even more time with her when I finished. We get to chat and ultimately answer the question, "How do you process as an adult?"    Love this podcast? Scroll down to lea...

Hey everyone! Welcome back to Voices of Your Village, today on the podcast I am joined by the wonderful Xavier Dagba to talk about setting boundaries between adults. Xavier is a transformational life coach and father. I was so thrilled when Xavier agreed to come have an on mic chat with me and I think you will be just as jazzed to listen as I was to record this one! I felt like I could talk to Xav...

We talk a lot at Seed and Sew about emotional intelligence, emotional processing and helping our tiny humans build their toolboxes. But what does that actually look like? What are the steps and how do we help facilitate these skills in our kiddos? In today's episode of Voices of Your Village, my CEP co-creator, Lauren Stauble, joined me to break down our method step by step. We dove into each phas...

On This episode of Voices of Your Village I chat with pediatric occupational therapist and woman behind Thriving Littles, Katie Crosby, about the important topic of co-regulation and self-regulation. What is the difference between the two? And what is an appropriate timeline for moving from co-reg in infancy to self-reg as kiddo's get older? We dive into what we as parents and caregivers need to b...

Happy 200th episode to all of our listeners out there! We are so glad you're on this journey with us.  In this episode we're chatting about emotion processing for adults. What does it look like for us to do this work? How can we best learn these skills for ourselves so we can support our kiddos in learning them too!    Love this podcast? Scroll down to leave a review! I read every one and they fil...

I got to hang out with Dr. Nicole LePera to chat about reparenting our adult self, which is a pretty buzzwordy term in our industry right now. And I want to break down what does it even mean? And what does that look like to reparent while you're parenting your own children? What happens when those triggers come up from our childhood through our kids.  Love this podcast? Scroll down to leave a revi...

Welcome back to the podcast! On today's episode I sat down with psychologist Michaela Boehm to chat all about intimacy with your partner in parenthood. There are physical and mental factors, as well as societal pressures that all can affect how we feel towards intimacy and our overall connection with our partners. I loved this conversation with Michaela and I can't wait to share it with you all! ...