Talk To Danielle

Everybody stims! So why are the stimming behaviours of neurodivergent people viewed in such a negative way? In this episode, Danielle walks us through 6 different stimming behaviours and how to raise awareness for this perfectly normal coping mechanism. This episode is brought to you be The Self-Esteem Doctor Online Academy. Visit www.theselfesteemdoctor.com for great resources to help your child...

This week's episode features an amazing guest, Alexandra Obey, shares her journey of finding the right treatments to address her daughter's medical condition that led her to become an aromatherapist. She addresses some common misconception of aromatherapy and shares a few ways to get into it as a holistic approach to maintaining your family's overall health. Should you like to know more about a si...

With the launch of her new book "Letters From You to You: Awaken your powers through conversations with your higher self", Ellie walks us through her life-long healing journey that led to this book. Her experiences opened her up to receiving these letters and is now sharing them with us. Her new book is available on Amazon. You can also see the work she does around the book at www.lettersbyellie.c...

There is so no such thing as a bad student. The reason why the Education System is not working for our students is because we are not putting the child's needs first. Danielle explains 6 of the main learning styles and how you can adjust your classroom and you home to encourage positive learning for all learning types. Danielle is all about reducing the workload for parents and teachers so her app...

Yelling at our children is not a parental strategy, it is an emotional response. No matter what our child did to trigger us, the minute we start yelling, it is no longer about our child. It's all on us. We are having our own meltdown. In this episode, Danielle goes over the reasons why we still yell at our children, the impact yelling has on our them, and she also shares how we can get out of this...

Free Play is very serious work for children. It is where they learn the best! Danielle gives you a glimpse of her world in this episode and share 8 of the most common play patterns children have and how they reveal the child's learning style. Allow yourself to make learning fun with this information. You get the best results when you teach according to each child's learning style rather then force...

Saying "I'm sorry" is not an apology. In this episode, Danielle explains how the lack of guidance in the early years when it comes to apologizing creates adults with toxic traits. By understanding your apology languages, you are in a much better position to teach your child about the true meaning of an apology. This will then allow your child to set the right boundaries to nurture healthy relation...

When we have an honest look at why the reasons why children do not want to share, we can see that those reasons are valid. In the beginning, it is very normal for young children to not want to share their belongings. Danielle explains 4 of the main reasons why your child may not want to share and how the adults' reactions create the struggle. This episode is brought to you by the Self-Esteem Docto...

When looking at the true role of a parent, we can clearly see that it is the most unselfish acts in life. However! When we reflect on the reasons why we want children, and how we are taught to care for children, we can clearly see that having children is a selfish act. Danielle explains why wanting and having children is selfish, why we have such a distorted view of our role as parents, and the st...

When you know what is truly happening behind the Supermom Mentality, you will quickly realize that being called a supermom is an insult. Being consumed by being the incredibly perfect mom is a call for help, a toxic behaviour that is deep rooted in trauma. In this episode, Danielle explains why the term supermom needs to be called out for the socially accepted abuse that it is and gives advice on...

Before you can start talking about Love Languages, you need to know what love is and how that shows up for you! In this episode, Danielle gives the true definition of what love is, breaks it down into 3 easy-to-explain levels of love and then shares how you can teach your child about love. By having these conversations early, you are giving your child the guidance they need to find the right relat...

What is one thing your child does that drives you crazy? Why do you get such a sudden and irrational reaction to that behaviour? Danielle explains what parental triggers are, how they develop, interesting facts about triggers, and, most importantly, how our children are actually showing us where we can heal our childhood traumas. This episode is brought to you by the Self-Esteem Doctor Online Acad...

With social maturity having a direct impact on our overall well-being and being a factor in many mental illnesses, why is it not talked about? Danielle explains a parent's very important role in supporting their child's social maturity and goes over Erikson's 8 stages of social maturity. She also describes what conflicts occur with each stages of life and what issues they create if they are not re...

With the word Narcissism being tossed around like candy on social media and everywhere else, it becomes difficult for parents to get the right information they need when questioning if their child may be suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). There is a lot of pain and trauma associated to this condition for both the individual with NPD and the people who suffer the inevitable nar...

The best approach to parenting is to find the right balance between the different parenting styles in order to truly support your child from infancy to adulthood. Danielle refers to this equilibrium act as the Parenting Palette where, like an artist crafting the most beautiful painting by mixing and creating their own colours, parents find the right combination of parenting styles that their child...

Parental Alienation is an incredibly abusive behaviour and both sides (the alienator and the alienated) play a part in it. In this episode, Danielle explains 3 major impacts parental alienation has on a child and speaks to the alienator and the alienated on what they need to do to end this manipulation tactic. This episode is brought to you by the Self-Esteem Doctor Online Academy. Check out the s...

Finding out that your child gets excluded from their peer groups or that they are the ones doing the excluding can be quite difficult to handle. Danielle goes over the main reasons why children get exclude, and exclude at school, what the adults' role is in these situations, and what to absolutely avoid doing when "handling it". This episode is brought to you by The Self Esteem Doctor Online Acade...

What if you weren't asking for help? What if you were asking for Backup? Would it be easier to ask for the support you need? With asking for help seen as a weakness, we simply have to change the vocabulary to put an end to the supermom, superdad, and super parent era! In this episode, Danielle challenges the viewers and listeners to dig a little and see why it is so hard to ask for help and were w...

Many are still on the fence with positive discipline, still holding on to the way they were disciplined as children. When it comes to something as severe as a child who hits, can positive discipline really work? Or does correcting violence with more violence the way to go? Danielle walks us through the 3 key points of maintaining positive discipline successfully and the key steps to incorporating...

Many are still on the fence with positive discipline, still holding on to the way they were disciplined as children. When it comes to something as severe as a child who hits, can positive discipline really work? Or does correcting violence with more violence the way to go? Danielle walks us through the 3 key points of maintaining positive discipline successfully and the key steps to incorporating...

Many are still on the fence with positive discipline, still holding on to the way they were disciplined as children. When it comes to something as severe as a child who hits, can positive discipline really work? Or does correcting violence with more violence the way to go? Danielle walks us through the 3 key points of maintaining positive discipline successfully and the key steps to incorporating...

Many are still on the fence with positive discipline, still holding on to the way they were disciplined as children. When it comes to something as severe as a child who hits, can positive discipline really work? Or does correcting violence with more violence the way to go? Danielle walks us through the 3 key points of maintaining positive discipline successfully and the key steps to incorporating...

The overuse of the word PARENTING is now making it irrelevant and meaningless. As more and more people use the words without understanding its true meaning, they are ridding themselves of their accountability towards their role in every child's life. In this episode, Danielle dissects the true meaning of the word PARENTING, crushes the idea of an ideal family portrait, and guides us through simple...

In this episode, I dive into the silent yet profound impact of emotional neglect on children and how it shapes their adulthood. Contrary to overt abuse or neglect, emotional neglect often flies under the radar, leaving lasting scars that aren't immediately visible.   I explore the intricate dynamics of parenting and the unintentional ways in which we may be failing to meet our children's emot...

We are not prepared as parents to hear that we may be potentially hurting our children. But here's the thing... it's not our fault! Parents are not understanding their parental roles for generations. In this episode, Danielle, founder and CVO of Being Connected E-Learning, walks us through what is the major misconception in our roles as parents that leads to undetected emotional neglect towards ou...