Beyond Parenting

TW: Violent parent / Child death / Post natal depression

In this week’s podcast we meet Kari and discuss what it means to trust ourselves as parents, and how we can work towards it. She shares some incredible nuggets of wisdom as we hear about her journey as a parent. 

Kari has over 15 years of professional experience, working in Education, Mental Health, Health Promotion and Children’s Services as a Parenting Expert. She was a Trainer of Trainers for Oxford Brookes University’s My Strong Family Faculty and Southampton City Council. Facilitating workshops for two local family charities. A Family Group Conference Coordinator to help families in moments of crisis.

In addition and most importantly has over 37 years of personal experience, being a mum to 3 children and grandmother to 9 Grandchildren. Six years ago she left her career because she was no longer prepared to tick boxes and do to families rather than work with them.

Contact her by email @[email protected]

Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/buildingconfidentmums

Instagram: www.instagram.com/parentingspecialist_kari

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TW Illness / Ectopic pregnancy / Single Parenting / Narcissist Partner / Eating Disorder / School Refusal / Bullying 

Nothing like life throwing you a few spanners in the works to learn and develop, become stronger and wiser. Well, all of that happened to this week’s guest, Rebecca, as she moved into parenthood, and discovered her partner was Narcissistic, and unfortunately she missed the signs or ignored them until shortly before COVID. She actually found that COVID was the best thing for her family.

She talks about the challenges and the triumphs of her journey, and how she is able to see to all her 4 kids' needs as they navigate this space post break up.

Rebecca Eggleton is a family reconnection specialist who helps children, and parents who have experienced trauma such as divorce, bullying, mental, emotional, sexual, or physical abuse, to rebuild their lives.  

Having experienced both physical and emotional trauma as a child and adult, Rebecca knows how important the right support is for recovery. She is a certified NLP therapist, self-care expert and mental health advocate and is passionate about helping children and parents to reconnect and rebuild their relationships. Rebecca is about to launch subscription boxes including pamper and foodie hampers so women can look after themselves at home, STEM based crafts to help children develop skills, and boxes for teens/tweens to include affirmation and pamper products to build self-care.

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Trigger Warning: Discussion of rape, murder, domestic violence, drug use, HIV, AIDS, mental health problems, and explicit language is used.

Despite the bleak outlook from the trigger warnings, this is actually a fun podcast. Rie, a retired police officer, shares her journey through parenthood, from toilet training, to safety. We cover a lot of ground including how to support our kids spotting red flag behaviour, and the key conversations we need to be having with our teens.

Rie Pearson is from North Tyneside. She lives overlooking the sea and describes herself as Being on the Edge!

Rie is married to David, her third husband, and has three children, two in their twenties and a teenager. Rie’s career background is in policing. She was a police officer for 27 years and retired on her 50th birthday due to ill health. She specialised in Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, working strategically for many years.

Rie’s book ”Be Kind. No Excuses”; is a guide for teenagers and parents to raise awareness of the red-flag behaviours that are a precursor to abuse in intimate relationships.

Rie’s website contains links to all the things… https://riepearson.com/

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I am taking a break to be with my kids over the holidays. I hope you have a lovely time, and are able to look after yourselves.

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TW: Foster Care / Child Abuse / Domestic Abuse / School System

This week's podcast delves into the world of the foster care system and critically the support structures which simply aren't there for kids transferring to adulthood. Where is the care after abuse? Where is the therapy? Where is the training on understanding relationships? The system let Jane down over and over again, and she is determined to do her best to not let anyone down on her watch!

Jane doesn't hold back, and gives us an intimate portrayl of her life with her daughter and how they got through, and mostly battled through the system. They are not set or settled, but Jane has grown so much through her experiences and used them to enhance the life she has created for her and her daughter.

Jane says, "As a parent coach, my passion is to support parents to grow to achieve the best outcome for their children and to become the best parents they can be. I have a consultancy and training business in childcare and education. One of my expertise is helping parents to bond more, understand and bridge the behaviour issues with their children. I do this with 121 mentoring, parent group coaching community, mini masterclasses and online supportive live programmes.  I am a single parent of a 16-year-old daughter who has had challenging behaviour (though I am glad to say it is calmer down lol) My mission is to help parents to understand their children so they can enjoy parenting."

Launch dates: I am opening my doors to my first parent group coaching community. For the first 20 founding members it will be £10 a month. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janemillerparentcoach

Tik tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@janemillerparentcoach

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TW: Anti-Vaccination / COVID

This week we are joined by the incredible Melena Carissa, who shares her experiences of choosing not to vaccinate against COVID in a country where the rules were so strict that people had to leave their jobs in droves, and kids were forced to miss out on sports, and using any public building. 

This is not an advocation piece about Vaccination or Anti-Vaccination, this is a conversation about CHOICE, and how that sits in juxtaposition with mandatory vaccinations. Melena is not part of the anti-vax movement, but she is certainly wanting to share with you how she balanced such a tricky situation, with her family's needs at the heart.

We go on to explore how she has developed and upheld her boundaries, particularly with her parents, as she has unlearned the programming of how she was parented. This episode has an extra treat, as my youngest child joins us part way through as he needed a time being comforted.

Melena is developing incredible resources to support parents listening to their kids and supporting them as individuals. She can be found at All the hearts on Instagram

I hope you enjoy it, and it gives you some food for thought. As always, do let us know what you think, and remember to subscribe on your favourite podcast app, as that helps us get seen and keep growing and bringing more incredible guests to share with us.

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TW: Mental health issues

In this Podcast episode we meet Sarah Page, a single parent working through the myriad challenges of early parenthood. we hear how she struggled with her mental health at the beginning of her journey and also recognised that her relationship with her husband was not serving her. We dig into the challenges she faced and overcame, and how she and her ex are working through the niggles and challenges of co-parenting as a team. It was great to hear this untold story and see the strategies she used.

Sarah first wanted to create something special in the depths of early motherhood, when she realised she had lost some spark for life & wanted to meet new friends outside of baby groups! She decided that thing was called Tassie, which means ‘cup’. She named it this because you can’t pour from an empty cup - so come and fill yours, do something for YOU, make friends and get inspired. Sarah is just working on planning meet-ups, events and retreats so watch this space! 

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TW: Mental health issues, the school system and we swear a bit.

This episode we dive into Laura’s world, world being the operative word, as she has 3 kids, and they are travelling the world “unschooling” her kids. This radical shift from the norm came after a mental health episode forced her and her husband to really think out of the box about their lives.

Laura is a worldschooling, unschooling mum of three from the UK, currently living in Vietnam with her family. Her and her husband set off on their Worldschooling journey in late 2019 (little did they know what was coming next!) after realising at the ages 35 and 39 that their current circumstances, whilst safe and secure, did not light them up.

Laura mentors other Cycle-Breaker Parents who had tough upbringings and are committed to being the gentle, empowering parent they always dreamed they would be. Her location-independent business www.cyclebreakerparents.com enables her to support her family, whilst fulfilling her soul’s purpose of helping other parents and families to heal and thrive.

The Linklaters have a blog - www.linklatersontheloose – in which they chronicle their geographical journeys around Vietnam (and soon beyond) and philosophical discussions about the nature of education and childhood.

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In this podcast I we meet Moon Sade, she disusses her challenging experiences witnessing her son be overlooked repeatedly by theschool system for support, and didn't receive a diagnosis until part way through the secondary system. She goes on to tell us how she changed her whole life to advocate more for him, and for their next child, who displayed similar traits or markers. For him she took a different path. These experiences led Moon to work as a Parenting Health & Well-being Coach.

Moon works with parents of high functioning autistic children, helping them to better understand their child’s specific needs. An Expert by Experience, and a former teacher, Moon parents her own high functioning autistic children. She understands that every autistic child is different and unique, so every strategy and programme must be unique too.  

She also knows that doing it all by yourself is often lonely, sometimes scary and always challenging, but understanding and meeting your child’s specific needs is not just important, it’s essential!  

Contact Moon at https://linktr.ee/MoonSade

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How I became locked in an impossible quest

In this podcast I talk about why we feel the need to be everything to everyone all the time, and how that leads us to feeling like we aren’t good enough, when we don’t meet our impossible standards.

This is a subject I come back to over and over because we are so often stuck there. It can take a lot of healing work to lean into this idea, and fully embrace what it means to us. It is a subject worth hearing again and again and again. I think we need to drill these ideas into our heads as we have so much we are working against on a daily basis.

“Recognising my own needs as being as important, if not more important than my child’s”.

Let me know your experiences with this concept, and what you do to make sure you feel “good enough” more often.

Plus, you can check out my courses & coaching offers on my website at https://gettingback2u.com/

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