Empowered to Connect Podcast

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Empowered to Connect Podcast episodes

November 30, 2021 [E61] Preparing Your Family for Your Family with the ETC Team
With Thanksgiving behind us, we're officially in full 'Holiday Season' mode. For some of us, it's the most wonderful time of the year - for others, it's very much not. The Holidays can be hard, especially if you throw kids (not to mention this pesky global pandemic) into the dynamic. As we prepare for a month of gatherings, get togethers and family traditions, we thought it'd be wise to share this episode again today.
Today's episode originally aired nearly one year ago, so you'll hear some '2020' language related to Covid protocols that were haappening at the time, but the message remains - we've got to prepare our family for our family this Holiday season. ETC Staff people Jesse Faris, Mo Ottinger and Tona Ottinger join us to talk about how to prepare for a season that can be challenging on our kids (and us) to say the least!
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1 hr 23 min
November 23, 2021 [E60] When Grief Gets in the Way of Gratitude with Rocky Anthony
This Thanksgiving week, we wanted to recognize that sometimes grief gets in the way of gratitude - it comes uninvited into our lives all the time and we need to know how to walk through it when it comes.

Therapist Rocky Anthony discusses what grief is and how we begin to process it in our personal lives, relationships and with kids - Rocky lays out the big picture and some beautifully practical things we can begin doing to walk ourselves and our people through grief and loss. This is an incredibly helpful episode as we begin (at least here in the US) the gauntlet of family holiday gatherings.

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33 min
November 16, 2021 [E59] Together: A Conversation with the Adoption Triad
TOGETHER: The Adoption Triad; A Shared Redemptive Story of Love, Loss and Longing
What if instead of being separated into our corners of the triad focusing on what makes us different we found ourselves drawn together through our similarities? Join us on this episode where Tona is joined by her dear friends Carissa Woodwyk and Ashley Mitchell. Together they represent the three parts of the adoption triad in all of its brokenness, beauty, pain and possibility. This conversation is courageous, bold, heartfelt, and raw as it invites us to reimagine moving TOGETHER towards connection, hope, healing and wholeness.
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1 hr 47 min
November 09, 2021 [E58] Listening to Understand with Jacque Rowe-Fields
Have you ever had one of those 'foot in mouth' moments where you've realized you've said something wrong too late? Maybe you've held onto a particular view about a person and then found through conversation that view to be misguided? We'd all hope for the second, but we've often found ourselves in the first situation. According to our guest today, there's a simple remedy for this malady. Jacque Rowe-Fields has been leading conversations about sticky topics with mixed groups of people for decades. With National Adoption Awareness Month in full swing, we thought it'd be wise to have Jacque on to talk with us about how to listen to understand.
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32 min
November 02, 2021 [E57] Robyn Gobbel Crossover Episode!
It's a special episode of the ETC Podcast today! A few weeks ago, one of our favorite people, Robyn Gobbel, sat down with our host JD Wilson to talk about moving from correction-based parenting to connection-based parenting for her podcast. They talked about how hard the transition can be, the letdown of realizing you're not the parent you wanted to be and how to begin again by building trust and connection with your self and your kids. The conversation was so fun and encouraging that we wanted to share it here with our audience as well!
It's a must listen for all parents who have ever felt the despair of not knowing what to do or the hope of finding a new way to parent. Get to know our host, JD, from the OTHER side of the microphone in this special Crossover edition of the Empowered to Connect Podcast and the Parenting After Trauma Podcast!
To learn more about Robyn's work and to check out her podcast as well as the amazing collection of resources she's compiled, visit her website here and don't forget to follow her on Instagram and Facebook as well!
To learn more about Empowered to Connect, visit us on our website, find us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram or check out all of our podcast episodes and video resources on YouTube!
53 min
October 25, 2021 [E56] Let's Talk About Transitions with the ETC Team
Picture this: you're enjoying a beautiful day in your neighborhood park. Kids are running around having fun, adults are getting a rare moment to talk to each other - it's euphoric...and then it's time to leave. Cue the meltdown.

We all face them in life, so let's just talk about them - transitions. They might be daily, seasonal or major life transitions, but they're all capable of tripping us up in the right conditions. That goes for us - AND our children. We pulled ETC Staffers Becca McKay and Jesse Faris in to explain why transitions can be SO hard for some of us and our kids and to give us some practical, everyday advice for how to handle them a little smoother.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

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47 min
October 19, 2021 [E55] Therapy Redeemed with Therapist Cam Lee Small
Our guest today is a therapist, speaker, teacher, advocate and so much more - We've long admired his work on social media (@TherapyRedeemed on Instagram) and after meeting him for this conversation our respect and admiration of him has skyrocketed. Cam Lee Small takes us into the world of mental health and adoptees and how his work both counseling and advocating for adoptees has shone light on his own story. You won't want to miss his candor and insight!
You can learn more about Cam's work on his website, Instagram or Facebook page!
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37 min
October 12, 2021 [E54] Changing Systems with Daren Jones
We've been waiting for this one
for a while - we're so excited to have the one and only Daren Jones from The Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development on the show today! If you are unfamiliar with his work, Daren is part of the team
that delivers Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)
training literally across the globe. From his work in a
therapeutic day treatment program with children to
training judges and District Attorneys on the brain
science of trauma, Daren has a ton to talk about when
it comes to systems change.
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1 hr 9 min
October 05, 2021 [E53] Let's Talk About Consequences with the ETC Team
Let's talk about consequences.Spoiler alert: we want to encourage you to make consequences your last resort. You read that right, we at ETC think there are lots of other tools in the toolbelt to help you keep peace in your home and maintain connection with your kiddo and we want to talk about it today!
Becca McKay and Tona Ottinger from ETC join us as we talk about the the bigger picture of why we are so quick to want to hand out consequences and what we can do instead to address inappropriate behaviors.
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1 hr 1 min
September 28, 2021 [E52] Build Bridges Instead of Walls with Dr. Jim Henry
Dr. Jim Henry is one of the most fascinating people you will ever meet. He is a Professor at Western Michigan University and the Program Director of the Children's Trauma Assessment Center. For over 20 years, Dr. Henry has been sitting with and hearing the stories of precious children from across the country who have survived unimaginable things.
How, then, can Dr. Henry still be doing this work?? We asked Dr. Henry to be with us today to give some insight into what has allowed him to continue to be completely present with children and how he protects himself from burnout. Dr. Henry explains the importance of building bridges from our hearts to those around us instead of walls around our hearts that seal us off from the outside world in relationship. Trust us - this is not an episode you want to miss!
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42 min

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