Help Them Bloom

Hard truths in the world are hard enough to navigate for yourselves—but how should we navigate them with our kids?

Parents come to me often wondering how much we should tell our kids about the hard stuff. Is it better to expose them to tough subjects, or is our job to shield them from the pain? Join me in this short episode for my philosophy around this and to learn handle this dilemma with my own daughter.

For some reason, having only one child feels like some sort of an anomaly these days, especially in the American culture. Some of us are at peace with having an only child while some of us struggle with the guilt of whether or not our child will be okay enough without siblings. For this episode, I invited Tara Clark, author, content creator, and founder of Modern Mom Probs— who not only has an only child, but happens to be one herself, to share her personal experiences and insights with us. I also share parts of my own motherhood story, and how I learned to make peace with just my daughter before getting pregnant many years later.

Tara Clark, author and content creator can be found on IG @modernmomprobs or on her website. Her book, Modern Mom Probs, can be found here! 

Tara also has a great podcast, which you can find and subscribe to, right here!

Sometimes what we don’t say with our words, but with our bodies is just as, or even more, important. We are constantly communicating with our bodies through facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, posture, and so on. Our nonverbal communication is really significant in how we relate and interact with others, especially our kids! Kids are wired to pick up on nonverbal cues before the verbal so it is not only important for us to understand their cues, but to be mindful of ours. In this episode, Dr. Cassie Feldman, PHD, joins me in exploring the world of nonverbal language, with what we should be mindful of in our parent-child dynamic, and then gives us strategies to practice some good body-language skill development with our kids.

Putting a positive spin on things, finding the bright side, and asking people to seek gratitude comes natural to a lot of us parents. We do this from parent to parent and even more, we do this with our kids when they are showing discomfort or disappointment in something we don’t necessarily understand or agree with. Whitney Goodman, LMFT and author of Toxic Positivity, joins us in helping to explain this phenomenon, and then gives us some ways to counteract it.

You can find Whitney on her wildly popular instagram, and you can find her amazing book, Toxic Positivity,  here

Expectations very often don’t meet reality and we all know this. Why is it then that we have a hard time when it comes to accepting our kid’s feelings around certain experiences!? Join me in this solo episode where I openly share with you my pregnancy announcement to Liv and how she actually feels about it all—as well as how we are all dealing!

NEWS! Come learn with me in my next webinar: Raising Resilient Children next week Dec 8th. Recording will be sent out to all whether you attend live or not!

There is all this buzz around learning to eat intuitively—but did you know we can actually start to set these healthy habits (or interfere with them) as early as infancy and toddlerhood?

I chat with Monica Auslander, RDN, all about how to help your kids nurture a healthy relationship with food. We also talk picky eating and common mealtime battles (including SNACKS all day, treats, food refusal), and Monica leaves us with some good language and strategies to use.

Parenting is hard enough as it is, so parenting with an ex-partner adds an entirely different level of challenges. In this episode, we talk with Michelle Dempsey-Multack, a certified divorce coach and author of Moms Moving On (https://momsmovingon.com/), about the most common co-parenting challenges and receive some golden nuggets of wisdom to help us navigate these tough waters.

You can find out more about the services Michelle offers on her website, (https://momsmovingon.com/) or catch her motivational posts

on her instagram, @themichelledempsey

As parents, partners, children, professionals, and individual humans, we have to learn to wear SO many hats. How can we understand our identity? What happens when we feel lost and disconnected to who we are or want to be? Jael Toledo, MFT, explains the process of identity formation, why we go through identity crises, and how we can become the architects of our own identities.

You can connect with Jael through her website (https://jaeltoledo.com/) or on her IG page @jaeltoledok . I am so excited for her new program, SOY, to launch this January!

Some kids follow script more easily while others tend to march to the beat of their own drum. We often hear these boundary-pushing kids being labeled as more “difficult,” “stubborn,” or “defiant.” In this episode we talk about how to understand these kids in a new, more adaptive way so that we can better parent to their needs.

You can find Erin Morrison, certified conscious parenting coach, on her instagram @itstheconsciousmom or check out her website https://theconsciousmom.com/ to work with her 1:1 - she is a wealth of knowledge!

A one-minute introduction into the Help Them Bloom podcast. The reasons behind why created this and what I hope you will gain from it.