All of us experience metaphorical winters throughout our lives—times of emotional upheaval, physical taxation, or perhaps just times when we need more rest. Many of us also live in places where the outward cycles of our environment shift from warm and sunny to cold and darker.

In this episode, Taralyn explores the concept of wintering as a philosophy, where we actually give ourselves permission to rest, to lean into the darkness as we incubate and grow our deep internal strength we feel ourselves swing back into the light. 

Books and links she mentioned:

Wintering // Katherine May

No blue light reading lights 

How Light Affects Our Sleep, Fertility, Our Child’s Behavior, and More With Andy Mant

Craving a Slow Down? Start With Your Mind

Going With the Flow: Allowing Ourselves to Rest, Work, and Play With Meridith Bienvenue

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It is a New Year! How can we renew our habits with a recommitment to ourselves? We talk through a listener question about just this! Let's find motivation together.

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Before we can add in NEW yummy desires and goals for 2024 we have to clear out the old. Our psyche can be full of unwanted triggers and patterns and this can be the very thing blocking us from becoming who we would like to be. Feel bogged down? Tune in for a quick retune before you embark on your 2024 goal setting.

Connection may just be the cure all to childhood misbehavior and troubles but it is harder to foster than any of us would want! In this episode we dive into one of our favorite books "Hold Onto Your Kids" by ⁠Gordon Neufeld⁠ and ⁠Gabor Maté MD⁠ and pull our favorite tips for maintaining a strong relationship with our children as well as signs and symptoms that may point to a connection issue! We also discuss how and why kids become "peer oriented" and why it is happening more and more.

We hope this episode leaves you empowered to create strong family bonds and connections that will heal past hurts and forge new relationship paths for future success! 

Authoritative Parenting / Arguably the MOST Effective Parenting Style

230 // Pt. 1 What Ancient Cultures Can Teach us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans // Michaeleen Doucleff

Discovering YOUR Life Essentials

Solitude Through Digital Minimalism

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Reiki is known as the divine movement of life force energy and is used as a healing technique to guide stuck energy from our chakras into alignment with our true purpose and intention. This week Felica interview Reiki Master Kristen Morris of MotherTree Reiki about her journey guiding people to know themselves better and she shares her experience having a healing session with Kristen!

They talk about how our energy can prevent us from knowing ourselves fully and how reiki can move us into alignment.

You can learn more about Kristen at @mothertreereiki

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In this episode we answer a question about how to respond when other adults in our lives want to parent our kids in a way that differs from our desires. Listen in for ideas on how to navigate these situations in a way that honors ourselves, our kids, and the other loving (and often well-meaning) adults in our lives.

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Stress is a fact of life, getting stuck in it isn't! When we are stuck in chronic stress or our stressors push us past our ability to cope we find ourselves in overwhelm. This episode we unpack Atlas of The Heart, the work of Brene Brown, as a guide to moving through stress and out of overwhelm. We touch on ways that we can identify the feeling in our body before it becomes overwhelmed and our favorite tips and tools for increasing our ability to cope with these often uncomfortable feelings.

9:00- Definition of Stress vs. Overwhelm

15:26 - Where do we feel stress/overwhelm in our bodies?

18:30 - Your body keeps the score

22:52 - Move through the tunnel

23:50 - Completion of the stress cycle

25:50 - Fight, flight, or freeze

28:30 - Using RAIN from Tara Brach as a tool

31:45 - Grounding

36:11 - Having a positive social interaction

40:06 - Creative expression

It sometimes feels like we are being pulled in many directions, and it is hard to feel settled and aligned when that is happening. In this episode, Taralyn describes a few things she has learned lately in her wrestle for alignment. 

The steps she has used to help her are:

1-Identify what parts of you are misaligned and intentionally give them all a seat in your council.

2-Set aside time daily to imagine what it would feel like to have that settled feeling of being aligned in your heart, mind, body, and spirit. Use that powerful brain of yours to try on the feeling of having all of the parts be in harmony. Tapping into this vibration helps you pull it towards you. Grounding is also a really helpful tool during this step. The shower is a great place to try this habit because its daily and the water is so conductive.

4-Think bigger. Zoom out your perspective and observe that YOU are not your body, your emotions, or your mind. Once you FEEL that, aligning all of them becomes easier--like a magnet rearranging metal shavings.

If you try this, Taralyn would LOVE to know how it goes for you. Just DM her on instagram @taralyngriffin

Our Daily Meditation: this is the meditation that Taralyn does every morning. You simply push play and she walks you through it. It’s an easy way to get yourself into the habit.

Breathwork Exercises for Daily Habit Building with Taralyn 

203 // Meditation: Letting Fear Go

Finding Motivation to Claim Your Personal Power Hour

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"No one listens to me!"

"I feel like the train engine running our whole home."

"I am exhausted, will it always be this hard?"

Finding the right parenting style for your family is hard. Information flies at us from all direction challenging us to "listen more", "be more strict." etc ... ultimately what we want is a dynamic, respectful and loving relationship with our children.

In this episode Felica interviews Joe Newman, author of Raising Lions, about his work for his new book. They discuss how respectful parenting can be taken too far when we are respecting our children but they are showing no respect back and why this happens.

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Books and Links We Mentioned

⁠⁠Fairplay⁠⁠ // Eve Rodsky

⁠⁠Raising Lions⁠⁠ // Joe Newman

⁠⁠No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame⁠⁠  // Janet Lansbury

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Do you ever feel parent guilt? We get so many questions from listeners about the torn feeling that comes while trying to balance being a whole person ourselves while still serving our families with love. In this episode, we answer this question as we discuss how we can set boundaries for ourselves, protect our own personal time (shower time, bathroom, etc.) and learn to coexist with more ease without young children.

We also address questions about reinventing ourselves as our children grow, how to handle kids being sneaky and hiding things, and how to deal with our children being bossy and having public meltdowns.

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⁠How to: Create Pockets of Peace⁠

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⁠Fairplay⁠ // Eve Rodsky

⁠Raising Lions⁠ // Joe Newman

⁠No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame⁠  // Janet Lansbury

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