Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens

By Casey O'Roarty

Welcome to the Joyful Courage Podcast - a place where parents of tweens and teens come to find inspiration, information and encouragement in the messy terrain of adolescence

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November 09, 2020Eps 248: Maureen Muldoon on Raising a Transgender Child
I am so excited to welcome my guest, Maureen Muldoon.
Maureen is a a spiritual Pied Piper, shameless storyteller and speaker who is transforming the way people think of church, sex, spirituality, and creativity. Actress, author, activist, she celebrates the miracles that live beneath the mundane and is devoted to helping others to CREATE their most engaged and unapologetic life. Today we are going to talk about her experience of mothering a transgender son.
Takeaways from the show:
Raising a transgender child
Coping with society’s opinions
A parent’s role in understanding
How acceptance changes your child
Kids wanting to be acknowledged for how they seem themselves
Self expression
Sitting with the suicide rate as a mom of a transgender son
Finding a greater peace of mind
Letting go of deciding what identifiers you bring forth in your children
Becoming aware of the ways you tell your narrative
Things parents without transgender kids don’t understand
Being gentle to parents who don’t understand so they can be gentle to your child out in the world
Keeping an open mind and an open space to listen to your child
How you can be more supportive of families with transgender kids

See you next week! :)
Find Maureen:
Website | SpeakEasy Community
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October 30, 2020Eps 247: Solo Show About Dealing With Our Triggers
Today’s podcast is a solo show!!

Takeaways from the show:
What is a trigger
How our histories determine different triggers
Dealing with situations that trigger you
Making it right after you get upset
Breaking down what it feels like to get triggered
Willingness to reflect on your own emotions
Being a good role model for handling emotions to your kids
Teen’s moods affecting our own
How our teens trigger us like no other
Recognizing your experience
The importance of connecting with your kids
Having compassion and curiosity while in conversation
How crucial it is to stay nonjudgemental

See you next week! :)

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46min
October 26, 2020Eps 246: Bellamy Shoffner On Being a Single Mom and A Revolutionary Human
Bellamy Shoffner is a single parent, writer, and equity advocate specializing in fostering thoughtful connection and conversation among communities. Shoffner’s Revolutionary Humans produces a magazine, retreats, and free community events. All for parents and educators committed to social justice.
This past summer the Joyful Courage community raised $800 in support of Bellamy and her work – I am so honored for the chance to connect with her here on the podcast.

Takeaways from the show
Social justice
Passive reading vs. retaining the information
Hold the Line magazine
Teaching our kids to be accepting of each other's differences
Creating a world where kids can are out of harm’s way based on any part of their identity
Acceptance vs tolerance
Challenges of being a single parent
How outside help isn’t always appreciated
Teasing apart tokenization
Putting in the work to understand social justice
Key things parents can do to fold racial awareness into parenting their kids
Taking people as they are and see what happens
Having relationship with vulnerability
Dealing with people who have opposing views

Find Bellamy:
Website | Instagram

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57min
October 19, 2020Eps 245: Solo Show- Teasing Apart Vulnerability In the Present Moment
Today is a solo show!!
Takeaways from the show
Self care matters
Surrendering to the things you can’t control
How letting go can change your experience
The healing of meditation
Being in the present moment
Anchoring yourself while also being on the edge of your vulnerability
Facing the unknown and creating a sense of security
Human tendencies getting in the way of being okay with fear
Possibilities of the unknown
How narratives can be confining
Control is an illusion
Being with the fact that the future is uncertain
The present moment is the only place where change happens
Creating a practice of returning to presence
Unconsciousness vs. consciousness

See you next week! :)

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41min
October 12, 2020Eps 244: Connie Feutz Teaches Us How To Be Mindful With Our Partners
Connie Fuetz is a clinician with over 35 years of clinical experience who specializes in working with couples and is one of the six original Master Clinicians invited into the Gottman Institute in 2000, John Gottman has called Connie "an extraordinarily-gifted couples counselor" to whom he would send his own family.
After leading the two-day Art and Science of Love workshops in Chicago for years, Connie created her own one-day workshop for couples called the Mindful Couples Workshop, which she led for years in Bellingham WA and Victoria BC. She has expanded that course into a 5-week online course for couples, called A Mindful Love Course. A couple's workshop you can do from the comfort of your own home.
Connie feels blessed and honoured in her work alongside couples. A resident of the Northwest for 35 years, she lives in gorgeous Bellingham WA with her family.

Takeaways from the show:
The depth of couples therapy can be challenging and profound
Both parties are responsible for change in therapy
Focusing on your relationship with your partner will help your teen
Why mindfulness is so important in our intimate relationships
Tools to help you choose in to your partner
How marathon intensive therapy is helpful
Not engaging when flooding
Naming the negative interactive cycle that happens when we’re in distress
Prompting a healing conversation
Having humility and vulnerability in conversations with your partner
Making sure the message of love gets through
How the pandemic has been causing stress in households
Dealing with perpetual issues in a different way because of COVID
Setting the context for the spirit of intention
How dedicating little bits of time to your relationship will keep it alive
Switching from a business type of relationship to a romantic one
Using persuasion in a safe way
The importance of being on equal ground with your partner
Learning your partner’s love language

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59min
October 05, 2020Eps 243: Solo show about The Social Dilemma, and the general dilemmas of life right now
Today is a solo show!

Takeaways from the show
Thoughts about the Social Dilemma movie
How big social media platforms are using the users
Our attention is the product online
Conversation starters around screen use
Creating an environment where checking in is a normal thing
What to expect from the screens and teens summit
The mixed feelings around social media
Juggling the things life throws at us
How do we make room to fall apart
Crying releases stress
The trauma of the pandemic
Having compassion for your teens
All problems are relative, no matter how “small”
Giving yourself space to grieve and release energy
Taking time to care for yourself
In order to change your experience, you have to recognize what’s happening
The normality of struggle right now
Recognize your wallowing
Being in the practice of moving forward

See you next week!
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41min
September 28, 2020Eps 242: Nurturing a Self-Driven Child With Author, Ned Johnson
Ned Johnson is president & founder PrepMatters, an educational company providing academic tutoring, educational planning, and standardized test preparation.
A battle-tested veteran in the fields of test preparation, anxiety management, and student performance, Ned has been a professional “tutor-geek” since 1993, with more than 40,000 one-on-one hours helping students conquer an alphabet of standardized tests and reach their full potential.
In 2018, Ned co-authored, With Dr. William Stixrude, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives. Their book explores how fostering children’s autonomy can help solve two challenges endemic to kids today: facing anxiety and developing intrinsic motivation. Ned is a sought-after speaker and teen coach on study skills, sleep deprivation, parent-teen dynamics, and test anxiety, and his work is featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, BBC, and many others.
Takeaways from the show
Supporting our kids in stepping into their autonomy
How to let go of control and have faith our teens know what to do
Teaching your kids to be resilient and able to tolerate stress
Leading your kids to intrinsic motivation
What is a healthy sense of control
The brain’s experience with stress
Releasing the expectation of competency all the time
How autonomy looks in a pandemic
Alternate routes of education
How passionately pursuing pastimes is most major contributor to intrinsic motivation
Being sympathetic to our kids and ourselves
The time it takes teen’s brains to fully develop varys
Going through hard things gives us strength
The teenage experience overlapping with the pandemic
Teens crave relatedness
Connect with your kids through what they love
Reminding yourself as a parent, your job isn’t to make your kids care
Having sympathetic conversations with your kids
Being able to just be with our kids when they’re having a hard time

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September 21, 2020Eps 241: Solo Show - Musings on Parenting as Transformation
Today is a solo show straight from my journal!
Thank you to the patrons who were watching the livestream with me - I love speaking to a live audience!
Takeaways from the show:
Our experiences with the state of the world
Thoughts from Casey’s journal
Personal transformations through the world’s disarray
Choosing self time when you’re moody
What you’re feeling now is valid and you have a choice to how you show up with it
Being worried about the future because kids don’t have as much motivation for school
Shifting your mindset when worry shows up
How traditional schooling can change
False illusions that you can plan your child’s future
Conversations around nurturing motivation
How we respond to events and experiences in our life is the only thing we have control over
The divine nature of the parent-child relationship
Spirituality fitting into the parenting conversation
Life is happening for you
Considering the human you are continuing to become
Internal experiences can influence the outside experience
Our soul is calling for growth
Trying on the lens of self-reflection

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September 14, 2020Eps 240: Exploring the divine purpose of the parenting journey with Michelle Bowen
Michelle Bowen is a parent empowerment coach, entrepreneur and mother to a child who she gave birth to at the early stages of her awakening. The only way for Michelle to continue to further expand in her awakening was to utilize her relationship with her child. Your Child is Your Guide was birthed from her own process with her child that brought about an enormous transformation in her own life. In her practice, she specializes in guiding you to the realization of the divinity of your child and your relationship with them which initiates a level of accountability that aids in the acceleration of both your healing and actualization. Michelle learned that her child was her guide and provides you with guidance and applicable practices that allow you to see the same. The courses created by Michelle along with her other offerings show you how to achieve the actualization of the unconditionally loving relationship you want with your children.
Michelle's story of coming into motherhood
Spiritual teachers that influenced Michelle
How her baby brought up places for Michelle to grow
Michelle explains what “being awakened” means to her
Learning how to unconditionally love ourselves as we parent our children
How our relationships with our children are divine “co-creations”
How parenthood highlights our conditioning
The difference between resistance vs being open to learning about yourself on the parenting journey
The messiness of the practice
Trying something new can feel uncomfortable and awkward
Shifting from our children’s behavior triggering us to our children’s behavior triggers our CONDITIONING and places we still have yet to heal
Michelle talks a bit about current racial unrest and her experience of being raised by immigrant parents
The message of unity
Speaking up speaking out even when it is uncomfortable

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September 07, 2020Eps 239: The podcast is BACK and it's a brave new world...
TODAY IS A SOLO SHOW!
I am so excited to be back here with you all… What a summer. I am so excited to reconnect and reset for the coming months, and to let you know what to expect for me, the community and the podcast
Before I get into it…
Patreon patreon/com/joyfulcourage
Livestreaming
Monthly group calls
Join us!!

The Risky Behavior and Teens summit was AMAZING – thank you to my guests and everyone who registered – If you missed it, go to www.joyfulcourage.com/summit-shop and check it out – you can also see and purchase past summits that you may have missed.

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