Not By Chance Podcast

Dr. Tim Thayne interviews Vashti Summerville on allowing growth to happen to your kid. Often times as a parent our instinct is to protect them, but this isn't the most helpful thing all the time when it comes to their development. In  this podcast, you will learn how to judge when and how you should allow this growth.

Dr. Tim Thayne interviews Sonya Rodriguez on minimalism. Sonya has adopted a lifestyle of minimalism that helps her prioritize her life and put the most important things first. 

Dr. Tim and Roxanne Thayne announce Issue Two of the Not By Chance Yearbook. They feature two of their favorite articles, two writing prompts, as well as the narratives they wrote themselves on this year's theme of connection.  

Dr. Tim Thayne talks about the difference between feedforward and feedback. Feedback is saying the obvious of a previous event, while feedforward is giving good counsel before the event happens. When feedforward is delivered correctly it will make the road to success less painful, less time consuming and more enjoyable. 

Dr. Tim Thayne tells his personal story of his career and several of the major changes. He discusses one of his most pivotal career crisis' that lead to him pioneering the aftercare system and starting Homeward bound. 

Dr. Tim Thayne Interviews his son Talmage. Talmage served a church service mission and found that coming home would be a harder transition than he thought. He shares his story and how he was able to start climbing out of a dark place through understanding his identity, being surrounded by loving and supportive family and friends and knowing he will fail and it's not the end.

Dr. Tim Thayne Discusses the importance of feeling the range of human emotions. We need to understand the seriousness of any hardship so we can have empathy, but we need to look to the future with hope and optimism. This episode will help you see if you are leaning too far one way or the other and what you can do to gain perspective.

Though you may not have had “trust” come to mind as the most important ingredient for a healthy and progressing relationship, it is absolutely critical.  In this episode, Dr. Tim Thayne shares how trust can either smooth out rough edges or a lack of it will make everything hard.

Dr. Tim Thayne talks about the importance of structuring your family's time. Your kids won't structure their own time and the evidence is their messy room. So during this time where we all seem to have more time on our hand's let's be more intentional with how we spend it. 

With everyone's world and calendar in upheaval, many parents with teens or young adults in treatment are at loose ends about what to do.  Though our first instinct may be to gather everyone home, Dr. Thayne discusses why managing our emotions and assessing the situation with a long-term view, not just the current picture, is what will be most helpful for our son or daughter.