Pondering Life Adventures

Grab that cup of coffee (or tea!) and settle in for our conversation with Russell Chamberlain, LCSW, CADCIII/MAC. He provides a safe place for struggling teens and families to build relationship and heal at LifeSTREAM Therapy, LLC (https://lifestreamtherapy.net). We chat about parenting multiples (we all have twins/triplets in our households!) and share how when things get tough, we often cross the line into science for ideas, which we try to make it accessible to people so that it makes sense so that we can focus on what is important to develop healthy adults.

Grab that cup of coffee (or tea) and brace yourself for an episode that puts the raw emotions of a recent death into view. We dive into those feelings and feel them and let them reverberate as we chat about the death of a family member. From how we take care of ourselves as well as how we show up for others, especially for our young ones who are on this path, too. And sometimes you just have to let go of everything and go with the flow of what is happening and feel the things and hug the people and just sort of be there.

Grab that cup of coffee (or tea) and settle in to chat as we chat about how reading and movies influence our parenting, especially when we are reinforcing empathy and problem-solving! Plus, a little more about habits, prioritizing our to-do list, and bedtimes!

Grab that coffee (or tea) and settle in for a ride today! Dr. Bobbi Beale and Dr. Maurie Lung dive right into what motivates us for change, what puts the brakes on, and then totally geek out on some of the research that supports these ideas. 

Grab a coffee and come join us as we chat with Lise Brown, BRS, RSW, MSW, about resiliency, de-colonizing counseling, and radical inclusion. Lise Brown the owner of Momenta, which offers opportunities for experiential learning that fosters growth through connections to self, each other and place. She has a Bachelor of Recreation, a Master of Social Work, a Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy, and the Forest School Practitioner training. Lise combines these areas of practice to provide clinical direction, facilitate groups, and counsel individuals both in urban and wilderness environments with a focus on physical and emotional safety, successful participation, fun, meaningful activity, and group cohesion.

Grab your cup of coffee or tea, you are in for a treat! From our conversation of shifting language, such as hard/soft skills to the recognition of movement toward less biased language of technical and interpersonal skills, hear TA’s thoughts about how accidents are more likely to occur, decision fatigue, and interrupting power dynamics to create spaces for frequently quieted voices to be heard. (Also, you might want to check out a kick sled!) Dr. TA Loeffler is a celebrated educator, adventurer, nature advocate, author, and professional keynote speaker from St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Labrador. TA is a professor of Outdoor Education and Recreation in the School of Human Kinetics and Recreation at Memorial University of Newfoundland.  She has been recognized the Canadian Geographic “90 Greatest Canadian Explorers” in 2020 and named to the Canadian Geographic’s Canada’s Greatest Explorers 100 Modern-Day Trailblazers List, Greatest Canadian Modern Women Explorers List, the Canadian Geographic’s Canada’s Greatest Explorers 100 Modern-Day Trailblazers List and Greatest Canadian Modern Women Explorers List. Find out more about TA Loeffler here at https://taloeffler.com.

Grab that cup of coffee or tea and dive into the joy of savoring and spend just a few moments to pause. We aren’t talking about toxic positivity, we are talking about combating the fatigue that is occurring from the chronic stress in our world right now. Everybody is exhausted. Everyone is overwhelmed. Take that deep breath and explore with use right now. Gift yourself this moment to just be.

Grab that cup of coffee or tea and join us as we chat about how we are all dealing with the chronic stress and chaos of our world today, most of us are also experiencing burnout. Many of us are looking for some hacks to make us feel better because we are exhausted. As we learned, the conscious mind is the bottleneck for our brain. We experience fog, decision fatigue, agitation, and so much more. However, habits help reduce exhaustion and burnout because they automate our processes for us.

Grab that cup of coffee and listen in as we welcome in another new year and chat about recent parenting escapades, including when our children first realized that they were not the same as other people, re-entry after the holiday, and our confusion – and ways we find hope - with the world around us.

Grab that cub of coffee or tea and join us from way back in September of 2021 as we discuss a variety of ideas around parenting supervision, generational drama, and the influence that both chronic trauma and situational trauma have over time on ourselves and our families.