If you’ve ever listened to a podcast while checking email while waiting for the washer to stop so you can turn laundry over, oh, AND you’re also feeding your baby, have a listen to my interview with Lisa Carpenter.

Lisa is an anti-performance performance coach –and if you’re an overthinking multi-tasker who hasn’t considered your own needs and is attempting to be a perfect parent, you need her perspectives on dismantling the ideas we have about motherhood, busyness, and parenting.

In this interview, Lisa unpacks:

• Why BEING more doesn’t mean DOING more

• How the stories we tell ourselves (including the ones about whether we’re “good” moms) are just that: stories

• Redefining what makes a “good mom”

• The HALT acronym for supporting yourself

• The power of being present

• Why chaos can feel normal, and calm feels uncomfortable (and how to change that)

• The value of self-compassion

  
  

You can find Lisa Carpenter at lisacarpenter.ca, on her Full Frontal Living Podcast, and on Instagram at @lisacarpenterinc   

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In this episode, Heather Boyd, mom of 3, sleep coach, and occupational therapist dives into how to reframe your baby's difficult sleep. This is a throwback to episode 4 nearly 1 year ago!

As an exhausted and overwhelmed parent, you are likely all too aware of how hard this is.

Heather guides you to reflect on:

🦋 Appreciating that your baby is doing the best they can at this particular time.

🦋 An evolutionary perspective on what babies have needed (and what your baby needs) to sleep.

🦋 Why curiosity trumps cookie-cutter approaches to sleep coaching.

🦋 How holistic approaches look at your baby's needs but not at the expense of YOUR needs.

🦋 How you can shift from searching for a problem to solve, to trusting the process.

🦋 Difficult does not mean broken.

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🎵 Music: Jordan Wood

There's not one "right way" to parent. Some of us are flexible, and adaptable; others of us tend to be more tied to predictability and routine. Some of us wing it, and others plan ahead. Join me in this episode to challenge your usual approach and give some thoughts to how to make things easier --regardless of your usual approach to parenting!

In this episode, I compare baking cookies with parenting and baby sleep.

Here's the short version:

1. "Gather all the ingredients" is great advice, whether you're baking or trying to get your baby to sleep.

2. When you have some experience you can go with the flow a bit more ("wing it" in the kitchen and the nursery!)

3. One dish casseroles -there are ways to keep this simple. Parenting is hard enough without complicating things.

4. Savour the batch you just baked.  When your baby reaches a milestone for sleep, celebrate!

5. Worrying about making a change? Sometimes you just have to try it.

6. The perfect cookie --and perfect sleep-- doesn't exist.

Mentioned:

Ep 27: Sleep, Rest, & Support: Are You Cheating Yourself Out of Wellness?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0CUOTn9u1FPygMP2nxogDE?si=hQC0hPgQQ9SEkJKuWChzXw

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🎵 Music: Jordan Wood

Parent coach, author, public speaker, and mom, Sarah R. Moore talks with Heather Boyd, Occupational Therapist and sleep coach about positive discipline, story teaching, and brain-based parenting.

Sit in on this interview to learn:

Sarah R. Moore is the author of "Peaceful Discipline: Story Teaching, Brain Science & Better Behavior" and founder of Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting. As a certified Master Trainer in conscious parenting and Chairperson of the Board for the American Society for the Positive Care of Children, she’s also a public speaker, accredited parent coach, armchair neuroscientist, and most importantly, a Mama. Her work has been featured on NBC, CBS, and SiriusXM, and in countless international parenting magazines. With training in child development, trauma recovery, interpersonal neurobiology, improv comedy and play, her work supports parents and caregivers around the globe. Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest & Threads.

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Heather has been under the weather this past week, which has her reflecting on how she managed parenting responsibilities when she was sick when her kids were very young.

Listen in as we move into cold and flu season for ways to manage acute illness when sick.  Have you been sick and navigating parenting?  What helped you through?  

In this episode Heather talks about:

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🎵 Music: Jordan Wood

Heather Boyd, occupational therapist and mom of three, runs through 6 questions she recommends you ask yourself when your baby's sleep is going through a sticky stage. So often, there's an easier way within reach, and these 6 questions can help you find it.

If sleep is tricky, ask yourself the following 4 questions:

Listen in on how to use these six questions to move things forward WITHOUT compromising your wellness and your connection with your baby.

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🎵 Music: Jordan Wood

Heather Boyd, occupational therapist and sleep coach, talks to Niagara IBCLC, Victoria Beninger, about the ways she supports new parents with feeding plans, goals, and the doubt and stress that new moms often carry.  We also talk about stress as a hidden impact on milk supply.  When there are so many products and lactation cookie recipes on line to increase milk supply, it’s a refreshing idea that we’ve got tools already inside us to support breastfeeding.

Listen in as we talk about:

To find out more:

You can find Victoria at tenderlovinglatch.com

Sign up for her emails at http://eepurl.com/iK9zlA for news and opportunities (including when she releases her online courses, Holistic Approaches to Maximizing Your Milk Supply

Victoria is also doing a period product drive right now until December 22nd with Birchway Niagara Women’s shelter. Donations can be brought to Our Village Parent Group in Port Colborne, Niagara, Ontario on Wednesdays or reach out to Victoria for other arrangements to donate. 

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🎵 Music: Jordan Wood

🎙️Podcast coach: Min Sukree

Heather Boyd, mom of 3, Occupational Therapist, and certified Infant & Family Sleep Specialist shares 5 common sleep myths (and why they aren’t true).

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🎵 Music: Jordan Wood

Heather Boyd, mom of 3, Occupational Therapist, and certified Infant & Family Sleep Specialist shares 3 ways parents tend to cheat themselves out of wellness when their baby isn't sleeping long stretches and needs lots of support to sleep.

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Heather Boyd, Occupational Therapist and sleep coach shares two key perspectives in making your baby’s sleep make sense.

Listen in to learn:

Today’s episode is a recap of a recent talk Heather gave to Life With A Baby Niagara.  It is short, sweet, and to the point.  

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✔️ Book a call or email Heather at www.familysleep.ca/contact to talk with Heather about working together