Play is to the child what talk is to the adult. Play therapy is a medium for expressing feelings, exploring relationships, describing experiences, disclosing wishes, and nurturing self-fulfillment. Children express themselves and their needs, relive their past, and connect with others through play. The use of toys enables children to transfer anxieties, fears, fantasies, and guilt to objects rather than people. In the process, children are safe from their own feelings and reactions because play enables children to distance themselves from traumatic events and experiences. In this podcast Tammy Schamuhn interviews Lisa Dion, Clinician, Registered Play Therapist, Co-Founder of Synergetic Play Therapy. We take a deep dive into what play therapy looks like, how it creates long-lasting changes in children, and where you can get appropriate training should you want to explore this medium in your clinical work.

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The Parenting Handbook: Your Guide to Raising Resilient Children is the ultimate guide to nurturing emotional regulation, resiliency, connection, and well-being in children. Find out more here .

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This podcast is a recoding from our Children's Mental Health and Parenting Summit. In this deeply impactful interview , Dr. Buqué, author of "Break the Cycle", explores how trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and how we can break the cycle through tangible therapeutic practices. Dr. Buqué's approach is holistic, compassionate, and incredibly powerful. In this workshop, she offers a comprehensive set of tools and reflections to initiate the healing process. We don't need to repeat what happened in our childhood with our own children- we can "Break the Cycle".

To find out more about Dr. Buque's wonderful book and work, Break the Cycle, click here

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In this episode, we interview Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, a PHD Clinical Psychologist who specializes in ADHD. Dr. Honos Webb talks abouta strength based approach to helping youth with ADHD. She shares her "six super skills": Find Gifts, Set Goals, Chunk Goals, Boost Motivation, Manage Mood and Find Focus. Dr. Honos-Webb takes us through each skill and explains how to use the skill to nurture executive functioning and mental wellness. She also talks about the gifts of ADHD. Her approach is practical, compassionate, and highly optimistic!

Dr Honos-Webb has written a number of books and has courses you can purchse too, to find out more, click here.

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The Parenting Handbook: Your Guide to Raising Resilient Children is the ultimate guide to nurturing emotional regulation, resiliency, connection, and well-being in children. Find out more here .

Our  parenting membership comes with over 90 Parenting & Mental Health Courses and more!. Click here . Listeners can take 40% OFF their annual membership (or $19.99/m). Get your  7-Day Free Trial today!

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In this incredible podcast, Eli Harwood, know as the "Attachment Nerd" on social media talks all things parenting. As a Licensed therapist, she shares strategies on how to nurture connection with your children, how to "discipline"when children face roadbumps, how to help when they experience feelings of shame and how to foster resiliency.

 This podcast is jam-packed with concrete strategies and tools that will shift your parenting journey. Eli's incredible new book, Securely Attached, can be found here. To find outmore about Eli's work, checkout her amazing website. Her insta is a favourite of ours too!

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The Parenting Handbook: Your Guide to Raising Resilient Children is the ultimate guide to nurturing emotional regulation, resiliency, connection, and well-being in children. Find out more here .

Our  parenting membership comes with over 90 Parenting & Mental Health Courses and more!. Click here . Listeners can take 40% OFF their annual membership (or $19.99/m). Get your  7-Day Free Trial today!

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Grieving during the holiday period can be extremly difficult. The pressure to smile, attend events, and celebrate can feel isolating and demanding. Many families struggle with how to balance their psychological world with the "joy" of the season.

In this episode, Tania and Tammy talk about their own experiences with grief during the holidays and share strategies on how to hold boundaries, engage in self-care and how to deeply honour your own journey.

 If you have found today's podcast helpful and want more resources -we have a wonderful workshop on helping children to grieve: Helping Children to Grieve. Take 30%off today by putting in the code Grief30.

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We have lost sight of the fact that feeding our families is about human relationship and emotional well-being. If you are struggling with your child's picky eating, or with getting you children to sit down and partake in family meals, this is the podcast episode for you!

 In this episode we interview Dr. Deborah MacNamara who addresses the fact that many of us have lost sight of the fact that feeding our families is about human relationship and emotional well-being. Dr. MacNamara explores how feeding our children is part of the caretaking relationship and cannot be separated from it.

Her work on this subject is informed by attachment science, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and research on human emotion. She beautifully reframes our approach to providing for our kids and helps us hit the reset button on our relationship with food.

Dr. Macnamara' s website is a wealth of resources and her incredible book "Nourished" can be found here 

This episode is actually a recording from our 2023 Children's Mental Health and Parenting Summit which is now part of our membership ($19.99 a month):

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In this episode Tammy interviews Registered Psychologist, Samantha Dover, on the importance of talking to our children and teens about sex, consent, and physical boundaries. Without safe relationships with knowledgeable adults to answer some of their big questions, kids will find other ways of accessing the information in ways that can disastrous. This can lead to shame, stigmas, and a variety of misinformation.

By educating yourself and being available for conversation, you are not only ensuring that your child has access to relevant information, but you are also ensuring that you get a chance to discuss morals and values with them to help them make lifelong, healthy, and empowering decisions for themselves. Do you want more information on how to talk to your child about their bodies or navigate the "talk" with your teen.

We offer a phenomenal 2-hour course at ICP, offered by Samantha, called "Consent, Relationships & Sex: From the Birds & the Bees to Netflix & Chill."  T

Today you can take 30% OFF of this phenomental workshop with the code SEXED30 at checkout: Click here for more info!

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In this podcast episode, Tammy Schamuhn and Tania Johnson discuss how parents can cut through the arguing and foster a loving, supportive bond between siblings- while giving each child the vital connection that he or she needs. With 5 children between the two of them and working as family therapists for the past decade, Tammy and Tania share a wealth of information, strategies, and research to help forge close sibling relationships and ways in which parents can avoid inadvertently creating rivalries that lead to emotional wounds and family conflict.

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At the end of the podcast, we talk about Dr Lara Markham's amazing workshop ( use the code SIBLINGS30 to take 30% off now): Peacful Parent, Happy Siblings: Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life .

If sibling squables never end and you find tension escalating constantly at home, you may also find our Compassionate Discipline course helpful. It is one of our best-sellers. Take 30% off today with the code DISCIPLINE30

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Today's podcast is a recording from our 2023 Children's Mental Health and Parenting Summit. In this interview, Dr Doucleff, author of " Hunt, Gather, Parent," talks about her experience of setting off with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most traditional communities: Maya families, Inuit families, and Hadzabe families. She finds a very different parenting culture within these communities. Parents talk less, children are more independent, and the parent-child relationship is built on cooperation instead of control. These families are also family-centered instead of child-centered. In this interview, Doucleff explores the differences and how we can apply them to modern-day parenting. If you want to find out more about about Dr. Doucleff’s work: https://michaeleendoucleff.com/about-michaeleen-doucleff/

 Want to hear more from our amazing summit? Use the code SUMMIT15 for 15% off and get access to 27 Masterclass recordings from the Children’s Mental Health and Parenting Summit ( lifetime access, with certificates, available in Mp3 and Mp4 format) are waiting fo you: Get your recordings now!

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The Parenting Handbook: Your Guide to Raising Resilient Children is the ultimate guide to nurturing emotional regulation, resiliency, connection, and well-being in children. Find out more here .

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In this podcast Tammy inteviews Dr. Melanie Mcnally, who specializes in working with teens. Melanie is a clinical psychogist & author who helps teens and young adults become the superheroes of their own life stories by teaching them how to become more comfortable with who they truly are. In this episode Dr. McNally is going to walk us through how to get our teens motivated and what some of the roadblocks are that prevent our teens from fully engaging in their lives. To learn more about Dr. McNally pre-order her NEW book: The Emotionally Intelligent TeenYou can also follow Melanie on her social media account: Dr Melanie's instagram account

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The Parenting Handbook: Your Guide to Raising Resilient Children is the ultimate guide to nurturing emotional regulation, resiliency, connection, and well-being in children. Find out more here .

Our  parenting membership comes with over 90 Parenting & Mental Health Courses and more!. Click here . Listeners can take 40% OFF their annual membership (or $19.99/m). Get your  7-Day Free Trial today!

Our professional membership offers affordable, accessible training all in one spot for mental health professionals! Find out more  here.

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