The Parent Coffee Talk

While many of our collective beliefs and biases have shifted over time, we still find ourselves combatting beliefs that are harmful, detrimental, and even deadly to many minorities.

In this week's episode, Dr. Cleopatra and Dr. Roseanne discuss  tools to normalize diversity within children and how we can dismantle prejudice thoughts from a young age.

Also highlighted are how implicit biases are formed and ways we can be preventative and introspective. Join Dr. Cleopatra and Dr. Roseanne in this critically important conversation. 

Show Highlights: 

• How we can do better as parents 
• The way prejudice works in the brain 
• Why we have to have difficult conversations 
• How do we overcome instincts
• The ways experiencing racism impacts fertility 
• Ways we’ve adapted as a society and how we can erase explicit forms of bias 
• The impact of loving other people 
• Overcoming our prejudices and teach our kids to do better 
• Critical developmental periods and how they impact our growth 
• How teaching about bias reduces it
• The importance of teaching about bias from a young age 
• The struggle of being black in American society and why having conversations is important 
• Ways to open up conversations and introduce kids to diversity 
• Why we should be teaching kids to value empathy 
• Symbolic representations of equality 
• Why we have to speak up when other people say prejudice things 
• The willingness to be uncomfortable and effort we have to implement to make a change 
• How to help your kids be kinder and more accepting 
• The risks we all have of being affected by injustice 
• Subtle shifts we can made in the immediate environment and within our own selves 
• Putting our money where our mouths are 

Links: 

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

Dr. Roseann

Dr. Cleopatra

As humans, we all have a broad wheel of emotions. For many of us, it can be difficult to decipher between those emotions. Which in turn, also makes it difficult to manage them.

In today’s interview, Dr. Joan Rosenberg, author of 90 Seconds to a Life You Love and a cutting-edge psychologist, shares what emotional mastery looks like and how we can tactfully tap into our feelings.

She also covers the many ways we can set our children up to successfully develop communication skills, build empathy, and cope with emotional issues, such as depression and anxiety. This conversation is packed with knowledge and strategies you can take to enhance your own emotional management, as well as your children.

Show Highlights:

• How does one develop confidence through unpleasant feelings
• Why have access to your own childhood pain can help you be a more empathic parent
• How you are showing up for your children will impact how your children show up in the world
• The importance of teaching kids’ frustration tolerance
• How can parents best help their children learn to deal with disappointment
• Breathing into the experience so you do not shut it down
• Giving children an emotional language to communicate
• Experiencing the fullness of human emotion without the extremes
• The overmedication pandemic and why feeling our emotions is more liberating
• Ways social media has impacted the emotional range
• How comparison distracts from your own thoughts, feelings, and needs
• Creating rituals for children to build in breath and meditation
• Building the muscle of communication skills

Links:

https://drjoanrosenberg.com

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/90-seconds-to-a-life-you-love-joan-i-rosenberg/1128863489

Dr. Roseann

Dr. Cleopatra

Many of us are never taught how or what to eat in order to be the strongest, most resilient, and nourished versions of ourselves.

Today’s guest, Jessica Sherman is a nutritionist with a focus on kid's health. She helps parents create a vision for their children’s health and reframe their eating habits.

In this conversation, Jessica shares the importance of food for kids mentally and physically, and what you can do to cultivate a positive food culture within your family.

Join Dr. Roseanne and Dr. Cleopatra in this episode to learn more about the power of good nutrition.

Show Highlights:

• What inspired Jessica to start her career
• Why people won’t let go of eating junk food
• What makes “Your kids won’t eat it” a limiting mentality
• The importance of language around food
• How to respect the interpersonal relationship with food for kids and still instill healthy habits
• How to cultivate a culture around food within our families
• Nourishing our mind, bodies, and souls with food
• What are “resilience” foods
• Top 3 tips to implement nourishing foods into diets
• How to be healthy role models for our kids
• Teaching kids how to be in tune with their bodies
• How getting a handle on breakfast can improve your eating
• Ways stress and pressure is impacting kids eating
• Creating cognitive resilience through eating
• What are good fats and how to integrate them

Links:

https://www.jesssherman.com

Dr. Roseann

Dr. Cleopatra

Many of us grew up in “bubble wrapped” households. We were taught to stay out of the kitchen, let mom do the chores, and that we were “too young” to take on responsibility.

Today’s guest, Katie Kimball, is dismantling that misperception by bringing kids into the kitchen and teaching them how to cook, at as young as 3! Katia shares her strategies to get kids cooking young, the sensory benefits, and the responsibility it helps persist.

Join Dr. Roseanne and Dr. Cleopatra in this unique episode to learn the developmental breakdown of teaching kids to cook.

Show Highlights:

• Why 5–7-year-olds are more than capable to learn more
• Why parents are not teaching kids to cook
• The return on investment you get from teaching your kids to cook
• How letting kids take on chores younger can help enhance their intrinsic excitement
• Ways food brings us together
• How being involved in the palette can increase your palette and create a better relationship with food
• The more encounters with food can help picky eaters
• How Katie started teaching her kids how to cook
• Simple environment changes that can help teach kids to cook
• Building confidence in the kitchen
• Teaching kids the skills to make their own recipes
• Quick tips for the table

Links:

https://kidscookrealfood.com

Dr. Roseann

Dr. Cleopatra

Food is a special language that helps us connect with people in a way nothing else can. In today’s episode, Melissa Mio, author, inspirational speaker, strategy mentor, and food network chef, shares her story and how she found her love language with food.

Melissa started her career with a job she hated and nothing in the bank and has manifested the life of her dreams. She also shares how she overcame pain to bring her dreams to life and how you can too.

Join Dr. Roseanne and Dr. Cleopatra in this delicious wisdom-filled episode.

Show Highlights:

• Melissa shares how she re-invented her life to reflect her dreams
• Why you have to be specific when manifesting your visionary life
• Overcoming the scarcity mindset
• Learning to own your power and being intentional with your mindset
• Overcoming doubt and the importance of taking risks
• Taking action and taking control of your life
• How to move through pain instead of sit in it
• Using journaling to release yourself from pain
• How Melissa got involved with the Food Network
• Melissa shares how she took her experience and look for food into an inclusive retreat
• Manifesting Miracles in your life
• Melissa shares what life in Italy is like

Links:

Dr. Roseann

Dr. Cleopatra

No one knows what’s going on with our bodies better than us. After Dr. Mariza started experiencing major hormone issues and a doctor incorrectly prescribed her solution, she went on a journey to explore women’s health.

In this episode, Dr. Mariza Snyder joins Dr. Roseanne and Dr. Cleopatra in sharing her story and ways to use essential oils to balance your hormones.

Join Dr. Mariza in this episode to learn more about gut health, managing stress, and how to detoxify your liver. 

Show Highlights: 

• Dr. Mariza shares the defining moment that started her health journey 
• The misconception we’ve been taught about our hormones 
• Figuring out what’s at play with our bodies 
• The hierarchy scale that impacts hormones 
• How we can use tools like essential oils to help with our hormones 
• How essential oils can be a quick win 
• Dr. Mariza shares the inspiration and content of her book
• Where to start to keep it simple 
• How can we get our digestive system back on track 
• How the liver can get overworked 
• Key signs we have too much estrogen 
• Dr. Mariza’s quiz to help you navigate your hormones 

Links: 

https://www.drmariza.com

Dr. Mariza’s Hormone Quiz

Dr. Roseann

Dr. Cleopatra

Being human comes with many battles we have to overcome. One we all encounter at some point in our lifetime is betrayal. Betrayal can be one of the most difficult offenses to overcome but can give us the opportunity to rebuild something beautiful. Today’s guest, Debi Silber, is a psychologist who helps people heal from Post Betrayal Syndrome and the author of “The Unshakable Woman”.

Debi shares her story of being betrayed and how it sparked the most amazing transformation of her whole life. She discusses how it shook her family, her faith, and self-perception, but also how she healed.

Join Dr. Roseanne and Dr. Cleopatra to learn more about the transformation process of healing after being blindsided by betrayal.

Show Highlights:

• What got Debi interested in psychology
• The impact betrayal has on your identity and your trust
• How you can rebuild something new with the person who hurt you
• The difference between repairing and rebuilding
• Reconciliation can be the best or the worst thing you can ever do with your betrayer
• The stages of healing
• How we can get stuck in our healing
• Boundaries that need to be put in place for people to feel safe
• 4 Step Trust rebuilding process
• Why we need to teach women to trust themselves
• Ways to start strengthening your intuition
• How to overcome feeling like your body is betraying you
• Debi shares her motherhood story and experience with a miscarriage

Links:

The Unshakable Woman Book

Dr. Roseann

Dr. Cleopatra

Balancing work and parent life can be a difficult balance, but there are ways you can prioritize both. Today’s guest, Chris Winfield, is the face behind Super Connected Media and an AWESOME dad.

In this interview, Chris shares how he became an entrepreneur through utilizing connections. He also discusses what being a dad means to him and the ways he uplifts and encourages his daughter.

Join Dr. Roseanne and Dr. Cleopatra in this sweet and inspiring episode.

Show Highlights:

• What is a dad mastermind?
• How Chris built his business through connections
• How to balance being an entrepreneur and a parent
• Ways Chris prioritizes his daughter
• How to discern the seasons when you’re in the middle of them
• How to give your children lessons to trust their gut
• How is reduced travel impacting relationships with children
• Giving your children the gift of fun

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/chriswinfield/?hl=en

https://superconnectormedia.com

Dr. Roseann

Dr. Cleopatra

We all face various degrees of anxiety and stress in our day-to-day lives. Especially during these times of uncertainty and change.

Today’s guest, Alex Ortner, is a specialist in a natural healing method known as tapping. Tapping is an easy and accessible way to reset your nervous system and release tension in the body.

Join Dr. Roseanne and Dr. Cleopatra in this conversation to learn more about what tapping is, what are the benefits, and how you can use it in your daily life.

Show Highlights:

• Alex and Dr. Roseanne share funny anecdotes
• Roseanne shares why she uses tapping when she’s driving
• What is EFT Tapping
• How staying in a state of relaxation is important for fertility
• Alex shares how his family came across tapping
• How Alex used tapping to find release
• Analyzing your feelings to help you focus your tapping
• Tapping for stress and anxiety
• Allowing ourselves to release tension we didn’t even know we were carrying
• Why it’s important to tap at night time
• How the app makes tapping more accessible and helps measure your levels

Links:

https://www.thetappingsolution.com/about-alex-ortner/

https://www.teletherapytoolkit.com/teletherapy-toolkit

Resources:

The Science Behind Tapping

Dr. Roseann

Dr. Cleopatra

During these times of uncertainty, we all find ourselves walking to the kitchen more. Whether it’s out of comfort or boredom, Tricia Nelson is here to help us avoid the emotional eating at home.

Tricia is an emotional eating expert, who has help many women, as well as herself, lose weight by discovering the root of emotional eating. She is the author of Heal Your Hunger, as well as the podcast host of Heal Your Hunger.

Join Dr. Cleopatra and Dr. Roseanne in this episode to learn more about the psychology of emotional eating, as well as how to overcome it.

Show Highlights:

• Psychology that drives us to emotional eat
• How to use the “pep” test to identify underlying causes for emotional eating
• Why makes us all emotional eaters
• The importance of spiritual nourishment
• Creating structure and routine even in quarantine
• Prioritizing movement and working out at home
• Why you need support to overcome food issues
• Why none is better than some
• How to address your emotions so that you don’t have to emotionally eat
• The importance of having support and finding your tribe

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/secretsaucetoendemotionaleating/

https://www.healyourhunger.com/heal-your-hunger-2/

Dr. Roseann

Dr. Cleopatra