The Parenting Coach Podcast

When we’re triggered by our kids and trying to keep our cool… more is going on in our unconscious mind than what we are aware of. When we have the tools to work through what’s going on under the surface, we can more easily show up as the shame-free parents that we want to be (and wish we had). 

Connect with Melissa: IG HERE, Website HERE
Join our Shame Resiliency Seminar HERE
Get started on this work through a daily mindset practice- Journal HERE
Join the next round of The Shame-Free Parenting Movement: HERE
Listen to the bonus episodes on the podcast: www.coachcrystal.ca/blog

In today’s episode: 

• What’s really triggering us (so much more than just words)
• Hypnosis tips for parents (to use on ourselves in the midst of heavy times)
• Calming the nervous system within, so we can help our children calm theirs
• How those around us live up to what we expect from them (and how shifting that can change them too)

Melissa Tiers is a multi-award-winning author, lecturer, keynote speaker and hypnosis trainer. She is the founder of The Center for Integrative Hypnosis, co-founder of The Ethical Coaching Collective and creator of Coaching the Unconscious Mind. Melissa has earned three IMDHA Pen and Quill awards for her books, “Integrative Hypnosis: A comprehensive Course in Change”, “Keeping the brain in mind: Practical Neuroscience for Therapists, Coaches and Hypnosis Practitioners” and “Integrative Hypnosis for kids and teens: Playing for Change.”

Do you want to uncover how shame might be showing up in your relationships and life? It likes to hide in the sneakiest of places… feeling the need to correct others, getting defensive during arguments, passive-aggressive social media comments, and scrolling your phone for hours every evening. How is shame underneath all of that? Come and find out by tuning in to today’s episode to hear a coaching call in action- and use what you hear for your own inner work. 

Join our Shame Resiliency Seminar HERE **NOTE: Date changed to Feb 2025
Get started on this work through a daily mindset practice- Journal HERE
Join the next round of The Shame-Free Parenting Movement: HERE
Listen to the bonus episodes on the podcast: www.coachcrystal.ca/blog

In today’s episode: 

• How shame can keep us stuck from relating to others in a way that feels good to us.
• How to notice when shame is under the surface of something bothering us
• How to dig deep and find the shame, call it out, and move through it (shame resiliency)
• Our brand-new shame resiliency seminar for coaches, therapists and counsellors.

That not-enough-ness feeling that we all feel is called shame, and we can’t run from it, avoid it or hope it will stop showing up for us. Shame is under the surface of our biggest triggers- and working through it will bring big change to your relationships, big emotions and life. 

Join our Shame Resiliency Seminar HERE ** Date changed to Feb 2025
Get started on this work through a daily mindset practice- Journal HERE
Join the next round of The Shame-Free Parenting Movement: HERE

Today you’ll hear: 

• How shame is under the surface of big emotions or “triggers”
• What to do to move us and our clients through shame (shame resiliency)
• You’ll hear a coaching experience in real-time, as I help a mom move through frustration at her kids fighting and getting overwhelmed around food issues in her kids.
• Our brand-new shame resiliency seminar for coaches, therapists, and counsellors.

Using research and knowledge about the brain, we can not only help parent our kids better, but help our kids develop their brains in ways that will benefit themselves, their future relationships and the world. 

Today you will hear my conversation with Dr Dan Siegel, who is the executive director of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and over fifteen other books which have been translated into over forty languages. He was trained in attachment research and narrative analysis, focusing on how relationships shape our autobiographical ways of making sense of our lives and influence our development across the lifespan. 

Learn more about Dr. Siegel HERE and HERE and find his books HERE

In this episode we cover: 

• The difference between the left and right brain, and how to parent effectively using knowledge about our kids’ brains 
• How to help our kids develop their upstairs brain, and know how to move them back upstairs when needed
• Dr Siegel’s hand model of the brain to help us remember the different parts of our brains (this will be helpful in all relationships, not just parenting) 
• Mirror neurons and body language, how to separate between our own emotions, and the emotions we may be taking on from others 
• Why teens and tweens need to push back against the norm (and resources and books to help in parenting teens and tweens) 

Get Your Copy of The Whole-Brain Child HERE

Connect with Crystal: 
Join the next round of The Shame-Free Parenting Movement: HERE
Get started with teaching your child emotions, free feelings wheel HERE
Find your parenting personality (and get tips specific to it) by taking the quiz HERE
Check out all my fun parenting courses and programs here: www.coachcrystal.ca
Get tips, insights and support daily through IG right HERE

Our birth stories are inextricably linked to other areas of our lives, and as we recognize our own birthing stories (whether for good or bad) and choose to rewrite them, it can add confidence and peace to our parenting and motherhood. Nicole Lawrence is a mother, writer, visionary, and host of the podcast, Re:birth, with a mission to alchemize birth stories & the stories we bring to motherhood into fertile soil for evolving our mothering and our lineage.
 

In this powerful episode we share: 

• How our birth stories impacted us for good or bad 
• How to re-write our stories (and recognize the impact they may have had) 
• Nicole shares some beautiful stories of women who have re-written their stories and how it changes things for them 
• How to prep for your upcoming birth on a soul level (and what your birthing plan can include to help this) 

Connect with Nicole: WEBSITE or IG

Connect with Crystal: 
Join the next round of The Shame-Free Parenting Movement: HERE
Get started with teaching your child emotions, free feelings wheel HERE
Find your parenting personality (and get tips specific to it) by taking the quiz HERE
Check out all my fun parenting courses and programs here: www.coachcrystal.ca
Get tips, insights and support daily through IG right HERE

Join me as I chat with Wendy Snyder all about those extra spicy, extra tricky kids that we often call “strong-willed” and learn through her story, and mine, how to support your own strong-willed child better. Wendy is a mom of two, certified parenting educator & family life coach, who inspires parents to learn & grow through connection-based positive parenting strategies. 

In this episode: 

• Wendy’s story of her young daughter throwing her for a loop, and how it called into a new way of parenting
• Wendy’s growth and healing through parenting, and how she fosters her daughter’s independence, without losing her mind
• Firm and compassionate ways to care for our little ones (and bigger ones)

Connect with Wendy: 
Website HERE
Podcast show: HERE
Instagram: HERE
Youtube: HERE
Facebook: HERE

Connect with Crystal: 

Join the next round of The Shame-Free Parenting Movement: HERE
Get started with teaching your child emotions, free feelings wheel HERE
Find your parenting personality (and get tips specific to it) by taking the quiz HERE
Check out all my fun parenting courses and programs here: www.coachcrystal.ca
Get tips, insights and support daily through IG right HERE

Are you looking for ways to help your child love learning a certain subject, especially the ones they seem to drag their feet about? Or do you have an avid learner, and you want to make sure you continue to add to that love of learning, instead of dousing the fire they have? Join our conversation today, with Julie Bogart. Julie is known for her commonsense writing, critical thinking and home education advice. 

In this conversation we cover: 

• how to build a love of learning, in homeschool and public school
• how to use your child’s interests to help them learn
• how children are always learning, and how we can help cultivate that
• what education truly is, and why it’s important
• adding in regular doses of surprise and delight, to help our elementary-aged kids love learning any subject (like poetry, writing and even math!)

Connect with Julie! 
On IG HERE
On FB HERE
BRAVE WRITER links HERE
Podcast HERE

Connect with Crystal: 
Get started with teaching your child emotions, free feelings wheel HERE
Find your parenting personality (and get tips specific to it) by taking the quiz HERE
Check out all my fun parenting courses and programs here: www.coachcrystal.ca
Get tips, insights and support daily through IG right HERE

Are you an ADHD mama that is finding it hard to balance motherhood, parenting, and constant to-do lists with a neurodiverse brain? This conversation is for you. Patricia Sung helps moms with adult ADHD work with their unique brains and get their ish together one step at a time and feel confident running their family life. She’s a hobby-hopping, anxious adventurer, willing to try almost anything once. A mid-westerner at heart, she reluctantly has adopted the word "y'all" and lives in Houston with her husband and two young sons. 

Join the Shame-Free Parenting Movement HERE

In this episode: 

• Childhood grief that may come up with an ADHD diagnosis
• What to look for in adulthood as an ADHDer (and the importance of understanding yourself more)
• How ADHD can affect your motherhood and parenting (and what to do for support when you’re in the middle of it)

New shame-free parenting coaching program coming up for parents of elementary-aged kids… get on the waitlist HERE for more information. 

Connect with Patricia: 

Snag free resources and get your crap together with other ADHD moms in Successful Mama Meetups at www.motherhoodinadhd.com.
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Join the Shame-Free Parenting Movement! Learn more at coachcrystal.ca/group

This 5-day live coaching event happened in October 2024 and was published on the podcast for all my listeners. If you're watching this after the event, message me and tell me your takeaways. 

Join the Shame-Free Parenting Movement! Learn more at coachcrystal.ca/group

This 5-day live coaching event happened in October 2024 and was published on the podcast for all my listeners. If you're watching this after the event, message me and tell me your takeaways.