Ann Kelley (she/her) is a licensed psychologist specializing in couples therapy and relational work. She runs a clinical practice in Austin, Texas, and is a podcaster, writer, educator, and speaker. Dr. Kelley spent years supervising specialized trauma-informed therapy programs and was an expert in courts and media outlets. She co-authored "Secure Relating: Holding Your Own in an Insecure World" (HarperCollins, 2024), with her partner, Sue Marriott. 

In this episode: 

• Co-regulation and co-dysregulation in our relationships (not just parent-child)
• How our childhood and history affect us (and what we can do about it) 
• You’re not “stuck” in your attachment, how developing and growing happens (our brains and nervous systems are plastic)
• Connecting back to our heart and our feelings
• Our nervous system is a result of our childhood and can change over the lifespan 
• De-pathologizing our reactions and bringing presence into the tough moments. 

Connect with her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/therapist_uncensored_podcast/
Website: https://therapistuncensored.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/austinshrinks/
Podcast: https://therapistuncensored.com/episodes-2/

Get started on this work through a daily mindset practice from Coach Crystal- Journal HERE
Work with Crystal 1:1: www.coachcrystal.ca/miracle or in group: www.coachcrystal.ca/creationroom
Grab your copy of Crystal’s Feelings Wheel here: www.coachcrystal.ca/wheel

The Holidays can be hard. In past years I’ve dealt with intense soap-opera-esque family drama (we would have made a great reality TV show years ago). I wish I had the tools and awareness back then that I have now, but everything came in the timing it needed to. So, if you’ve stumbled across this podcast, maybe this is the timing that these ideas needed to come to you too. 

Links I mention in this episode: Moving through Frustration Meditation HERE, Intuitive Journaling HERE, Group Intuitive Coaching for 2025 HERE, 1:1 Coaching in The Miracle Year HERE. Other podcast episodes HERE

In this episode: 

• Emotional regulation is feeling safe to feel any emotion in your body (not avoiding, resisting or acting out). 
• Helping others through uncomfortable emotions by increasing your capacity for feelings
• Emotions are messages that are trying to be seen and heard: tools for listening through words and listening through the body. 

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Join me in my new 1:1 coaching container for 12 months, and see what kind of life you can create through intuition, manifestation and trust: www.coachcrystal.ca/miracle

My healing journey included a ton of books, research, guides, teachers (and time) that all dropped in just when I needed them (less of self-help and more of a community project I guess!). I don’t even recognize the self that I was 5 years ago- negative attachment patterns, emotional dysregulation, indecision and overwhelm. But even when I had changed so much of that 2-3 years ago, I was still stuck in “hustle” and tapped out of my own inner wisdom. Time doesn’t heal all wounds- but time spent healing, heals. And my favourite reminder before you listen in: Healing is remembering… you aren’t broken. You never were. Healing is the process of coming back to that Truth. 

Join me in my new 1:1 coaching container for 12 months, and see what kind of life you can create through intuition, manifestation and trust: www.coachcrystal.ca/miracle (I’m also closing down my one-off open coaching session hours starting in January. I have several still open for December HERE). 

In this episode: 

• What my own childhood and teenage-hood looked like (and how I was driven by people-pleasing and external validation, without knowing it)
• My parenting and relationship journey: small shifts to big shifts, and how I saw a 180-degree difference in my kids’ behaviours too. 
• How CBT and thought-work based modalities only took me so far, the further inner work was needed to see real change (like how I don’t EVER yell anymore, without trying!) 
• Moving from hustle, marketing strategy and tactics and self-doubt in my business to intuition, manifestation and trust (everything is working out for my good).

What is possible in a year? How much have you changed over the last 1 year, 5 years, or 10 years? What else is possible? The part of healing that we talk about often is deconstruction around what’s keeping you stuck and moving through that… but the other half is CREATION- making possible the kind of life you want, especially the seemingly impossible things. I share my formula for creation, so you can join me for your own Miracle Year (or coach with me through your Miracle Year HERE).   

Join The Miracle Year HERE
Read more about non-possession HERE
Read more about Pretas/Gaki (The Hungry Ghost) HERE
Amber Smith’s Quiet Wealth book HERE

In today’s episode: 

• The formula for creating impossible-sounding things in your life
• Staying in gratitude and appreciation, while creating more
• Non-attachment and non-possession from Buddhist philosophy
• What the miracle year is all about, and how to create your own miraculous year
• Body, mind and soul: what do you want to create? (un-shaming your body, your food, your exercise, your relationships, your money creation, your business growth and your faith)

On this podcast, we love to talk about shame-free everything… It’s easy to see how our parenting can trend toward shame, and I hope listening in has helped that change in little (or big) ways. If you grew up in a home where your body and food choices were a main focus and commented on often, you may wonder how to raise your child differently. Ditch the food and body shame in this episode with Nicole Cruz, RD, and me. 

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

Connect with Nicole: HERE
Website HERE

In today’s episode: 

• What words around food, eating, and bodies create shame in our children
• How we were raised affects how we interact with our food, and feeding ours kids
• How to teach kids to listen to their bodies 
• How to manage things like allergies or food intolerances in a shame-free and fear-free way
• How kids are naturally intuitive when it comes to eating and food

About Nicole: 

Nicole Cruz founded Nourish Together, a shame-free approach to family nutrition that instills food and body trust. As a Registered Dietitian and mom of three, she combines her personal and professional experience to help parents raise confident eaters who can enjoy a variety of foods, listen to their body cues, and avoid obsessing over sweets or other ‘treats’. She believes that a healthy relationship with food is the foundation for lifelong ‘healthy’ eating — and when we nourish together, we bring more joy and less stress to the table!

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