The Parenting Coach Podcast

Shame and guilt wreak havoc on our parenting. We get hit with it a lot when we decide to become more positive and conscious parents because we become more aware. We often use what we’re learning as a weapon against us. I have 4 secrets that will help us ditch this perfectionist idea we have of what mothering should be and help us step into the messiness of what it actually is. Mom shame, how it’s harming our motherhood and 4 secrets to help right now.

What we cover:

• How shame is harming our motherhood
• Why changing this can be so powerful
• How to change our relationship with ourselves
• 4 secrets we can use now to ditch shame and embrace our imperfect parenting moments

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I would be honored to be your coach and help you get the changes you want to see in your life. I have come so far, completely turned around my life and my relationships with my children, I know what it takes and how to make it happen. You can use the links below to get more of my content and learn about my monthly program By Design, where I provide monthly training and live coaching to help you build radical connection in your life.

Link to membership: By Design

Find me on the ‘gram: The.Parenting.Coach

My website: coachcrystal.ca

Brené on shame and vulnerability: The Power of Vulnerability and Listening to Shame

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We have a higher and lower brain. Lower brain thinking is: illogical irrational, highly emotional… maybe a little crazy sometimes. Parenting and making decisions from that space is damaging our relationships. I’ll show you how to make the switch. Moving into our higher brain is a powerful skill to learn how to do. When we can notice we are in the lower brain and move out of it, our decisions and actions become better. Learning more about our future self can help us switch our mindset to our more forward-thinking higher brain and create thriving relationships.   

What we discuss today:

• Emotional vs Logical brain
• What parenting is like from each brain
• The power in our 2.0
• How to get to know our future selves
• How to harness the power of our 2.0

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I would be honored to be your coach and help you get the changes you want to see in your life. I have come so far, completely turned around my life and my relationships with my children, I know what it takes and how to make it happen. You can use the links below to get more of my content and learn about my monthly program By Design, where I provide monthly training and live coaching to help you build radical connection in your life.

Link to membership: By Design

Find me on the ‘gram: The.Parenting.Coach

My website: coachcrystal.ca

Find me on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/the.parenting.coach/

More on the blog: Conversation with Your Toddler Brain

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One of the most powerful tools I've learned from Brooke Castillo at the Life Coach School is The Model. It’s SO good. Once you learn how to use this on yourself and implement it regularly and it will be a game changer for you and your relationships with your kids. The Model gives you a 5-step process to look at what is going on in your life and understand what is causing you to feel the way you do. When you recognize the source of your thoughts and feelings, you can change everything.

What we dig into this episode:

• What parenting from different emotions looks like
• What The Model is and how it works
• Why we should care about managing our mind regularly

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I would be honored to be your coach and help you get the changes you want to see in your life. I have come so far, completely turned around my life and my relationships with my children, I know what it takes and how to make it happen. You can use the links below to get more of my content and learn about my monthly program By Design, where I provide monthly training and live coaching to help you build radical connection in your life.

Link to membership: By Design

Find me on the ‘gram: The.Parenting.Coach

My website: coachcrystal.ca

More on the blog: Learning The Model

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Do you ever feel your temperature rising inside you during the day? You try to push it down, but more and more of what your child does keeps “pushing your buttons”? This is so normal, it's part of being human. Let me teach you how do deal with this. This method is great to help us be more mindful of our feelings during the day and to self-regulate before we explode. This hack also works great on willing kids. 

What we get into in this episode:

• How parenting from the Red Zone can harm our relationships
• What to do to be more mindful of our zones
• How to move through our zones throughout the day

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I would be honored to be your coach and help you get the changes you want to see in your life. I have come so far, completely turned around my life and my relationships with my children, I know what it takes and how to make it happen. You can use the links below to get more of my content and learn about my monthly program By Design, where I provide monthly training and live coaching to help you build radical connection in your life.

Link to membership: By Design

Find me on the ‘gram: The.Parenting.Coach

My website: coachcrystal.ca

More on the blog: Helping Children Move Through Zones

More on the blog: Why We Get Burnt When We Parent In The Fire

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Our culture has not been so great at teaching us how to process emotions. Often we have felt shamed about our feelings and taught to resist, avoid or react to them. What if instead we allowed them? What would this look like? Come find out how, as I share one of the most powerful tools I use on me and my kids.

What we dig into:

• Emotions and their tricky history
• How we typically respond to emotions in negative ways
• Why we aren’t great at handling emotions
• How emotions tie into our parenting every day
• The NOW feelings process and how to use it on us and our kids

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I would be honored to be your coach and help you get the changes you want to see in your life. I have come so far, completely turned around my life and my relationships with my children, I know what it takes and how to make it happen. You can use the links below to get more of my content and learn about my monthly program By Design, where I provide monthly training and live coaching to help you build radical connection in your life.

Link to membership: By Design

Find me on the ‘gram: The.Parenting.Coach

My website: coachcrystal.ca

Children’s book on feelings: The Color Monster

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Thoughts are constantly swirling around in our un-managed minds, causing mass chaos and we don’t even know it. Have you stopped to notice how powerful your brain is at telling a great story? Its so good that most of the time you fall for it and believe everything your brain tells you. You need to learn to notice and question the stories you think are true, if unchecked, these stories can be painful and hurt your relationships. The stories you tell yourself make a huge difference in your life every day, so lets start shifting them in your favour. Make sure you check out The Danger of a Single Story linked below, its so good!

What we discuss today on The Freedom Moms Podcast:

• The sentences/words going through our mind and why they matter
• How our brain is wired for story
• The danger of having one story, that we don’t question
• The first tool that I share with my clients to help start shifting those stories

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I would be honored to be your coach and help you get the changes you want to see in your life. I have come so far, completely turned around my life and my relationships with my children, I know what it takes and how to make it happen. You can use the links below to get more of my content and learn about my monthly program By Design, where I provide monthly training and live coaching to help you build radical connection in your life.

Link to membership: By Design

Find me on the ‘gram: The.Parenting.Coach

My website: coachcrystal.ca

Find Brené Brown’s books: brenebrown.com

Ted talk on the power of story: The Danger of a Single Story

Video about thought dumps: The First Secret Every Mom Should Know

Read more on the blog: 2 posts… Power of Story and Shift Your Story

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Positive parenting goes by so many names, but the gist is always the same: relationship and connection above all. The real power of this philosophy is that children naturally want to love their parents, be close to them, and respect them. As we make developing this connection with our children the primary focus; and focus less on doing things to mitigate the negative behaviours, those behaviours will actually decrease over time. This sounds so strange to so many people, it sounds like avoidance and denial, but its not, it is the best way to develop lasting change for even the most difficult behaviours. The reason is that when your child has this radical connection with you, they will want to make you happy, they will be drawn to do good things because they will love to feel the love that comes from those actions. When a child makes mistakes, which they still will, they know of their own accord that they have done wrong. They don’t need that discomfort or pain to be magnified by the very person who is supposed to love them the most and help comfort them through these feelings. One of the biggest mistakes I see parents make, is getting in the way of the natural cycle that goes on in a child when they do something wrong. Focus on building radical connection above all else.

This episode of The Freedom Moms Podcast covers:

• What positive parenting is and why I call it “radical connection”
• What it is not, and some myths around it
• It’s focus on relationship above all

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I would be honored to be your coach and help you get the changes you want to see in your life. I have come so far, completely turned around my life and my relationships with my children, I know what it takes and how to make it happen. You can use the links below to get more of my content and learn about my monthly program By Design, where I provide monthly training and live coaching to help you build radical connection in your life.

Link to membership: By Design

Find me on the ‘gram: The.Parenting.Coach

My website: coachcrystal.ca

Read more on the blog: Positive Parenting blog post

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Things continued to improve as I focussed on shifting my mindset which allowed me to control my reactions towards him, we both began to freak out less. I didn’t have words to describe what was going on, the change, until I found life coaching. I finally had a way to explain the shift. Life coaching is the bridge to better connection with your children and lasting change in behaviour. I started taking the Life Coaching tools and mindset work that I was learning and pairing it with all of my years of knowledge about positive parenting and started noticing bigger and bigger changes. Our home is an entirely different place than it was back then, this is why, this is how. You can do this too.

In this episode of The Freedom Moms Podcast:

• Positive parenting and how it started to work for us
• The changes that happened in my child’s behaviour over time, and mine as well
• What our home is now
• The HOW behind the change
• The pivotal role that life coaching played in our relationship

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I would be honored to be your coach and help you get the changes you want to see in your life. I have come so far, completely turned around my life and my relationships with my children, I know what it takes and how to make it happen. You can use the links below to get more of my content and learn about my monthly program By Design, where I provide monthly training and live coaching to help you build radical connection in your life.

Link to membership: By Design

Find me on the ‘gram: The.Parenting.Coach

My website: coachcrystal.ca

The Life Coach School website: thelifecoachschool.com

A great book to start your journey with: Hold On to Your Kids

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Parenting my child and his difficult behaviours just kept getting worse and worse until I felt like I couldn’t handle it anymore and finally reached out for help. The changes our family experienced were very profound, and I never expected what I was going to have to do to get them. This is the starting point to one of the biggest revelations in parenting I’ve ever had. The core of what we did and why we got the results we did influences everything I do in my coaching practice. The change in my son’s behaviour didn’t come quickly; but it did come, and as I look back at it and what we went through I am amazed at how much progress we made after just that one session and the book she recommended.

In this episode of The Freedom Moms Podcast we cover:

• What a meltdown looked like in our home
• What my story about the situation was
• Why it’s not him that needed to change
• How shifting my expectations changed everything for us both

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I would be honored to be your coach and help you get the changes you want to see in your life. I have come so far, completely turned around my life and my relationships with my children, I know what it takes and how to make it happen. You can use the links below to get more of my content and learn about my monthly program By Design, where I provide monthly training and live coaching to help you build radical connection in your life.

Link to membership: By Design

Find me on the ‘gram: The.Parenting.Coach

My website: coachcrystal.ca

The book I mention on the show: Rest, Play, Grow

A couple of my fave parenting sites: Neufeld Institute and Debroah MacNamara

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Hi! I’m a Canadian homeschooling mom of 4 and Parent Coach. Parenting is a tough gig, from diapers, sleepless nights to teen hormones and backtalking, I have been through it too and know first hand there isn’t a instruction manual you get when you become a mom. I wasn’t prepared for motherhood and I’m guessing you weren’t either.

Come listen to my story as we dig into my struggles as a mom of a neurodivergent kiddo and the growth we’ve gone through together. I love positive parenting and the more I learnt about connection-based parenting, the more I felt like I was failing my kids every day. But not anymore! In this season I am going to share my story, what I did that completely changed my life and my family forever.

This episode of The Freedom Moms Podcast digs into:

• Getting to know me and who I am
• What parenting was like for me amidst my difficulties
• The peak of my parenting struggles and moving across the country
• How when you “know better” you don’t always “do better”

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I would be honored to be your coach and help you get the changes you want to see in your life. I have come so far, completely turned around my life and my relationships with my children, I know what it takes and how to make it happen. You can use the links below to get more of my content and learn about my monthly program By Design, where I provide monthly training and live coaching to help you build radical connection in your life.

Link to membership: By Design

Find me on the ‘gram: The.Parenting.Coach

My website: coachcrystal.ca

My fave homeschooling books: Phases of Learning TJED and Call of the Wild + Free

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