The Parenting Coach Podcast

In this world of breaking old patterns of parenting, and parenting in a more conscious, connected and attachment-based way, you may have noticed that it feels REALLY hard sometimes. Like, almost impossible-type-hard. Parenting, while re-parenting can feel like this. 

In this conversation we will dig into the hard, give some ideas and support, and explain a little more of the “how to’s” when it comes to a connection-focussed relationship with your kids. 

Eli Harwood (Attachment Nerd) is a licensed therapist, author, and educator who has more than 17 years of experience helping people process relational traumas and develop secure attachment relationships with their children and partners. Eli has three children, one husband, one cat, and an extraordinary number of plants. 

Today’s episode covers: 

• Why parenting in a different way than we were raised feels so hard to do (how to get through the stuck-ness)
• What it means to have a secure attachment
• Entitlement and boundaries (how do you know if what you’re doing is working?)
• How to show compassion and love without being permissive or passive
• Tool for you to use today: setting up a community of support and focussing on physical needs
• What a world with securely attached people would look like, and why it would be so amazing

Check out the CREATION ROOM HERE: create and achieve intuitive goals through learning more about feminine flow, self-trust, rest and leaning into manifestation and joy. 

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony, and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for. 

NEW TRAVEL BLOG: HERE
Download the feelings wheel HERE
Get the BOOK HERE: www.coachcrystal.ca/shop
Join the next round of PARENT SCHOOL (waitlist): www.coachcrystal.ca/group
Find Your Parenting Personality: Quiz Here
IG: @the.parenting.coach

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Re-parenting may sound a little wo-woo, but it’s just a simple way of explaining the healing process of uncovering past beliefs that we have that are under-the-surface, and processing through them to create change. Somatic work (in the body) is the most effective process and takes the shortest amount of time to create change than anything else that I’ve tried (and I’ve tried a LOT!). In this special episode I give you the gift of a lovely, guided meditation to help support you on your own re-parenting/healing journey (keep it on hand for those tough holiday stress-days at home with your kids too). This is the LAST episode of season 7, and we’ll be back with more juicy woo-woo parenting goodness January 15th  2024… see you then!! 

On this episode:

• I share my insights after coaching several past clients during my office hours and noticing similar thoughts, feelings and struggles among all of the women
• How somatic work can be much more effective than “logic” work, or trying to “think something new”
• What types of somatic work help (inner child healing, meditation, EFT and more)
• I leave you with a guided meditation that you can come back to again and again to help support your nervous system, processing tough emotions and inner healing (re-parenting) so you can show up more naturally in the way that you want to

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony, and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for. 

NEW TRAVEL BLOG: HERE
Download the feelings wheel HERE
Get the BOOK HERE: www.coachcrystal.ca/shop
Join the next round of PARENT SCHOOL: www.coachcrystal.ca/group
Find Your Parenting Personality: Quiz Here
IG: @the.parenting.coach

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AKA The episode where I show you how NOT to freak out when your kids freak out while travelling (which is pretty much inevitable at some point on your journey). Our family is off on a crazy school-year-long adventure of world travel. Travel has always been a big part of our life and journey… but we are now taking it to the NEXT level. We have spent the last couple of years living in several different locations and loving life but have always wanted to travel internationally with our family of 6… and we’re finally doing it!

In this week’s episode we’ll dig into the ins and outs of the travel life, and what we can do to help ourselves be more regulated, grounded and centered as we travel with kids (especially if we’re wordschooling or a full-time travelling family), and this can help our kids also. 

NEW TRAVEL BLOG: HERE
Custom feelings wheel: www.coachcrystal.ca/wheel

What I talk about in this episode: 

• The ups and downs of travel for us in the first 6 weeks
• How I found myself really irritated while we travelled (way more than the norm), and what I did to help improve my mood
• Prediction error and lack of control adding to my frustration
• How a morning practice can change everything (especially when you add thought-work journaling in… check out THIS if you want help getting started)
• What to do when you feel out of sorts, and how to build a sense of community and safety for yourself and your family as you travel

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony, and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for. 

Download the feelings wheel HERE
Get the BOOK HERE: www.coachcrystal.ca/shop
Join the next round of PARENT SCHOOL: www.coachcrystal.ca/group
Find Your Parenting Personality: Quiz Here
IG: @the.parenting.coach
Email me at [email protected]

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Our family is off on a crazy school-year-long adventure of world travel! Travel has always been a big part of our life and journey… but we are now taking it to the NEXT level. We have spent the last couple of years living in several different locations and loving life but have always wanted to travel internationally with our family of 6… and we’re finally doing it!

Tune into this week’s adventure as I talk all about the last few years of semi-nomadic life, what got us started, and how we are *trying* to travel at around the same price as life would be back home. 

On this episode: 

• My travel origin story and the launch of my first ever TRAVEL BLOG
• 2017 is the year that everything started to shift for us, how we got started
• Travelling the world with our 4 kids, and how we are attempting to do it on a budget
• Tips and tricks for budget travel with kids: Airbnbs, flight trackers, and food

NEW TRAVEL BLOG: HERE

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony, and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for. 

Download the feelings wheel HERE
Get the BOOK HERE: www.coachcrystal.ca/shop
Join the next round of PARENT SCHOOL: www.coachcrystal.ca/group
Find Your Parenting Personality: Quiz Here
IG: @the.parenting.coach
Email me at [email protected]

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With so much research out there around tech and teens, how do you decipher what to listen to? And how do you make healthy choices for your family, and teach your kids screen regulation in fear-free ways? Join Kaylee and I on the podcast this week as we converse all about what the research is saying and how not to get bogged down by all the information but to use it to empower yourself and your children. 

Kaylee is an imperfect Mom striving to parent with intention. With a background in nursing, she has always loved learning about the human mind and body. As a new Mom, her study shifted to parenting strategies and child development. With four school aged kids, Kaylee’s most recent focus has been on the effects of screens and technology on children and families. After a ten-year break from social media, she now spends some of her free time sharing information about this topic. Her hope is to spread more awareness in her community about the potential dangers of societal digitization– and resources and ideas for parenting with technology in a healthy way.

In this episode: 

• Kaylee’s story about cellphones and kids as her son started asking for a cellphone in middle school
• What current research shows about kids, tech and social media and what is happening in their brains
• How to make healthy and fear-free boundaries around tech and kids, and not get overwhelmed by all the information and research out there
• Taking small steps to change things in your home 

Links: 
@book_cram
[email protected]

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony, and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for. 

Download the feelings wheel HERE
Get the BOOK HERE: www.coachcrystal.ca/shop
Join the next round of PARENT SCHOOL: www.coachcrystal.ca/group
Find Your Parenting Personality: Quiz Here
IG: @the.parenting.coach
Email me at [email protected]

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Every home holds energy- just like our own bodies do. If we want to create a healthy home environment, our physical space makes a big difference. Feng Shui can help build romance in relationships, help kids stop fighting, and create more harmony and peace in your home. 

Join me and Patricia Lohan from Powerhouse Feng Shui on the podcast today. Patricia has helped thousands of people across the globe embrace Feng Shui and create lasting changes in their businesses, homes, and lives. Patricia has seen first-hand the power of the mind, surroundings, and inner healing, clearing and aligning everything so it works holistically. 

What we talk about this episode:

• What Feng Shui is and how it can affect your home
• How our kid’s relationships can change as we change the energy of our homes
• Where to get started with feng shui in the home when trying to promote healthy family relationships
• How to create a healthy space in your neurodiverse kids’ room to help them thrive
• What elements to include, and not include, for a romantic and restful atmosphere in your own bedroom

More about Patricia:

Patricia Lohan is a Feng Shui expert, manifesting magnet, alchemist, healer and real-life Irish Celtic Shaman. Some people call her the “Mary Poppins of Prosperity.”

She is the creator of PowerHouse Feng Shui and Author of The Happy Home: A Guide to Creating a Happy, Healthy, Wealthy Life and Become a Business Powerhouse Using Feng Shui. She helps entrepreneurs make their homes & businesses magnetic to money, luck, and blessings. She shows you what they don’t teach in business school, what lies between the lines, your top-secret tool for success. 

She has helped thousands of people across the globe embrace Feng Shui and creates lasting changes in their businesses, homes, and lives. Patricia has seen first-hand the power of the mind, surroundings and inner healing, clearing and aligning everything so it works holistically. She loves entrepreneurship with 15 years of experience running and growing three successful start-ups of her own.

Patricia has been featured in media around the world including The New York Time, CNN, Fox, Forbes, The New York Post, She Knows, Essence, Mind Body Green, USA Today and Elephant Journal.

Links:
Website
Facebook Group
Instagram
Youtube

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony, and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for. 

Download the feelings wheel HERE
Get the BOOK HERE: www.coachcrystal.ca/shop
Join the next round of PARENT SCHOOL: www.coachcrystal.ca/group
Find Your Parenting Personality: Quiz Here
IG: @the.parenting.coach
Email me at [email protected]

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Are you supporting someone you love with dyslexia? Or have you wondered if you or your child might have dyslexia? It’s more common than you think! Understanding and treating dyslexia in our home, without shame, is key to creating lifelong readers, writers and learners. On today’s episode we talk all about this with expert, Melia Keeton-Digby. 

Melia is an author and speech-language pathologist specializing in dyslexia. She is the founder and creator of The Nest, a sacred gathering space in Georgia, USA, where she first birthed her mother-daughter and mother-son empowerment circles, on which her books are based. She works in private practice, offering dyslexia evaluations, intervention, and advocacy. Melia is the author of The Heroines Club: A Mother-Daughter Empowerment Circle (Womancraft Publishing, 2014) and The Hero's Heart: A Coming of Age Circle for Boys and the Mothers Who Love Them ( Womancraft Publishing, 2016). Melia is passionate about supporting parents in raising confident and connected children.

In this week’s episode you’ll learn: 

• What warning signs to look out for if you think your child might have dyslexia (key: intuition!)
• How kids with dyslexia are often highly creative and intelligent, and how you can foster that, while teaching them reading and writing
• Un-shaming dyslexia
• What supports there are for your children in helping them learn to read and write
• The heroine’s and hero’s journey and how you can support your family and community

Links:

Instagram
Books on Amazon
Books through Publisher Here and Here
Facebook Here and Here

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony, and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for. 

Download the feelings wheel HERE
Get the BOOK HERE: www.coachcrystal.ca/shop
Join the next round of PARENT SCHOOL: www.coachcrystal.ca/group
Find Your Parenting Personality: Quiz Here
IG: @the.parenting.coach
Email me at [email protected]
Faith-Based Parenting HERE

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I LOVE all things personality- and finding more about ME and who I am has helped me feel permission to be even MORE me. Human Design has been a deep dive into learning more about my energy and how I best work. In this conversation we dig into how to harness the knowledge of your children’s human design to parent them in their own unique way. Intuition, trust and belief in your child are key to connection in parenting. 

After teaching special education in New York City Public Schools for 15 years, Geralyn took time off when her two children were born.  After becoming a parent, she started questioning the status quo which led her on a journey of self-discovery, healing, and realignment.  After discovering Human Design, she dove deep into learning how she could use this tool to empower herself and others to reach their full potential.  Geralyn is a Human Design reader and coach who helps people come home to their most radically authentic selves.

In this episode: 

• How Geralyn learned more about her unique kids and used that knowledge (and intuition) to parent them differently
• How belief and trust in your kids builds their own self-trust (this is THE best!) 
• What Human Design is and how to helps you to understand yourself more
• How to use Human Design to understand your children and parenting them uniquely 

Links: 

You can find more information about Human Design and her offerings by following along on Instagram @geralyn_brennan or going to her website www.geralynbrennan.com

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony, and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for. 

Download the feelings wheel HERE
Get the BOOK HERE: www.coachcrystal.ca/shop
Join the next round of PARENT SCHOOL: www.coachcrystal.ca/group
Find Your Parenting Personality: Quiz Here
IG: @the.parenting.coach
Email me at [email protected]
Faith-Based Parenting HERE

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Did you feel like your parents gave you a healthy and comprehensive sex education as a child and teen? Or did you find that most of your learning (or lack of it) came from friends or other less helpful resources? Join this conversation with me and Carlie, The Christian Sex Educator to learn more about how to teach your kids about sex, shame-free. 

Carlie Palmer-Webb is a gender and sexuality researcher, data-nerd, enthusiastic Jesus-lover, new mama, and The Christian Sex Educator. She has made it her life mission to provide shame-free sex education for Christians in every life stage. 

In this discussion: 

• You’ll hear about Carlie’s own story, her lack of helpful sex-ed, and how that led her on a journey as an adult to learn more (and share what she learned)
• How we can change the paradigm in our home and teach our children about sexuality, while we teach them our values too.
• What shame-free sex education looks like, and how it’s never too late to start (even if you’re 70!)
• Carlie shares about her un-shaming journey and what books and resources helped her

Links and resources: 

Come As You Are by Dr. Emily Nagoski
The Great Sex Rescue by Sheila Gregoire
A Better Way to Teach Kids about Sex by Laura Padilla-Walker and colleagues
Teaching Kids about Sex—The Parent Guidebook (ages 0-9) by Carlie 
Instagram
All podcast episodes referenced can be found here: www.coachcrystal.ca/blog

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony, and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for. 

Download the feelings wheel HERE
Get the BOOK HERE: www.coachcrystal.ca/shop
Join the next round of PARENT SCHOOL: www.coachcrystal.ca/group
Find Your Parenting Personality: Quiz Here
IG: @the.parenting.coach
Email me at [email protected]
Faith-Based Parenting HERE

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What do you do when your kids and teens are dealing with unwanted porn use? And how do you support yourself or your partner through the same thing? It can feel scary and overwhelming to deal with things like porn and sexuality, especially if you were raised in a conservative Christian home. 

On the podcast today we hear from Sara Brewer, a life coach who helps people quit porn. She’s the host of the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, the fastest-growing podcast around quitting porn. She helps hundreds of people in her program and thousands in her podcast Overcome Pornography for Good.

What we cover in this episode:

• How purity culture can produce shame around sexuality, and how to start fresh when teaching our kids about sexuality 
• Shame-free sex-ed is the best way to prevent pornography use in kids and teens 
• How to support yourself or your partner when dealing with unwanted pornography use
• What to do when you find your kids viewing pornography (in a supportive and emotionally healthy way)

Links:

www.sarabrewer.com
Free Masterclass
Overcome Pornography for Good - Podcast
Follow on Instagram
Find us on Facebook

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony, and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for. 

Download the feelings wheel HERE
Get the BOOK HERE: www.coachcrystal.ca/shop
Join the next round of PARENT SCHOOL: www.coachcrystal.ca/group
Find Your Parenting Personality: Quiz Here
IG: @the.parenting.coach
Email me at [email protected]

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