The Parenting Playbook Podcast

The Parenting Playbook Podcast

By Nicola SaundersParentingKids & Family
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The Parenting Playbook Podcast episodes

  • Myth vs Fact: We marry a version of our mother or father

    Today, I will explore whether it is a myth or a fact that we marry a version of our mother or father.

    Is this even a thing? If it is, then ouchie, the idea that we are drawn to versions of our parents in our romantic relationships may feel a little strange. If it isn't, then the question is why we are drawn to certain types of people.

    Well, the answers are all here. Join me in understanding the research and theories that support or refute this theory and also my experiences as a therapist for over 20 years.

    16 min
  • Helping children with their emotions - Special guest Wendy Miller
    Today, I will speak to Wendy Miller, a mum of three teenage boys and a wise-for-my-size coach who supports children with their emotional literacy.
    Wendy discusses the importance of children understanding their emotions and how creating open communication within our homes fosters healthy emotional development in infancy and supports mental health in adulthood.
    We discuss how previous generations often hid emotions from children in an attempt to protect them from life's stressors and the implications of this for meeting our needs later in life.
    I hope you enjoy the show.
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    41 min
  • Battling the EHCP system - Special guest Nicole Bateman
    Today I will be speaking to Nicole Bateman, who is a mum of two and the Founder of the Super Sensory Squad.
    Nicole's son has been diagnosed with both Autism and epilepsy, and she shares with us the very real and current experiences that she is going through battling the EHCP system.
    After two and a half long years, despite the fact that seven professionals supported her application for an EHCP, not only was she initially declined for an assessment, but when she finally did get the assessment, her son's needs were not deemed necessary to be granted the much-needed support.
    Nicole talks about SEND Law and the importance of parents advocating for their children and looking after their own emotional well-being.
    I hope you enjoy the show.
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    37 min
  • Bonding with Baby Signing - Special Guest Shelley Ensore
    Today I will be speaking with Shelley Ensore, who is a mum of 3 and specialises in baby signing.
    At a time, 19 years ago when Shelley was pregnant with her second child and having experienced a horrific car accident, Shelley became curious about the world of baby signing.
    As a result, she has spent many years supporting families to develop pre-verbal communication with their babies, using the art of baby signing, which opens up a world of communicating with little people in a way that strengthens bonds and emotional connection and offers us a tool to build our confidence as parents to know that we are meeting our babies needs.
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    50 min
  • How our outer world is a reflection of our inner world - Special Guest Louise Simpson

    Many of us have heard the expression' tidy house, tidy mind'. But how true is it? Does our outer world reflect our inner world? And if so, can organising our lives help to organise our minds?

    Today, I am joined by Louise Simpson, an organisation coach and mum of two who helps people bring harmony back into their homes and the profound impact this can have on self-perception and mental health and what we need to do when our children and partners may not be on quite the same page as us.

    I hope you enjoy the show.

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    1 hr
  • The Power Of Pausing with Special Guest Helen Kelynack
    Today, I will be speaking to Helen Kelynack, who is a mum of four, who are aged 22,20 and 9-year-old twins. She is also a hypnotherapist and breathwork practitioner.
    After having experienced many of life's challenges, Helen found the power of breathwork and married it beautifully by supporting her client's mindset with hypnotherapy. 
    Helen talks about the power of pausing at times of struggle and by utilising the very thing that we all have and is FREE, the breath enables us to refocus and respond in a way that is aligned with our true core values, not to mention the impact it has when we are experiencing stress and anxiety in our every day lives. 
    Helen talks to us about ‘functional breathing’ and how we can all learn to take care of ourselves if we learn to simply take a breath.
    I hope you enjoy the show.
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    1 hr 3 min
  • The Power Of Programming - Special guest Helen Davies
    WOW, today I will be chatting with Helen Davies who is a parenting consultant and mum of 4.
    While chatting with Helen about her childhood and her parenting journey we inadvertently unearthed a piece of programming that had potentially shaped her career path, which she was previously unaware of.
    Helen's roles in working with families in various ways have brought her so much joy and fulfilment. Her position as a health visitor came from experiencing an incredible example when she was just 10 years old, when her mum's health visitor provided her with incredible care after the birth of Helen's sister. But the full understanding of why she so desperately wanted to embark on such a career may not have been fully clear until today.
    It was incredible to see Helen’s journey unfold and it highlights that even those small nuggets of information that we store in our subconscious can bring so much light and make so much sense as to why we are the people we are today
    I hope you enjoy the show.
    59 min
  • Blended Families - Special Guest Miryka Yeates
    Today, I will be speaking with Miryka Yeates, who is a mum of four and a step-mum to four children.
    We discuss the challenges and joys blended families face, the roles step-mums play in children's lives, and how stories like Cinderella and Snow White have created internal and external perceptions of what step-mums are and the pressures related to those.
    As a stepmum myself, I, too, share a lived experience of navigating the landscape of step-parenting. Miryka and I provide key insight into our journeys. Whether you are a stepparent or the biological parent, this episode may help shed light on the challenges many blended families face from a different perspective and help you to know that you're not alone.
    I hope that our experiences can help you walk what can be a tricky path and find the joy of nurturing your relationships with your stepchildren and their parent with ease and self-acceptance.
    I hope you enjoy the show.
    56 min
  • Breaking Family Cycles and Building Bonds - I did it MY way.
    Today, I will be speaking to Tara Britton Perkins, who is a mum of six and social media management specialist.
    Tara shares her childhood story of being raised in a family where money was tight and life was tough. She shares the heartbreak of the challenges that poor mental health and alcoholism brought to her family, together with the loss of her dad at the age of 15 to suicide.
    As a young person, Tara decided she knew she wanted more for her family when the time came to have children, and as a result, she has made it her business to break her family patterns and talks candidly about the challenges that she has faced together with what is clearly an incredible bond with her children in spite of the fact that she had very little positive experiences of how to be the parent that she wanted to be, but she certainly knew what she didn't want to be.
    I hope you enjoy the show.
    1 hr

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Welcome to "The Parenting Playbook Podcast’where we explore the relationship between our childhood experiences and how this influences who we are today and the parents we become. Join us for candid…