The Star Parent

Join Lorraine Campbell and Anne Céleste Eitzen for our second episode about trauma informed care. We discuss the importance of honesty and integrity that is part of this training. How to encourage professional boundaries and saying no as a form of care and compassion. There is an important conversation about cultural competencies and adapting our knowing of gender, race, culture in order to be trauma informed. Lastly we dive into the importance of organizations and management proving policies and procedures that are trauma informed so our childcare workers are protected and supported while managing challenging situations. This episode is a real teaser of our upcoming workshop- if it interests you please let us know.

To open up season 5 this week we will dive into a fascinating interview. Lorraine will explore with our guest how consciousness in parenthood can bring can be overwhelming. Self starter Xerces Alex Lewis helps her clients to regain inner strength by gently parenting themselves and their children. Today's message is about tuning into your divine self. You can check out our guest’s website at https://www.divinemotherhood.org/

Ogigi

Anne Paré shares her experience in shifting when she became a mother. 

How her spiritual practice changed and what she did to regain her strength.

Listen to the first of many talks with Anne Paré. 

Anne hosts a monthly mothers' circle on Facebook.

You can also visit her website

Enjoy a double dose of Anne Pare, as we share a new episode this week and rerelease an episode next week. On this episode we talk about finding resilience in parenting after a challenging separation. We talk about what it’s like to not have the possibility to coparent and the challenges of two different schedules and routines. Anne talks about letting go of rigidity and jugement. She also explores the importance of regulating emotions. She chats about learning to lean into playful parenting and doing repair when we are wrong. Enjoy a very powerful and personal discussion.

Join us this week to meet Janet Clark. She developed the MPower Tweens Club. She wanted to create a business to support the developmental age of tweens while finding ways to stay rooted in her grandchildren's life. In this episode Janet shared connecting with tweens who don’t feel understood or connected through regular dynamics. She explores the learned new ways to connect through games and communication which impacted her reflection into her own parenting style. The conversation was very rich and we aim to have another.

This week we have a truly special guest, Lorraine's mother Elaine Campbell: an immigrant, a pillar of her community in Canada, and a philanthropist in her native Jamaica. The dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship are examined, and related to the role of "helper", and how we can help the helper. What is the intention underlying helping? How does one balance between not helping enough, and helping so much as to deny oneself and one's family?

Clerene Campbell http://blackottawascene.com/tulloch-clerene-campbell-philanthropist/

Super special episode with qualified early childhood educator Lorraine Campbell this week. Tune as as she talked about Erik Erikison’s Stages of Development. She brings this classic model, colourfully to life. She uses tangible examples exploring the enneagram. She explored the roles children play and the shifts that come as their personality develops. She also gives us a taste of the the importance of support triangles like the hologram.

On this week’s episode of the Star Parent Podcast we welcome Murray so we can start hearing the parent perspective of a father. We talk about the importance of trauma informed care. The difference it makes to have our trauma understood and the impact that has on getting help in our systems. We talk about the importance of taking care of the “self” to prevent from burnout and compassion fatigue. We explore the types of trauma that children experience and we get personal sharing about the impacts of cut offs and estrangement. Check out “part one” of our exploration into trauma informed care.

The universe has a divine way of making sure people at the right time. Megan Tolbert is the mother to an amazing son that Lorraine has the opportunity to know him through her best friend, who happens to be the father of Megan Tolbert's son. Megan is also a doula at MotherWit and her experiences are valued in the Montreal community for helping parents through the birthing process. We invite you to listen to today's episode and think about ways that we can support our partners during child birth. The episode also explores the importance of support for non birthing parents. We end off having a discussion about trauma informed care - how to support parents who have gone through trauma and how to improve the quality of care in various systems with education about burnout and multi-level care within our systems.

https://motherwit.ca/