Us and Kids: Parenting and marriage coaching with therapist, Jan Talen

On today’s show, we are doing something a little bit different. I’ve brought on a few guests to be on the show today but they aren’t just any guests - they are 3 of my grandkids. I told them they’d be allowed to ask me anything - so they did!

And now, you get to listen in and hear our conversation together. These are random, unscripted, and unknown to me until they ask them - so, join the table and get a small snapshot of my life. And for fun, let me know your kids’ best questions of the day!

On today’s show, we're talking about how to help your kids be successful. We think of it in terms of how to help your kids be gritty. How do you help them get along in life? So we're going to split this into two different thoughts.

On today’s show, we are gearing up to send our kiddos back to school or preschool, or perhaps just a more structured schedule for the day in the week. And we could easily be noticing some changes in our kiddos as well - maybe even in ourselves.

Sometimes it can be hard to tell why our little ones are being a bit naughty and hard to distinguish if it is really misplaced nerves. Listen in today to see how you can help, because as you know, stress and anxiety for our kiddos can build off of our own stress and worry.

On today’s show, we are pulling together the last seven podcasts where we listed "10 Tips" and are integrating those top tips with key ideas from our top three podcasts.

Enjoy this 100th podcast!  It's fun and filled with solid info!

On today’s show, we are doing the last  of our "10 tips" in our series. This is podcast 99 moving into podcast 100 and I wanted to talked about intimacy, as we have not covered this topic very much.  Intimacy has lots of meanings, messes and moments that create all different memories.

As we talk about intimacy, I'm talking less about close bodies and more about what happens before then which makes that time of close bodies really enjoyable. So take a listen in and see which tip would be good for you to use in the next week or month or year. And then have some fun!

On today’s show, we are going to talk about about 10 tips for playing as adults. So you might think at first, how is this different from playing as kids? If you revisit our previous episode you’ll remember that the kids play has more personal growth and brain development in it.

Playing as an adult has a little bit of a different angle to it. It’s still very, very crucial to healthy living and to building good relationships. Also for keeping your own brain and body in a really good space for relationships and just your own personal mental and physical wellness.  Just us and then include play in some way into your relationships today!

Forgiveness is messy, challenging and necessary. Often we believe that the hurt from "that person" will never leave me. We are scared and damaged for life because of what they did. We might believe that we will never be whole, worthy or valued because of their words, actions, opinions. This week’s podcast will help you get out of the painfulness of unforgiveness and into the freedom that comes with granting forgiveness.

We've done some of our 10 tips around how you talk, listen and play. Different things like all of that can feed right into how we forgive. So I’m going to invite you to come up with a little thought, in your own mind, of a situation big or small that you would like to process.

On today’s show, we're going to do 10 tips about talking. We're going to borrow some from the corporate world and the neurophysiological world. We talk about speaking in our course but we’re going to take it a little differently and apply what we know from corporate studies of communication in groups and upper management and apply those to our own relationships.

I think it's fairly easily done and it's just a little different way of thinking about things that often can open up and help us just make those 3-5% shifts that make such a difference in our relationships so that they’re more loving, more lovable, and just more engaging.

On today’s show, we are talking about how do we listen well?

Take a few minutes here to listen to 10 tips about how to develop a really good listening space inside yourself because that helps build the connections for everyone and ends up being a win-win.

Kids: playing, making messes, being loud and noisy!  Really it could just give us adults all a headache. Or could we relax as we realize how important play is for our bodies - and our brains. At any age!  Listen in and have fun playing.  It's the most important work of a kiddos and the ongoing crucial activity for us ...with kids!