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Authentic ParentingYear in Review: Reflecting on the Past Year, Top 10 Episodes, Highlights and Your VoicemailsIn this final episode of 2023 Jen and I do a yearly reflection. We share highlights and lowlights from our lives, best books and podcasts we discovered, places we visited. By looking at our past challenges and goals, we make astonishing discoveries. Wwe share the top 10 episodes from this year, play your voicemails and set intentions for the new year. Powerful Questions to Reflect on Your Year PDF-free download LISTENERS FAVORITE EPISODES (LIVE Event) Updating Your Relationship with Your Parents-Part 2 with Daniel Maté (LIVE Podcast) Updating Your Relationship with Your Parents -Part 1 wit...2023-12-281h 05
Authentic ParentingEmotion Regulation for Parents with Hunter Clarke-FieldsChoosing to parent differently than your parents is not easy. Today’s episode is a supportive, gentle, uplifting conversation to remind you to continue staying on the path of conscious parenting. Hunter Clarke-Fields, host of the Mindful Mama podcast, author and friend returns to the show again to talk about how you can ditch the unrealistic expectations of perfect parenting, bring intentionality to your communication, practice non-reactivity, restraint and emotion regulation. Parenting without punishments not only works but it pays incredible dividends in the long-run. We can totally attest to this as parents of teenagers. We s...2023-07-0659 min
Mindful Mama: Raising Kind, Confident Kids Without Losing Your Cool | Parenting Strategies For Big Emotions & MoreHow to Cope With 2020 - Anna Seewald & Hunter Clarke-Fields2020 has been an incredibly difficult year with the global pandemic, multiple crises, the election, remote learning, and more. We’ve all had to deal with multiple disappointments and anxieties. Today I talk to Anna Seewald about 10 ways to cope with this difficult time. We end this episode with a guided Ideal Future meditation to help bring hope and positivity into your vision.If you enjoyed this episode, and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to y...2020-12-081h 11
Authentic ParentingReal-life Advice on Parenting During a PandemicWe are continuing the 3 R’s of Pandemic Parenting. I have a compilation episode. I reached out to some of my favorite online people, and asked them to contribute their thoughts and best tips for regulation, routines and relationships. Now more than ever we need to prioritize our children’s mental health and emotional well-being, and not focus on grades, performance, achievement, chores….and “good” behavior. People who appear in this episode: Hunter Clarke-Fields Laura Froyen Jen Riday Hannah and Kelty of Upbringing Tejal Patel Individual episodes of my guests: ...2020-10-0843 min
Authentic ParentingLetting Go of Negative Thoughts with Hunter Clarke-FieldsToday’s episode features host of Mindful Mama Podcast, Hunter Clarke-Fields. She recently came back from a silent meditation retreat! Hunter shares her intense retreat experience of no speaking, reading or WRITING for SEVEN DAYS 😯 Sadness, loneliness, and pain flowed throughout the process. Thankfully peace finally came, and extreme awareness of surroundings. Enhancing the ability to give love and kindness to others. Deepening the emotion of empathy on a global level outside of self. We also talk about how you can learn to let go of negative thoughts. 2019-06-0641 min
Mindful Mama: Raising Kind, Confident Kids Without Losing Your Cool | Parenting Strategies For Big Emotions & MoreHelp Children Master Their Emotions - Anna SeewaldHunter talks to Anna Seewald about Help Children Master Their Emotions.Children need to master their emotions. How can we, as parents, create emotional safety for them to express their feelings without fear? How can we listen to their feelings, validate, show empathy and help kids to feel empowered to solve their own problems?Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Coaching our children through dealing with their emotions may be the #1 best way to help them in life. 2. Why detachment and not taking things so personally can change everything 3. Children have 6 basic emotional needs...2019-04-091h 04
Mindful Mama: Raising Kind, Confident Kids Without Losing Your Cool | Parenting Strategies For Big Emotions & MoreWhat Do Kids Need? Part 1 - Expert RoundtableHunter talks to Carla Naumburg, Dr. John Duffy, Anna Seewald, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, and Julie Lithcott-Haims about:1. What advice would you give yourself when you were a younger, struggling parent? 2. What do kids need? 3. How do we give that to them?Carla Naumburg is an author and clinical social worker who helps parents. Find out more about Carla – her books, Parenting In the Present Moment and Ready, Set, Breathe, more of her writing, and how to work with her at CarlaNaumburg.com.Dr. John Duffy is a highly sought-after clinical psychologist, best-selling author, certif...2018-12-241h 22
Authentic ParentingMindful ParentingIn this BONUS episode I'm joined by my good friend Hunter Clarke-Fields and we talk about stress and how it affects your parenting. What can you do before hand to prepare for life's crisis AND IN THE MOMENT. -2 mindset shifts -mantras -yoga poses If you would like to watch the video version of this conversation, please join the Authentic Parenting Community on Facebook. Hunter is offering a FREE Mindful Parenting training. It will give you the foundation to make some powerful shifts in your parenting. The free, live...2018-09-1745 min
Mindful Mama: Raising Kind, Confident Kids Without Losing Your Cool | Parenting Strategies For Big Emotions & MoreThree Steps to Stop Yelling - Anna SeewaldHunter talks to Anna Seewald about Three Steps to Stop Yelling.We know in our gut that it’s harmful to yell, but it’s so hard to stop. In this episode Anna Seewald comes back to talk about how yelling affects children and the three steps you need to stop.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Yelling is a sign that you need to pay attention to your overall stress level. It’s time to reduce and manage your stress. 2. We need to tell our brain that we are safe in that moment. Your m...2018-09-111h 07
Authentic ParentingThe Benefits of Negative EmotionsHow comfortable are you with your uncomfortable feelings? Do you feel your emotions? Emotions Are Not Bad Behavior Do you remember yourself at age 10? Do you think children are born authentic? How do you cultivate authenticity in your children? How has your sense of self change over time? Also... -how much freedom should we give to our kids -why it’s hard to listen to kids big emotions -how to encourage self expression -what is accep...2017-09-1448 min
Mindful Mama: Raising Kind, Confident Kids Without Losing Your Cool | Parenting Strategies For Big Emotions & MoreHow To Raise Secure Authentic Children - Anna Seewald [82]How do we raise secure, authentic children? In this episode I talk to Anna Seewald, the founder of Authentic Parenting®. She is a speaker, author, podcaster and a parent educator. With background in psychology and education and working with kids for nearly 18 years, today she help parents. Anna and Hunter go deep in their discussion of the dynamics between children and parents. Topics include:
Avoiding the over-parenting trap
Why we need to be real
How much we REALLY need to attune to our children
ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindfulness mama men...2017-09-0530 min