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THRIVING MINDS PODCASTEpisode #175. How To Get Kids To Listen and The Perfect Way to Connect with Your Child, Sue Meintjes, a mother of two and author, founder of expert parenting adviceWe dive into Sue Meintjes' ebook, featuring powerful strategies from leading international parenting experts to help get your kids to listen and cooperate without yelling or shouting. Get the free ebook here:https://www.expertparentingadvice.com/ Each chapter includes a 10-minute interview with a parenting expert who shares their best secret and shows you how to use it with your children. Discover insights like:Teaching emotional management and problem-solving (Dr. Rosina McAlpine)Using playfulness to increase cooperation (Julie King)Alternatives to threats for better cooperation (Dr. Chelsey Hauge-Zavaleta)Solving problems with kids (Dr...
2024-06-1838 min
Grey Areas with Petra BagustA session with my counsellor | Shirley PastiroffWe decided to do something a little different this episode! My wonderful counsellor Shirley Pastiroff joins for a live counselling session. What could possibly go wrong?! Shirley is a counsellor at Renew Your Mind, parent coach, and author of 'The Mindful Parent'. She also runs the often sold-out workshop, Mindful Parenting. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, she's also a mum of five well-functioning humans. I wasn't entirely sure where our conversation would lead but I love where we ended up. We explored my ongoing challenge with saying No, delving into the science behind therapy, how o...
2022-10-1259 min
Mind BrewMindful ParentingClinical Psychologist Jacqui Maguire speaks to Shirley Pastiroff, author of The Mindful Parent.In over-scheduled and frantic lives many parents have lost touch with their intuition around how to bring up their kids. Mindful parenting helps parents realise that their expertise to parent well is already within them, they just need to rediscover it.This episode takes an incredibly complex but hugely important subject and turns that into simple tools we can all understand and apply.Link to The Mindful Parent:https://renewyourmind.co.nz/themindfulparent/
2021-12-141h 03
Parenting Chats with LauraHow mindfulness can help your parentingMindfulness is changing the way we interact with our kids. In this episode with Shirley Pastiroff, we explore how to get started with using mindfulness to help us be calmer and more connected with our kids. Shirley shares her journey with parenting 5 kids and how she transformed the tone, culture and relationships with her children through using mindfulness techniques on the daily. Going from being a shouty, tearful parent and putting on a mask of "having it together" when out in public - to being a calm, joyful, connected one. She draws on the latest scientific research about the...
2021-09-1022 min
MothernessExpert: Mindful Parenting Coach and Counsellor, Shirley Pastiroff of Renew Your MindToday’s guest is counsellor, mindfulness trainer and parent coach, Shirley Pastiroff. I went into this interview with Shirley thinking that mindful parenting was about everything that I’m not as a mother, and I left realising that it’s also about everything that I am. I left knowing that not only are my feelings are valid but they’re healthy. That my triggers are valid but my child hasn’t caused them, the responsibility of managing them is mine and mine alone. And that I am everything I hope to be as a mother – just as I ask my gues...
2021-01-261h 18
Mind BrewMindful ParentingClinical Psychologist Jacqui Maguire speaks to Shirley Pastiroff, author of The Mindful Parent. In over-scheduled and frantic lives many parents have lost touch with their intuition around how to bring up their kids. Mindful parenting helps parents realise that their expertise to parent well is already within them, they just need to rediscover it. This episode takes an incredibly complex but hugely important subject and turns that into simple tools we can all understand and apply. Click here for more from The Mindful Parent.
2020-10-201h 03