10CBF: A Podcast for Blended Families
S2-E11: "Family Meetings and Why You Should Care What Your Kids Think" with Anna Seewald
Anna Seewald, M.Ed is a Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author and Host of The Authentic Parenting Podcast. With a background in psychology and education, and having worked with children for 18 years, today Anna helps conscious moms and dads to become calm and connected to themselves and their children through trauma-informed education. She believes in helping children by helping parents. She has a private practice that specializes in parent education, where she provides one-on-one parent coaching, parenting, court-ordered, and co-parenting classes. Anna shared some extremely important information from her experience of helping parents who are divorcing or are divorced, and from helping people who are going through custody battles and/or are already in blended families.
To her, the biggest challenges in blended families are communication and discipline.
"If Scott and Stephanie can learn to co-parent, then I have hope that I can help ANY parents!"
"Use your energy for healing as opposed to fighting and trying to punish each other. Shift your energy and things will shift."
Anna ends her sessions by challenging each co-parenting partner: "Can you say 5 positive things that you admire about your coparenting partners?"
"Seeing the humanness in the other person...Have compassion and understanding for the pain of the other person."
Resources and Links:
https://www.instagram.com/authentic.parenting.podcast/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaseewald/
https://www.facebook.com/parentingfromtheheart/
Melissa Brown - Blended Family Podcast: https://www.blendedfamilypodcast.com/
Dr. Elizabeth Cohen - The Divorce Doctor: https://drelizabethcohen.com/
How to Stop Yelling - https://authentic-parenting1.teachable.com/p/how-to-stop-yelling