Authentic Parenting

A powerful conversation with Jennifer Mann, a certified mind-body practitioner with extensive experience in the health and wellness industry. Jennifer shares her personal journey of overcoming chronic illness and introduces the concept of the polyvagal ladder, explaining how our nervous system responds to stress and trauma. The importance of body-based work  Developing safety within our bodies Valuable insights into the mind-body connection  Practical tools for regulating the nervous systems What does disconnection means and how to reconnect with ourselves  LINKS AND RESOURCES  Follow Jenn on Instagram CFS School Somatic Experiencing  353: Recovering from Trauma with EMDR Therapy with Deborah Korn   OTHER EPISODES YOU MAY LIKE  305: Breathing and Your Health with Patrick Mckeown 320: How to Practice Self-Compassion with Marissa Knox, Ph.D 326: Befriending Your Nervous-System with Deb Dana  347: Heal Your Inner Child with Nicole Lepera  289: Developing Mind-Body Tools with REbekkah LaDyne 152: How Trauma Gets Stuck In Your Nervous-System   SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500.  Make a one-time donation in any amount to say “Thank you!” Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes  USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening!  With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com    

Mother loss comes in many forms: cancer, suicide, illness, murder, accidents. And while many women still have their mothers, they have lost them to abandonment, addiction, memory malfunction, mental illness and more.  Kelly McDaniel is an author and clinician supporting women on the journey toward relational wholeness.  In her first book, Ready to Heal, she addresses cultural double standards and family wounds that set women up for addictive relationship habits. Her second book, Mother Hunger, is the culmination of 30 years of research, clinical expertise, and a deep understanding of mothering myths. Mother Hunger provides women a name for the misunderstood root of poor eating patterns, chronic relationship disappointment, and distorted self image. In Mother Hunger what Kelly does is validate the experience of mother loss by giving a poignant name to a phenomenon that many will know very well and offer an elegant and useful framework for healing.  In short, this is a conversation about childhood attachment injuries and their lasting impact. Kelly destigmatized the shame that comes with being under-mothered and offers a healing path with powerful tools that include lifestyle changes and therapeutic interventions.  SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500.  Make a one-time donation in any amount to say “Thank you!” Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes  USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening!  With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com 

Judith Ruskay Rabinor, PhD, is a clinician, author, writing coach, speaker, and workshop leader retunrs to the podcast for the 4th time.  During her first interview we talked about her memoir The Girl in The Boots: Making Peace with My Mother. She specializes in eating disorders and the mother daughter relationship.  Today’s conversation is a wide ranging one. We focused on the transformative power of deep listening, as well as went into other interesting areas such as:  The importance of taking personal responsibility in relationships, particularly in the parent child relationship How we all have a need to be listened to, and healing happens once someone truly witnesses our experiences and chooses to listen to us deeply. How we unconsciously repeat harmful patterns and what it takes to break those cycles  Why therapists care so much about the past How we build resilience  And so much more Judy says that deep listening is an act of generosity. OTHER EPISODES JUDITH HAS BEEN ON 307: How Mother Loss Shapes Who We Become with Hope Edelman and Judith Rabinor  310: The Healing Power of Storytelling 290: The Complicated Mother-Daughter Relationship  SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500.  Make a one-time donation in any amount to say “Thank you!” Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes  USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening!  With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

Trauma response is rooted in strength not weakness. Specail guest MaryCatherine (MC) McDonald, PhD, a research professor and life coach who specializes in the psychology of trauma, stress, and resilience says that our understanding of trauma today is flawed. She has been researching, lecturing, and publishing on neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience of trauma and stress since beginning her PhD in 2009. She is passionate about destigmatizing trauma, stress, and mental health issues in general, as well as reframing our understanding of trauma in order to better understand and treat it. Her new book is out now and it's fantastic!  Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong: And Other Things You Need to Know to Take Back Your Life by MaryCatherine McDonald SOME KEY POINTS  When traumatic becomes trauma Relating to our traumas without shame Misconceptions about triggers How traumatic memories are imprinted Both top-down and bottom up tools for regulating the nervous system OTHER EPISODES YOU MAY ENJOY 305: Breathing and Your Health with Patrick Mckeown 326: Befriending Your Nervous-System with Deb Dana 345: Unraveling the Mysteries of Healing with Lissa Rankin, MD    

None of us came out of childhood unscathed.  Let’s face it, even the lucky ones among us didn’t get an ideal childhood.  Are you still looking for approval from your parents? Do you long for them to see and accept you for who you are? How do you see your parents today? Are you holding onto a fantasy?  Is there anything you need from them in order to live your life fully and authentically? Deep, raw and very personal conversation with  kundalini yoga and meditation teacher Nina Mongondre. She is the author of the Inner Child & Beyond Oracle deck and is writing a book about inner child and ancestral healing. In her private practice, she offers shamanic healing, neuroEmotional coaching and inherited trauma work. The central theme is the parent-adult child relationship and some key points we touched upon are: How becoming a parent gives us new understanding and appreciation for our parents How in order to accept, we need to grieve first What healing in a relationship means to us The acute and sudden awareness of an immense vulnerability after you lose your parents that those who still have their parents alive won’t understand  How our parents live in us even if we cut ties with them And so much more.    RESOURCES AND LINKS   www.ninamongendre.com www.sagemoon.com www.innerchildandbeyond.com @ninamongendre instagram Guided meditations and journeys https://www.youtube.com/@ninamongendre   CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS  TheMonkeyMashup is a space where struggling parents can find the exact help they need whether it’s uplifting articles, a licensed therapist, a baby sleep consultant or a lactation consultant. Search for all sorts of professionals available in your area or online, and even see whether they are available by phone, text, email, in-home visits, or virtual. In the same search results.    Out with Aggression Do you have a boy between the ages of 2 and 10 who is hurting you, your partner, or his siblings? You feel like you've tried everything and nothing has worked. Aggression almost never goes away on its own but you can stop it. Using connection. No shame, no punishment and no harshness. Go to www.parentingboyspeacefully.com/authentic for a free first step towards brining peace back into your home.  SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500.  Make a one-time donation in any amount to say “Thank you!” Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes  USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening!  With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

This is the Q&A session—Part 2– from our recent LIVE event. You can listen to Part 1 in epsiode 361.  We hosted our first post-pandemic LIVE event. It was also our first podcast event. We recorded the show in front of a live audience. The topic of the evening was the Complicated Parent-Adult Child Relationship.  My guest for the live podcast was Daniel Maté. He has appeared on the podcast before in episode 338: Healing Childhood Trauma in Adulthood. He is an award-winning lyricist, musical theater composer, a mental chiropractor and podcaster.  With Dr. Gabor Maté, Daniel is the co-author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.  The father-son pair have collaborated on the Hello Again workshop since 2016, leading programs in Vancouver, Toronto & New York; a book version is currently in progress.  MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE  Daniel's website Follow him on Instagram Let's Get Lyrical with Carice and Daniel podcast Take a Walk with Daniel  Hello Again workshop The Myth of Nomral book by Gabor Maté MD and Daniel Maté   CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS  TheMonkeyMashup is a space where struggling parents can find the exact help they need whether it’s uplifting articles, a licensed therapist, a baby sleep consultant or a lactation consultant. Search for all sorts of professionals available in your area or online, and even see whether they are available by phone, text, email, in-home visits, or virtual. In the same search results.    Out with Aggression Do you have a boy between the ages of 2 and 10 who is hurting you, your partner, or his siblings? You feel like you've tried everything and nothing has worked. Aggression almost never goes away on its own but you can stop it. Using connection. No shame, no punishment and no harshness. Go to www.parentingboyspeacefully.com/authentic for a free first step towards brining peace back into your home.  SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500.  Make a one-time donation in any amount to say “Thank you!” Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes  USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening!  With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

We hosted our first post-pandemic LIVE event. It was also our first podcast event. We recorded the show in front of a live audience. The topic of the evening was the Complicated Parent-Adult Child Relationship.  My guest for the live podcast was Danniel Mate. He has appeared on the podcast before in episode 338: Healing Childhood Trauma in Adulthood. He is an award-winning lyricist, musical theater composer, a mental chiropractor and podcaster.  With Dr. Gabor Maté, Daniel is the co-author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture. The father-son pair have collaborated on the Hello Again workshop since 2016, leading programs in Vancouver, Toronto & New York; a book version is currently in progress. Daniel also runs the world's only "mental chiropractic" service, Take A Walk With Daniel, and is the co-host of the podcast Let’s Get Lyrical with Carice and Daniel. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE  Daniel's website Follow him on Instagram Let's Get Lyrical with Carice and Daniel podcast Take a Walk with Daniel  Hello Again workshop The Myth of Nomral book by Gabor Maté MD and Daniel Maté   CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS  TheMonkeyMashup is a space where struggling parents can find the exact help they need whether it’s uplifting articles, a licensed therapist, a baby sleep consultant or a lactation consultant. Search for all sorts of professionals available in your area or online, and even see whether they are available by phone, text, email, in-home visits, or virtual. In the same search results.    Out with Aggression Do you have a boy between the ages of 2 and 10 who is hurting you, your partner, or his siblings? You feel like you've tried everything and nothing has worked. Aggression almost never goes away on its own but you can stop it. Using connection. No shame, no punishment and no harshness. Go to www.parentingboyspeacefully.com/authentic for a free first step towards brining peace back into your home.  SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500.  Make a one-time donation in any amount to say “Thank you!” Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes  USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening!  With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

Associate Professor at the University of Haifa, Department of Human Services Guy Itzchakov on the power of hgh quality listening, the benefits of listening for the speaker and for the listener, how to provide feedback, the power of asking good questions, and how to change someone’s attitude without arguing. As well as barriers to good listening and simple tips to improve listening.  SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute  towards our monthly goal of $500.  Make a one-time donation in any amount to say “Thank you!” Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes  USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening!  With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

JOIN US for a LIVE Podcast Recording and Post Show Party!  WHEN: Sunday, March 26, doors open at 6:30pm WHERE: Princeton, NJ SPECIAL GUEST: Daniel Mate TICKETS: $40 each >>> https://authenticlive.eventbrite.com TOPIC: The Complicated Parent-Adult Child Relationship Immerse yourself into an unforgettable experience, spend quality time with your favorite podcast host and beloved guest, connect, ask questions and enjoy a lovely post show cocktail hour with wine, appetizers and music. Be part of the show Connect with other fans Make memories, learn and nourish your soul This is our first post-pandmeic in person event! Hope to see you there!    SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500.  Make a one-time donation in any amount to say “Thank you!” Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes  USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening!  With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com