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Summary: It’s about time we told you who we are! How did three kids grow up to become passionate advocates for gentle, respectful, compassionate, and effective parenting? And, how did they come together? By popular request, here, then, is a bonus installment from our popular Gentle Parents Unite Podcast!
Sujai appropriately gets us started (yet another thing she is great at!) after the first break at about 3:00, sharing the story of her amazing journey. Then, at about 13:00 or so, Sujai gives us the origin story of Gentle Parents Unite, which is really fascinating!
Then, at about 38:00, Vivek tells us all about his journey to the present. It’s a beautiful story, which is not at all surprising, given who the story is about!
And, then, at about 57:00, Marji shares her story of her journey through her childhood and early adulthood and how she became a parent and how her childhood informed her adulthood and her parent-child advocacy.
Throughout the conversation, there’s a lot of intersectionality, a lot of laughter, a lot of camaraderie, and some very interesting tidbits none of us knew about each other!
Visit with us and enjoy the warmth and wisdom of these three friends!
For a whole lot more support and to listen to the podcasts ad-free, considering joining the Gentle Parents Unite: Becoming Gentle Patreon group!
(Note: the theme music is called “Joyful” and was written and performed by Marji, whose music site is www.marjizintz.us. The podcast is produced and edited by Marji as well.)
Sujai, Vivek, and Marji take an in-depth look at consequences (the natural and the unnatural kind) and how consequences can affect our closest relationships.
We hope you enjoy the conversation, and we encourage you to join in by posting your thoughts and questions and comments!
For a whole lot more support and to listen to the podcasts ad-free, considering joining the Gentle Parents Unite: Becoming Gentle Patreon group!
(Note: the theme music is called “Joyful” and was written and performed by Marji, whose music site is www.marjizintz.us. The podcast is produced and edited by Marji as well.)
Summary: This week, Sujai, Vivek, and Marji welcome noted author, parenting expert, and registered psychologist, Dr. Vanessa Lapointe. “Dr. V” shares her experiences and brilliant philosophy, which you can learn more about by visiting her site and/or following her at dr.vanessalapointe on Instagram, where she is very active.
Her two books are Discipline with Damage, published by LifeTree Media (January 12, 2016) and Parenting Right from the Start: Laying a Healthy Foundation in the Baby and Toddler Years, published by LifeTree Media (October 8, 2019). They're available wherever books are sold and also in audio format.
We hope you enjoy the conversation, and we encourage you to join in by posting your thoughts and questions and comments!
(Note: the theme music is called “Joyful” and was written and performed by Marji, whose music site is www.marjizintz.us. The podcast is produced and edited by Marji as well. Remember that you can get immediate access to the podcasts two weeks before the rest of the world--ad-free forever--AND enjoy access to a lot of other cool things, like several live weekly group coaching sessions, live meditation sessions, a weekly "Ask Me Anything" livestream, and other stuff at www.patreon.com/GentleParentsUniteBecomingGentle. And, you can join for as little as $1 a month. Yup.)
Summary: This week, Sujai, Vivek, and Marji have a lively conversation, kicking it off at about 6:19 when Vivek shares a deeply personal story about living empathy in his closest relationships.
Then, at about 33:43, Sujai offers great insight on relationship fractures, how they happen, and what folks can do about them.
Finally, at about 46:48, Marji recalls a conversation she had had some time ago with a parent who was convinced that grounding a child and revoking privileges is sometimes what you just gotta do when older kids just won’t listen. (Sujai has quite a bit of helpful perspective to share here, too.)
We hope you enjoy the conversation, and we encourage you to join in by posting your thoughts and questions and comments!
For a whole lot more support and to listen to the podcasts ad-free, considering joining the Gentle Parents Unite: Becoming Gentle Patreon group!
(Note: the theme music is called “Joyful” and was written and performed by Marji, whose music site is www.marjizintz.us. The podcast is produced and edited by Marji as well.)
Summary: This week, Sujai, Vivek, and Marji enjoy a conversation with Lelia Schott, Becoming Gentle’s newest addition to the team! Enjoy this sweet conversation with a wise and compassionate parent coach and educator!
You can learn more about Lelia’s work at www.leliaschott.com and you can visit and like her page at www.facebook.com/synergygentleparenting/.
We hope you enjoy the conversation, and we encourage you to join in by posting your thoughts and questions and comments!
(Note: the theme music is called “Joyful” and was written and performed by Marji, whose music site is www.marjizintz.us. The podcast is produced and edited by Marji as well.)
To learn more about and join the Gentle Parents Unite Becoming Gentle community, visit www.patreon.com/GentleParentsUniteBecomingGentle
Summary: This week, Sujai, Vivek, and Marji enjoy a conversation with each other, discussing brushing teeth (starting at about 5:22), strategies for managing our own anxiety when that rears its head (starting at about 25:30), and some tried-and-true ways of handling unwelcome advice and criticism (starting at about 57:37).
We hope you enjoy the conversation, and we encourage you to join in by posting your thoughts and questions and comments!
(Note: the theme music is called “Joyful” and was written and performed by Marji, whose music site is www.marjizintz.us. The podcast is produced and edited by Marji as well.)
To learn more about and join the Gentle Parents Unite Becoming Gentle community, visit www.patreon.com/GentleParentsUniteBecomingGentle
Summary: This week, in Episode 6 of our podcast series, we have a presentation-format episode for you.
At 4:05, Sujai starts us off with her wise thoughts about Healing While Dealing with adversity and trauma. It’s a challenging topic about a challenging human experience, and Sujai, Vivek and Marji get granular about how a person can heal from trauma even while living through challenging circumstances.
At 42:30, Vivek continues in his micro series. We’ve heard about micro-meditation, micro-self-compassion, and now we get to hear about Micro-Self-Observation. Vivek is, as always, wise, humble, relatable, and engaging. And, there’s a dash of SMABO in there!
And, at about 1:16:30, Marji shares her thoughts about life. More specifically, about how life is kind of like a river. More specifically, about how life is kind of like kayaking down a river.
We hope you enjoy the conversation, and we encourage you to join in by posting your thoughts and questions and comments!
(Note: the theme music is called “Joyful” and was written and performed by Marji, whose music site is www.marjizintz.us. The podcast is produced and edited by Marji as well.)
To learn more about joining the Becoming Gentle community, visit www.patreon.com/GentleParentsUniteBecomingGentle
Summary: In this week’s episode, Sujai, Vivek, and Marji enjoy a loose conversation about things they noticed over the course of the past week. These three friends have much wisdom to share about lying and allowing kids the time and space they need to make sense of themselves and their world. As always, these friends learn from and enjoy each other!
(Note: the theme music is called “Joyful” and was written and performed by Marji, whose music site is www.marjizintz.us. The podcast is produced and edited by Marji as well.)
Learn more about the Becoming Gentle community by visiting www.patreon.com/GentleParentsUniteBecomingGentle
Summary: In this week’s episode, Marji starts us off at 3:13 with some theoretical and practical ways of looking at and responding to children’s hurtful words and behaviors.
Vivek next (at about 48:18) discusses something he’s been developing, namely micro-self-compassion. And, at about 1:01:49 (61:49), he takes us through a lovely exercise!
Sujai then takes a lovely look starting at about 1:21:47 (81:47) at undoing some of the conditioning that runs our lives and our thoughts and our reactions and the way we see and interact with the world and our kids and each other.
It’s cool the way our three apparently disparate topics actually connect in deep and powerful ways! Enjoy the conversation!!!
(Note: the theme music is called “Joyful” and was written and performed by Marji, whose music site is www.marjizintz.us. The podcast is produced and edited by Marji as well.)
Learn more about the Becoming Gentle community by visiting www.patreon.com/GentleParentsUniteBecomingGentle
Summary: Welcome to the second episode of Season 2 and the first of our guest interview conversations! In this episode, Sujai, Vivek, and Marji speak first about some wonderful work that Vivek has been doing (starting about 3:07). Our conversation with Eric starts at about 15:51. (Note: Between about 21:00 and 23:23, Eric discusses the loss of a child. If you are sensitive to that subject, consider fast-forwarding when you get to the 21-minute mark.) Also, know that there is one unbeeped expletive. We had quite a lively conversation!!
To learn more about Vivek’s work, visit his website Meaningful Ideas. (www.meaningfulideas.com)You can also find him on YouTube (www.youtube.com/channel/UCcBBIOHuEjP6fei2xHXgA_w), Facebook (www.facebook.com/meaningfulideas), and Instagram (www.instagram.com/meaningfulideas/).
To learn more about Sujai’s community and the work she and others do, visit (and join) the Gentle Parents Unite Becoming Gentle Patreon group!
To learn more about the work that Marji does, you can visit her website, Peaceful Parent Whisperer, and you can follow her on Facebook and Instagram.
And, to learn more about our guest, Eric D. Greene, visit 1 Awesome Dad (he truly is awesome, as you will hear). You can also find Eric on Facebook and Instagram.
(Note: the theme music is called “Joyful” and was written and performed by Marji, whose music site is www.marjizintz.us. The podcast is produced and edited by Marji as well.)
Learn more about the Becoming Gentle community by visiting www.patreon.com/GentleParentsUniteBecomingGentle
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