Mindful As A Mother

Latest Episodes:

S4e38; Wrap Up Season 4 Nov 06, 2024

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Join Paige and Lindsay as we reflect on this season's most impactful discussions about neurodivergent parenting, nervous system regulation, and building stronger parent-child connections. See you after the holidays!

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S4e36 Neuroaffirming Nugget; Low Demand Parenting Oct 30, 2024

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Welcome to another Neuroaffirming Nugget! Neuroaffirming nuggets are easily digestible pieces of information to support you on your parenting journey. At 15 minutes or less, these actionable items are the perfect parenting snack. Today’s topic is: Low Demand Parenting Skills

For tips and skills to expand your understanding of your children’s drive behind their behaviors with our Responsive Parenting Mini Series here: https://stan.store/Mindfulasamother/p/responsive-parenting-mini-course

S4e36; Parental Burnout Oct 23, 2024

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We’re talked about burnout, we’ve talked about the stress cycle, now we’re talking about the hidden demands in parenting that lead to parental burnout. Financial burdens, time management, coordinating appointments, while also being emotional regulated and responsive for your children are all hidden demands that aren’t always considered amongst many others. Tune in to hear about how you can understand and mitigate the effects of parental burnout.

S4e35; Your Child & Burnout Oct 16, 2024

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Burnout can happen to anyone, in fact, it does! We talk about this last season AND we’re bringing it back this season because it’s just that important. When we’re in a chronic stage of stress your body will move into survival mode and that can only be sustain for so long. When you hit capacity in survival mode sometimes you get stuck. Tune in to find out what chronic stress (burnout) can look like in your kids and how we can support them finding their way out.

The Autistic Burnout Symptom Checklist: https://www.dralicenicholls.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Autistic-Burnout-Symptom-Checklist-ABSC.pdf

S4e34; Neuroaffirming Nugget; Helping with Transitions Oct 08, 2024

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S4e32; Fight, Flight, Freeze, & Fawn Oct 02, 2024

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This week we’re reviewing fight, flight, freeze & fawn. Anytime you or your child(ren) are experiencing big emotions, stress, actually physical danger, emotional hurt, and a plethora of other things, your survival mode is activated. This is an important concept to understand as the foundation of all behavior or ourselves and our kids. We dover each response and give an example from an adult perspective and what you might see in your children.

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S4e31; Neuroaffirming Social Skills and Goals Sep 25, 2024

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This week we’re talking social skills, but really social awareness. We talk about how to help your child cultivate a positive identity regarding their neurodivergence, identify role models, what social awareness is and how we can create a neuroaffirming environment while also teaching social awareness and helping our children thrive.

S4e30; Neuroaffirming Nugget; Preventing Sensory Overwhelm Sep 18, 2024

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S4e29; Bullying Sep 11, 2024

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September is Suicide Prevention Month. If you or someone you know if struggling please contact 988 and text, chat, call someone to get the support you need.

This episode is our least favorite topic, but probably the most necessary. Together we define bullying and talk about some unexpected acts that could be considered bullying. We talk about establishing a family culture of inclusivity, open discussion around bullying and several protective factors that you can incorporate to help protect your kids in the case of bullying.

S4e28; Interview with Tiffany Cagwin Sep 04, 2024

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This week we have another special guest. Please join us in welcoming Tiffany Cagwin. Tiffany is a Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and Yoga Teacher. She is an experienced executive leader and transformational coach who has a passion for helping others thrive by guiding them to shift their mindset, take action towards goals and embrace self-care. Here are Tiffany’s top three tips to start healing: get morning sunlight, connect with nature, and make space from devices in the morning/evening.

As a special bonus, totally free for our audience, Tiffany shares the 5 must dos are for busy professionals who want to bring their A-game everyday and stop feeling run-down. Listeners can download Tiffany's From Fatigued to Fired Up! at https://tiffanycagwin.com/about/resources/

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