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Healthy Family Eating (How to) - Liz Weiss [209] Feb 25, 2020

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Do you struggle to get your kids to eat a healthy diet? In this episode, Liz Weiss from Liz’s Healthy Table podcast shows us how to help everyone eat more fruits and vegetables and how to create healthy, sustainable rules for the table. This episode will help us all eat and feel better!

Takeaways:

90% of US consumers don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables.
We are more microbial than we are human!
You decide what, where, and when. Your child decides if and how much.

Liz Weiss is a registered dietitian, mom of two, cookbook author, and host of Liz's Healthy Table podcast. She's spent most of her career teaching busy families (parents and kids) how to get healthy and affordable meals on the table.

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ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches smart, thoughtful parents on how to create calm and cooperation in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide. Be a part of the tribe! Join the Mindful Parenting membership.

Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com.

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Self-Care for Overwhelmed Parents - Elisha Beach [208] Feb 18, 2020

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A few years ago, Elisha Beach chose to put out the REAL picture of motherhood: she’s sitting on the toilet, nursing her child. A few days later, a news channel was calling her. She used this sudden platform, to be honest about the difficulties of being a stay-at-home-parent and help other moms carve out some sanity in the midst of the craziness. In today’s episode, she shares how she stopped the overwhelm.

Takeaways:

How to deal with the overwhelm of life with 4 kids
We need to be honest about how we waste our time
There are small changes we can make towards our priorities

Elisha Beach is a birth mom of 3, adoptive mom of 1 and a stepmom of 4 step-“adults.”. Yes, you read that right… 8 kids (and a dog)…a.k.a a professional mom complete with a B.A. in Child Development. Her podcast, the Mom Forum, features intimate mom-to-mom conversations sharing the journey to and through motherhood.

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For the Love of Men - Liz Plank [207] Feb 11, 2020

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Girls and women have had a lot of attention in the past decade as we move toward a more just and equal society, but what about boys? What about men? The “ideal masculinity” box—in which men can have no vulnerability or weakness, no crying, are absolutely sure of themselves, and always win—is hurting men and boys, and we, as parents, can help to change it.

Takeaways:

“Ideal Masculinity” ideas can cripple boys' development & sabotage their success.
Boys are suffering from undiagnosed mental health problems.
What boys need most is emotional education.

Liz Plank is the author of For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity and award-winning journalist as well as Executive Producer and host of several critically acclaimed digital series at Vox Media. She regularly appears on MSNBC offering her perspective on national politics, disability and women’s issues.

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How To Combat Perfectionism - Sharon Martin [206] Feb 04, 2020

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The perfectionism habit can leave us feeling inadequate, never able to relax, overscheduled, and generally not-good-enough-ever. Yet it can be deeply ingrained through childhood and culture. So how do we combat it? Sharon Martin has the answers in her book, The CBT Workbook For Perfectionism.

Takeaways:

There’s a difference between perfectionism and the pursuit of excellence
Certain parenting styles lead to perfectionism
How to stop people-pleasing and be assertive instead

Sharon Martin, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in helping perfectionists and people-pleasers embrace their imperfections and overcome self-doubt and shame. Sharon writes the popular blog Happily Imperfect for PsychCentral.com and is the author of The CBT Workbook for Perfectionism.

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Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches smart, thoughtful parents on how to create calm and cooperation in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide. Be a part of the tribe! Join the Mindful Parenting membership.

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Simplicity Parenting - Kim Payne [205] Jan 28, 2020

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Did you know that highly stressed western children look just like war refugee children in terms of stress? In this episode, I talk to Kim Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting. We talk about “the undeclared war on childhood,” and how our culture of too much too fast, too young, is overwhelming our kids.

Takeaways:

Stressed western children exhibit signs and symptoms of stress similar to war refugee children
Having fewer toys and a simplified environment to play in can be beneficial
Studies show that screens can damage brains

About Kim: Kim John Payne, M.ED has been passionately working to thousands of people give voice to the feeling that something is not okay about the new normal of overwhelm that so many people are now experiencing. He offers do-able ways to build deep connections with our children that give families resiliency and simple joy. Find out more about Simplicity Parenting and Kim here at SimplicityParenting.com.

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Your Child’s Developmental Stages - Karen Kolp [204] Jan 21, 2020

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Fellow podcaster Karen Kolp walks us through children’s developmental stages—even the stage that many of us adults are in! Trigger warning—we also discuss her experience of abuse as a child and how that shaped her path.

Takeaways:

Understanding developmental stages gives parents much needed perspective
The stages are all relational—and our warm relationship is paramount
Ways to protect your child from abuse situations

Karen Lock Kolp, M.Ed. is a child-development expert, parent coach, author, host of the We Turned Out Okay podcast, and founder of weturnedoutokay.com.

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Parenting the New Teen - John Duffy [203] Jan 14, 2020

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Kids are growing up with almost unlimited access to social media and everything you can find on the internet. Talking to Dr. John Duffy, a nationally recognized expert in parenting teens, I also came to find out that helping kids navigate adolescence starts years before then.

Takeaways:

Technology has radically changed the teen experience
Kids are more anxious than ever—for good reason
What sex and relationships look like for today’s teens

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How To Handle Bedtime [On-Air Coaching] - Hunter Clarke-Fields [202] Jan 07, 2020

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Brooke has been struggling with bedtime. As that time rolls around she’s exhausted, her daughter’s exhausted and everyone is struggling. How do you set limits without using threats? How does she get her own needs for some downtime met too? In this special on-air coaching episode, learn Mindful Parenting tools for peaceful bedtimes.

Takeaways:

It’s important for us not to take on our kid’s problems
We are the grounding presence for our children
It makes a huge difference to know we’re not alone

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How To Handle Chores At Every Age - Deana Thayer & Kira Dorrian [201] Dec 31, 2019

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Who doesn’t wish their child would do more around the house? Deana Thayer and Kira Dorrian, co-hosts of the Raising Adults podcast have come on the Mindful Mama podcast to explain why we have to get over our hesitancy towards fostering responsibility, and how to handle chores at every age and stage.

Takeaways:

Build the link between responsibilities and privilege
What chores to give at what ages
What to do when kids have resistance to chores

Deana and Kira met nearly a decade ago in a professional capacity as childbirth educators. Since that time, they have co-created All Things Birth & Baby, a comprehensive online directory for pregnancy, birth and early parenting. Their work has been seen throughout the Puget Sound area of Washington state as well as featured in local media.

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200th Episode! How To Be Happier - Hunter Clarke-Fields [200] Dec 24, 2019

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We all want to be happy, and we deserve to experience joy in this life. Despite our negativity bias, despite our circumstances, despite the problems of the world, it’s possible.

Takeaways:

Our brains are like velcro for negativity
It takes intentional practice to be happier
There are 2 kinds of happiness: Happiness with a cause, and happiness for no reason

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