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#066 How to Gently Get Back on Track Apr 20, 2020

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This episode addresses how to gently get back on track. In the beginning of the pandemic our adrenaline was buzzing and we reached for comfort food, drank lots of alcohol, and binge watched our shows. This all made sense when we were in the acute phase of the pandemic, but now six weeks in we have entered into a chronic phase. The numbing takes a toll on how we feel. We can feel blah, sleepy, irritable and default into the why bother syndrome because we have gotten off track.

I have invited Elizabeth Barbour as our guest today to help us think through how to gently get back on track.

Elizabeth Barbour, M.Ed. is a passionate advocate for smart, sustainable self-care—especially for women who are juggling the demands of career, family, and life. Elizabeth has been an intuitive life and business coach, speaker, and retreat leader since 2000. She’s appeared on PBS and in Experience Life and Martha Stewart’s Body & Soul magazines. Elizabeth is known for her ability to inspire busy professionals to make Smart Self-Care an integral part of their plan for success in both business and in life.

For immediate inspiration, you can download 7 Daily Rituals for Self-Care, Sanity & Success (a free pdf) at www.elizabethbarbour.com.

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#065 Help to Motivate Teens with Online School and Create Momentum Apr 13, 2020

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Hey moms I know none of you signed up to have your teens quarantined in your homes doing online school. This only adds more pressure on you. Are your teens procrastinating and not motivated? Are they spending way too much time on their phones? Are your seniors worried about getting to go to college in the fall? And what will college admissions look like next year?

I wanted to bring in an expert that can help you with this. Neha Gupta is the founder of College Shortcuts, which is a leading college admissions consulting firm that has helped tens of thousands of students achieve their academic dreams. For more than 14 years, they've supported students with services in mentorship, college admissions, and test prep. Their results include increased improvements in students’ confidence, reduction in stress and anxiety, and higher chances of getting into their top choice school based on their own merit. She has been on every news outlet during this crisis and is a leading expert for teens and parents in the admissions process.

This episode is full of super practical advice that will help you and your teens.

Neha has generously offered a free discovery call to those who are interested. Just go to collegeshortcuts.com/apply to sign up for your free call.

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#064 How to Recover and Rebound Fast Part Two Apr 06, 2020

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In this episode we talk about How to Recover and Rebound Fast Part Two. Last episode I focused on how you can recover by paying attention to you (and not ignoring your needs), honoring your feelings, and asking for help and setting boundaries. Part one is designed to help you recover first, Part two helps you recover with your teen and family and rebound fast. Part one is answering the question "what just happened?" in you. Why did I get so triggered?

Part two is answering these questions. What just happened with my teen and what do I do about it? How can I stay connected to my teen through this? How can we come back from this even stronger and closer?

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#063 How to Recover and Rebound Fast After Drama Mar 30, 2020

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In this time when you are quarantined with your teens, and dealing with the daily bad news of covid-19, stock market, and the economy, you can see an increase in drama in your homes. I want to give you some tools on how to recover and rebound fast after drama. I want to help you dial down the drama and stress because high levels of this is going to weaken your immune system and hurt family relationships.

What do you do after the big fight?Do you take intentional action to recover and rebound fast or do you do nothing. If nothing is done, what you can see over time, is that your teen shares less and less with you and spends more and more time in their room. How it impacts you is that you really don’t like your teen or spouse anymore and find you get angry, frustrated and hurt really quickly when you interact with them. What you can see is that everything becomes a battle, even the simplest of interactions.

In this episode I give you some practical tips to How to Recover, Restore and Rebound Fast after the Drama. This is Part One of a two part series. Today I focus on helping you recover by 1. Don't ignore yourself, 2. Honor your feelings and, 3. Set boundaries and ask for help.

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#062 Messy Houses and Meltdowns: 6 Guidelines for These Unprecedented Times Mar 23, 2020

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This is an unprecedented time in our history. The definition of unprecedented means, "never done or known before." Our old life has been temporarily suspended.

This week we enter into a whole new realm. Mom, soon Your inner alarm is going to go off and you are going to feel like, "Okay everyone needs to get out of the house and get back to school,NOW!" Your kids will feel the same way. They want to get back to what they typically do. Everyone in your family is going to feel restless and off kilter this week…because its not normal. Moms this is new territory, and there are lots of unknowns. The old rules and expectations don’t apply. This is why I am giving you...

Six Guidelines for this Unprecedented Time.

Time to be understanding
Time for low expectations
Time to be flexible
Time to be creative
Time to lean in
Time to extend grace

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# 061 What is a Mom Going to Do? Mar 17, 2020

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Moms, I want to encourage you in this global crises. I know your life is up in the air and upside down and for this reason I wanted to give you eight practical ways to stay grounded and steady in these uncertain times.

First, I want you to know that I am here for you. This is a very difficult and scary time for all of us, and especially hard on you moms. Your kids and teens are going to be home from school and quarantined in your homes for several weeks at least... And the hardest part is that we just don’t know when we will get past all of this.

I feel for you moms. This is going to completely mess up your day-to-day schedule and beyond. Most of us have had to cancel our fun plans for spring break and our teens are disappointed and we are too. But there are many more disappointments with sports and musicals and concerts cancelled at your teens school. For 8th graders and seniors this is not how they wanted to end their school year.

And this is really hard for moms, because we like structure, schedules, and certainty. The coronavirus has pulled the rug out from underneath us. Anxiety feeds on the unknown and we are surrounded with it. If you listen to the news for even one-minute, fear and anxiety can overtake us. Besides the coronavirus there are many other worries.

But there are some things we can do! In this episode I give you 8 practical ways to stay steady and grounded.

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#060 What’s Your Biggest Fear . . . About Your Teen? Mar 09, 2020

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This episode talks about the biggest drain to your energy, vitality, and your life. Fear...especially all the fear around your teen and parenting your teen.

If you are a parent of a teenager; you can't escape fear. You are going to experience fear. The challenge is how to make the fear useful.

Unbridled and unconscious fear can cripple you and drain you of all your energy, joy, and happiness. In order to not let fear dominate your life, you need a way to manage your fear.

This starts with being aware of what your fear is...because if you are not, fear can unconsciously drive your thoughts, feelings and actions. This is not helpful to you or your teen. You can become paralyzed by fear and not able to protect your teen. Or you can become so obsessed about your fear that you are constantly combative towards your teen.

This episode will help you take obsessive fear and make it useful. You will learn how to dismantle the F (fear) Bomb. You will learn a 3-part process; identify your big fear, Excavate the truth, and Turn your fear into action steps.

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#059 3 Practical Ways to Dial Down the Stress Feb 17, 2020

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We can't always go to a tropical island to escape stress. In this episode I give you 3 practical ways to dial down the stress by...

being kind to yourself
dialing down the drama
being intentional instead of reactive, specifically about the way you think about your teen and how you spend time with them.

This episode is full of tips and takeaways that can dial down your stress today.

We live in a stressful culture. Stress has become the new normal. We need to be proactive to resist this trend, and bring down the stress in our lives, relationships and home. Why is this important? If you don't, stress will rob you of everything good about the teenage years.

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#058 How to Think About Your Teen Feb 10, 2020

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What you think about your teen greatly impacts you, your parenting and your teen.

How you think about your teen is not hidden from your teen. It is very evident to them. You wear the delight, the joy or the fear, sadness or anger on your face. How you think about your teen comes out in your words. It comes out in your actions. It comes out in your questions. It comes out in your body language.

How you think about your teen is the deep work of parenting. How do you think about your teen? If I asked you to fill in the blank. My teen is_____ . What would you say?

Because teens are hard wired for drama, it's easy for parents to think of their teens in a negative way. But that's not the whole story. That is not who your teen is.

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#057 What Moms Should and Should Not Tolerate Jan 27, 2020

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In this episode you'll explore what moms should and should not tolerate.

An important question to ask yourself at the start of a new year is, "What am I tolerating in my life?" Clue, if you are not enjoying your life and you feel drained and you cant remember the last time you had a really good day, there is a strong chance you are tolerating something you should not be tolerating.

What do I mean when I say tolerating? You are putting up with things in your life that you do not want. These things often annoy you, irritate you, weigh you down, and drain your energy . They can be things that you tolerate in yourself or surroundings, or in your relationship with friends, family or kids.

You don’t choose to live a life that you are just tolerating. It happens over time. The problem is when you have been tolerating something for a long time, you don't even see it anymore. It becomes the new normal.

There are 4 situations that you should never tolerate from your teen, if you do it will be detrimental to your teen and to your heart and soul.

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