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The Balanced Parent Podcast

Parenting is often lived in the extremes. It’s either great joy or chaotic overwhelm. One moment you’re nailing it and the next you’re losing your cool. I want to help you find your way to the messy middle, to a place of balance. You see, balance is a verb, not a state of being. It is a thing you DO, not a thing you ARE. It’s an action, a process, a series of micro-corrections that we make, each and every day, to keep ourselves feeling centered. We are never truly balanced, we are engaged in the process of balancing.Hello, I’m Dr. Laura Froyen, and this is the Balancing Parenting Podcast, where overwhelmed, stressed-out, and disconnected parents go to find tools, mindset shifts, and practices to help them stop yelling at the people they love and start connecting all delivered with heaping doses of grace and compassion. Join me in conversations that will help you get clear on your goals and values and start showing up in your parenting, your relationships, YOUR LIFE, with open-hearted authenticity and balance.

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124: College or Not Series: Four Conversation to Help Your Child Find their Passion with Stephanie Haynes Jun 28, 2022

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For the next couple of weeks, we are going to be having a conversation around college and careers for our kids. I will be bringing in colleagues and experts to discuss how we can support our children as they grow and find their passion and career that is fulfilling for them. When I meet with a family for the first time, or they sit down to do one of my courses, one of the first things we do is start crafting a vision of the future: hopes, goals, and dreams for their kids. At some point, most families mention that they want their kids to be "successful" and that opens a whole new conversation!

The world is waking up to the idea that there are many pathways to and definitions of a successful future, and I'm hoping that this series will get you thinking about these big questions for your own family. No matter your child's age, there is a space for you in this conversation, but I hope it's particularly helpful for you if you have teens and tweens!

For the first episode, I brought in Stephanie Haynes. She is an Education Coach and Consultant. Specializing in post-high school pathway development, goal setting and time management, and classroom and school culture development, Stephanie’s vision is to motivate her clients to take the time to create a compelling vision for their future, their classroom, or their school and develop actionable steps to build it into a reality.

If you want to have a guide in navigating all the options available to our kids after high school, check out Stephanie's book, College is Not Mandatory.
Follow Stephanie on Instagram and Facebook, and visit her website www.stephaniehaynes.net.

123: How to Have a Fulfilling Sex Life, Even as a Busy Parent with Janna Jun 21, 2022

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For this week's episode on The Balanced Parent Podcast, we are going to talk about something a little different: how to keep the fire of our relationship with our partner burning. To help me in this conversation, I have my dear friend (truly, we are besties!) and colleague Janna Denton-Howes. She is a women's Desire Coach and she's going to talk to us all about how we can stay connected and enjoy our couple relationship, even as busy parents.

*One disclaimer: Janna is a desire coach for women married to men, and she lists this as her area of expertise, not to be heteronormative but because it reflects her own lived experience and she wants to recognize that the struggles in this area for folks with other identities may be very different than her own. That said, I carefully reviewed this episode and I do believe, regardless of our identities, that we are all affected by the cultural soup of misogyny and patriarchy that can make it so hard to want and enjoy sex and intimacy with our partners. So, if your lived experience is different than Janna's and mine, it is my hope that you will listen in, take what feels aligned and leave the rest. And please know that you are seen, held, loved and supported here.

122: How to Ask for What You Need in Any Relationship with Kerstin Kirchsteiger Jun 14, 2022

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I don't know about you, but as a mom and a wife, I often get the message that I need simply need to stop being a martyr and ask for what I need if I want a more balanced or fulfilling life.

Seriously, the biggest hurdle most of the moms and couples that I work run into is NOT that they don't ask for what they need, and it's NOT that they don't have a partner who is actively looking to support them (most of us do!); it's that they don't actually KNOW what they truly need in order to be able to ask for it.

And that is exactly the conversation I want to share with you today, along with my guest Kerstin Kirchsteiger. She is a Scientist turned Life & Leadership Coach. The emotional rollercoaster that motherhood took her on, led her to leave science and dive deep into the study of Emotional Intelligence. Her journey of motherhood and entrepreneurship made it clear that work-life integration is a topic most working, homeschooling moms struggle with. Leveraging her analytical nature combined with understanding for individualized solutions, she has created a system for moms to peel back the layers of obligations, expectations and guilt and build a life they're excited to get up for every day.

Be sure to follow Kerstin on Instagram @kerstin_kirchsteiger and visit her website. She has wonderful podcast called Work-Life Flow Podcast that I recommend for you to listen, too (I was a guest awhile back!)!

Bonus: Sensitive Kids Who Can't Take Correction (Live Coaching) Jun 10, 2022

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Hey, my dears!
For this bonus episode, I will be doing a live coaching session from one of BalancingU members (free coaching on the podcast is a member's only perk!) about how to handle sensitive kids who can't take correction.
And in our conversation, I have recommended books to help them navigate this topic. I want to share it with you, too (you can find it in the show notes).

121: Raising Complex Kids with Grace & Ease with Elaine Taylor-Klaus Jun 07, 2022

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For this week’s episode, we are going to talk more about raising complex kids. And to help me in this conversation, I am joined by Elaine Taylor-Klaus. She is the co-founder and CEO of ImpactParents.com, an online support resource for parents of complex kids in the world, serving parents on six continents and more than a hundred countries. She is the author of 2 books including The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and More -- a typical parenting book for kids who are not so typical.

If you want to learn more about this parenting approach, follow Elaine on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Elaine is offering a free gift to everybody. (Yay!)
If you go to ImpactParents.com/guide,you can get extra stuff that’s not in her book and more comprehensive information as well.

120: Four Steps for Embracing Psychological Flexibility in Parenting with Diana Hill May 31, 2022

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One of the things I teach the parents in my community (which is you!), is to be more present in the moment and be fully aware of our thoughts and emotions so that we can fully understand our needs. In this way, we can better address what we need to be more balanced as a parent and as an individual as well. It is so easy to get stuck in a feeling or a narrative of ourselves and our lives, and we can sometimes tell ourselves that it's just always going to be this way, and in these moments of "stuckness" the ability to be psychologically flexible is absolutely critical. And so for this week's episode, my guest, Diana Hill, and I will be talking about how to be more psychologically flexible and model that to our kids too. Diana is a clinical psychologist and co-author of ACT Daily Journal: Get unstuck and live fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She is a co-host of the popular podcast, Psychologists Off the Clock and offers regular teachings in compassion and ACT through InsightLA and Mindful Heart Programs. Through her online teachings, executive coaching, clinical supervision, and private therapy practice, Diana encourages clients to build psychological flexibility so that they can live more meaningful and fulfilling lives.

Be sure to go through her website drdianahill.com or visit linktr.ee/drdianahill to see her latest offerings. You may also check her works on Instagram @drdianahill.

119: No Longer Last on the List with Jo Bevilacqua May 24, 2022

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The past few weeks have been a brutal reminder for me that prioritizing my own health and well-being is absolutely critical, not only for parenting and partnering consciously, but just for living a purposeful, meaningful life! So often when self-care is taught to parents, especially moms, we get "sold" on it by highlighting the benefits of taking good, gentle care of yourself for your family:

You'll be able to be a better parent!

It will be easier to stay calm and well-regulated!

You'll be able to enjoy your kids more!

Your kids & partner will feel more loved and connected if you're able to be fully present, and self-care can help with that!

The list goes on. But very rarely do we just come out and say it: you would be worthy of rest, nourishment, and gentle care even if you weren't a parent and even if it did nothing to help you be better for others. You're worthy because you are living. Because you're a person with human needs. You don't have to earn it, and it's ok if something is just for you.

That's what this week's episode is all about! I am joined by my new colleague, Jo Bevilacqua, author of No Longer Last On The List and its for women who are juggling the pressure of life and expectations.

If you want to read her book you can get it HERE. Be sure to follow Jo on Facebook and Instagram!

118: Healing the Mother Daughter Relationship with Ann Dillard May 17, 2022

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For this week's episode on The Balanced Parent Podcast, we will have the second installment for the motherhood series. And in this episode, we are going to dive deep into the mother-daughter relationship and figure out how we can have a healthy relationship between us and our daughters, and our Moms too! To help me in this conversation, I am joined by Ann Dillard who is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist offering mental health services to teen girls and their families. She hosts conversation circles and coaching programs internationally, where she helps women of all ages to navigate challenges in their mother/daughter relationships.

If you are having challenges keeping a healthy connection with your daughter (and your mother), then this is for you!

To get more resources, visit her website at www.anndillard.com.

117: Five Steps for a More Confident Motherhood with Zelmira Crespi May 10, 2022

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For the rest of this month, we will be talking all about motherhood starting with an interview with Zelmira Crespi, author of Happy Mom, Happy Kid
We will be talking about the transition to motherhood and how to find ourselves, happiness, and joy in this journey, including

Managing stress levels and find ways to live motherhood on a positive note
Managing expectations that we have of ourselves as mothers
Cope with guilt and shame, and learn to enjoy the ride

116: Things We Don’t Talk About with Parent Mental Health with Amanda Gorman May 03, 2022

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When it comes to parenting and especially motherhood, there are so many things that we hide or gloss over, dirty little secrets that shame and fear and judgment tell us to keep to ourselves. Sometimes it's the small stuff (like how each of my kids have had YEARS long stretches of sleeping in their clothes the next day to avoid the morning getting dressed battles) and then sometimes it's the big stuff. On this week's episode my guest and I dive into one of the most hidden and shame-laden topics there is in parenthood: Rage. Specifically postpartum rage.

Grab a cup of tea and settle in as I share my own story of the rage I experienced as a part of a perinatal mood disorder after the birth of my second child, and witness my guest's story too. As we share our stories we also discuss how we got support and moved forward, and the ongoing work we're doing. If you've experienced that rush of overwhelming emotions, seeing red, irrational, explosive reactivity, then you know how hard it can be to get support and to manage and I hope this episode is a balm to your soul. And if you haven't, you'll likely still benefit from the experience of witnessing another's story. There will be pieces that resonate for everyone.

Be sure to follow Amanda on Instagram as well. Her social handle is @findingyourvillage. And if you want more resources about birth, postpartum, and parent mental health, her Finding Your Village Podcast will be a good listen too!

To learn more about developmentally appropriate behaviors, CHECK IT HERE.

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