The Uplift Kids Podcast

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A Brief Note About Book Club + Our Next Book Jun 06, 2025

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See our writeup about our first book club for members, which focused on the book Already Free by the therapist Bruce Tift: https://upliftkids.org/blog/parenting-therapy-buddhism/

Also get ready for our next book club in a month. We'll explore Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience by Eli Harwood: https://attachmentnerd.com/books/raising-securely-attached-kids

We will resume our normal podcast next week!

Kindness Toward Everything That Arises May 30, 2025

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Amanda and Jon talk about the concept of having kindness toward everything that arises — whether it be an emotion, a situation we can avoid, or something else. It's a timeless skill to learn as a parent and a timeless skill to teach kids.

Join us for our book club on Monday, June 2nd. If you're an Uplift member, check your email inbox to register.

Insights from a Parenting Retreat: Drop the Need to Control All Outcomes May 23, 2025

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Michelle interviews her friend Brenda, who attended our parenting retreat earlier this year and came away with amazing insights. Sign up for the next retreat's waitlist:

https://upliftkids.org/parenting/

Also: Members can join our book club on June 2nd! See the Sunday email for the link.

Embodied Immediacy: What to Do When Parenting Is Intense May 16, 2025

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Amanda, Michelle, and Jon continue their discussion of Bruce Tift's Already Free ahead of the book club for members on Monday, June 2nd. Listen to get practical insights about how to stay with your embodied immediacy during intense parenting situations so you can respond with clarity.

Two Essential Approaches to Find Peace and Wellbeing in Parenting May 09, 2025

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In this episode we introduce the basic concepts in the book Already Free by Bruce Tift, which is our first book for the Uplift book club. Listen for practical insights to help kids know they are already free and whole — and could also use some improvement. :)

This book and conversation is perfect for exploring your own patterns and helping kids navigate theirs.

Join our book club discussion — for Uplift members — on Monday, June 2nd at 10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET

Announcing the Uplift Book Club May 02, 2025

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We've wrapped up two year's worth of episodes related to the lessons in our lesson library! We hope they've been helpful for prepping to do the lessons in your home.

At this point we'll be doing a few new things with the Uplift Kids podcast, including a book club for Uplift Kids members. Join us as we explore the first book — Already Free by Bruce Tift. Stay tuned via our podcast and weekly Sunday morning emails for details about how to participate in the book club!

We'll also be doing interviews on this podcast as well as returning to explore specific parenting-related questions. Thanks for listening! And, as always, we'd love to hear from you if you have any feedback or insights for us.

Shame: Breaking the Cycle Apr 25, 2025

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When we break the cycle of shame, we can express ourselves more freely and better connect with the people we love.

Note that there are many definitions and approaches to shame. In this lesson, we follow leading psychologists, including university professor Brené Brown, who says that shame is the “intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.”

An Expansive Approach to Easter Apr 18, 2025

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At Uplift Kids, we take an expansive approach to spirituality and values, and our approach to Easter is no different. Whether you tell the traditional Easter story or focus on the more metaphorical and universal aspects of the holiday, our Easter lesson can help you make the most of the holiday's many layers. Listen for insights you can use at home, and use our Easter lesson for pragmatic resources for this holiday.

https://upliftkids.org/lessons/easter/

Stories From an Uplift Kids User Apr 11, 2025

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In this episode, Michelle Larson interviews a longtime friend named Heidi about her experiences using Uplift Kids. If you're looking for ideas about how to have conversations about life's most important topics, this episode can help you see and enjoy new possibilities.

Failure: Learning From and Overcoming Setbacks Apr 04, 2025

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Do your kids ever feel overwhelmed by failure? How can you help them view the experience as an essential part of the learning process? In this discussion, Amanda Suarez, school psychologist, talks about how to help kids deal with failure.

Members can see the full lesson at:

UpliftKids.org/lessons/failure

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