Voices of Your Village

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278- How to Balance Infant Feeding with Parental Mental Health with Victoria Facelli, IBCLC Apr 04, 2024

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Hello everyone and welcome back to Voices of Your Village. I get to hang out with Victoria Facelli. She's an IBCLC, is a graduate of the Global Breastfeeding Institute's Lactation Program, and not the kind of lactation consultant who hates formula, which I'm super jazzed about. Right in the intro she said, "this is a book about feeding babies, nothing more, nothing less. It's easy in the early days of parenthood to confuse feeding with parenting." And I love that because I think it's so true and there's so much tied to it. I think we see it with birth and we see it with feeding. And your book that we were just referencing, Feed the Baby: An Inclusive Guide to Nursing, Bottle-Feeding, and Everything In Between, gives families more tools to really be able to navigate this consciously and intentionally. Alright folks, let's dive in.

Connect with Victoria:

Instagram: @victoria.facelli.ibclc

Website: https://www.victoriafacelli.com/

Order the book: Feed the Baby: An Inclusive Guide to Nursing, Bottle-Feeding, and Everything In Between

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Learn more about Sensory Mismatch: Podcast Episode with Larissa Geleris, OT

Learn more about Interoception: Podcast Episode with Kelly Mahler, OT

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277- The Key to Self Control with OT Kelly Mahler Mar 28, 2024

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You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and I get to dive in with occupational therapist Kelly Mahler about interoception, which, I would say, is the key to navigating life from a well -being standpoint. Interoception is one of the sensory systems that I think is so often overlooked, and I think it's the cornerstone for mental wellness. It definitely is the cornerstone for accessing self -control. So often we want kids to control their words, control their actions, like, ask for things kindly, all that jazz, and the reality is they can't do that if they don't first have interoceptive awareness, if they aren't aware of what's happening inside their bodies. Kelly is a rad OT who works in this space. I got to pick her brain, and I am so jazzed to bring this to you because I think it also is huge for burnout and overwhelm and that exhaustion that we're often feeling in parenthood and in education. I think this is truly going to be a huge part of the conversation for so much of mental wellness in the next few years. All right, folks, let's dive in.

Connect with Kelly:

Instagram: @kelly_mahler

Website: https://www.kelly-mahler.com/

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276- How to Navigate Big Feelings in Older Kids and Teens with Casey O’Roarty, M.Ed. Mar 21, 2024

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You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and today I get to bring you a much requested episode. We get to dive into what this work looks like with older kids and teens, and especially talking about teen anxiety. I got to hang out with one of my favorite humans, Casey O'Roarty. She hosts the Joyful Courage podcast, and her work really focuses on positive discipline in those adolescent years, and all the things that come up in that space. And she truly is a human that I'm like, I'm gonna need you on speed dial, my friend. I just find her approach to this so in alignment with ours with young humans, and that it really does come back to relationship and connection above all else. And when I look forward to those teen years and look ahead, what I really want is to be in relationship with my teenagers. And Casey does such a beautiful job of laying out what does this look like? What's the messiness of it all and how do we navigate it? I'm so jazzed to get to bring this episode to you. All right, folks, let's dive in.

Connect with Casey:

Instagram: @joyful_courage

Website: https://www.besproutable.com/teens/

Order the book: Joyful Courage: Calming the Drama and Taking Control of Your Parenting Journey

Podcast: Joyful Courage

Courses: Positive Discipline for Parents of Teens and Tweens

Facebook group: Joyful Courage for Parents of Teens

Podcast episode with Rowan: Here

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Podcast episode with Hunter Clarke-Fields: Here

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275- Why Kindness Matters with Claudia Hammond Mar 14, 2024

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Welcome back to Voices of Your Village, and today I got to hang out with Claudia Hammond to talk about why kindness matters and how do we teach it. One of the things I've been really into is this difference between being nice and being kind, and what is kindness? How does it play out, not just in early childhood, but then down the road? What effects does it have on our mental health and the longevity of our mental health? I was so enriched by her research that it was really exciting to get to chat with her. She has a book out called The Keys to Kindness, and we got to chat about what it looks like to be kind to toddlers, and how to support tiny humans in building skillsets for kindness. And how do we become kinder to ourselves, to one another? The data are pretty clear that kindness does really matter and so looking at how do we cultivate it and spread it is pretty key. I'm so jazzed to get to share this interview with you. Alright folks, let's dive in.

Connect with Claudia:

Instagram: @claudia_hammond_

Website: https://claudiahammond.com/

Order the book: The Keys to Kindness

Podcasts: All in the Mind (many others on her website!)

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274- Sneak Peek: Seed Teacher Summit Mar 07, 2024

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Y 'all I am so jazzed to share today's special episode with you. It's a sneak peek from our 2024 Seed Teacher Summit coming at you March 12th to the 14th. We are so grateful to have a brand new batch of incredible speakers this year and so many essential topics like Playful Transitions, Why Play Matters for Neurodivergent Learners, and of course How to Manage a Classroom Full of Spitters. This is going to be a compilation episode with little snippets from a handful of the interviews just to give you a taste of what's to come. The summit is free, F-R-E-E, free to watch so please share it with any educators, administrators or fellow caregivers in your life who would benefit from learning more about supporting teachers and kids with the resources they need to thrive. We are all in this thing together and it fills my cup to be able to hand over high quality professional development and learning opportunities completely for free. Head on over to seedandsow.org/summit to register. That's seedandsow.org/summit. All right folks, Let's dive in.

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273- How to use Screen Time as a Tool for Regulation with Ash Brandin, Ed.S Feb 29, 2024

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Welcome back to Voices of Your Village! We heard you loud and clear after our last digital media podcast interview that you wanted more. So we are diving in with Ash Brandin, you might know them as the Gamer Educator over on Instagram. And today we get to chat about how to use screen time as a tool for regulation. I am stoked to share this and also know that for a lot of us, there's a lot of messaging around screen time as something that's only dysregulating for folks. We get to look at what's happening hormonally, and how do we use screen time with intention? All right, folks, let's dive in.

Connect with Ash:

Instagram: @thegamereducator

Website: https://thegamereducator.com/

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Podcast page: Voices of Your Village

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272- Sharing Our Cultural Traditions Without Passing on Trauma with Ed Center Feb 22, 2024

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You're listening to Voices of Your Village and today I got to hang out with Ed Center to chat about sharing our cultural traditions without passing on trauma. There are so many things from our childhood that we might want to pass on, and so many that we might not, and sometimes these get muddled and mixed and we might wonder like how do we separate some parts of this? What does it look like to parent kids who are experiencing a lot of trauma or who have experienced trauma? We got to chat about so many things in this episode that were so rich. He's the founder of The Village Well Parenting, a community where parents come to learn skills that nurture the parent -child relationship, heal intergenerational wounds, and discover ancestral wisdom that allows parents to remain rooted in their own sacred cultures. Ed is doing such incredible work in this world, and it's a true gift to get to learn from him. I'm really jazzed to get to share this episode with you. All right, folks, let's dive in.

Connect with Ed:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/villagewellparenting/

Website: https://www.villagewellparenting.com/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@queerbrowndad

Newsletter: Morning Cup of Calm

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271- Baby Talk, "Fake" Helplessness and Regressions with Caley Kukla, M.Ed. Feb 15, 2024

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Welcome back to Voices of Your Village and today we're diving into baby talk, "fake" helplessness, and regressions with Caley Kukla. I have been following Caley on Instagram for a long time and so it was no shock to me when it felt like we could have just hung out forever. It was such a fun conversation to get to have because I feel like these things are so triggering for so many of us. I know for myself, the like fake helplessness, the like, oh, I can't do it, I need help, in like that voice, oh gosh, it can like grate at my insides and it takes a lot for me to be able to respond with intention. So if you are in a season or you are triggered by baby talk or that fake helplessness or regressions, this episode is ready to rock for you. I hope you enjoy this hang with Caley Kukla as much as I did. All right, folks, let's dive in.

Connect with Caley:

Instagram: @caleykukla

Website: https://www.caleykukla.com/

Podcast: COR Parenting Conversations

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Podcast page: Voices of Your Village

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270- When Your Nervous System is Overwhelmed by your Child's Sensory Needs with OT Larissa Geleris Feb 08, 2024

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Welcome back to Voices of Your Village. And today we get to dive into something that really hits home for me. We get to chat with Larissa Geleris about when your nervous system is overwhelmed by your child's sensory needs. Larissa is an occupational therapist and y 'all know how much I love an OT. It was really helpful because really right when Sage was pretty young, it became clear that he and I are a sensory mismatch. That what fuels me and is recharging for me is the opposite of what fuels him and is recharging for him and then vice versa. What fuels him and is recharging for him is the opposite for me. And so figuring out like, how do we navigate this? What does it look like for me to recharge my nervous system and take care of my sensory needs while also supporting his sensory needs when they're different? When my systems can get overwhelmed by what his systems need. I have a feeling that I'm not alone in this. I think figuring out how to help our bodies regulate while also helping our children is such a challenge sometimes, and is so crucial for doing the rest of any of this work, that we know that being in a regulated state is huge for being able to respond with intention, but getting to that regulated state, boy, can it be a doozy. I'm so excited to get to share this with you. All right, folks. Let's dive in.

Connect with Larissa:

Instagram: @steadyparents

Website: https://www.steadyparents.com/

Parent Sensory Support: www.steadyparents.com/sensingyourneeds

Child Sensory Support: https://learn.steadyparents.com/courses/parenting-with-peace

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269- The "Good Enough" Principle of Digital Parenting with Dr. Katie Davis Feb 01, 2024

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You're listening to Voices of Your Village. And today I got to hang out with Dr. Katie Davis. She wrote a book that I'm finding so helpful. It's called Technology's Child, Digital Media's Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up. One of the things as a parent that I truly like feel a little lost in is what this looks like when it comes to technology and social media and just like what they're consuming, because it's so different from how we were raised, right? When I was hanging out with Katie and having this conversation, it was so heartwarming because it felt achievable. She really focuses on this like good enough principle of digital parenting. The thing that I really felt so strongly about with this book was how accessible it feels and just the lack of like shame and judgment that Katie brings to this. I'm excited to hear what comes up for you. Take a screenshot of you tuning in and tag me at @seed.and.sew and come share on Instagram, or hit me in DM's. I would love to hear like what your takeaways are and what you want to dive deeper into on this topic.

Connect with Dr. Katie Davis:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katiebda/

Website: https://katiedavisresearch.com/

Order the book: Technology's Child, Digital Media's Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kedavis12/

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