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S3E3 Practical Guide to Meeting our Childrens Attachment Needs
This week we review our childrens attachment needs and what we can do to support them. Practical ideas informed by the science of attachment Did you know you can access professional support directly…
S3E2 Childrens Attachment Needs
We take a deep dive into the science of attachment, how children are meant to connect with their parents and carers. We look at the hierarchy of attachment and its development, as defined by Dr…
S3E1 Welcome to Season 3 - Introduction to the LEAD approach
Welcome to Season 3 with a review of our approach. The LEAD approach is the foundation of Chasing the Connection. We discuss what it is, how it came into being and ultimatley how connection between…
S2E10 Science meets Faith
Following our last episode, we go deeper into our values and beliefs. Our scientific understanding of attachment walks hand in hand with our faith in Nature or Christianity. In this sense Nature or…
S2E9 Guest from Mission On Earth on starseed children
Hamaima Love, Director of Mission On Earth, shamanic practitioner and previously social worker, describes her project to raise awareness of our sensitive little ones, our starseed children, and…
S2E8 Bubble-wrapping kids from our stress
Life brings stress for parents but how do we safeguard our kids from this? What can we control in uncontrollable situations? A controlled explosion maybe, tears of futility, a strong relationship. No…
S2E7 What's changed: instinct, culture or something else?
What has changed in our parenting practices? Gordon Neufeld identifies 'peer orientation' as a key phenomenon. In the LEAD approach we identify the 'Caring LEAD' and our children's 'Attention to the…
S2E6 There's no place like home
Welcome back Mike and Amy from your holiday travels, which gives us a great opportunity for today's episode: why it's important to create a homebase, what this looks like and how to support our kids…
S2E5 Guest speaker Holly Maya Greenwood, SALT
An initial exploration into the efficacy of intervention with children with complex needs. What might we be missing and what might be needed for change in the profession? PROMPT trained Holly Maya…
S2E4 Relational dynamics in Speech Therapy
Our parenting experiences in Speech Therapy and the importance of meeting our children's need for connection and seeing the whole child. Is the profession changing to meet the relational needs of…
S2E3 Weaving Frustration into Play
What to do with our childrens aggression, in all its forms and how can play help? We talk about using "I wonder..." to have empathic conversations with our children who display frustration. We…
S2E2 Roots of Behaviour
'To fix or not to fix their behaviours'. A compliance-based approach tries to fix children. In contrast the LEAD approach is relational, child-led, and reflective. We reflect on what's missing,…
S2E1 Welcome the New Year with Tears!
As we start the year full of hope for our families, we consider an unlikely source of happiness......tears of sadness. When we, or our children, 'have a good cry', it helps our bodies release stress…
S1E19 Self-Compassion & Emotional Buffering
Our New Year starts with a passage from Gerard Durrell as we explore his insights about mothering from his childhood memories; the importance of 'hope' in the face of what can feel 'hope-less'; self…
S1E18 Introducing the PRRR model as we close for 2023
Our last episode for 2023 takes us on a brief reflection of past themes, as well as introducing the PRRR model as another way to summarise our parenting approach and WIN as a way of remembering to be…
S1E17 Six levels of deepening our connections
We take a deep dive into Neufeld's 6 levels of attachment so we can better understand our kids relationship needs. We weave this in with having realistic expectations (not being the 'perfect'…
S1E16 Diffusing Resistance and Power Struggles
This week we take a look at some of the places we experience our childrens' resistance and how that can lead to power struggles. We explain the natural instinct of 'counterwill' as our children feel…
S1E15 The sacrifices we make & the process of letting go
We all make sacrifices for the sake of our kids but sometimes they are very different to what we expected and planned for. There can be so much to let go of, from our vision of what it was supposed…
S1E14 Loss & Nostalgia meet Family Values and Connection
Remembrance Sunday has brought up losses and nostalgia for when our children were younger, for all the things we wish we'd known then, for missed opportunities for connection. On the flip side, we…
S1E13 Dependence, rest and play
We value independence and getting ahead so we unwittingly push our children towards it earlier and earlier. But Nature has her own plan! Our children need to feel safe to depend on us so they can…
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Chasing The Connection has published 32 episodes since August 2023, covering topics in Kids & Family, Parenting.
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