Parenting the Tough Stuff
Wendy Lee Johnson
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Calm Isn't the Goal: Your Safety Plan Is
Parenting—especially adoptive parenting—is beautiful, messy, exhausting, and overwhelming, often all at the same time. You're doing the best you can to help your child navigate their big emotions,…
When Protection Mode Takes Over: Tools for Parents and Kids to Reconnect
In this episode, we're diving into the dynamic of connection vs. protection mode—a concept that impacts both adoptive parents and their kids. We'll explore why all behavior makes sense when we look…
Shift To Your Essentials: Cut Through The Noise
Shift To Your Essentials: Cut Through The Noise is a podcast dedicated to helping adoptive parents cut through the noise, overwhelm, and pressure of doing it all. Together, we'll explore how focusing…
Holidays Your Way: Your Family, Your Rules
The holidays can be magical AND brutal. They can also feel overwhelming—especially for adoptive families. In this episode, we're diving into practical tips and heartfelt advice to help you navigate…
How To Break The Cycle -- The Stress Cycle
Do you have a kiddo who seems to make a career out of arguing, begging, or otherwise trying to wear you down? Parents tell me all the time how exhausting and frustrating this is—and I get it. It's…
Steady the Storm with Co-Regulation
Episode Description Today, we're exploring co-regulation—a powerful parenting tool that's especially important for adoptive families. Co-regulation can make a world of difference, helping our…
Helping Your Kiddo Thrive
We all want our kids to thrive, but what does that really mean? Often in our culture, thriving is associated with excelling at sports, maintaining a high GPA, or maintaining friendships. But here's…
Boost Your Distress Tolerance During a Crisis
Have you ever wanted to just survive a crisis without making it worse? As parents, when things get really tough we immediately experience some pretty intense emotions. Many times, it's hard to stay…
What To Do When You're Hurting
What do you do when you've gotten some bad news and you're feeling a bit undone? You're probably wanting to dial your feelings down a bit and just not feel so much. How about a quick vacation from…
How To Take The Crazy Out of Living in Paradox
A lot of parenting is spent living in paradox. What does that even mean? It means wanting your family to eat supper altogether, but feeling anxious that an argument will break out and make it…
10 Tips To Reconnect With Your Teen
Whether your child is just approaching adolescence or fully submerged in it, staying connected has never been more important. At the same time, our kids spend more and more time with their friends…
It's Time To Ask For Help
People are actually hardwired to want to do things on their own and be independent-minded, but often this doesn't serve us. As a parent, it's normal to feel like you should be able to handle things…
A Cure For Parenting PTSD
I hear parents speak of their worries related to their teens and many times they are founded in past events. It's like "parenting PTSD" of sorts. Parents are truly panicked about the past reoccurring…
Raise Or Ditch The Bar?
What is our job, as parents? Is it to set the bar, and maybe even to set it high? Today's answer may surprise you. If you would like to find out whether you should set and raise the bar for your kids…
Is My Child An Adult?
Watching your child grow up can be a bittersweet affair. On one hand, it's exciting to see them become more independent and responsible and truly begin to manage pieces of their lives. On the other…
Consider a "Plan B" Mentality
When the new year rolls around, a complete makeover is so tempting. Either that OR doing nothing sounds really good. Most folks are pretty polarized. Stay tuned to hear about a third option I like to…
Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
Parenting can be an incredibly rewarding experience, but it often comes with its own set of unique challenges. One of these is the battle against perfectionism; striving to achieve the ideal outcome…
Dealing With a Warring Heart
When your teen shows up with an argumentative or belligerent attitude, you might feel yourself getting riled up. You don't want to debate things, but all of a sudden you are. I like to call this the…
Your Hero's Journey
As parents, we often feel like things are happening to us rather than for us. If you consider Joseph Campbell's description of the Hero's Journey, you can begin to see yourself and your child as…
Parents Have Phases Too
We talk a lot about the phases kids go through, but parents have phases too, especially when they're working to up-level and hone their parenting. If you would like to know more about these phases,…
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