How to Manage Parenting Stress

Julie Potiker is a mindfulness expert with extensive certifications and teacher training in a variety of tools and methods, including Mindful Self-Compassion. Julie details strategies for coping with anger, anxiety, grief, political strife and disaster, parenting struggles, and your inner critic from her new book, “SNAP! From Chaos to Calm.”

Through her Mindful Methods for Life program offerings, Julie helps others bring more peace and wellness into their lives. Julie’s first book, “Life Falls Apart, but You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos,” is now available on audiobook.

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FREE Masterclass: 8 Back-to-School Parenting Tips

Are you ready to kick start your child’s health and well-being this school year?

Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring top experts in child health and parenting:

  • Dr. Alina Olteanu, Integrative Pediatrician
  • Dr. Tori Hartline, Pediatric Chiropractor
  • Erin Kerry, Integrative Health Coach
  • Dr. Sandy Gluckman, Parenting Specialist

In this informative session, you’ll learn:

  • Proven strategies to keep your child healthy and thriving as they head back to school
  • Practical tips to boost their immune system and prevent common illnesses
  • Techniques to manage stress and promote mental well-being
  • Nutritional advice to ensure your child gets the right fuel for their body and brain
  • How to create a balanced routine that supports both academic success and overall health

Why attend?

This webinar offers a unique opportunity to hear from leading professionals who bring a wealth of experience and knowledge. Whether you’re a parent, guardian, or caregiver, you’ll gain valuable insights that can make a significant difference in your child’s school year (and make the back to school experience more enjoyable for YOU!).

When?

Wednesday, July 31st at 12pm (noon) CT via Zoom

Don’t miss out!

Spaces are limited, so secure your spot today and take the first step towards a healthier, happier school year for your child. Sign up here.

Register now and empower yourself with the tools and knowledge to support your child’s health and well-being all year long.

Supporting a Child’s Diagnosis of PANDAS

Andrea Jones is a registered nurse, functional hormone coach, as well as life and health coach. In this episode, Andrea is sharing all about her debut book, Wrapped in Kindness, which details the journey she took as a mother to advocate for her daughter’s mystery health issues.

Andrea discusses her daughter’s diagnosis with PANDAS, and she shares how she overcame shame and her own triggers in order to help her daughter find healing using a functional medicine approach.

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Helpful Parenting Strategies for ADHD

Whether you have ADHD, your child has ADHD, or you work with children with ADHD, this episode teaches helpful ways to recognize symptoms and encourage executive function.

Dr. Ray W. Christner, Psy.D., NCSP, ABPP, is a licensed psychologist and a certified school psychologist in Pennsylvania, a nationally certified school psychologist, and a nationally registered health service psychologist.  He specializes in clinical and school psychology, and he is board-certified in behavioral and cognitive psychology.  He maintains a private practice in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and provides telepsychology services in 39 states. He works with children, adolescents, and adults with psychological, developmental, social, behavioral, and learning differences.

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Parenting with a Nurtured Heart Approach

Jennifer Nathanson is a functional medicine provider and parenting coach. She firmly believes feeling confident in parenting impacts our overall well-being by decreasing/removing one of our main stressors – self doubt as a parent.

This episode focuses on the struggles of parenting and more specifically, the struggles of parenting children who are neurodivergent or sensitive. Download and listen here or find wherever you get podcasts.

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Parenting with Neuroscience

Dr. Sandy Gluckman specializes in healing children’s learning, behavior and mood challenges, preferably without medication, where possible. She describes her personal and professional quest as, saving the next generation from being over-diagnosed, over-medicated and misunderstood.   Her practice is called, “Parenting That Heals,” This is an integrated approach that treats the whole child.  She calls this “spirit-brain-body medicine.” Her work is and is based on the neuroscientific principal that “when parents heal, the children heal.”

Her primary goal is to show parents how to use a healthy parent-child relationship to heal children’s learning, and mental health problems. Dr Sandy’s approach is based on her unique blend of Functional Medicine, Neuroscience and Psychology. Her Parenting That Heals Program is attended by parents from all parts of the world. Dr. Gluckman also offers Online Video Coaching Programs for people who cannot consult with her.    

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Why Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad

Abbie Halberstadt is a happy wife, homeschooling mama to ten rad kids, bestselling author, blogger, fitness instructor, and reigning family Nertz champion. But most importantly, she’s a Bible-believing Christian who desires to know God and make Him known. She lives by the motto “hard is not the same thing as bad” and loves encouraging women to dig deep in the everyday trials of motherhood for the treasures of joy and growth that are there in abundance if we’re only willing to look. She, her husband Shaun, and their double handful of children live in the Piney Woods of East Texas. She is the author of M Is For Mama and the upcoming release, Hard Is Not the Same Thing As Bad.

In this discussion, Erin picks Abbie’s brain about motherhood misconceptions and how to make choices as a mom that put you on a path beyond survival mode. Download here or find wherever you get podcasts.

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How to Be a Calm and Connected Parent

Eli Weinstein is a therapist and parenting coach who has worked in a psych hospital, intense outpatient clinic and currently runs his own private practice in NY + NV. He created ELIvation, The Dude Therapist Podcast and became a therapist to fill a need and create a modern outlook on mental health to create a more digestible and relatable view on mental health to help those in struggling times and add some extra inspiration and motivation into everyday life. Eli has been featured on Kelly Clarkson show, The Trauma Therapist, Mimosas With Moms, Holding Space, Breaking Taboo, Therapy Thoughts w/ Tiffany Roe and on multiple podcast ranging from parenting, relationships, mental health and infertility.

In this episode, we cover the topic of parenting in the modern age, how to connect emotionally with our kids instead of stressing them out, and how to be a calm and connected parent.

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How to Raise Emotionally Resilient, Confident Children In Today’s Stressful Environment

Parents and teachers and anyone who works with children – you’ll want to tune in to this episode! While it seems as if children are experiencing more mental challenges than ever before, there IS a way to get to the root of those challenges.

dr sandy gluckman circle headshotSpecial guest Dr Sandy Gluckman has made it her mission to get to the root of child behavior. She is not in favor of ‘managing’ the symptoms children have.  Instead she removes the symptoms by finding and healing the underlying root causes. She is a learning, behavior and mood specialist, author, educator and international speaker who has consulted with and trained thousands of parents and teachers in different parts of the world. She presents a fundamental and highly effective shift in understanding how to treat and heal learning, behavior and mood challenges, preferably without medication.

She is the author of Parents Take Charge: Healing Learning, Behavior and Mood Challenges Without Medication and Who’s in the Driver’s Seat: Using Spirit to Lead Successfully. She also authored a chapter in Mission Possible and has published extensively in parenting, education and business journals. She is a frequent speaker at healthcare, parenting, education and business conferences.

In our conversation, she discusses neurotransmitters and their role in emotional resilience, the science of interpersonal neurobiology, and what parents and teachers can do to raise confident children. Her solutions are surprising yet encouraging.

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Holding On To My Teen

Currently, there are one gazillion articles floating through cyberspace about holding your babies longer because “time passes so quickly and before you know it they’ll be grown.” And yes, those of us with littles need to be reminded of that ON THE DAILY. It is physically exhausting chasing little kids and constantly being puked on, pooped on, peed on. I have holes in my walls and stains in my carpet as battle scars from my two active little boys. I never go to the bathroom alone, and taking a shower alone (or at least without someone screaming at me) is a luxury as well.img_4756

As moms of littles, our mommy guilt usually involves thoughts of “Would I give them more quality time if I was working away from them?” or the opposite – “Am I missing out on too much because I work away from them?” Or maybe even the occasional, “Am I screwing them for life up by letting them have candy for breakfast because I don’t want to hear another tantrum?”

But there is something missing in this ongoing conversation topic. When the days of toddler tantrums are over, the years of elementary school performances and participation trophies are long gone, what is left? Does time speed up now that we’re done with those long, difficult days?

I wish.

They tell us “the days are long but the years are few.” I disagree.

The battle scars of the toddler years are nothing compared to the battle scars of the teen years.

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