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Confessions of a Parent Coach — 168 episodes

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1

Why Your Child's Enneagram Childhood Experience Isn't About You

2

You ARE Hurting Your Kids (And What to Do About It)

3

Essence vs Personality: Understanding Your True Self vs Your Patterns

4

Why You Feel Unmotivated (Through the Lens of the Enneagram Type 2)

5

The Enneagram Isn't Who You Are (And That Changes Everything)

6

Don't Fence Me In

7

The Enneagram Will Ruin Your Favorite Argument (In the Best Way)

8

Feeling Stuck? How to Find Your Zone of Power in Hard Situations

9

Impossible Situations: How to Stop Trying to Fix What Can't Be Fixed

10

Why Being Present Feels So Hard as a Parent (and How to Return to Yourself)

11

I only have two choices, and both of them are terrible

12

It's Not Their Fault… So Should I Still Discipline?

13

Stop Praising Your Kids (And What to Do Instead)

14

The Hidden Cost of Permissive Parenting (Why Discipline Helps Kids Feel Safe)

15

The "Cheerios" Moment: How Generational Trauma Sneaks Into Your Parenting

16

Talking Doesn't Teach

17

Hurry Hurry! How Rushing Slows Down Progress

18

Sleep-Beyond Caretaking

19

Is Your Parenting Working?

20

New Year's Eve | Resolution & Intention

21

Stillness and Solstice

22

Mind Management over Time Management

23

Doing the Work vs Talking About the Work

24

The Snowball Effect Inside of You

25

Helping Kids Give Thanks

26

Connection is King

27

Self-Led Parenting

28

Is good parenting more about BEING or DOING?

29

Practical IFS

30

Place Blame or Take Responsibility?

31

Your Ego is a Spacesuit

32

Work the Enneagram with IFS

33

Enneagram Levels of Integration

34

Why I Don't Have a lot of 20-Something Clients

35

Are YOU Codependent?

36

Why Do You Treat Me This Way?

37

Being Unskilled

38

Kids and Their Bodies

39

Parenting with the Enneagram Without Knowing Our Kids' Type

40

Deep Emotions - What Are You Actually Feeling?

41

Intuitive Parenting

42

Are You Throwing Your Kid Into the Deep End of the Pool?

43

Internalize, Externalize or Repress?

44

Why Am I Talking?

45

Giving Kids (and Ourselves) Agency

46

Parent Coach Podcast Episode 122 - Your Brain is A Superhighway

47

Are you real or fiction?

48

The Only Thing You Need to Know

49

How One Client Helped Her Family

50

Do you live in a fantasty?

51

The Party in Your Head

52

What is "The Work"?

53

Spring Cleaning

54

What Blocks Us from Caring for Ourselves

55

Doubling Down, Leveling Up

56

A New Level of Closeness - The Enneagram in Partnership

57

A Kid Who Knows Their Enneagram Type

58

How do You Relate to Your Child? The Enneagram in Relationships

59

Ambitious or Complacent? Aspiration and the Enneagram

60

Are you a head, heart or gut type?

61

Spiritual Bypassing: How Psychology and Spirituality Need Each Other

62

Beyond Personality Tests: The Depth of The Enneagram

63

My Kids' Enneatypes and How I Parent Them Differently

64

Leap Before You Look

65

When it's Not Your Kid's Fault

66

Flooding

67

Growing Pains

68

Sibling Drama

69

3 Keys to a Successful Second Semester

70

Inhale...Exhale - The Rhythm of Life

71

Feelings Aren't Facts - The Self Coaching Model

72

No-Yell January? Dancing with Anger

73

Parent Coach Podcast Episode 95 - What if you can't stay calm?

74

The Nine Year Change

75

Get Out of Your Head!

76

The Inside of Tweens & Teens

77

Kids and Gratitude

78

A New Look at Tech

79

Using the Enneagram in Parenting

80

Why I Quit Journaling

81

Get better answers to "What's Wrong?"

82

Listener Mailbag

83

Want to know your Enneagram Type?

84

Middle School Blows (Boob Story)

85

Boundaries With Choice

86

The Right Behavior for the Wrong Reasons

87

Round Pegs in Square Holes (the Enneagram Instincts)

88

Thumb Sucking and Other Comfort Behaviors

89

The Quickest Way to Crappy Parenting

90

What is Authoritative Parenting?

91

Sweater Drawer

92

Picky Eaters

93

Where Does Your Kids' Personality Come From?

94

4 Principles of Good Parenting

95

Parenting is a Physical Act

96

Internal Family Systems

97

My Key to Smooth Mornings

98

Are Your Eyes on the Wrong Prize?

99

Sleep Training (And a Parenting Life Lesson)

100

Getting Kids to Open Up

101

Feeling Our Kids' Pain

102

Living Small

103

Why Not Me?

104

Take A Walk On The Wild Side

105

Anatomy of a Meltdown

106

Kids as Casualties (Innocent Bystanders)

107

A Parenting Guarantee

108

Engage with the Emotion, Not the Story

109

How Do You Know You're Doing a Good Job?

110

Courageous Parenting

111

Losing Your Audience

112

Mommy Doesn't Know Best

113

Screentime

114

What even IS discipline?

115

When You're Not the Favorite Parent

116

Connection Vs. Coercion

117

Stop Being So Thirsty

118

Parenting With Your Hair On Fire

119

Communication Spectrum

120

Disrespect is a Story

121

"Yes And" Parenting

122

How Mike And I Parent Together

123

One Dad's Experience Of Fatherhood

124

Can We Stop Dumping On Dads?

125

The Enneagram in Parenting

126

Before And After

127

Half-Baked is ALL We Get

128

Is Everyone Judging You?

129

When You Might Get Divorced

130

When Parenting Feels Like Crap

131

It's Not About You

132

If you're not happy, no one's happy

133

Hack into Empathy

134

The Potty Training Approach to ALL Discipline

135

Living Through Your Child

136

Talking About Talking About Sex ;)

137

Helping Kids With School Drama

138

Taking School Beyond Grades

139

BEYOND GRADES ANNOUNCEMENT

140

It's Not Fair!

141

The 2 Hardest Parenting Skills

142

Why Consequences?

143

Why Boundaries?

144

Warnings

145

The Wrong Rules the Right Way

146

The One Skill

147

You Suck

148

Apologies

149

Co-Regulation

150

Just Pick One Thing

151

Do you really believe in your child?

152

Am I Hurting My Kid?

153

The Biggest Mistakes In Parenting Teens

154

The NON-attachment Needed in Parenting

155

When Stuff Gets Tough

156

Turning Rules Upside-down

157

The Key to Calm - Your Nervous System

158

Are you the boss, or just bossy?

159

Consistency - It's Not What You Think

160

The Hard Way is the Only Way

161

Pick Your Battles

162

School Is Her Job

163

Knee-jerk Parenting: Stop Panicked Parenting

164

Pants on Fire: The Whys and Hows of Kids' Lies

165

Let's Talk About Boundaries

166

Your MIL Has No Sway

167

3 of My Favorite Things to Say to Kids

168

I Love My Kids But....