Best Laura Froyen Podcasts (2023)

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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161: Getting in Touch with the Authentic Self through Mindfulness with Kelly Smith 52:22

21d ago52:22

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In this episode, we are joined by Kelly Smith, a yoga and meditation teacher and founder of Yoga For You. Kelly shares her insights into how mindfulness and yoga can help us connect with our authentic selves and cultivate inner joy and power. She encourages us to find our own personal practice, listen to our bodies, and access our most authentic se…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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160: Redefining Intelligence for Ourselves & Our Kids with Dr. Rina Bliss 43:58

29d ago43:58

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I'm excited to share that my latest podcast episode features a special guest, Dr. Rina Bliss. Dr. Bliss is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and the author of several books, including Rethinking Intelligence: A Radical New Understanding of Our Human Potential. For more show notes, visit www.laurafroyen.com/podcast.…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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159: How to Increase Connection through Mindful Eating with Dr. Caroline Clauss-Ehlers 28:23

1M ago28:23

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In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Caroline Clauss-Ehlers, an award-winning psychologist, researcher, and professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn, to discuss the power of mindful eating for family connections. If you're looking for practical ways to improve your family's eating habits and deepen your connection with your children, this epi…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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158: How Nutrition can Help Kids with ADHD with Momina Salim 35:30

1M ago35:30

35:30

I am excited to share with you the latest episode of my podcast, where we explore the topic of nutrition and ADHD in children. As a parenting expert, I always emphasize the importance of a holistic approach to raising our children; this episode is no exception. I had the pleasure of interviewing Momina Salim, a certified Pediatric Functional Medici…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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157: Overcoming Burnout and Guilt with Andryanna Gonko 44:28

2M ago44:28

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As a parent, I know how challenging it can be to juggle the many responsibilities that come with caring for our children, partners, and ourselves. As you may remember, recently I've been struggling with health issues and burnout, and it has been a really difficult journey. I've come to realize that many other parents are experiencing similar strugg…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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156: Social Skills for Connection with Miriam Campbell 42:25

2M ago42:25

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This week on The Balanced Parent podcast, we will have a deep-dive discussion into how we can help our children develop crucial skills for building meaningful social connections, like perspective-taking and problem-solving. Miriam Campbell will be joining me in this discussion. She is a mom who uses her experience as a speech therapist, social work…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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155: Harnessing the Power of Kindness with Teresa Ramirez 25:19

2M ago25:19

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When I ask the parents I work with about their long-term goals for their children, kindness is one of the qualities I hear most about, and it's no wonder, right? Most of us have personal experiences where we have been on the receiving end of the kindness (and unkindness) of others, and it makes sense that we hope that our children will put good out…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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154: Doing the Work of Conscious Parenting with Dr. Shefali Tsabary 28:56

3M ago28:56

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Ok, so we've all heard the term "conscious parenting" before, right? We've even talked about it on the show, but out there in the online world I see a LOT of people talking about it in a lot of different ways and I'm not always sure we are talking about the same thing. In my mind there is a difference between respectful, collaborative parenting (wh…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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153: The Truth about Maternal Instinct with Anya Dunham 34:57

3M ago34:57

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A huge part of my mothering journey has been learning to quiet the fears and outside influences, and seek instead to truly learn with curiosity about my child and myself. The more I learned about the unique child I had been blessed with, the more I was able to see her true needs and trust myself to meet them. I kind of had to figure out how to do t…

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Helping Children Thrive

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Episode 35: Parenting children with ADHD with Dr Laura Froyen 38:54

3M ago38:54

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Dr Laura Froyen is on a mission to help parents reclaim peace, joy, and connection. She helps parents find the root cause of their triggers and heal them once and for all. she does this by guiding parents to tap in to their intuition so they can parent from a place of feeling calm, confident, and aligned. As a Mom of 2, She understands how importan…

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Helping Children Thrive

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What is a Nutrivore with Dr Sarah Ballantyne 51:05

3M ago51:05

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Award-winning public speaker, New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned health expert, Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD believes the key to improving public health is scientific literacy. She creates educational resources to help people improve their day-to-day diet and lifestyle choices, empowered and informed by the most current evidenced-bas…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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152: Navigating the World of Social Media with Kids with Lena Derhally 1:40

4M ago1:40

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As my child approaches ten and has started to ask for a phone, it is important that as parents we know how to guide our kids in navigating technology and social media with intention and safety in mind. An important aspect of this is figuring out how to model for our kids the boundaries and relationships with social media that we want them to have. …

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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151: Helping Our Children Develop Self-Discipline with Carol Muleta 33:11

4M ago33:11

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On this week's episode on The Balanced Parent Podcast, I will be joined by Carol Muleta and we will be chatting about how we can help our children develop self-discipline and resilience. Something that I know we all want for our children but that can be difficult to figure out how to nurture respectfully. Carol Muleta is a Parenting Strategist and …

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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150: How to Enjoy Play More with Sarah Scott Dooling 43:14

4M ago43:14

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We are nearing the end of my 30 Days of Play Challenge. And with that, I would like to thank those who have joined. I want you to know that I am proud of everyone who put in the work to know more about their children through play and made the effort to make independent play better. I am also proud of every parent in this community who committed to …

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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149: How to Build Kid's Resilience with Structured Play w/ Dr. Deborah Gilboa 33:32

5M ago33:32

33:32

We are now halfway through our 30 Days of Play Challenge. For the past few weeks, we've talked about unstructured, independent play and its wonderful advantages it has for kids. Today, I want to give you a full well-rounded picture of how play can help support your kids, and how you can harness the power of a specific type of play, "structured play…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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148: Five Things You Can Do to Boost Your Child's Play 26:25

5M ago26:25

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As you may have been aware, we are now in the midst of our annual 30 Days of Play Challenge. And when it comes to the play challenge, one of the main things everyone asks for is assistance in figuring out how to encourage your children to play independently more often. Last week we discussed the things your child needs in order to get into independ…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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147: Understanding Children's Needs for More Independent Play With Blanca of Whole Child Home 48:03

5M ago48:03

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We are now back on The Balanced Parent podcast! As you all know, we focus on our children's play every January. And I would like to invite you to join me in my 30 Days of Play Challenge. As part of this challenge, the episodes on the podcast for this month will be all about PLAY! Yay! To start the month off, I wanted to focus on one of the most c…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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Bonus Episode: A Little Bit of Break and Taking a Pause 18:31

6M ago18:31

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As we enter into a season meant to be filled with light, love, & joy, I wanted to just acknowledge that this can also be a time filled with pressure, stress, and overwhelm. We take on a lot as parents during this time, and just in case no one has said this to you yet, it's ok, more than ok, it's GOOD, to say "no" to some things. To release traditio…

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Helping Children Thrive

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Episode 33: Overcoming PANS and PANDAS with Dr Nancy O'Hara 44:17

6M ago44:17

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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146: Aligning Your Parenting with Your Long Term Goals (Live Couples Coaching) 1:01:35

6M ago1:01:35

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This week's episode is going to be a little different. If you have been following me and The Balanced Parent Podcast, you know that there are times where members of my BalancingU membership community so generously allow us to "listen in" to their coaching sessions. It can be so helpful to hear others' experiences and I know that you may have simila…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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145: How Gratitude Can Change Your Life with Stef Tousignant 41:57

7M ago41:57

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This is a time of year where we are meant to reflect with gratitude on all that we have, and I just want to express how grateful I am for this beautiful community! And as a token of appreciation, every year for my birthday I put all of my courses & programs (and this year coaching) on sale for the week, STARTING NOW! Check out my Birthday Sale here…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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144: Re-Parenting Ourselves in the Here and Now with Christine Dixon 53:37

7M ago53:37

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For those of you who are working through Parenting from Within inside my BalancingU membership, this week's episode could not come at a better time! We are currently working through the process of uncovering our inner voices and children and starting the good (but hard) work of healing. If you're interested in this program you can learn more here. …

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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143: Fed Up: How to Balance Emotional Labor in Your Relationship with Gemma Hartley 43:53

7M ago43:53

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Over the past year my husband and I have been on a journey in figuring out how to be more balanced in our roles at home. We noticed that my husband did a lot of the visible labor, like dishes & laundry, while I did most of the invisible work, like holding emotional space for my kids' big feelings, carefully considering the play and reading material…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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142: Learning to Trust Yourself as a Parent with Cathy Adams 44:26

7M ago44:26

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This week we will be talk about intuition and how we can learn to tune into and trust ourselves as parents and partners and create that beautiful relationship with ourselves as individuals. For many of us, our experiences out in the world have taught us to look outside of ourselves for answers, feedback, validation, and wisdom. Has that been your e…

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Helping Children Thrive

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Identifying Underlying Root Causes to Help Our Children with ADHD THRIVE with Dr. Stephanie Davis 52:51

7M ago52:51

52:51

Dr. Stephanie Davis, DC, received her doctorate from Northwestern Health Sciences University. Prior to chiropractic school, she was a microbiology and biochemistry research scientist for several corporations and the University of Minnesota. She has extensive post-graduate training in Functional Medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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Bonus: Live Coaching - Helping a Child Take Responsibility after a Mistake 29:29

7M ago29:29

29:29

This week will have another bonus episode - a live coaching I did with one of my BalancingU community members. We will be talking about how to help a child take responsibility after a mistake WITHOUT forcing apologies. I hope that as you listen, you can pull out meaningful takeaways that apply to your family. And if there are, I'd like you to share…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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141: What You Need to Know about Childhood Substance Use with Richard Capriola 38:41

8M ago38:41

38:41

The topic that we will be tackling for this week's episode on The Balanced Parent podcast is a bit tricky, but it's also something we will all need to think about sooner or later: Substance Use. I don't love the idea of parenting from a place of fear, as I'm sure you know, but I also know the statistics about teenage substance use and the risks. I …

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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140: Shifting Focus from Behavior to Seeing the Whole Child with Shani Mandel 42:50

8M ago42:50

42:50

As a podcast host, I get approached by experts in different fields. And one of the fields I get approached by a lot are board certified behavior analysts who practice a form of therapy called Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). ABA is one of the very few forms of therapy that are "approved" for autistic folks and in listening to and learning from the …

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Helping Children Thrive

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Episode 31: Parenting Differently Wired Children with Debbie Reber 48:56

8M ago48:56

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We have talked a lot on this podcast about how to help children with ADHD, Autism, SPD or other conditions. One important aspect about helping neuro-divergent children is parenting them in a supportive way. To help parents find answers to questions about parenting, our guest on the show this week is Debbie Reber. Debbie Reber is the founder and CEO…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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139: How to Support your Sensory Kids with Laura Petix 46:21

8M ago46:21

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Let me ask if this sounds familiar: Your child freaks out if there are tags of seams on some of their clothes or the transition to weather-appropriate clothes is a nightmare... Or it feels like your child is always crashing into you or things, jumping off of high stuff or needing a wrestle... Perhaps loud noises or bright lights overwhelm them... O…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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138: Creating Success for Children w/ Learning Differences with Victoria Waller 48:34

8M ago48:34

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It can be so hard to see our children struggle to learn new skills, especially in school, where learning differences often manifest as behavioral challenges. In so many cases when our kids are young, the advice is to wait and see, and trust that they will do it when they are ready, but sometimes we get to a point where we know our child needs more …

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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Bonus (Group Coaching Call): The Power of Mindset When Big Kids Meltdown 1:06:50

8M ago1:06:50

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Hey, my dears! We are going to do something a little bit different for today's episode. I'm going to let you listen in on one of the group coaching calls that I had recently in my membership, Balancing U. You may have been following along with the Reactivity to Responsiveness Challenge and if you have, then you know that I have decided to move all …

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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137: How to Help Your Child With School Struggles with Philip Mott 42:24

8M ago42:24

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Every year in the month after school starts back up here in the States, I get flooded with questions from parents about how to ease their child's transition back to school and how to navigate an educational environment that is not always grounded in the same principles of respect that we focus on at home. And I know from personal experience that bi…

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Helping Children Thrive

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Episode 30: The Out of Sync Child: Sensory Processing Disorder with Carol Kranowitz 55:47

9M ago55:47

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Many parents are struggling to understand the sensory needs of their child and how to help them. They may or may not have received a diagnosis of Sensory Processing Disorder. Often times, this diagnosis comes along with other diagnosis of Autism, ADHD and/or Learning Disabilities. On this week's episode, I have Carol Kranowitz, the author of the gr…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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136: Language Development: What You Need to Know with Leanne Sherred 43:27

9M ago43:27

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For this week's episode, we are going to talk about speech development and how to go about getting your children's support. To help me in this conversation, I brought in a speech pathologist and therapist, Leanne Sherred. She is currently the President and Founder of Expressable - online speech therapy, a company that envisions a modern and afforda…

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Helping Children Thrive

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Episode 29: Vision Therapy For ADHD, SPD and Autism 36:58

9M ago36:58

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Vision plays an important role in conditions like ADHD, ADD, Autism and Sensory Processing Disorders and vision therapy is often overlooked as a vital piece in their children’s recovery. On the show today, our guest is Dr Bryce Appelbaum, who joins us to talk about The Misdiagnoses and Missed Opportunities of Vision: why healthcare has it all wrong…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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135: Why Coming Home Can Be So Hard, and How to Make It Easier 33:12

9M ago33:12

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I hear a lot of parents who want to help their kids make transitions a little bit easier, but transition can be difficult for us, adults, too! Like when you come in from a grocery store run and you'd like to just unload in peace but everyone needs something! Whether you've just been gone for luxurious solo Target run, a relaxing yoga class, a lovel…

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Helping Children Thrive

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Neurofeedback for ADHD 44:06

9M ago44:06

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Dr. Roseann is a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann, LLC who is, “Changing the way we view and treat children’s mental health”. Forbes magazine called her, “A thought leader in children’s mental health”. Her work has helped thousands reverse the most challenging conditions, such as…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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134: The Sneaky Double Standards of Parenting with Blimie Heller 48:19

9M ago48:19

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I truly believe that the way for us to teach kids the values we really want to pass on, is to do our best to embody and model them in our daily lives. But it's hard because sometimes these double standards are so sneaky, and are cloaked in our cultural conditioning that can make us prejudiced against kids so that we can feel justified in saying, "m…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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133: Break the React & Regret Cycle to Reclaim Your Power w/ Christian de la Huerta 42:40

9M ago42:40

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Mainstream parenting (aka the parenting most of us received, and that most of us are trying to move away from) often relies solely on power currencies that are inherently damaging to relationships: fear, control, and hierarchy. If any of those are present in a romantic relationship, we know (even if we can't always see it from the inside) that it's…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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132: Parenting as a Spiritual Journey with Mary Van Geffen 46:16

10M ago46:16

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If you were able to listen to the bonus episode last week, let me know if it helped you in dealing with a spirited child who is stuck in their big feelings (if you have one), I always love hearing from you! To continue the conversation around this topic, we will talk about how parenting a challenging, strong-willed kiddo can be seen as a spiritual …

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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Bonus: Live Coaching - How to Help A Kid When They Are Stuck In Their Big Feelings 30:56

10M ago30:56

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Listen in to this coaching session with a wonderful mom from my BalancingU Membership community as I help her problem solve how to help her spirited kiddo who is struggling to move past his strong feelings. Free (anonymous if you prefer) coaching on the podcast is a perk of being in my BalancingU membership. For more show notes, visit www.laurafr…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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131: Keeping Kids Safe with Jen Szeghi 34:22

10M ago34:22

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In this episode I am joined by a special guest, Jennifer Szeghi. She is a parenting expert and the founder of Successful Parenting. Here's a summary of our conversation: What we can do as parents to keep our kids safe Having a conversation with kids on developing a healthy relationship with their bodies Protecting Your Child from unsafe adults (and…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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130: Helping Your Child Get Comfortable With Going To Therapy with Jamie Edelbrock 22:25

10M ago22:25

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If you are a parent to a kiddo who is struggling with behavior issues, anxiety, or ADHD, my heart goes out to all of you. Please know that you are not alone. There is support available to you and that is why for this week's episode, we are going to talk about what we can do when one of our kids need help. This is something I have coached a few moms…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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129: Supporting Anxious Kids without Making Things Worse with Dawn Friedman 42:28

10M ago42:28

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For this week's episode on The Balanced Parent Podcast, we are going to dig in into childhood anxiety and specifically delve into the most common missteps that well-meaning parents of anxious kids make that actually end up increasing anxiety in the long run. As a parent to an anxious kiddo, I've found myself caught in a few of these traps and I thi…

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Helping Children Thrive

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Episode 27: Holistically Supporting Your child with ADHD with Dr Elisa Song 35:10

10M ago35:10

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Dr. Elisa Song is an integrative pediatrician, pediatric Functional Medicine expert, and mama. In her integrative pediatric practice, Whole Family Wellness, she’s helped 1000s of kids get to the root causes of their health concerns and helped their parents understand how to help their children thrive— body, mind, and spirit—by integrating conventio…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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128: How to Raise Anti-Racist Children with Britt Hawthorne 42:39

11M ago42:39

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I know we all want a better world for our children, that's a big part of why you're on this respectful parenting journey with me, right? At some level, most of us believe that by raising our children with dignity, respect, and emotional intelligence, we will send out emotionally healthy, whole children who know how to stand up for themselves, what …

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Helping Children Thrive

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Episode 26: How a resilient Mom recovered her son from ADHD, Naturally 39:08

11M ago39:08

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Welcome to Season 2 of the Helping Children Thrive Podcast. Since airing season 1, I have taken the decision to focus my practice towards serving families of children who are either diagnosed or suspected of ADHD. Keeping in view of this shift, in this new season, I will talk about and investigate various themes in a functional, biomedical approach…

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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127: Coping with ADHD as a Mom with Patricia Sung 38:29

11M ago38:29

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ADHD is getting a lot of buzz out there in the world recently, and many adults, especially woman (who as girls perhaps had their symptoms overlooked) are getting diagnosed, sometimes alongside their kids. I've spoken to quite a few of you who have gone through this process and so many of you have expressed initial feelings of relief, that there is …

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The Balanced Parent Podcast

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126: College or Not Series: Helping Your Child Find Their Purpose w/ Greg and Beth Langston 35:19

11M ago35:19

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This week's episode is the final installment of our College or Not Series. I've heard from so many of you that you've been enjoying the series, even those of you with littles, and I'm so glad to hear that! When I was navigating decisions about my future as a child and teen, college was the *only* option presented to me by my family full of teachers…

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