Podcast Episodes

Ep 219: 20 Non-Therapy Therapeutic Interventions

If your kid refuses therapy, what other options are there?

Or maybe they don’t refuse therapy, but you’d still like to increase the therapeutic support for your child and family.

Here are 20 different …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep 218: Questions to ask a Potential Therapist

Episode 218

Have you ever wondered what types of questions you should ask a new therapist to assess how well they understand behaviors through the lens of the nervous system?

No need to take notes during this epi…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep. 217: Co-Regulating? Or Masking?

Episode 217

Kids with vulnerable nervous systems need more co-regulation than other kids their age and yes it’s exhausting.

Did you know it’s possible to be GOOD exhausted and not just BAD exhausted?!?! 

It’s you’…

Published on 5 months ago

Ep. 216: "On Purpose" Behavior

Episode 216

Have you ever wondered how those behaviors that feel 'on purpose' fit into this nervous system approach?

They feel so intentional! Like there is so much Owl-brain thought involved.

But they certainly a…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Ep. 215: The #1 Ingredient of Self Regulation

Episode 215

Monitoring and modifying are the two essential elements of regulation. ~ Dr. Dan Siegel

When we really understand what makes up the skill of self-regulation, we can be more intentional about helping o…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

EP 214: Helping Kids with Medical Trauma with Rose LaPiere

Episode 214

Medical trauma can feel confusing because in many circumstances, we are seeking out the very medical interventions that our kids experience as traumatic. 

Trauma is in the eye of the beholder. Some ki…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep. 213: Resentment & Parenting

Episode 213

Resentment. We’ve all felt it.

Very little about this parenting journey has gone according to plan.

We’ve done the hard work- the never-ending work actually - of rewiring everything we thought we knew …

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Ep. 212: Are We Just Rewarding Bad Behavior?

Episode 212

One of the harder things to navigate when shifting to a nervous system lens on behavior is the feeling that a lot of the strategies seem like they are rewarding bad behavior.

Strategies that invite re…

Published on 6 months ago

Ep. 211: Hard? Too Hard? For PARENTS!!!

Episode 211

We talk a lot about hard very too hard for your kids (thanks Amanda Diekman for that hard vs. too hard language!).

But have you considered applying that concept to yourself? 

This is intensive parentin…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

{BONUS} Focus on the Nervous System to Change Behavior- webinar replay

This BONUS episode is the audio from my FREE webinar, Focus on the Nervous System to Change Behavior.

This webinar aired lived on 02/04/2025. 

You can watch the video webinar for free over at https://R…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago