Thrive Like A Parent

Myths of Conscious and Gentle Parenting

EP: 20 On this week's episode of Thrive Like a Parent podcast Dr. B will discuss the myths of gentle parenting and conscious parenting.
Dr. B will discuss the differences between the neurosensory based parenting method that she teaches versus principles of gentle parenting and conscious parenting.
Dr. B focuses on helping you understand what needs, support and guidance your child requires to help them learn how to long term INDEPENDENTLY, support and regulate their nervous system.
That's where parenthood needs to get to. The bottom line is understanding your child's brain and understanding your brain will help you feel less burnt out and exhausted and depleted. Support your brain and your body to truly THRIVE in parenthood.

How to Release Guilt in Parenthood

EP:19 What does guilt mean?
Guilt in a noun form is the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime.
Guilty in a verb form is to make someone feel guilty, especially in order to induce them to do something.
We as parents rip ourselves apart with guilt and shame. This creates that narrative or pattern within your brain, it's not going to do any positive.
If you are feeling that guilt every single day, ask yourself:
Is that guilt serving me?
Is it allowing me to see all the beautiful parts of me and what I am doing?
Is it allowing me to show up as my best self for my children and for myself in parenthood?
And change the narrative within your brain because the guilt and shame is causing anxiety, it's causing depression, it's causing a lot of mental health because you're ripping yourself apart.
Dr. B has gone through so much guilt through her own parenthood and had to learn how to release that through understanding sensory and emotional regulation, doing this on herself and doing this WITH her kids.
Join Dr. b on this week's episode of THRIVE Like a Parent podcast to dive into the work of releasing guilt in parenthood.

Finding Your Voice in Parenthood

EP:18 One of the biggest reasons Dr. B did this work for herself and one of the biggest reasons that she now unapologetically owns her voice in parenthood is because she wants to teach her children how to own their own voices.
The number one reason people stop themselves is because they say this feels selfish. The discomfort that shows up within their brain in their body stops them from allowing themselves to go after and get the thing that they know they most desperately need, want and longed for, which is support to figure out how to do this.
If you can start requesting your needs and allow your partner to also request their needs, you will find your voice, you will be able to show up for yourself, you will be able to support your brain and your body in a way that it truly needs. This shift will allow you to give so much more back to your partnership and to your children.
Join Dr. B on this week's episode of Thrive Like a Parent podcast to dive into her journey of finding her voice and unapologetically and authentically showing up for herself and her children.

Another Layer of My Grief Story

EP:17 Join Dr. B on this week's episode of the THRIVE Like a Parent Podcast as she shares another layer of her grief story.
If you yourself are struggling, if you are a caretaker, or a support to anyone who is not doing well, mentally, emotionally, physically this episode is for you.
Join Dr. B as she shares some of her personal stories about what it looks like to support a loved one through mental illness.
Dr. B believes that TALKING IS PROCESSING. You get to talk about the things that matter most, you get to talk about your deep, dark, and hidden.
Tune in with Dr. B as she looks back at what it was like supporting her husband while he battled severe depression and anxiety in hiding from the world outside their home.

Why It’s So Hard To Set Boundaries With Our Children?

EP:16 On this episode of THRIVE Like a Parent podcast Dr. B will dive deep into why it's hard for us to set healthy boundaries with our children.
Why is it important?
How to support yourself when setting a boundary with your child?
And the emotional brain benefits of what it means to set boundaries with your children.
The hard part comes when they begin to show up as individual humans!
Dr. B personally believes that is the work of our PARENTHOOD Life. Helping our children understand how to have boundaries for themselves and you recognize how to step away, inch by inch, very slowly.
Your child's brain needs to learn that they can sit in discomfort and still be safe. And that's how we learn.
Join Dr. B on this week's episode of Thrive Like a Parent podcast to learn exactly HOW TO set healthy boundaries with our children AND support them through the discomfort of stepping into being a self-sufficient human.

Parenting in Widowhood

EP:15 Join Dr. B on this episode of the Thrive Like a Parent podcast to discuss the journey of parenting in widowhood. On this episode she will be joined by Emily Toledo, a fellow widow sister and a Thrive Certified Coach.
There is no Hall Pass for grief. We still have to get out of bed and show up for our children, there is NOT A HALL PASS so we have to be able to step into looking at our children and sharing. I feel sad today or just crying in front of them or saying I just feel frustrated.
Allow it, let it out and show your children how to truly feel emotions.
Dr. B's hope is that this will help a lot of moms and dads and anyone who's listening to be able to know that it's okay to talk about and it's okay to have highs and lows and all the in between. All of our stories matter, ALL OF THEM MATTER.
XOXO,
Dr. B

How is Judgement on Social Media and Cyberbullying Affecting Your Child?

EP:14 On this episode of THRIVE Like a Parent podcast Dr. B is going to talk to you about judgment and cyber bullies and how that affects us as HUMANS and how that affects our children and the concerns that she has.
Social media has become a very influential part of the world we live in today. It especially affects our children and their particular generation.
There is so much hate and cruelty that Dr. B herself has experienced in the last few years as she slowly began to share her story. This is very concerning ESPECIALLY for our children. The world they are growing up in is NOT the world that we grew up in. We didn't have likes, dms, comments that could traumatically impact the rest of our lives.
There is no doubt that your child will one day want a social media page.
Therefore it's okay to have boundaries with that for your children because we don't know what our children do on their phones behind the closed doors of their bedrooms.
The only solution Dr. B sees in supporting our children through this, and making changes and shifts, is to support our children first and learning how to do that on a sensory level and supporting their mental health. Making sure that our connections with our children are strong.
If we help our children understand how to connect emotionally with others, the hate and the ripping apart of others and the judgment will slow down.
Focus on that, the rest will fade away and pan itself out.
Join Dr. B as she talks through her own experiences with cyberbullying and judgement through social media.

Why is My Kid Always Snacking?

EP:13 Today Dr. B is going to talk to you about why your kiddos snack so much, why they request snacks so much AND how to stop all the snacking.
Dr. B herself, used to allow this in her home, way, way, way, way, way back in the day, because it was a simple, easy fix to get your kiddos to stop nagging you right when you're exhausted and simply done and they want something to be able to occupy themselves, right?
Dr. B will give you tons of information today about WHY they are doing that. And then how you can support them as well as what to do in those circumstances.
We want our children to have really beautiful healthy intake, and understand a really great balance of what it looks like to have a relationship with food.
Dr. B always says your body and your brain is your compass... This 100% implies to constant snacking for kids AND adults.
Tune in with Dr. B on this week's episode of THRIVE Like a Parent Podcast to learn how you can use neuroscience-based strategies to help guide your children to a healthy relationship with food that will create a foundation for the rest of their life.

How to Slow the F Down in Parenthood

EP:12 On this episode of the Thrive Like a Parent podcast Dr. B is going to be discussing how to slow the F down in parenthood.
We go from task to task to task where we feel like we're on a hamster wheel that never ends, right? That little ball that you think of when hamsters run around all over the place, it just NEVER ENDS.
So how do we figure out how to slow down? And how do we figure out how to enjoy our life in parenthood?
The hardest part about slowing down is recognizing that you need to. Most of the time you're just on autopilot. Slowing down may not even seem like an option. You continue to go through the motions. Pushing your body and your brain to a breaking point. You get stuck on the cycle of burnout!
AND there is a very special guest on this episode. Her name is Brittany Wood. Brittany has worked with Dr. B for a very long time. She now mentors other women in Dr. B's community. Brittany is an absolute bundle of energy.
Tune in to this week's episode with us to dive deep into what it takes to SLOW THE F DOWN in parenthood!

Navigating Hard Conversations About Uncomfortable Things with Your Kids

EP:11 Join Dr. B on this episode to talk about having the hard conversations with our children about the uncomfortable things.
Dr. B first had to tell her children and use the word divorce. Mommy and daddy are getting a divorce. That wasn't so easy. Then she had to navigate having to tell her children that daddy died. Daddy's gone.
There are so many other difficult conversations that come up for us as parents, that is why it is so important for you as a parent to understand how to approach those conversations.
We don't give their little brains enough credit for all the resiliency and all the unimaginable strength that they have as little humans, it's my biggest belief that our brain needs time to heal.
The reason Dr.B created the model of how she teaches you sensory neuro based parenting is because she wants your child's whole brain to be taken care of, on the logic and emotional brain side. Which means she wants our children to know boundaries, see them, understand them, respect them, and also be able to have them themselves.
Dr. B wants her children to know that no matter what, they can ALWAYS talk to her. And if we don't share the discomfort and show and model to our children that uncomfortable conversations are okay, they can take place and we are going to survive through them. It allows their brain at a very early age to find that resiliency within their brain to get through hard conversations.
Tune in with Dr. B as she shares personal stories about some heartbreakingly hard conversations she's had with her own kids.