Dr. Leah Featherstone & Beka Dean
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We cut last week's episode short, so we needed another one to finish our conversation about expectations.In last week's episode we talked about the need to lower expectations if our kids are showing us with their behavior that they can't do the
This episode talks through the expectations we have for our kids, how to make sure they're realistic and look at them differently, through this new parenting lens.Can we differentiate our DESIRES for our kids from the EXPECTATIONS of our kids.
The moral of this week's episode: Nothing matters other than your relationship with your child!What doesn't matter: grades; behavior; attitude; sportsWhat does matter: Our relationship My job as a parent isn't to control my kids' behavior, get
How do we treat our kids like full human people without treating them like adults and forcing them to grow up too quickly. Let's talk about it!Treating our kids like full people simply means that we welcome all of their humanness and don't try
This episode finishes our conversation about bias, inclusion, and how our brains are wired for sameness , making these changes hard.In order to start to change our unconscious beliefs, we first have to bring it into our conscious awareness so w
This episode talks about what can sometimes be a taboo or hard topic: bias, diversity, and race. We utilize science to talk through how our brains are wired for sameness and build bias into our system, in order to protect us.For more informatio
Guess who's back!!! We're slowly getting back into the swing of things with our first episode of the new year! This episode talks about several topics and situations we encountered over the last few weeks and different approaches and suggestion
It's our last episode of 2023!! This one talks through various topics, including lying, managing big behaviors, and managing different opinions of family members. You can hear our episode on lying here and the episode when Lincoln had a hard in
Last week was all about learning what our attachment style is, now this episode takes about what to do about it.We have no control over how our attachment is developed. We do have control over how we adjust moving forward.Attachment healing can
This episode talks about adult attachmen styles, which is important for us to learn, so we can understand how we relate to others, including our children.We need to normalize all attachment styles, while also understanding that we can work towa
This episode dives deeper into the relationship between parents and adult children. What do those relationships look like now? What if parents aren't able to do what you need? How do you know if you're ready to have hard conversations?For adul
This episode is a little bit of everything, all based on situations happening in Leah's house.How do we validate anxiety without contributing to it? How do we challenge unhealthy thoughts without being invalidating? How do we just sit in the di
All parents desperately want to protect their kids, which is a great and noble goal. At the same time, overly protecting our kids in certain areas can stunt their growth and development in important ways.Many times the concept of protection all
This one is for parents of adult children, who might be learning about this type of parenting and information for the first time. How do you talk about what you wish you'd done differently? How do you repair what you now see as ruptures?Ultimat
Adoption is beautiful, necessary, and important. It's also hard and often misunderstood. This episode talks about some important ways adoption is misunderstood and how to think about it in a way that might be helpful.Subscribe, rate, and review
In this episode, we FINALLY talk about attachment, Leah's first love and truly what guides everything she does as a parent and a person.Attachment is a reciprocal relationship between people and begins to develop in utero and continues througho
This episode talks about consequences, which usually means punishment and often doesn't address the actual problem or behavior. People use these words interchangeably, but they actually are very different.Many people only know two ways to chang
Last week we talked about what zaps our resources, and this week we build on that conversation talking about how to build resources and think of resourcing as a verb.In the therapy world, resourcing someone means we're giving people tools to be
We all know when our kids are out of resources and can't handle anything. It can be challenging though to know how to respond in those situations.Things that zap our resources:HungerFatiguePainDecision makingHeavy effortPunishmentLack of connec
One of the most important skills our kids can learn is problem solving! Lots of research has shown it leads to better academic performance, self-esteem, and social skills. This episode talks through this information and gives ideas for how to d
In this episode from 2022 Leah does her own work, in front of everyone. Illustrated by an interaction with her 9-year-old, she works through her own history and how it impacts her responses to her own children.We often assign very negative in
This episode talks through how the successes and challenges of our kids say nothing about us as parents, even though many of us feel like it does and let this drive our response and parenting style.We all have different areas that are important
Is it anger or something else? Parenting anger is so tricky and something we often don't know how to manage or discipline. In this episode we talk through it all.Kids need to learn ways to manage ALL emotions, not just anger. When we single out
Today we talk about the ongoing reactions and hard behaviors with Leah's 10-year-old son and she is trying to navigate it and make sense of his behavior and their relationship.Going through challening seasons with our kids can be really challen
It seems to be harder and harder for parents to manage their emotions, and this episode talks through why that is and what we can actually do to try to develop skills to manage ourselves when we're triggered and dysregulated.Most of the time wh
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