
505: Minimizing Power Struggles (from Toddlers to Teens) // Denaye Barahona
The power struggles in our home used to be about car seats and leaving the park. Now they're about phones, sleepovers, and YouTube. But whet...
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The power struggles in our home used to be about car seats and leaving the park. Now they're about phones, sleepovers, and YouTube. But whet...

The first time my therapist asked me to picture "little Rachel" on the playground, glasses and all, and offer her the comfort she needed, I...

When I interviewed Shawnee for this episode, I had to chuckle, because one of the things she listed as soul-care was volunteering for her ki...

A few years ago, I did something in a moment of anger that I'm still a little embarrassed to talk about. It involved one of my kids, a Satur...

A few weeks ago, I wasn't sure I was going to open enrollment for my Self-Assured Motherhood Program this year. Of all the work I do, SAM is...

The sign-ups have started coming in. Fall sports, piano, dance, school plays โ it's a lot. And while we know we want our kids to be involved...

Consistency has never come easily to me. I'm a scattered creative, I have ADHD, and I have struggled with routines and habits for pretty muc...

My instinct, when one of my kids is struggling, is to solve it, save them from it, or to worry about it so intensely that the worrying becom...

What you look for, you will find. I have believed that about motherhood for a long time now, long enough that I built a whole journal around...

I have a confession. Of the six principles I teach in Self-Assured Motherhood, soul-care is the one where I'm still not where I want to be....

After years and years of therapy, I have gotten pretty good at setting boundaries with almost everyone in my life. My weakest area, by far,...

I have spent so much time, energy, and money over the years trying to get good at the things I am simply not good at. Routines are my big on...

It's back-to-school season, and our kids are about to be assessed on their reading, their math, and their writing. But what if we gave ourse...

I have never been much of a meditator. Sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor, waiting for my brain to go quiet, has never once worked for...

If the back-to-school season is already creeping up on you (the supply lists, the new routines, the mental math of who needs to be where and...

With back-to-school season right around the corner, I keep thinking about a moment from my own high school years โ a moment so small I barel...

Lately, my kids have been watching a lot of TV. More than I'd like to admit. And for a while, I let myself spiral about it. What kind of mom...

Grief has been close to my family lately, and in the weeks since losing my brother-in-law Logan, I've found myself returning again and again...

I have been a writer my whole life. Long before this podcast existed, writing was how I made sense of my hardest seasons, how I figured out...

I'm a word person. (Occupational hazard of spending years as an English teacher, I suppose.) I notice when words shift โ when something that...