Today is a solo show – thank you for tuning in this week!  Sit back and take in the thoughts and ideas that are currently showing up for me and in our community.

A Free Spirit Life

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Todays Content

• Together Live event with Glennon Doyle and friends
• Belonging and significance as an underlying principle of PD
• Humans are great perceivers, not great interpreters
• Growing relationship while guiding them to learn from mistakes is what Positive Parenting is all about
• Shopping cart analogy
• My child is going to learn what they need through mistakes and experiences
• Our conditioning gets in our way when we choose to parent this way
• Fear shows up – controlling and rigid, what is the right thing to do?
• The space between authoritarian and permissive styles
• Brene Brown – check her out Braving the Wilderness
• True belonging is something inside of us, requires trust
• Conscious parenting requires us to trust our children, their foundation and relationship
• Our declaration of using PD can make others uncomfortable
• My vision is to have confident, capable kids who can navigate the world with kindness and assertive – interruptions to the ugly in the world
• You have to be who you are
• So easy as the parent to get up in their (our children’s) grill
• Children get to DESIGN themselves
• Taking a look at our own modeling, self acceptance, recognizing fear
• My children can only hear their soul’s voice is to release my fear and trust
• What are your thoughts?? Share in the Live and Love with Joyful Courage FB Group
• GIVEAWAY!! Win a copy of Love Warrior by writing a review of the Joyful Courage Podcast on iTunes

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Meet Alison Smith, mother to two adorable kids, proud wife, former elementary school teacher  and now teacher coach, advocate and revolutionary in win/win parenting.  Like many of us Alison had visions of being the best, doing the best and really being that one adult that impacted her students lives powerfully.  As a self identified recovering perfectionist, Alison entered the teaching world and become a mother. It did not take long to identify that something in the work with children had to change. Fueled by her passion and her journey, Aliso identified a need for teachers to feel supported in their work.  In her coaching, teachers are inspired and supported to be the most authentic, joyful and wholehearted teacher they can be.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Alison shares Bonnie Harris’ iceberg analogy and how it guides parents to identify the underlying root of a child’s behavior.
• Like a medical issue, we often treat the symptom until the symptoms persist then we are forced to find the root cause.
• Realizing that the child’s behavior that triggers us is the root cause of our reaction and inability to connect and show up best for the child.
• Only when we dig into our roots and what is underneath our icebergs can we better guide our children through their own experiences.
• Triggers can cause us to panic and ‘future trip’ into fear about our child’s behavior, enabling us into unhelpful methods.
• Using our curiosity to dig to the root - is my child hungry, tired, overstimulated, cold, hot, uncomfortable, lonely?.
• Once we identify our triggers we can move into the practice of showing up the way our kids need us to.  We chose connection and enforcement that they matter.
• Often we misjudge our kids motivation and intention leading to disconnection and an increase in the child’s mischief.
• Once a parent gets it and truly understands the process begins within the parent first then the practice strengthens and the child, family and parent begin to thrive.
• There is no one perfect general response to situations with your child.  
• Practicing prevention, in-the-moment and then repair strategies alleviate and get to the root of the issue.
• An open conversation on how parenting is shifting from authoritarian to permissive.  Why parents today need something to change and are willing to find the courage to revolutionize how the adult/child relationship evolves.

 Where to find Alison:

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Mother’s Journey to Joyful Courage

PNW FALL TOUR!!

Registration remains open for my Bellingham, Seattle, Portland AND BOISE events and SPACE IS LIMITED so you are going to want to sign up NOW and reserve your spot.

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Coaching with Casey

Are you playing with the idea of one on one coaching? I currently have a few spots available in my schedule and would LOVE to work with you.

Coaching with Casey is a three month commitment. We will explore your vision for parenting and even bigger, how you want to show up for your life. We explore mindset, and how shifts in mindset create big shifts in relationship. And finally, we deep dive into the tools and strategies of Positive Discipline for teaching, modeling and practicing life skills.

Coaching is an investment. If you would like to find out more, and explore the possibility that coaching is a good fit for you, schedule a 20 minute explore call.  Click here and we will schedule our call!

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Parenting from within takes practice practice practice. What are the significant tools we need to really delve within? Inside of us exists what we need to connect to the way we want to parent.  Using these tools at our disposal will allow us to open up, connect, reset and navigate the challenges that come with development. Just like we are in constant practice it’s key to continue the conversation! Our children are not the only humans in development.

 What you will hear

• The emotional journey of choosing Positive Parenting
• Is your inner voice helping or hindering your practice
• Our old stories can create blocks when we practice PD
• What shows up when our children touch on those old stories (triggers)
• How we talk to ourselves when it seems everyone around us has it together
• Where do we chose to sit when we are in anger, resentment and “stuckness”
• Why are you choosing PD and/or Conscious Parenting?
• What are the themes that drive us to want to parent this way?
• What themes to we use to keep us on a pendulum
• Once we choose into the practice we can create habits that navigate through these themes and stories
• Awareness is the first step to helping us acknowledge the triggers so we can create a connection into this parenting journey
• This is a collective journey
• Mindfulness with ground us into the practice and what we need
• Using mindfulness will bring you into your biggest tool- your body, senses, feelings and emotions
• Listening to your body is accepting the messages and signals you are sending to your conscious
• What do you notice in challenging situations?
• Where do your signals sit? Belly? Shoulders? Chest?
• Follow the wisdom your body is sending.
• Fears cloud our vision and takes us into the “what ifs”
• Getting curious allows us to approach our children without getting stuck in the fog
• How to use the neutrality of your body to shift into a better experience
• Shifting can open us up the possibility that we are the best parent for our kids and we can make repairs

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Podcast Highlight:

In Her Voice, By Kelly Covers

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Mother’s Journey to Joyful Courage

PNW FALL TOUR!!

I am so so SO happy and excited to get to share ALL the details about this amazing workshop! Registration is now open for my Bellingham, Seattle, Portland AND BOISE events and SPACE IS LIMITED so you are going to want to sign up NOW and reserve your spot.

www.joyfulcourage.com/mothersjourney

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Coaching with Casey

Are you playing with the idea of one on one coaching? I currently have a few spots available in my schedule and would LOVE to work with you.

Coaching with Casey is a three month commitment. We will explore your vision for parenting and even bigger, how you want to show up for your life. We explore mindset, and how shifts in mindset create big shifts in relationship. And finally, we deep dive into the tools and strategies of Positive Discipline for teaching, modeling and practicing life skills.

Coaching is an investment. If you would like to find out more, and explore the possibility that coaching is a good fit for you, schedule a 20 minute explore call.  Click here and we will schedule our call!

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Be a Subscriber

Make sure to SUBSCRIBE to the Joyful Courage Podcast on iTunes to get the latest shows STRAIGHT to your device!!  AND PLEASE rate and review the Joyful Courage Parenting Podcast on iTunes to help me spread the show to an ever larger audience!!

CLICK HERE to watch a video that shows up how to subscribe with your iPhone!

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Meredith Masony is on the podcast today!!  She blogs at That’s Inappropriate and loves to share her stories about, life, marriage, motherhood, and her quest to be the best person she can be. Meredith has three kids ages 10, 7, 5. Her motto is “I’ll say it, so you don’t have to.” Life is messy, and it’s OK to talk about it. She invites all parents to join her on her search for sanity and hopefully you can have a few laughs along the way.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• The parenting struggle is real
• Meredith opens up about the first few years with little ones
• Feeling stuck, alone and eventually facing a difficult life event moved her to speak out
• We are not alone, we all feel lost at some point
• Sharing the hard parts of the journey is the first step in thriving though it
• You deserve more than to survive
• Parents deserve to thrive
• Creating a like-experiencing community can support us through even the most mundane events, potty training anyone?
• Humor is key! Sometimes the truth and humor are all you need to feel connected
• How to handle overnight success and sticking with your purpose
• The importance of modeling purpose
• Why having our own goals outside of our kids is important
• Balance is tough
• Letting go of ‘mom-guilt’

Where to find Meredith:

Website l Facebook I Instagram l Twitter l You Tube

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Mother’s Journey to Joyful Courage

PNW FALL TOUR!!

I am so so SO happy and excited to get to share ALL the details about this amazing workshop! Registration is now open for my Bellingham, Seattle, Portland AND BOISE events and SPACE IS LIMITED so you are going to want to sign up NOW and reserve your spot.

www.joyfulcourage.com/mothersjourney

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Coaching with Casey

Are you playing with the idea of one on one coaching? I currently have a few spots available in my schedule and would LOVE to work with you.

Coaching with Casey is a three month commitment. We will explore your vision for parenting and even bigger, how you want to show up for your life. We explore mindset, and how shifts in mindset create big shifts in relationship. And finally, we deep dive into the tools and strategies of Positive Discipline for teaching, modeling and practicing life skills.

Coaching is an investment. If you would like to find out more, and explore the possibility that coaching is a good fit for you, schedule a 20 minute explore call.  Click here and we will schedule our call!

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Be a Subscriber

Make sure to SUBSCRIBE to the Joyful Courage Podcast on iTunes to get the latest shows STRAIGHT to your device!!  AND PLEASE rate and review the Joyful Courage Parenting Podcast on iTunes to help me spread the show to an ever larger audience!!

CLICK HERE to watch a video that shows up how to subscribe with your iPhone!