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Hunter talks to Alison Canavan about Care & Keeping of Mum.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. You can’t avoid the work. There are no shortcuts. 2. Healing is an accumulation of small things that you do. 3. We only get answers through quiet. When you’re not giving yourself any silence, you can’t grow.Alison Canavan is an award winning author of wellness book “Minding Mum”, a health and wellness coach, Master NLP Practioner, motivational speaker and mindfulness facilitator. Having travelled the world as one of Ireland’s most successful international models for nearly two decades, in recent years she has devoted her time to her greatest passion: true health and wellbeing.Fan of the Mindful Mama Podcast? Support it by leaving a quick review -----> on iTunes or on Stitcher (or wherever you listen!)ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches overstressed moms on how to cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in yoga & mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide, and is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course.Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter talks to Cedric Bertelli about Turn On Your Healing Superpower.Can we resolve emotional difficulties in ourselves and our children permanently? Cedric Bertelli talks to us about Tipi, a way to turn on the body’s amazing natural capacity for healing through sensory reliving.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. We may not need to know why we’re feeling difficult emotions or where it’s coming from to heal. 2. This natural capacity to heal is available to all of us. 3. I’m intrigued! And I’m going to test it out and follow up.Cedric Bertelli is an expert in emotional regulation and the first and only person certified to teach the revolutionary emotional healing technique -- Tipi -- in the United States.Fan of the Mindful Mama Podcast? Support it by leaving a quick review -----> on iTunes or on Stitcher (or wherever you listen!)ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches overstressed moms on how to cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in yoga & mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide, and is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course.Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this very first on air coaching session, I talk to Christine, a Mindful Parenting alumni, who is struggling with getting her 4 and ¾ year-old son out the door.Listen in as we problem solve this issue so that she can get out the door and keep her relationship with her son close. Christine shares about her journey and what’s coming ahead. Hear her takeaway and how it goes much deeper than daily parenting matters!Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Christine and her son have a conflict of NEEDS 2. How meditation changed her life 3. Our kids reflecting back our worst habitsFan of the Mindful Mama Podcast? Support it by leaving a quick review -----> on iTunes or on Stitcher (or wherever you listen!)ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches overstressed moms on how to cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in yoga & mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide, and is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course.Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter talks to Anna Seewald about Three Steps to Stop Yelling.We know in our gut that it’s harmful to yell, but it’s so hard to stop. In this episode Anna Seewald comes back to talk about how yelling affects children and the three steps you need to stop.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Yelling is a sign that you need to pay attention to your overall stress level. It’s time to reduce and manage your stress. 2. We need to tell our brain that we are safe in that moment. Your mind sees your child as a threat. 3. Yelling affects children’s crucial brain development, so the amount of yelling can determine the trajectory of your child’s entire life.Anna Seewald is the founder of Authentic Parenting. She is a speaker, author, podcaster and a parent educator. With background in psychology and education and working with kids for nearly 18 years, today she help parents.Fan of the Mindful Mama Podcast? Support it by leaving a quick review -----> on iTunes or on Stitcher (or wherever you listen!)ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches overstressed moms on how to cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in yoga & mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide, and is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course.Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter talks to Joanna Faber & Julie King about How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Accepting kids’ negative feelings is vital to happy, healthy relationships. 2. Threatening kids is less effective for cultivating cooperation and creates a backwash of resentment. 3. It’s not easy to change how you speak to your kids! We naturally want to fix their problems.Joanna Faber and Julie King are co-authors of How To Talk So LITTLE Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7, as well as the app Parenting Hero, and the soon-to-be-released app, Pocket Parent. Joanna and Julie lead workshops, consult with parents, and give lectures and parent education presentations across the United States and internationally. They can be reached at HowToTalkSoLittleKidsWillListen.com.Fan of the Mindful Mama Podcast? Support it by leaving a quick review -----> on iTunes or on Stitcher (or wherever you listen!)ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches overstressed moms on how to cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in yoga & mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide, and is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course.Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My conversation with Suzanne Tucker was chock full of powerful lessons about life and parenting. She’s got the heart and the research behind her insights on expectations, goals, understanding the brain and play. Suzanne helps parents create rituals of connection that teach children the most invaluable tool they have in this world: emotional intelligence.Some big takeaways from this episode include: Our brain is ever ADAPTABLE and we can flip situations to see every challenge as a gift. Suzanne’s powerful parenting mantra! Punishment and boundaries are two different things. Find out which one creates learning. Suzanne Tucker is a parent educator and founder of Generation Mindful. Her life purpose is to help people connect. She is the founder of Generation Mindful, a line of educational tools and toys that nurture emotional intelligence playfully. Learn more about Suzanne at GenMindful.com.Fan of the Mindful Mama Podcast? Support it by leaving a quick review -----> on iTunes or on Stitcher (or wherever you listen!)ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches overstressed moms on how to cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in yoga & mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide, and is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course.Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter talks about Does Punishment Work?When things go haywire in our families and we’re stressed out, we fall back on old parenting techniques that seem to work, like punishment. But does it really work? In this episode, Hunter answers that question for caring parents who also want to have control over their children.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. What do children learn from punishment. 2. Why focusing your child on the “consequence” can make them self-centered. 3. What are the important questions to ask.Fan of the Mindful Mama Podcast? Support it by leaving a quick review -----> on iTunes or on Stitcher (or wherever you listen!)ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches overstressed moms on how to cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in yoga & mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide, and is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course.Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter talks to Katherine Lewis about Good News About Bad Behavior.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Kids don’t have the same ability to manage thoughts and feelings as they did 30 years ago. They have less self-control now. 2. Rewards actually discourage the behavior you want to incentivize. 3. The 3 common elements to the parenting paths that work.Katherine Reynolds Lewis is an award-winning independent journalist, author and speaker based in the Washington D.C. area. Her book, The Good News About Bad Behavior, explains why modern kids are so undisciplined and tells the stories of innovators who are rebuilding lost self-control, resolving family conflict and changing the trajectory of young lives. Katherine is a certified parent educator with the Parent Encouragement Program in Kensington, Md.For every Mindful Mama who wants the stats to show that yelling and punishment are counterproductive, I have good news for you, and her name is Katherine Reynolds Lewis. Her book, The Good News About Bad Behavior, explains why modern kids are so undisciplined and tells us about more heart-centered and effective ways to parent.Fan of the Mindful Mama Podcast? Support it by leaving a quick review -----> on iTunes or on Stitcher (or wherever you listen!)ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches overstressed moms on how to cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in yoga & mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide, and is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course.Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mindful Mama Podcast is going on a summer recess for a month or so. Hunter takes a few minutes to explain why she's pressing the PAUSE button right now and what to expect when the podcast returns. ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches overstressed moms on how to cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in yoga & mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide, and is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course.Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter talks to Jenny Berk about How To Intuitively Eat & Love Your Body.Today you get permission to throw away your scale and all the “rules” about eating. It’s time to tune into your inner wisdom for greater health and happiness.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. You can’t tell on the outside who struggles with food. 2. Why you should tune inward to your own wisdom rather than than listen to dieting experts. 3. Implications for parenting: It’s so natural to eat intuitively yet so foreign to many people because we’ve been indoctrinated at a young age to allow other people to tell us how to nourish ourselves.Jenny Berk is an Eating Psychology Coach, Mindful Eating expert, motivational speaker and best-selling author. She helps women, men and teens heal their relationship with food and bodies. WEBSITE & LINK: www.jennyedencoaching.comFan of the Mindful Mama Podcast? Support it by leaving a quick review -----> on iTunes or on Stitcher (or wherever you listen!)Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindful mama mentor. She coaches overstressed moms on how to cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Hunter has over 20 years of experience in yoga & mindfulness practices. She has taught thousands worldwide, and is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course.Download the audio training, Mindfulness For Moms (The Superpower You Need) for free! It's at mindfulmomguide.com. Find more podcasts, blog posts, free resources, and how to work with Hunter at MindfulMamaMentor.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices