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Hunter talks about 6 Ways To Stay Calm With Challenging Kids.Do you have challenging kids? Most of our worst parenting happens when we lose it. If we stay calm instead, we can de-escalate situations and parent more thoughtfully. In this episode, you’ll learn from Hunter Clarke-Fields, Mindful Mama Mentor HOW to respond with calm to your child. Understand the biology of your stress response How to train your mind to be less reactive Why you can stop “fixing” your kids and what to do instead. The magic saying to help you chill out.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

Talking to Jeff Warren was like talking to my long-lost meditation friend who totally “got it.” His story about how meditation helped him notice the “neurotic ways he was in pain,” will help you understand the power of this practice at a deeper level.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Everyone can experience the sacred dimension of practice no matter what your background is. 2. The most important equation all humans need to know is: SUFFERING = PAIN X RESISTANCE. 3. Teaching meditation to kids teaches “existence skills” - how to be more compassionate and sane.Jeff Warren is a meditation teacher and writer, co-author of “Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics,” and author of “The Head Trip,” a guidebook to waking, sleeping and dreaming. Find out more about Jeff at JeffWarren.org.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

What do you do when you have little kids and your life falls apart? Cheryl Jones knows that answer to this question all too well. She discovered that her marriage was unravelling at at child's birthday party. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Social conditioning has lead us not to recognize things in our life as loss. We have to acknowledge what the loss is. We tend to do that to “be strong” for our families. If we don’t acknowledge, it shows up somewhere else. 2. Self-care is not a “nice to have.” 3. How striving sucks the joy out of a day. Non-striving is an attitude of mindfulness - it’s about how we’re going about achieving our goals.Cheryl Jones, M.A., is a wellness strategist, keynote speaker, and author. She is a mindfulness, resilience, and well-being expert focused on empowering women to grow, thrive, and lead. Find out more about Cheryl at www.themindfulpath.comFan 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 Carla Naumburg about How to Make Time For MindfulnessSome big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Meditation’s impact is dose-dependant. The more you do it, the more you experience the benefits. 2. Consistency is more important than time. What you do every day a little bit matters more than what you do once a week. 3. You can be creative about how you meditate! It can be lying down, in the car, and more.Sometimes the biggest challenge in learning a new practice like meditation is figuring out how to fit it into your routine. We have those days when it is a feat to even have showered, let alone setting time aside to sit quietly and meditate.Mentioned in this episode: Debunking the 5 Most Common Meditation Myths by Light Watkins.What's your takeaway? Start the conversation in the comments. Find out more about Carla Naumburg - her books, Parenting In the Present Moment and Ready, Set, Breathe, more of her writing, and how to work with her at CarlaNaumburg.com.At the end add: 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

A powerful and vulnerable conversation about the humbling power of parenting, fear, the nature of our thoughts, how to grow and change, and more.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Fierce Kindness is a constant, lifelong practice and state of mind. 2. It’s essential to become the observer and not listen to everything you tell yourself. Melanie calls this accountability for how you are talking to yourself. 3. How do we reconcile radical accountability with the things we have no control over? Melanie says by beginning again. Things don’t need to be complicated to be effective, and sometimes change happens very quickly!Mama, teacher, author and kindness activist, Mel has taught yoga since 2005. She’s the author of Kitchen Yoga and Fierce Kindness; Be a Positive Force for Change. Mel shares tested tools to create Joy, Growth and Freedom. Find out more about Melanie at melaniesalvatoreaugust.com.What's your takeaway? Start the conversation here.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

Be prepared to have the ground under your feet shifted by the powerful wisdom of Hal Runkel. He’ll question your basic beliefs and transform the way you think about parenting.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. The most damaging lie of parenting is that we are responsible FOR our children. 2. Kids are born to test us. Parenting asks us that we become grown ups and we do that by becoming less reactive and taking back the power over our emotional responses. 3. The mandate for self-care in the Christian and Hebrew traditions in “Love thy neighbor as you love thyself.” And the tough question that makes us really confront that.Hal Runkel, Life, Love & Leadership Coach is the New York Times Bestselling Author of ScreamFree Parenting, helping parents create the family life they want most by learning to pause more and react less.  Click here to leave a comment about this episode!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 Dr. Dan Siegel about The Yes Brain.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Learning the importance of a “yes” brain - receptive, present, and open versus the reactivity and rigidity of the “no” brain. 2. We can build resilience in our children by teaching kids what it feels like to be in the “yes” brain mode and widen their window of tolerance for uncomfortable feelings. 3. We can use our minds to actually change the brain’s function and structure.Dan Siegel is known as a mindfulness expert and for his work developing the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Siegel is Founding Co-Director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. He has written five parenting books, including the three New York Times bestsellers Brainstorm; The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, and Parenting from the Inside Out with Mary Hartzell. Dr. Siegel's unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts exciting and accessible has led him to be invited to everyone from Pope John Paul II to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His latest book is The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D. Learn more at DrDanSiegel.com. Share your own insights here - start the conversation!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

What are the good parenting habits that we should be cultivating? And what are the bad habits that you should drop like a stinky toddler shoe? Perhaps, we need to reframe this whole conversation in a more mindful way!Hunter and Carla discuss habits like self-care, self-compassion, forgiveness, fun, outside time, and more. What are the bad (or, “unskillful”) parenting habits? Berating yourself when you miss the mark, perfectionism, not taking care of yourself, too much screen and/or social media time and more.What's your worst parenting habit? Start the conversation in the comments. Find out more about Carla Naumburg - her books, Parenting In the Present Moment and Ready, Set, Breathe, more of her writing, and how to work with her at CarlaNaumburg.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 responds to the Parkland Florida high school shooting and offers ways to create change in your own life and family. Click here to start the conversation about this!ABOUT HUNTER CLARKE-FIELDS: Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindfulness 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. Hunter 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 Todd & Cathy Adams about How To Be A Zen Parent.Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. The goal of zen parenting is not to pass your baggage down to your own children. Self-awareness/mindfulness helps you see what’s coming up in you in those challenging moments. 2. They value discussion over discipline. The goal in the long run is not to teach them to fear us. The goal is to raise adults. The most important thing is to have a connection and a relationship. 3. When our kids are young we need an acceptance of how hard it is, AND what are the things you can let go of? How can you simplify? The only way you can take care of people is to put yourself first. 4. “It is not your child’s job to make you happy.”Todd and Cathy Adams are the hosts of the Zen Parenting Radio podcast. This is what they have to say about themselves, “We are married with three daughters. We teach self-awareness. We connect through pop culture. We believe in humor & mindfulness. We know people can be a force for good. We are Zen Parenting Radio. Learn more about them at ZenParentingRadio.com.Resources mentioned:The Gift of Failure - Jessica Lahey Mindset - Carol Dweck Brainstorm - Dr. Dan Siegel Click here to leave a comment on this episode!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