Finding You: with Dr. Brad Reedy

Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience and discusses the journey of parenting and how enlightenment is a process of accepting our fallibility. He talks about how owning our issues and doing our work is the first step towards awareness and a step that few people take. He talks about how to think about questions regarding boundaries with our children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy discusses how to create a support network for yourself. He talks about how our outer world mirrors our inner world. Brad explains how one must learn to require others to treat them well, instead of threatening, pleading, arguing, debating, or begging to be treated well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience and discusses journey of parenting and how enlightenment is the process of accepting our fallibility. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy discusses the Myths of Being Right, Chapter 9 of The Journey of the Heroic Parent. He talks about how the defense we set up is to protect us from being alone or abandoned. Dr. Reedy explains how being right is a counterfeit form of being who you are, being a self, being a vulnerable human being. He explains how parents can become more human and model this to their children by doing their work and discovering their authentic self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy talks about what to do when communication skills don't work. He also talks about when to negotiate boundaries and when to stay firm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy talks about how when we support our children, we must avoid trying to control them even when we think our motives are pure or will prevent them from making big mistakes. He explains how children are not capable of holding their parents’ feelings without suffering some great cost, primarily the loss of the authentic self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy destroys myths surrounding guilt and shame. discuss how guilt and shame are not effective tools in parenting and moral development. He explains how we have to tolerate feelings of guilt in order to do the right thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy takes live questions from audience members and talks on themes of when to share your feelings with your child and how to be support a sibling returning home from treatment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy discuss a central theme in his book, distinguishing control from levels of structure and strictness. He talks about how controlling parenting is toxic and involves the use of emotional coercion (shame, fear, guilt, debate, lecturing). He talks about how boundaries come from a place of self-care and demonstrate healthy psychological boundaries. He explains that permissive parents tend to be controlling because they use emotions to manipulate children and to ask children to take care of parents' emotions—he explains how this dynamic leads to a lack of a sense of self in the child. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience on parenting. He talks about how our wounds and the symptoms created to protect us can hurt those close to us. The tittle of this broadcast is taken from Dr. JD GIll's book. "The Letters of Juliet to the Knight in Rusty Armor." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.