

Authentic Parenting
Anna Seewald
Practical tools and powerful insights for trauma-informed parenting. Learn how to heal your childhood, do your own inner work, and break generational cycles—so you can raise capable, resilient, and emotionally healthy children. Each episode offers strategies and stories to bring more calm, connection, and joy to your parenting journey.
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Jun 16, 2023 • 50min
Consent, Online Grooming and Keeping Children Safe
WARNING: Mentioning of Child Sexual Abuse in the begining An important conversation with children's author Marcie Aboff, author of the Uncle Tony's Tickles and Holly-ann Martin OAM is the founder and Managing Director of Safe4Kids, with over 35 years of experience in teaching child abuse prevention education. From the importance of teaching children the correct anatomical parts to talking with children about pornography in this episode we talked about: How to help children create their safety team What to do if your child has seen pornography Why do children need to have a feelings vocabulary Why it is so important to teach children about consent Things you need to know about online grooming What your child might see on Youtube kids and how seemingly innocent search terms can lead to inappropriate results And tips on deepening your connection and trust with your children LINKS AND RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollyannmartin/ https://www.facebook.com/Safe4KidsAbusePreventionProgram/ https://www.instagram.com/safe4kids/ https://www.youtube.com/user/Thesafe4kids https://www.pinterest.com.au/safe4kids/ https://www.tiktok.com/@safe4kids?lang=en SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500. Make a one-time donation in any amount to say "Thank you!" Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening! With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

Jun 9, 2023 • 1h 3min
How to Regulate Your Nervous System
A powerful conversation with Jennifer Mann, a certified mind-body practitioner with extensive experience in the health and wellness industry. Jennifer shares her personal journey of overcoming chronic illness and introduces the concept of the polyvagal ladder, explaining how our nervous system responds to stress and trauma. The importance of body-based work Developing safety within our bodies Valuable insights into the mind-body connection Practical tools for regulating the nervous systems What does disconnection means and how to reconnect with ourselves LINKS AND RESOURCES Follow Jenn on Instagram CFS School Somatic Experiencing 353: Recovering from Trauma with EMDR Therapy with Deborah Korn OTHER EPISODES YOU MAY LIKE 305: Breathing and Your Health with Patrick Mckeown 320: How to Practice Self-Compassion with Marissa Knox, Ph.D 326: Befriending Your Nervous-System with Deb Dana 347: Heal Your Inner Child with Nicole Lepera 289: Developing Mind-Body Tools with REbekkah LaDyne 152: How Trauma Gets Stuck In Your Nervous-System SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500. Make a one-time donation in any amount to say "Thank you!" Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening! With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

May 18, 2023 • 59min
Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance with Kelly McDaniel
Mother loss comes in many forms: cancer, suicide, illness, murder, accidents. And while many women still have their mothers, they have lost them to abandonment, addiction, memory malfunction, mental illness and more. Kelly McDaniel is an author and clinician supporting women on the journey toward relational wholeness. In her first book, Ready to Heal, she addresses cultural double standards and family wounds that set women up for addictive relationship habits. Her second book, Mother Hunger, is the culmination of 30 years of research, clinical expertise, and a deep understanding of mothering myths. Mother Hunger provides women a name for the misunderstood root of poor eating patterns, chronic relationship disappointment, and distorted self image. In Mother Hunger what Kelly does is validate the experience of mother loss by giving a poignant name to a phenomenon that many will know very well and offer an elegant and useful framework for healing. In short, this is a conversation about childhood attachment injuries and their lasting impact. Kelly destigmatized the shame that comes with being under-mothered and offers a healing path with powerful tools that include lifestyle changes and therapeutic interventions. SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500. Make a one-time donation in any amount to say "Thank you!" Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening! With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

May 11, 2023 • 60min
The Power of Deep Listening with Judith Rabinor, PHD
Judith Ruskay Rabinor, PhD, is a clinician, author, writing coach, speaker, and workshop leader retunrs to the podcast for the 4th time. During her first interview we talked about her memoir The Girl in The Boots: Making Peace with My Mother. She specializes in eating disorders and the mother daughter relationship. Today's conversation is a wide ranging one. We focused on the transformative power of deep listening, as well as went into other interesting areas such as: The importance of taking personal responsibility in relationships, particularly in the parent child relationship How we all have a need to be listened to, and healing happens once someone truly witnesses our experiences and chooses to listen to us deeply. How we unconsciously repeat harmful patterns and what it takes to break those cycles Why therapists care so much about the past How we build resilience And so much more Judy says that deep listening is an act of generosity. OTHER EPISODES JUDITH HAS BEEN ON 307: How Mother Loss Shapes Who We Become with Hope Edelman and Judith Rabinor 310: The Healing Power of Storytelling 290: The Complicated Mother-Daughter Relationship SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500. Make a one-time donation in any amount to say "Thank you!" Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening! With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

May 4, 2023 • 1h 19min
The Trauma Response is Never Wrong
Trauma response is rooted in strength not weakness. Specail guest MaryCatherine (MC) McDonald, PhD, a research professor and life coach who specializes in the psychology of trauma, stress, and resilience says that our understanding of trauma today is flawed. She has been researching, lecturing, and publishing on neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience of trauma and stress since beginning her PhD in 2009. She is passionate about destigmatizing trauma, stress, and mental health issues in general, as well as reframing our understanding of trauma in order to better understand and treat it. Her new book is out now and it's fantastic! Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong: And Other Things You Need to Know to Take Back Your Life by MaryCatherine McDonald SOME KEY POINTS When traumatic becomes trauma Relating to our traumas without shame Misconceptions about triggers How traumatic memories are imprinted Both top-down and bottom up tools for regulating the nervous system OTHER EPISODES YOU MAY ENJOY 305: Breathing and Your Health with Patrick Mckeown 326: Befriending Your Nervous-System with Deb Dana 345: Unraveling the Mysteries of Healing with Lissa Rankin, MD

Apr 27, 2023 • 58min
Who We Are and How We Heal with Nina Mongendre
None of us came out of childhood unscathed. Let's face it, even the lucky ones among us didn't get an ideal childhood. Are you still looking for approval from your parents? Do you long for them to see and accept you for who you are? How do you see your parents today? Are you holding onto a fantasy? Is there anything you need from them in order to live your life fully and authentically? Deep, raw and very personal conversation with kundalini yoga and meditation teacher Nina Mongondre. She is the author of the Inner Child & Beyond Oracle deck and is writing a book about inner child and ancestral healing. In her private practice, she offers shamanic healing, neuroEmotional coaching and inherited trauma work. The central theme is the parent-adult child relationship and some key points we touched upon are: How becoming a parent gives us new understanding and appreciation for our parents How in order to accept, we need to grieve first What healing in a relationship means to us The acute and sudden awareness of an immense vulnerability after you lose your parents that those who still have their parents alive won't understand How our parents live in us even if we cut ties with them And so much more. RESOURCES AND LINKS www.ninamongendre.com www.sagemoon.com www.innerchildandbeyond.com @ninamongendre instagram Guided meditations and journeys https://www.youtube.com/@ninamongendre CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS TheMonkeyMashup is a space where struggling parents can find the exact help they need whether it's uplifting articles, a licensed therapist, a baby sleep consultant or a lactation consultant. Search for all sorts of professionals available in your area or online, and even see whether they are available by phone, text, email, in-home visits, or virtual. In the same search results. Out with Aggression Do you have a boy between the ages of 2 and 10 who is hurting you, your partner, or his siblings? You feel like you've tried everything and nothing has worked. Aggression almost never goes away on its own but you can stop it. Using connection. No shame, no punishment and no harshness. Go to www.parentingboyspeacefully.com/authentic for a free first step towards brining peace back into your home. SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500. Make a one-time donation in any amount to say "Thank you!" Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening! With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

Apr 17, 2023 • 44min
(LIVE Event) Updating Your Relationship with Your Parents-Part 2 with Daniel Maté
This is the Q&A session—Part 2– from our recent LIVE event. You can listen to Part 1 in epsiode 361. We hosted our first post-pandemic LIVE event. It was also our first podcast event. We recorded the show in front of a live audience. The topic of the evening was the Complicated Parent-Adult Child Relationship. My guest for the live podcast was Daniel Maté. He has appeared on the podcast before in episode 338: Healing Childhood Trauma in Adulthood. He is an award-winning lyricist, musical theater composer, a mental chiropractor and podcaster. With Dr. Gabor Maté, Daniel is the co-author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture. The father-son pair have collaborated on the Hello Again workshop since 2016, leading programs in Vancouver, Toronto & New York; a book version is currently in progress. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Daniel's website Follow him on Instagram Let's Get Lyrical with Carice and Daniel podcast Take a Walk with Daniel Hello Again workshop The Myth of Nomral book by Gabor Maté MD and Daniel Maté CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS TheMonkeyMashup is a space where struggling parents can find the exact help they need whether it's uplifting articles, a licensed therapist, a baby sleep consultant or a lactation consultant. Search for all sorts of professionals available in your area or online, and even see whether they are available by phone, text, email, in-home visits, or virtual. In the same search results. Out with Aggression Do you have a boy between the ages of 2 and 10 who is hurting you, your partner, or his siblings? You feel like you've tried everything and nothing has worked. Aggression almost never goes away on its own but you can stop it. Using connection. No shame, no punishment and no harshness. Go to www.parentingboyspeacefully.com/authentic for a free first step towards brining peace back into your home. SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500. Make a one-time donation in any amount to say "Thank you!" Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening! With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

Apr 10, 2023 • 47min
(LIVE Podcast) Updating Your Relationship with Your Parents -Part 1 with Daniel Maté
We hosted our first post-pandemic LIVE event. It was also our first podcast event. We recorded the show in front of a live audience. The topic of the evening was the Complicated Parent-Adult Child Relationship. My guest for the live podcast was Danniel Mate. He has appeared on the podcast before in episode 338: Healing Childhood Trauma in Adulthood. He is an award-winning lyricist, musical theater composer, a mental chiropractor and podcaster. With Dr. Gabor Maté, Daniel is the co-author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture. The father-son pair have collaborated on the Hello Again workshop since 2016, leading programs in Vancouver, Toronto & New York; a book version is currently in progress. Daniel also runs the world's only "mental chiropractic" service, Take A Walk With Daniel, and is the co-host of the podcast Let's Get Lyrical with Carice and Daniel. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Daniel's website Follow him on Instagram Let's Get Lyrical with Carice and Daniel podcast Take a Walk with Daniel Hello Again workshop The Myth of Nomral book by Gabor Maté MD and Daniel Maté CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS TheMonkeyMashup is a space where struggling parents can find the exact help they need whether it's uplifting articles, a licensed therapist, a baby sleep consultant or a lactation consultant. Search for all sorts of professionals available in your area or online, and even see whether they are available by phone, text, email, in-home visits, or virtual. In the same search results. Out with Aggression Do you have a boy between the ages of 2 and 10 who is hurting you, your partner, or his siblings? You feel like you've tried everything and nothing has worked. Aggression almost never goes away on its own but you can stop it. Using connection. No shame, no punishment and no harshness. Go to www.parentingboyspeacefully.com/authentic for a free first step towards brining peace back into your home. SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500. Make a one-time donation in any amount to say "Thank you!" Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening! With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

Mar 23, 2023 • 1h 12min
How to Become a Better Listener with Guy Itzchakov
Associate Professor at the University of Haifa, Department of Human Services Guy Itzchakov on the power of hgh quality listening, the benefits of listening for the speaker and for the listener, how to provide feedback, the power of asking good questions, and how to change someone's attitude without arguing. As well as barriers to good listening and simple tips to improve listening. SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500. Make a one-time donation in any amount to say "Thank you!" Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening! With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 4min


