Mindful Mama - Parenting with Mindfulness

Hunter talks about How To Reclaim Your Time. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Women have far less leisure time than men, and it affects our lives for the worse 2. Saying “No” means say “yes” to more ease, less stress 3. We can make our time our most valuable resource

Hunter talks to Amy Lang about Talking to Kids About Sexuality. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Don’t avoid talking to kids about their bodies and sex. This is your job. 2. Don’t wait until your child asks the questions. Start talking about things early. 3. Informed kids are make better decisions and are safer from abuse.

Hunter talks about How To Deal with MIL Challenges. Does your mother-in-law interfere with your parenting? Does she buy your child too many gifts that you just don’t want? My Mindful Parenting student Amy has been dealing with all that and more with her live-in mother-in-law. What’s more, she doesn’t even speak the same language? Listen in as she gets advice on: 1. How to get her needs met 2. How to change her thinking about her MIL 3. What do do about all those toys

Hunter talks to Denaye Barahona about Simplify in the Family. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Research shows that clutter causes stress and anxiety in adults 2. The question to ask to know whether it should stay or go 3. Overwhelm and too much stuff impacts our parenting for the worse

Hunter talks to Jeannie Stith-Mawhinney about Simplify in a Colorful Way. Takeaways: 1. Knowing “your” colors makes simplifying, shopping, and getting dressed way easier 2. Our clothing can add to our confidence or deplete it 3. Fewer options makes life easier, so we can focus on what’s really important.

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Hunter talks to Leanne Kabat about Conscious Connection. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. We get to decide who we want to be in this world 2. Women are chronically under cared for. Illnesses happen when we’re depleted 3. Our thoughts become our words

Hunter talks to KJ Dell’Antonia about How To Be a Happier Parent. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Discipline is teaching. 2. Why you should want your kids to screw up on your watch. 3. Activities and sports really are more demanding these days.

Hunter talks to Oren Jay Sofer about How to Talk to Kids. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Two questions that will transform the way you talk to your kids 2. We live with cultural messages so deeply embedded we’re not aware of them 3. Communication patterns are physical and encoded in our nervous system

Hunter talks about How To Discipline. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Discipline means to teach. 2. Kids will mimic what you do and say, including your bad behavior. 3. Shame and blame to not lead to learning.

Hunter talks to Dr. Laurie Hollman about How to Manage Kids' Anger. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. You know more than you think you know. 2. When we experience our kids anger, we feel attacked. 3. Our job is to accept and tolerate our kids feelings so they can tolerate it too.

Hunter talks about When Kids Get Dysregulated. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Slowing down brings relationships together 2. We can encourage positive thinking AND accept our children’s suffering 3. De-cluttering kid’s rooms de-stresses the whole house

Hunter talks to Cathy and Todd Adams, Alison Canavan, and Julie Bjelland about: 1. What advice would you give yourself when you were a younger, struggling parent? 2. What do kids need? 3. How do we give that to them?

Hunter talks to Carla Naumburg, Dr. John Duffy, Anna Seewald, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, and Julie Lithcott-Haims about: 1. What advice would you give yourself when you were a younger, struggling parent? 2. What do kids need? 3. How do we give that to them?

Hunter talks to Ali Katz about Five Ways to Find Your Zen in One Minute. Some big takeaways from this episode include: 1. Even 1-minute of meditation a day actives the parasympathetic (rest & relax) nervous system 2. Five easy practices that take less than a minute in your day 3. Exactly what to say to explain your meditation to your kids