Parenting

Parenting

by | Sep 5, 2015

 PARENTING

 

 

  • Site: Dr. Lynne Kenney helps clinicians, teachers and parents improve kid’s thinking, self-regulation, behavior and learning with Bloom BrainSmarts activities emphasizing, music, rhythm, movement, creativity, communication, exercise and nutrition. She has an amazing blog full of great articles and resources for parents, clinicians, and teachers.

 

  • Site: Wendy Young award winning child and adolescent therapist has a website full of great resources, articles and videos to help parents, teachers and clinicians help children work through trauma, difficult emotions, over the top reactions, anger, grief and loss and other challenging behaviours.  She offers a FREE anger toolkit for children and FREE printables. 

 

 

  • 5 Tenets of Mindful Parenting,  how this can simplify your life and bring more compassion and closeness to your relationship with your children.

 

  • Highly recommended parenting books here. 

John Bradshaw – Healing The Shame That Binds 

This lecture is based on John Bradshaw’s book with the same title. He covers the first part of the book (the problem). The second part of the book deals with (the solution) and the healing process. In an emotionally revealing way John Bradshaw shows us how toxic shame is the core problem in our compulsions,co-dependencies, addictions and the drive to super-achieve. The result is a breakdown inthe family system and our inability to go forward with our lives. We are bound by our shame.Drawing from his 22 years of experience as a counselor, Bradshaw offers us the techniques to heal this shame. Using affirmations, visualizations, “inner voice” and “feeling” work plus guided meditations and other useful healing techniques, he realeases the shame that binds us to thepast.This important book breaks new ground in the core issues of societal and personal breakdown, offering techniques of recovery vital to all of us. 
Many parents use shame to discipline their kids or simply use shame in their interactions with their kids. This book has helped millions identify their personal shame, understand the underlying reasons for it, address these root causes and release themselves from the shame that binds them to their past failures. This 6 part series will bring you many insights into how to become a better parents, more present, more loving. Parents all mean well, but there is always room for improvement. 
You can read a few good quotes from the book here.  The first 65 pages of the book are here.
Part 1 –  Part 2 –  Part 3 –  Part 4 –  Part 5 –  Part 6



 

A Few Articles on the Narcissistic Parent and its Impact on Children

The Narcissistic Father

How Being Raised By A Narcissist Damages Your Life And Self-Esteem

The Narcissistic Father During and After Divorce 

6 ways to know you were raised by narcissists

11 Tell-Tale Signs Dad Is A Narcissist 

My Father the Narcissist: A Narcissistic Father is a Tyrant and a Bully

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Meditation and Mindfulness

Meditation and Mindfulness

by | Sep 5, 2015

Meditation & Mindfulness: General Information

 

CHILDREN AND MEDITATION/MINDFULNESS

Mindfulness in the Classroom:

  • Healthy Habits of Mind: How teaching mindfulness skills and compassion practices improve executive function skills in the classroom, such as sustained attention, focus, interpersonal skills, lowered aggression, etc.

 

MINDFUL PARENTING

Health and Wellness

Health and Wellness

by | Sep 5, 2015

Health & Wellness

  • Awesome, easy cooking  classes for the busy parent, who desires healthy nutrition for their family: Rouxbe
  • A few great articles on breast health : Freedom from Breast Cancer Diagnosis; Misclassification rates in breast histopathology biopsies: how can they be lowered?; Breast Cancer, Mammography, HRT, and The Risks of Overdiagnosis 
  • Books on Restoring and Maintaining Gut Health  for better immunity, and overall health and Personalized Nutrition, how one diet does not fit all! Read more here.
  • Are you struggling with infertility? Having a hard time finding a mate? Read her research using only the highest standard of double blind in the areas of love, fertility, hormones, women’s health and yes, a section on men sexuality. Well worth visiting. Dr Winnifred Cutler from the Athena Institute. They also sell high quality Pheromones (the real ones) and fall in love again with your partner, aid your fertility, become more attractive to men and women!
  • Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary Is a small company of Herbalists based in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.  Their mission is to share the healing powers of plant medicine with the community. provide the finest  They provide high-quality herbs, and herbal products, sourced by the best possible sustainable, organic, and wild-harvested herbs in their local farming community, wild lands, and on the world market. Yarrow and Angela Willard are Clinical/Master Herbalists. Visit their Products page to see the wide variety of herbs, tinctures, teas, syrups, oils, salves, super foods and so much more. Subscribe to their YouTube Channel for great instructional videos and recipes. Their Blog offers great recipes, lifestyle, and descriptions about their products (herbs, mushrooms, teas etc.)
  • Heal your gut and see your mood and physical health improve. Learn about the benefits of fermented food in healing the gut. Donna Schwenk is an expert in the field. Learn how to make your own Kefir, Kombucha, fermented veggies, yoghourt etc. She also has great tutorials and educational tools on her YouTube Channel. Donna also has a weekly show on HayHouse Radio. 
  • Great resource for Wholistic Health and Nutrition, Remedies, Treatment, Research and Videos with Dr. Mercola
  • Exercises to improve or maintain children’s posture. Recommended by the Canadian Chiropractic Association.
  • Stretches for the Scalene Muscles in the Neck, recommended by Dr. Pope my chiropractor.
  • A wonderful YouTube Chanel with Anita Goa a fitness instructor. You will find on this site a combination of different routines that involve yoga, pilates, strength, flexibility, fitness, toning, endurance, you name it. You will even find really good nutrition tips and recipes (over 300 great videos).
  • For more intense yet short workouts you can look on this YouTube Chanel run by Zuzka Light. There are 5 to 30-minute routines that work the whole body. I love the quick routines that are just 5 minutes, they allow me to workout on a daily basis even if I don’t have much free time! No excuses with these quick routines that will raise your heart rate and burn your muscles.
  • Subliminal Technology : The Truth About Subliminal Tapes
  • Read more about subliminal mental training tools at Dr. Eldon Taylor’s blog
  • InnerTalk subliminal CD/MP3 for all kinds of difficulties: Listing here.
  • Recommended books on health, wellness and nutrition here.

Divorce & Difficult Relationships

Divorce & Difficult Relationships

by | Sep 5, 2015

Difficult Relationships

 

  • THE NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY: Being Informed is the best defense. Relationships with narcissists are very difficult. Many individuals have suffered from being in a relationship with a Narcissist. Whether it be a parent, a boss, a friend, or a partner. It can destroy lives and throw people into a depressive state with shattered self-esteems. I have included a few videos in order to understand the narcissist and narcissistic abuse. Part of healing is to understand what you went through and not be re-victimized. Click on this Page to see the links.

 

  • Books I highly recommended for dealing with difficult people here.

Divorce & Separation

  • Awesome, easy cooking  classes for the busy parent, who desires healthy nutrition for their family: Rouxbe
  • Books on Restoring and Maintaining Gut Health  for better immunity, and overall health and Personalized Nutrition, how one diet does not fit all! Read more here.
  • Heal your gut and see your mood and physical health improve. Get nutrition help, learn about the benefits of fermented food in healing the gut
  • Great resource for Wholistic Health and Nutrition, Remedies, Treatment, Research and Videos with Dr. Mercola
  • Exercises to improve or maintain children’s posture. Recommended by the Canadian Chiropractic Association.
  • Stretches for the Scalene Muscles in the Neck, recommended by Dr. Pope my chiropractor.
  • A wonderful YouTube Chanel with Anita Goa a fitness instructor. You will find on this site a combination of different routines that involve yoga, pilates, strength, flexibility, fitness, toning, endurance, you name it. You will even find really good nutrition tips and recipes (over 300 great videos).
  • For more intense yet short workouts you can look on this YouTube Chanel run by Zuzka Light. There are 5 to 30-minute routines that work the whole body. I love the quick routines that are just 5 minutes, they allow me to workout on a daily basis even if I don’t have much free time! No excuses with these quick routines that will raise your heart rate and burn your muscles.
  • Subliminal Technology : The Truth About Subliminal Tapes
  • Read more about subliminal mental training tools at Dr Eldon Taylor’s blog
  • InnerTalk subliminal CD/MP3 for all kinds of difficulties: Listing here.
  • Recommended books on health, wellness and nutrition here.

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