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Co-Regulation vs. Self-Regulation

voices of your village Dec 02, 2021

 

00:00:01    Alyssa

You're listening to Voices of Your Village, this is episode 201. In this episode I got to hang out with Katie Crosby. She is one of my favorite humans over on instagram, you might know her account Thriving Littles, and we dove into co-regulation and self-regulation. What this looks like in parenting and interacting with tiny humans, and why one comes before the other. Folks, I have an exciting announcement. I am going to do a live workshop on highly sensitive children in a couple weeks. So we are just putting the final buttons on stuff and you can reserve your spot in this workshop starting on Monday, December 6th. We'll send you an email and I'll...

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Emotion Processing for Adults

 

00:00:00    Alyssa

You're listening to Voices of Your Village, this is episode 200! That's insane 200 episodes. Wow, thank you for being on this journey with us. In this episode we're chatting about emotion processing for adults. What does it look like for us to do this work? If you want more support in doing this work, I have a re-parenting class for you, where I guide you through through how to take what you're bringing from your childhood and your social programming, and really get to know it and build awareness and self regulation so that you can live with intention. Head on over to seedandsew.org and check out our classes jump on into our re-parenting class today....

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Reparenting Your Adult Self with Dr. Nicole LePera

voices of your village Nov 18, 2021

00:00:00    Alyssa

You're listening to Voices of Your Village. This is episode 199, I got to hang out with Dr. Nicole LaPera to chat about re parenting your adult self. This is a pretty buzzwordy word in our industry right now. And I want to break down, what does it even mean? And what does that look like to re parent while your parenting? What happens when those triggers come up from our childhood through our children? All right, folks, let's dive in. 

 

00:00:35    Alyssa

Welcome to Voices of Your Village, a place where parents, caregivers, teachers and experts come to support one another on this wild ride of raising tiny humans. We combined decades of...

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Intimacy, Sexuality, and Connection in Parenthood

voices of your village Nov 11, 2021

0:00:00 Alyssa

You're listening to Voices of Your Village this is episode 198. In this episode I got to hang out with Michaela Boehm, she's a psychologist and really dives into connection and intimacy and spirituality and we were chatting about what that looks like in parenthood. And into things like is six weeks realistic ever? Or what does it look like to connect with someone at the end of the day and you've had a human on your body all day long. This episode was so requested and she is, Michaela is incredible. I loved this episode and loved my conversation with her and I'm so excited to bring it to you today.

 

0:00:45 Alyssa 

Before we dive in, I wanted to let you know we...

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Fall 2021 Daylight Saving Time

 

 

0:00:00    Alyssa

You listening to Voices of Your Village. This is episode 197. This is a quick episode about Daylight Saving Time that happens this weekend. It's around the corner. And this episode's going to guide you through what it looks like, how to support your tiny human. And if you want this in PDF version, we created a free guide for you. If you head to seedandsew.org/falldst like daylight saving time, you can snag that free guide, and we walk you through two different plans, one what to do to support them upfront preemptively, and the other plan, If you are like me, wait and see how the chips fall on Sunday and then troubleshoot after. One of these is...

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Discipline, punishment, & boundaries

 00:00:00    Alyssa

You're listening to Voices of Your Village this is episode 196. In this episode I got to hang out with Irene McKenna to chat about discipline, punishment and boundaries, woof. These are three big ones that a lot of us are trying to do a little differently than we experienced growing up, and knowing what that looks like and being able to implement in the moment can be so tough. This episode is full of tangible tips and tricks for you to implement with your tiny humans starting right away. Head on over to instagram and tag seed.and.sew to share your biggest takeaway with me. I want to hear what really hit home for you and what was helpful. And also...

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How to respond instead of spanking

You're listening to Voices of Your Village, this is episode 195. In this episode we're chatting about how to respond instead of spanking. There's tons of research out there that talks about why spanking isn't productive and how it can actually breed some pretty gnarly things down the road and patterns of abuse for children who were  spanked, then repeating patterns of abuse in adulthood. However, the reality is, that a lot of folks who are turning to spanking are doing so because they're reacting in the moment and they don't know what else to do. And they're afraid of a behavior being on going and repeating itself. And all of the "what ifs?" that come with that. And the fears of a...

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Healing Intergenerational Trauma

 

 

00:00:00 Alyssa

You're listening to Voices of Your Village this is episode 194. This is one of my favorite episodes that exists on our podcast. I got to interview Dr. Lynyetta Willis, who has become a dear friend since this interview. And she collaborated with us to create a workshop thats included in our S.E.E.D. Certification program. She does a lot of work around self awareness and what's coming up from our childhood and is it something that we want to repeat or heal so we don't repeat it? This episode is full of awesome tangible tools for moving forward and what this looks like to heal intergenerational trauma. 

 

00:47:52 Alyssa

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Why Kids Lie and How to Respond

00:00:04    Alyssa

You're listening to Voice of Your Village, this is episode 193. In this episode we're chatting about why kids lie, what's the driver behind it, and how do we respond in a way that's emotionally supportive and truly gets at the root of it. For many of us lying can bring up triggers from our own childhood, social programing, and maybe what we learned about lying or experiences we had around lying. We'll chat about how this might come up and what to do about those parts, and how to tend to those parts of yourself so that you can show up for the tiny human in front of you. Alright folks, let's dive in. 

 

00:00:04    Alyssa

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Why Kids Lie and How to Respond

00:00:04    Alyssa

You're listening to Voice of Your Village, this is episode 193. In this episode we're chatting about why kids lie, what's the driver behind it, and how do we respond in a way that's emotionally supportive and truly gets at the root of it. For many of us lying can bring up triggers from our own childhood, social programing, and maybe what we learned about lying or experiences we had around lying. We'll chat about how this might come up and what to do about those parts, and how to tend to those parts of yourself so that you can show up for the tiny human in front of you. Alright folks, let's dive in. 

 

00:00:04    Alyssa

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