Welcome to the Parenting Well Podcast with the Parent Engagement Network! I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host. This podcast provides perspectives on parenting, so that you can fill your well with information, strategies, and resources that help you raise healthy, happy humans. Filling your well leaves you engaged, educated and empowered to support your children in being strong, resourceful, confident and resilient in the face of life’s challenges and adventures. Let’s fill that well!
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Welcome to the Parenting Well podcast with Parent Engagement Network! I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host. And today, you are listening to Parenting Well, where we know that parenting well is challenging and that all parents are the best parents they know how to be. The foundation for raising happy, healthy youth is for us as parents to fill our own well with useful, reliable, credible information, tools and strategies. This leaves us more engaged, educated and empowered to support our children in being strong, resourceful, confident and resilient in the face of life’s many challenges and adventures.
So, let’s fill that well!
Today’s well source is Karen Alonge. Karen is an Interpersonal Communication Consultant. She has been providing interpersonal and parenting consulting to volunteers, staff, management in education, social services, corrections, counseling, law, health care, and non-profits like PEN since 2006. Karen uses an evidence-based strategy called motivational interviewing to help her clients “choose their words wisely”
This podcast covers how to:
- use motivational interviewing techniques in your communication.
- recognize typical communication breakdowns.
- set age appropriate expectations.
- reduce power struggles in your relationship.
- use communication to manage behavior problems.
- articulate your concerns without telling your kids what to do.
- help kids develop and learn how to access strategies that work for them.
- raise a critical thinkers.
- navigate change.
- leave your child free to move, think, and change without judgement.
Resources:
- Karen's Website: Karen Alonge Interpersonal Communication Consultant
- Karen's Blog
- Website: Dr. Ross Greene
- Self-help book on motivational interviewing: Finding Your Way to Change
- Parenting Advice Website
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
#18 Tips for Understanding & Navigating Depression & Suicide Prevention
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Welcome to the Parenting Well podcast with Parent Engagement Network! I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host. And today, you are listening to Parenting Well, where we know that parenting well is challenging and that all parents are the best parents they know how to be. The foundation for raising happy, healthy youth is for us as parents to fill our own well with useful, reliable, credible information, tools and strategies. This leaves us more engaged, educated and empowered to support our children in being strong, resourceful, confident and resilient in the face of life’s many challenges and adventures.
So, let’s fill that well!
Today’s well source is Kathy Valentine. Kathy is the chairperson of the HOPE Coalition of Boulder County and has been on the coalition since its beginning in 2005. She is a retired school counselor and gave many workshops on depression and suicide awareness to various staffs while working. Kathy is also the Executive Director of Colie's Closet, a BVSD high school peer education program dealing with depression and suicide. Kathy is passionate about educating the entire community about risk factors around these issues and is excited to bring today’s panelists and community members together to begin the discussion about the importance of connection in our lives.
This podcast covers:
- Resources for managing depression
- The role stigma plays in support services
- How to recognize warning signs of depression and what to do about it
- Some of the risk factors of depression
- The difference between being sad and having clinical depression
- Strategies for managing depression when you feel like you are "spiraling"
- What to do if you are worried about your child
- How kids should respond to their friend's depression
- The importance of self care, modeling, and talking to your children regularly
Resources:
Website: The Hope Coalition of Boulder County
Resource: National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Resource: COVID-19 Mental Health Resources
Resource: Warning Signs of Depression
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
#17 Reduce Stress, Anxiety and Fighting in Your Parenting
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Welcome to the Parenting Well podcast with Parent Engagement Network! I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host. And today, you are listening to Parenting Well, where we know that parenting well is challenging and that all parents are the best parents they know how to be. The foundation for raising happy, healthy youth is for us as parents to fill our own well with useful, reliable, credible information, tools and strategies. This leaves us more engaged, educated and empowered to support our children in being strong, resourceful, confident and resilient in the face of life’s many challenges and adventures.
So, let’s fill that well!
Today’s well source is Paige Trevor. Paige is a Certified Parent Educator and the owner of a business called Balancing Act since 2010. This was inspired by a desire to help people clear the clutter from their life. Having seen the impact of disorganization within businesses and families, Paige used her blend of empathy, humor, cheerleading, and, as she likes to describe it, “a wee bit of tough love” to help families clear the way for more satisfying lives.
This episode covers:
- Finding the magic middle in discussions
- Solving problems together
- Supporting your kids mental health
- Establishing effective routines
- Planning vs. doing your day
- Managing conflict
- Reducing stress and anxiety
- Having fun together
- Building close relationships
- Taking care of yourself
- Holding a family meeting
- Parenting through challenging situations
RESOURCES
- Paige's Website: Balancing Act
- Paige on Twitter
- Paige on LinkedIn
- Book: The Opposite of Worry: The Playful Parenting Approach to Childhood Anxieties and Fears by Lawrence Cohen
- Book: Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You by Julie Morgenstern
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
#16 The Importance of Mental Health Nutrition
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Today’s well source is Stephanie Small. Stephanie is a licensed clinical social worker and nutritionist. She believes that diet and supplements have a profound effect on our mood, clarity, sleep, and much more. Therefore, her work is a unique blend of nutrition, somatic, and intuitive practices. Stephanie is one of the speakers at our upcoming virtual stress & anxiety conference on January 29th and 30th. You can sign up for her workshop and others from our website, www.penbv.org
In this episode, we discuss:
- What mental health nutrition is.
- How physical and mental health are connected.
- How mental health nutrition is different than conventional treatment.
- The process of engaging in mental health nutrition.
- How mental health nutrition can support someone with disordered eating.
- The importance of gut health.
- What intuitive eating is and how gratitude supports healthy well-being.
Resources:
Website: Stephanie Small
Course: Stephanie Small - Mental Health Nutrition: Foundations
Podcast: Genetics, Mental Health & Nutrition with Christina Veselak and Dr. Dave Vigerust
Book: The True Power of Water: Healing and Discovering Ourselves
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
#15 Normal Sucks: Living and Learning Outside the Lines
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Welcome to the Parenting Well podcast with Parent Engagement Network! I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host. And today, you are listening to Parenting Well, were we know that parenting well is challenging and that all parents are the best parents they know how to be. We firmly believe that the foundation for raising happy, healthy youth is for us as parents to fill our own well with useful, reliable, credible information, tools and strategies.
So, let’s fill that well!
Today’s well source is Jonathan Mooney. Jonathon is an award winning writer, entrepreneur and activist. Jonathan didn’t learn to read until he was 12 years old. His new book is called Normal Sucks: How to Live Learn and Thrive Outside the Lines. As a neurodiverse writer, advocate and father, Jonathan shares a confessional and often hilarious story of his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed.
Website: https://www.jonathanmooney.com
Book: Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines
Program: Eye to Eye Mentoring Program
Book: The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal
For more information or to make a donation, visit www.penbv.org
Happy Parenting
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
#14 Using Sweet Spots to Maximize Potential and Strengthen Relationships
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Whitney Walpole. Whitney is the co-author of the book: “The Sweet Spot: Leveraging Your Talents in Leadership and Life.” She has been a trusted partner and professional leadership coach to hundreds of business owners and executive teams. Prior to this, she was a 7th grade English teacher and started her own private school focused on engaging children to take more responsibility for themselves, as well as their creativity and learning. She has a passion for children and parenting and raised two kids of her own using the tools from this book. You can reach her at whitney@culturecounts.biz
In this podcast, we talk about:
- What your sweet spot is and why it’s a powerful thing to know.
- The characteristics of the 7 Talents or Archetypes: Server, Priest, Artisan, Sage, Warrior King, & Scholar.
- How to use the book to identify your 3 archetypes.
- Practical tips to live into your archetypes
- Why your archetypes impact the way you show up and function in the world.
- How we mask the archetypes of those around us.
- Why knowledge of archetypes impacts how you interact with your child, monitor your own emotions, and support your child in understanding of themselves.
- The importance of self – care and using your sweet spot to know what you need most.
- The journey of self-discovery and appreciating yourself and others.
Resources:
- Whitney’s Website: Culture Counts
Friday Apr 24, 2020
#13: Coaching Your Teen Makes Life Easier
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Culum Walsh. Culum is a Professional Certified Coach with 21 years of classroom teaching experience. After retiring from teaching, he started his own coaching business, coaching students from 6th grade all the way up through graduate school. His mission is that they become happy and comfortable with themselves, because he knows that when they do, they can do anything they want in school and life. He grew up in Denver, and he currently lives in Thornton. He is married and has 2 children. You can reach Culum via his website below, by email at info@humanbyhumancoaching, or by phone at 303-656-7708
In this podcast, we talk about:
- Academic Life Coaching
- Unique issues facing families with the outbreak of COVID-19
- The challenge of everyone being home 24/7
- Default ways of parenting
- Using a coaching approach in your parenting
- Useful coaching questions
- How this approach helps children solve their own problems
- Using an example to compare default parenting with coaching
Resources:
- Culum's Website: Human by Human Coaching
- Website: The Gottman Institue: A Research Based Approach to Parenting
- Book: The Whole Brained Child by Daniel J. Siegel
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
#12 Nurture Your Relationship with Your Child: You are in it for Life
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Brooks Witter. Brooks is the co-creator of Wise Roots Parenting, a set of online programs that support parents in successfully launching their child into adulthood. As a licensed professional counselor, he has the skills required to help parents who are both experiencing challenging times with their children and struggling to take care of themselves in the process. As a therapist, supervisor, coach, clinical director, and parent himself, Brooks looks to core values of courage, compassion and clarity as guideposts to measure his activities.
In this podcast, we talk about:
- The role of parents
- Modern challenges
- Perspective taking
- Regulating emotions
- Strategies for being in relationship with your child
- The importance of one-on-one time
- Setting clear expectations and boundaries
- Implementing predictable consequences
- Distinguishing normal from disruptive behavior
Resources:
- Article: Winnicott’s Good Enough Parenting
- Online Parenting Programs for Successful Launch: Wise Roots Parenting
Monday Jan 20, 2020
#11 Resilience: The Key to a Stress Free and Flourishing Life
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Wendy Van Besien. Wendy is an inspiring positive psychology practitioner that weaves together critical examples, expertise, and easy to apply steps that will motivate you to reach your potential and live a flourishing life.
In this podcast, Wendy shares how to:
- Develop and foster resilience
- Deal with everyday disturbances
- Tap into people's strengths
- Relieve stress and anxiety
- Use neuroscience to understand our response to challenges
- Change limiting beliefs, assumptions and interpretations that impede your success and happiness
- Live a flourishing life
Resources:
- The father of Positive Psychology: Dr. Martin Seligman
- Ted Talk: Brené Brown - The Power of Vulnerability
- Brené Brown: Dare to Lead and other works
- Book: Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- Ted Talk: Developing a Growth Mindset
- Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, Co-founder of the Happiness Whole Being Institute
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
#10 Temperament: Parenting by Personality
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Wendy Gossett. Wendy is a parenting and relationship coach based in the Denver metro area. Her primary focus is temperament psychology, which is a technique parents can use to understand what their child is doing and why they are doing it. By recognizing their brain functions, parents can learn to accept and pull the best out of their children.
This podcast focuses on:
- Understanding temperament and how it can be recognized in your child as early as infancy.
- Recognizing your own temperament and the temperament of other family members.
- The relationship between temperament and personality tests like the Meyers Briggs.
- The four brain functions and how they can help you see strengths that may have been invisible before.
- How your understanding of brain functions can expose underlying reasons for parent-child conflict.
- Strategies for capitalizing on your child's strengths and building self-esteem.
- How temperament type correlates with issues like sensory processing, impulse control, ADD/ADHD, high sensitivity, inflexibility, depression and stress & anxiety.
Resources
- Book: Your Child's Inner Drive: Parenting by Personality from Toddlers to Teens by Wendy Gossett
- Youtube: Denver Woman Dances in the Middle of Highway Traffic | Wendy Gossett