Season 1

March 10, 2020

How to Be an IN CHARGE Parent | POF35

You can be a peaceful parent and still be in charge. In fact, our kids NEED us to be IN CHARGE. They are always looking to us to show them the way and if we are unsure and inconsistent it causes stress and anxiety in our kids which leads...

March 3, 2020

How to Advocate for Your Child | POF34

It’s hard enough to bring a typical child into this world but what if your baby is born sick? You are thrust into a world that is completely foreign to you full of medical jargon and often confusing and counter-intuitive information. You...

Feb. 25, 2020

How to Use Fun and Play to Get More Cooperation and Connection|POF 33

Are you silly? How comfortable are you acting goofy? Sadly, we don’t have much room in our lives for fun and games. We are tired, stressed, rushed and exhausted. We may be stiff and tired and easily bored when we try to get on the...

Feb. 18, 2020

Girls, Who Do You Want to Be? With Illana Raia| POF32

In this episode, we are talking to girls in middle school, age 10 to 14. Do not underestimate girls at this age! It’s right at this age that girls have the abilities and interests getting ready to launch. In other words, they are already becoming...

Feb. 11, 2020

The Power of Forgiveness for Yourself and Your Kids |POF31

Are you holding on to anger for your child? Your children? Are you angry at yourself? In this episode, I’m talking about forgiveness. As parents, especially moms, we hold ourselves up to an impossible standard of the type of mom we...

Feb. 4, 2020

Mindfulness For Teens | POF30

Our teens are faced with so much stress that we can often look past, minimize or disregard what they are going through until the bottom falls out, they get in trouble, or start engaging in dangerous or self-destructive behavior. My guest Jennie...

Jan. 28, 2020

Moving Through Motherhood - POF29

Hey there Mamas! I see you, I feel you and I understand your struggle. It’s my mission to help you drop the mom guilt, stop feeling overwhelmed, embrace your body, let go the ridiculous expectations you have, release shame and all the...

Jan. 21, 2020

POF28: Setting Limits For Your Kids

Our Children, at their core, need safety and protection to grow. As Parents, we need to construct a scaffolding of support around a child within which they can learn and explore the world and what it means to be in relationship with...

Jan. 14, 2020

POF27: School Choice Week with Andrew Campanella

Our education system is changing in ways we might never have predicted. Most parents value education as one of their top priorities, and for good reason! We want our kids to succeed in school so they can grow to be intelligent adults with...

Jan. 7, 2020

POF26: Putting Yourself FIRST

Did you know that putting yourself first is the #1 way to reduce your anger and angry responses? Did you know that NOT taking care of yourself is selfish (not the other way around)? Easier said than done, right? I know…but we need to...

Dec. 31, 2019

POF25: 2020 Challenge - Claiming Abundance in Your Life

What is abundance? It’s determined as “a very large quantity of something”. What would you like a large quantity of? Cooperation, respect, or is it money or love? In this episode, my guest, Andrea Ferguson, will teach you a...

Dec. 24, 2019

POF24: How to Get Your Kids to Listen…THE FIRST TIME

All parents hate it when they are ignored! We can’t stand repeating requests that fall on deaf ears! Being ignored and unheard leads to frustration, resentment, anger and yelling! There is a way to stop repeating and start getting...

Dec. 17, 2019

POF23: Addicted To Gaming?

Are you thinking of giving your kids a new gaming system for the Holidays? Are you worried they play too much on the system you already have? Is it hard to get them to disconnect from gaming? Do you worry they might be, or might become,...

Dec. 10, 2019

POF22: Surviving the Holidays

We all want the holidays to be full of magic and joy but so often they aren’t. We are stressed, have a million things on our plate, so many more events on the calendar. Schedule are off, kids aren’t in school, sweets are aplenty, and there are so...

Dec. 3, 2019

POF21: Relationship Mirrors – How to use the difficult people (including your kids) in your life to find inner peace.

It’s the holiday season and it’s at this time of the year we are often faced with gatherings of friends and family we don’t see often and maybe we don’t even like…We all have difficult people in our lives. Does your Mother-in-Law drive...

Nov. 26, 2019

POF20: Why Kids Lie

Whether we like it or not, it’s COMPLETELY NORMAL for kids to lie, starting around age 2 all the way up to age 12 and the lies can escalate as they get older. Many parents get really worried and angry when they are faced with their kids telling them...