Join me as I chat with Wendy Snyder all about those extra spicy, extra tricky kids that we often call “strong-willed” and learn through her story, and mine, how to support your own strong-willed child better. Wendy is a mom of two, certified parenting educator & family life coach, who inspires parents to learn & grow through connection-based positive parenting strategies.In this episode: Wendy’s story of her young daughter throwing her for a loop, and how it called into a new way of parentingWendy’s growth and healing through parenting, and how she fosters her daughter’s independence, without losing her mindFirm and compassionate ways to care for our little ones (and bigger ones)Connect with Wendy: Website HEREPodcast show: HEREInstagram: HEREYoutube: HEREFacebook: HEREConnect with Crystal: Join the next round of The Shame-Free Parenting Movement: HEREGet started with teaching your child emotions, free feelings wheel HEREFind your parenting personality (and get tips specific to it) by taking the quiz HERECheck out all my fun parenting courses and programs here: www.coachcrystal.caGet tips, insights and support daily through IG right HERE

Are you looking for ways to help your child love learning a certain subject, especially the ones they seem to drag their feet about? Or do you have an avid learner, and you want to make sure you continue to add to that love of learning, instead of dousing the fire they have? Join our conversation today, with Julie Bogart. Julie is known for her commonsense writing, critical thinking and home education advice. In this conversation we cover: how to build a love of learning, in homeschool and public schoolhow to use your child’s interests to help them learnhow children are always learning, and how we can help cultivate thatwhat education truly is, and why it’s importantadding in regular doses of surprise and delight, to help our elementary-aged kids love learning any subject (like poetry, writing and even math!)Connect with Julie! On IG HEREOn FB HEREBRAVE WRITER links HEREPodcast HEREConnect with Crystal: Get started with teaching your child emotions, free feelings wheel HEREFind your parenting personality (and get tips specific to it) by taking the quiz HERECheck out all my fun parenting courses and programs here: www.coachcrystal.caGet tips, insights and support daily through IG right HERE

Are you an ADHD mama that is finding it hard to balance motherhood, parenting, and constant to-do lists with a neurodiverse brain? This conversation is for you. Patricia Sung helps moms with adult ADHD work with their unique brains and get their ish together one step at a time and feel confident running their family life. She’s a hobby-hopping, anxious adventurer, willing to try almost anything once. A mid-westerner at heart, she reluctantly has adopted the word "y'all" and lives in Houston with her husband and two young sons. Join the Shame-Free Parenting Movement HEREIn this episode: Childhood grief that may come up with an ADHD diagnosisWhat to look for in adulthood as an ADHDer (and the importance of understanding yourself more)How ADHD can affect your motherhood and parenting (and what to do for support when you’re in the middle of it)New shame-free parenting coaching program coming up for parents of elementary-aged kids… get on the waitlist HERE for more information. Connect with Patricia: Snag free resources and get your crap together with other ADHD moms in Successful Mama Meetups at www.motherhoodinadhd.com.Top 5 Parenting PodcastListen on your favorite podcast app or at www.motherhoodinadhd.comWish you had a community of mom friends that get you? Join us!

Join the Shame-Free Parenting Movement! Learn more at coachcrystal.ca/groupThis 5-day live coaching event happened in October 2024 and was published on the podcast for all my listeners. If you're watching this after the event, message me and tell me your takeaways. 

Join the Shame-Free Parenting Movement! Learn more at coachcrystal.ca/groupThis 5-day live coaching event happened in October 2024 and was published on the podcast for all my listeners. If you're watching this after the event, message me and tell me your takeaways. 

Join the Shame-Free Parenting Movement! Learn more at coachcrystal.ca/groupThis 5-day live coaching event happened in October 2024 and was published on the podcast for all my listeners. If you're watching this after the event, message me and tell me your takeaways. 

Join the Shame-Free Parenting Movement! Learn more at coachcrystal.ca/groupThis 5-day live coaching event happened in October 2024, and was published on the podcast for all my listeners. If you're watching this after the event, message me and let me know your takeaways. 

Join the Shame-Free Parenting Movement! Learn more at coachcrystal.ca/groupThis 5-day live coaching event happened in October 2024, and was published on the podcast for all my listeners. If you're watching this after the event, message me and let me know your takeaways. 

“Because I said so”, “You’re making me mad!”, “Why can’t you be more like your sister?!”, “Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about!” … sound familiar? Parenting in the 80s and 90s (and before) was shame-based to the core, and it’s still affecting us and our parenting now, in ways we can’t often see. 5 Days to Shame-Free Parenting: Join us HEREJoin the program: Shame-Free Parenting Movement: HEREIn Today’s Episode: What I’ve learned from trainings with Brené Brown and shame (vs guilt)What parenting looked like in the 1980s and 1990s and how shame was involvedHow to feel empowered in our parenting through becoming aware of our shame, and moving through it (shame resiliency)How you may be, unknowingly, shaming your kids (even when you’re trying not to)Shame blocking us from connection to ourselves and othersHow to move through shame (it’s SO much more in our feelings and under-the-surface thoughts than in our logical easy-to-access thoughts)Connect with Crystal:Get started with teaching your child emotions, free feelings wheel HEREFind your parenting personality (and get tips specific to it) by taking the quiz HERECheck out all my fun parenting courses and programs here: www.coachcrystal.caGet tips, insights, and support daily through IG right HERE

Our beliefs about our kids matter, and we can be one of the greatest influences of their lives. Intentional parenting can set us up to help support our kids through any challenge and instill them with beliefs that will help them achieve true success (not just the type of success that we’re socialized to believe matters most). In this episode: Dropping my oldest off at college and all the mixed emotions (and how it brought up this topic over the weekend)What manifestation has to do with parenting (and the spiritual principles of it)What you value most and how to instill those values into your kids through manifestationHow to find out if shame is blocking belief work (in any area of your life, but I share a parenting example that you’ll likely relate to).Join my $5 live coaching event HERE and I will do more than teach you these principles, I’ll SHOW you, and we’ll get there together (live on zoom, and recordings sent out to you…. Bring a friend!)New shame-free parenting coaching program coming up for parents of elementary-aged kids… get on the waitlist HERE for more information.

Neurodivergent kids need to be supported both in the home and in the classroom to thrive and grow. ADHD and anxiety seem to be on the rise, but schools aren’t always creating the most effective environment for the growth to happen. In this episode I am joined by Dr Emily in a conversation around supporting learning in the classroom for neurodivergent kids, and how this support can help all kids too. In this episode: We talk about how to support ADHD and anxiety in our kids and youth Why anxiety may be on the rise, and the power of play Our current curriculum not aligning with child development How play-based education is supportive for young kids (not pushing academics early will help them with future learning)How we can advocate for our kids mental health in the classroom, and when to know if changing schools is needed Join Parent School HEREConnect with Dr Emily below: Website: https://www.learnwithdremily.com/Substack Blog: https://learnwithdremily.substack.com/Podcast: Learn with Dr. EmilyInstagram: @emilywkingphd

What we believe we become. Have you ever taken an inventory on what beliefs you hold for your kids? And how they are becoming exactly what you believe? If you want to parent intentionally and breathe amazing beliefs into your kids… tune in to this tender episode where I share my own parenting struggles, and what my plan is to turn them around (it works). In today’s episode: How I came across my children’s beliefs, and the shock that came as I recognized my own beliefs in them How our beliefs of our children (what we think and say about them) manifest in themHow to be the gardener who cultivates the garden, instead of controlling it How to manifest belief in our children who then become calm, confident humans that we love to be around (even if it doesn’t seem true yet) Resources: Join the women’s re-parenting retreat waitlist HEREGet on the waitlist for Parent School HERECoach with Crystal HERE

“Children learn best when they like their teacher, and they think their teacher likes them”. What are you trying to teach your children? Do you know how learning happens? Naturally. It comes naturally, with a few specific ingredients, ones that may not seem so necessary, but truly are. A Recipe for Learning was first published in the July 2024 monthly bundle of the Wild + Free magazine. Today you’ll hear:my story of frustration and tantrums (from both me and my young son) when we first started our homeschooling journeyhow unlearning about learning was the path to deeper and more natural learning in our homeschool, for me too. relationships matter most, how learning comes naturally from creating the environment for it to happen the ingredients to a messy and imperfect relationship, but one that is full of joy, confidence, connection and growth Resources: Ainsley Arment on IG HERE and Wild + Free on IG HEREWild + Free book HEREWild + Free bundle (magazine) HERE3-day Women’s Re-Parenting Retreat HERE “The Inward Journey”1:1 coaching, limited spots HEREThe Creation Room (my magical group program full of intuition, energetic shifts and deep connection) HERE

Children should be seen and not heard. Big money makes you evil. Negative emotions should be avoided at all costs. I make others mad, sad or happy with me. I should shove down my ideas and intuition and listen to others that are older, wiser and more experienced than me. Don’t believe these anymore? Yup, me neither. But that doesn’t mean that my subconscious isn’t bringing these beliefs along and affecting me and my current reality. In this episode we cover: what beliefs you may still have, that you don’t notice on a conscious levelwhat questions to ask yourself to uncover your deeper beliefs practices to help you move through and shift beliefs how growth is stagnant when we stick with resistance, versus being open (switching from “this is not showing up for me” to “how is this showing up for me?”)Resources: 3-day Women’s Re-Parenting Retreat HERE “The Inward Journey”1:1 coaching, limited spots HEREThe Creation Room (my magical group program full of intuition, energetic shifts and deep connection) HERE

We don’t build muscles, without first breaking them down… and the breaking down feels very uncomfortable. This is the same theme for all growth in life, it’s uncomfortable to break down. It doesn’t feel good to dig inward and notice where our resistance is, but on the other side of resistance is the most magical growth and life that we could imagine. In this episode: growth and resistance, and how they are intrinsically connected (breaking down our muscles) where we are feeling resistance in our life, and what’s behind it (some of the BEST journal prompts here for your growth). what’s on the other side of resistance (changing my parenting, changing my business and my life)where is resistance popping up in small ways? And how can I be more radically honest and vulnerable with myself?On being “un-coach-able” and sticking in our concrete box of resistance (the no-growth path)Resources: Join the women’s re-parenting retreat HEREGet on the waitlist for Parent School HERE

Emotions are messages, and we aren’t often open to listening to them- they feel too big, too much, or never ending. in the process of ignoring and suppressing these messages from our body, we may feel tension, pain, discomfort, illness or disease. In this episode we go over hypnotic visualizations, somatic practices and inner child work to help us allow, accept and welcome all big emotions. It is in the welcoming of them, that they lessen and open us up to experience life in a fuller way and help others with their emotions too. In this episode: Welcome back and thanks for listening! I can’t wait for this season… it’s going to be rad! You can work with me in at my inner child healing retreat HERE, 1:1 coaching HERE or join the Creation Room (only open throughout the month of August) HERE. What beliefs we have about emotions that came from our own childhood, and how our subconscious can hold on to them Emotions as messages from our brain to our body, and how to listen to them Inner child exercises, somatic practises and hypnosis to move through big emotions (and why that, in turn, helps us co-regulate with others)If you’re wanting to become a more calm, confident parent, and parent your kids in the way that you wished you were parented- Join the waitlist for Parent School HERE!Resources: Workout Witch on IG click HERERecording of the somatic workshop to move emotions HERE