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The Empowered Parent Podcast with Kayla and Ryan North is a trust-based, trauma-informed, connected parenting resource. Hosted by Chris Turner.
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Friday Oct 12, 2018
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Chris, Ryan, and Kayla welcome their long-time friend Cindy Lee to talk about her session for Tapestry Conference 2018. Cindy shares the background of the Making Sense of Your Worth curriculum, how it came to be, and how encouraging the early sessions using it have been. Given the tough times we inevitably encounter as parents of kids from hard times, it's so important for us to have a healthy perspective of our own self-worth, so we can help our children to heal.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
- Tapestry Conference 2018
- The HALO Project
10% Conference Discount Code: EMPOWEREDPARENT
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Friday Oct 05, 2018
Friday Oct 05, 2018
Jayne Schooler joins Ryan, Kayla, and Chris to give an overview of their Questions to Consider About Self (Soul) Care workshop she and her husband David are conducting on Friday, October 19 at the 2018 Tapestry Conference.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
10% Conference Discount Code: EMPOWEREDPARENT
One Big Happy Home
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
Chris, Ryan, and Kayla are excited about Tapestry Conference 2018, and you should be, too! They talk about the speaker lineup, featuring Jayne Schooler, and including Cindy Lee, Andrew & Angela Holland, and many more. Ryan and Kayla also share some of the changes in the ministry over the past few months leading up to this year's conference.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
- Tapestry Conference 2018
- Jayne and David Schooler
- Tapestry Conference 2018 Sponsors
- Wounded Children, Healing Homes
10% Conference Discount Code: EMPOWEREDPARENT
One Big Happy Home
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Monday Sep 03, 2018
Monday Sep 03, 2018
Chris, Ryan, and Kayla talk about how being an empathetic listener to our children's stories can help with their healing, and why it's important for us to tell our own stories to others to help in our own healing. For when we learn how to help heal ourselves, we can help our children in their own healing.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Dan Siegel explains adult attachment styles
Anatomy of the Soul - Curt Thompson
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Tuesday Aug 21, 2018
Tuesday Aug 21, 2018
Some of our kids have big emotions. Chris talks with Ryan and Kayla about how we deal with drama when the emotions go from big to bigger to biggest.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Harry Chapin - The Cat's in the Cradle
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Tuesday Aug 07, 2018
Tuesday Aug 07, 2018
Listener Jamie asks, how do we prepare the kids already in our home for the journey into foster care? This is something as parents we do not always consider, especially if the kids already in our home are very young. Chris talks with Ryan and Kayla about ways to help kids prepare for and deal with the ups and downs of life as a foster family.
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Monday Jul 09, 2018
Monday Jul 09, 2018
Listener Jamie asks the team about resources for family members and friends to help educate them on how they can best support their family as they navigate foster care and adoption journeys.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
- The Whole Brain Child
- TBRI Overview Video
- The Science of Neglect Video
- Brene Brown TED Talk on Vulnerability
- The Connected Child
- Back2Back Ministries
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Whether we admit it or not, it's a thought adoptive and foster parents have at least once: how do I love my child when I don't like them? Chris, Kayla, and Ryan explore this in detail, starting with the need to continually remember behavior is an expression of a need. We need to do the detective work to help our kids!
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Les Carter - When Pleasing You Is Killing Me: A Workbook
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Sunday May 27, 2018
Sunday May 27, 2018
Listener Jeremy wants to know about prepping kids from hard places for summer camps, so Ryan, Kayla, and Chris discuss the best ways to manage this. They also discuss how those working at these camps might be able to help out in that environment.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Sky Ranch @ Horn Creek Adoptive & Foster Family Camp, August 5-11, 2018
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Tuesday May 15, 2018
It's time once again for another episode of everyone's favorite game show! Okay, alright, maybe not *everyone's* favorite game show, but it's certainly ours. Ryan and Kayla go head-to-head once again in Give Me an Example! They'll discuss repairing your mistakes, how to encourage and praise liberally, and responding to sensory processing needs. Who will win this round? It's a thrill a minute!
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
One Big Happy Home
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Music: "Toony" by Liberty
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North