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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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Thursday Oct 26, 2017
Thursday Oct 26, 2017
Chris is joined once again by Ryan and Kayla as the team talks about the need for mindfulness. As Curt Thompson says, "You need to pay attention to what you're paying attention to." They discuss why this is especially important with adoptive and foster children.
- Star Wars | A Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure!
- Goo Timer
- Spiral Timer Liquid Motion Timer Toy
- Liquid Motion Zig Zag Timer Toy
- Adorox Liquid Bubble Drop Motion Wheel Zig Zag Desk Toy
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Intro/Outro Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
The 2017 Tapestry Conference will be held October 20th and 21st at Irving Bible Church, in Irving, TX. Use the discount code PODCAST20 for 20% off your registration.
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Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
Chris, Ryan, and Kayla discuss why self-care is an important but overlooked part of parenting. The team offers advice on how to take better care of yourself and why self-care can be effective in 15-minute increments.
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Friday Sep 01, 2017
Friday Sep 01, 2017
Toni is the Director of Legacy 685, an Adoption, Foster & Orphan Care Ministry at Houston’s First Baptist Church. She has been caring for orphaned and vulnerable children for the past 17 years. She served for many years as a teacher, house-parent & social worker at a large orphanage in Central America. During her time there she adopted a baby boy who is now 16! As a mom of a child from a hard place, Toni understands both the immense joy and the unexpected challenges of the journey.
She leads Empowered to Connect's Spanish Training Team, she is a TBRI Educator, and a Sexual Abuse Prevention Instructor, among many other disciplines involving foster care, adoption, and trauma.
If you are in the Dallas/Fort Worth metro area and would like to help with relief efforts for Houston evacuees to the area, you can find more information at our web site, http://www.irvingbible.org/relief.
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Tuesday Jul 25, 2017
Tuesday Jul 25, 2017
Chris invites Ryan and Kayla to participate in another game of sharing examples of various TBRI parenting tools. They discuss:
- Total Voice Control
- Time-In instead of Time Out
- Think Before You Consequence
- Respond to Fear with Connection
- Goo Timer
- Spiral Timer Liquid Motion Timer Toy
- Liquid Motion Zig Zag Timer Toy
- Adorox Liquid Bubble Drop Motion Wheel Zig Zag Desk Toy
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Intro/Outro Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Parenting is hard enough, but add traumatized children, and the difficulties can increase exponentially. Chris, Ryan, and Kayla discuss these hardships, and why it’s so important to build a community around your family that understands trust-based relational parenting and is supportive of your efforts to parent this way.
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Intro/Outro Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
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Wednesday Jul 12, 2017
Wednesday Jul 12, 2017
Sibling relationships can always be tenuous, and even more so when it comes to kids from hard places. Chris, Ryan, and Kayla talk about strategies for dealing with these rivalries and the struggles of sibling interaction.
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Thursday Jun 29, 2017
Thursday Jun 29, 2017
Chris, Ryan, and Kayla respond to an email about children who engage in sneaking behaviors. Listen as they discuss if it's developmentally appropriate or trauma related, and why you need to become the world's leading expert in your children.
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Intro/Outro Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
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Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
Chris, Ryan, and Kayla tackle an issue in this episode that most of us deal with; bedtime struggles. They discuss the value of routines (structure) and rituals (nurture) at bedtime and why the cause of the issue may or may not be what you think.
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Intro/Outro Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
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Monday Jun 12, 2017
Monday Jun 12, 2017
Chris, Ryan, and Kayla talk about the fear that connected parenting doesn't prepare our kids for the real world, and why the reasons behind this fear are unfounded.
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Intro/Outro Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere