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Pivot Parenting: Expert Tips for Navigating Teen and Tween Challenges

Jun 27, 2023

In todays episode, Katie Parker and I discuss the struggles that our tween ladies are experiencing and how we can encourage, love and support them better. Adolescence is hard but we can educate ourselves to be more supportive. We can also give our girls an opportunity to engage in meaningful emotional education. This...


Jun 20, 2023

Guesting on Pivot Parenting for a fourth visit, Jennifer Finlayson-fife and I discuss triangulation in families. What is this, how it plays out, its relationship to codependency, and the role that our parental anxiety plays in all of it. 

There are 3 typical roles in triangulation: victim, perpetrator and rescuer. We...


Jun 13, 2023

Every parent's worst nightmare: Realizing that they are the worst parent ever. Our teens are happy to tell us the reasons why, their choices are ample evidence, our world is crushed as reality washes over us. 

But what if it's not true? Listen in as I discuss how the fear of failing as a parent plays out it real time...


Jun 6, 2023

You might not think this applies to you. That you're super open minded and easy going. This can be true and you can also be wanting to be right to the detriment of your relationship. In todays episode I outline 8 sneaky ways that our brain kills connection with the desire to be right, and most of us do at least a few...