Authentic Parenting

Carla Naumburg, a clinical social worker, mother, and author of five non-fiction books, including her international bestseller, How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids is back to the show. 

Have …

ATTENTION: This episode touches on sensitive topics such as poverty, homelessness, parental mental illness and foster care. Listener discretion is advised. 

For my guest David and his two siblings, t…

In this episode Anna talks about her recent trip (emotional and meaningful) to her home country Armenia with her friend Kristy Lauricella. 

It's a wide-ranging conversation and some of the key themes…

A really thought-provoking and important conversation with world-class pediatric surgeon, social scientist, and best-selling author of Thirty Million Words Dr. Dana Suskind about why early childhood…

(This conversation was originally released in 2019)

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If parenting was stressful before the pandemic, during the COVID-19 global crisis, ⅔ of parents experienced some level of burnout.

The pandemic is not over and stress on parents is not going to magic…

How many secrets do you have? Did you know that most peoples' secrets fall into 38 categories? 

Michael Slepian, the leading expert on the psychology of secrets on what secrets hurt most, the emotion…

Today’s guest —Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, Ph.D strongly believes that we pervasively misunderstand anxiety and presents a new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion as the advanta…

Are you kind and loving toward yourself? Do you offer the same care to yourself as you give it to others? 

How do you talk to yourself when you make a mistake or go through hard times? 

Do you get ca…

How much do our childhoods, and especially the quality of our first loving bonds, determine who we become and how we love.

A truly fascinating and delightful conversation about the science of attachm…

Unexpressed grief from the past may be one of the most overlooked public crises of our time. Says my guest, Hope Edelman today-who is a strong voice and influential figure in the bereavement field an…

Shaka Senghor, authhor of Letters to the Sons of Society on the power of transformation, father's love, vulnerability and freedom. 

His first book is a memoir Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redem…

In this solo episode Anna talks about the 6 critical emotional needs of children. She provides an overview with some examples to help you understand your children better; become a better decoder of t…

Do you suffer from anxiety? 

We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. 

Dr. Jud Brewer, renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist explains how to uproot a…

By sharing it you not only release painful feelings, make sense of what happened to you, gain a new pe…

Have you noticed that your ability to pay attention is collapsing?  Did you know that in the US teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time and office workers average only t…

Parenting is hard. But being a parent doesn’t mean you have to stifle your most basic wants and needs. It doesn’t mean it has to consume you to the degree of self-sacrifice and martyrdom and you defi…