Fight Like a Mother

Jun 30 2024 99 ep. 41 mins 23

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Parenting children with mental health challenges can be isolating and lonely. Here you can find community with a host and other people who understand. On this podcast we will be chatting with therapists and other experts to provide resources and help with parenting kids with mental health challenges and differently wired brains.

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99: Unshoulding your life

Jun 30 2024 63 mins

My guest Jessica Frew is a delightful person to listen to talk about her incredible story and about what happens when life throws you a major curve ball. Jessica married Steven and two years into their marriage he came out to her as gay. They stayed married and had a daughter but eventually the marriage dissolved but their friendship and connection remain strong. They both are rema

098 Get into nature and chase adventures to energize your soul

Jun 06 2024 44 mins

This episode is about something near and dear to my heart, getting into nature. Nature therapy is one of my most used and powerful tools to heal and to improve my mental health. Brittany Crane of the company Get out there Girl is my guest. Brittany is a living example of getting outside, seeking and creating adventures and encouraging other women to do the same. She plans regular a

097 We are never more completely ourselves than when we play

May 21 2024 34 mins

"We are never more fully alive, more completely oursevles, or more deeply engrossed than when we are playing." Charles Schaefer How does play affect our mental health? How does it aid in our healing of past traumas and struggles? My guest in this episode is Ashlynn Mitchell. I have followed Ashlynn for many years on Instagram and she is an incredible example of resilience and he

96: Creativity brings healing.

May 14 2024 35 mins

Creativity opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. During this month of May which is mental health awareness month, i wanted to do something a bit differently. Talking about mental illness and bringing awareness can often feel heavy. This year I wanted to focus on a few lighter, fun things that can greatly improve our mental health. Our first topic th

95: Trusting God to do his work. Unpacking unhealthy beliefs when your kids leave your faith.

May 02 2024 70 mins

This episode with Jill Freestone as a guest is part 2 of a series about when our children leave our faith tradition. What do we do as parents? How do we unpack some of the unhealthy narratives we've absorbed over the years about our role as parents in our kids faith journey? What things have been said over pulpits in years past that have made us feel like if we are just righteous e

94: What if my child leaves the church? Nurturing relationships when beliefs change.

Apr 29 2024 41 mins

This podcast episode is a bit of a shift from my normal mental health content, but I feel this topic is so vital for so many families today, I am seeing so many parents struggle. So many families are having shifts in religious beliefs within their families and it can be challenge for relationships that were often built upon those religious beliefs and values. Because our religious

93 Grief is the healing process that brings us comfort

Apr 24 2024 25 mins

I think we all know that life can be a bit bumpy, I think all of us hope that our life path looks maybe a bit rocky or bumpy, maybe a little rustic, but fairly flat, straight and really beautiful. So what happens when the life path actually looks more like hanging from a cliff from our fingertips? We are literally holding on for dear life. That's not what most of us expected in lif

Caring For You Caring For Them

Apr 10 2024 58 mins

Ember Pilati is a life and relationships coach who loves lots of people who struggle with their mental health. She shares valuable tips and simple, actionable tips to care for yourself so you can care for your loved ones better. She shares a framework of caring for our mind, body and soul and why each step is so vital to our own physical and mental health. Gratitude is a practice

The Glass Child

Mar 21 2024 38 mins

Welcome to the fight, like your mother podcast. I'm so glad that you are here. I am sharing an episode today that I have been thinking about doing for a really long time. And I haven't done it because I wanted a therapist. Slash expert who knows a lot about this to come on and talk about it because I haven't felt qualified to do so. However lately it won't leave my brain. And I've

CHANGES PARENT SUPPORT NETWORK: A free parent support resource for parents of oppositional with unsafe behaviors with Jessi Stringham

Jan 31 2024 75 mins

Does your child have challenging and sometimes rebellious and unsafe behaviors that have you desperate for a resource? Are you feeling fearful and desperate? This podcast could be your answer. Today my guest Jessi Stringham shares a resource for parents that is free and really amazing. It is a peer led support group that is extremely well organized and From the Changes website: