Nobody ever said that being a parent is easy, especially the parent of a neurodivergent child… These children have challenges with emotional regulation, executive function skills, sensory processing, communication, social interactions, impulse control, and balance and coordination to name a few.
This is a lot to contend with as a little one and as the parent of the little one because these make managing every day routines, interactions, and achieving milestones and other accomplishments more challenging.
Parenting in general and parenting a neurodivergent child specially, take a lot of love and dedication to doing right for the specific child.
In today’s episode I’m excited to share the remainder of the conversation with Polina Shkadron, a Play Therapist, about parenting neurodivergent children. In today’s part we cover how using specific language gets better outcomes with your child, how to set good boundaries without overusing the “no”, what to do with attention seeking behavior, how to coparent, and how to smoothly do transitions… It’s packed with information on how to succeed at your parenting and create a harmonious and joyful home.
Hope this information serves you and helps you get on the path to your Successful Relationship and Meaningful Life.
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🌟ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Polina Shkadron is a trauma-informed speech-language pathologist, family communication and feeding expert specializing in families living with Autism, ADHD, language and literacy difficulties. She earned her Master of Arts degree in Speech-Language Pathology from CUNY Queens College where she has held the position of Adjunct Lecturer for 7 years. She also has a Master of Science degree in Nutrition Education from American University, which has transformed the feeding therapy aspect of her practice. Polina’s mission is to educate parents of neurodivergent kids to “Raise Differently” and let go of the shame and deficit-focus that often comes with traditional parenting, and some therapeutic models. You can find her at PlayToLearnConsulting.com.
Is there chaos in your home because of tantrums, meltdowns, acting out, or disobedience from your child? Is your child neurodivergent? Have they been diagnosed with ADHD, autism, or other diagnoses on the spectrum?
Being a parent is one of the most rewarding roles in this human experience, as far as I’m concerned. Also, one of the most challenging ones. It is a huge responsibility to create and raise another human being… The role brings with it inherent challenges and demands, and it does even more so when we have children with special needs of some sort.
But because the role is demanding and because our child might have demanding needs, it doesn’t mean we have to struggle with it and that our family life has to suffer as a result. We can learn parenting and relationship skills, and we can totally learn how to parent children with special needs in a way that supports the child and the whole family.
In today’s episode I’m excited to have a super-rich conversation with Polina Shkadron, a Play Therapist, about parenting neurodivergent children. Our conversation was so informative that it went long and so we are doing a 2-part episode to share all the wisdom with you. In today’s part, we cover the importance of play for the child’s growth, development and wellbeing and how understanding the dynamics involved in play is beneficial for the parent-child relationship. We also cover why children have tantrums and how to manage them, and the importance of self-regulation.
Hope this information serves you and helps you get on the path to your Successful Relationship and Meaningful Life.
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🌟ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Polina Shkadron is a trauma-informed speech-language pathologist, family communication and feeding expert specializing in families living with Autism, ADHD, language and literacy difficulties. She earned her Master of Arts degree in Speech-Language Pathology from CUNY Queens College where she has held the position of Adjunct Lecturer for 7 years. She also has a Master of Science degree in Nutrition Education from American University, which has transformed the feeding therapy aspect of her practice. Polina’s mission is to educate parents of neurodivergent kids to “Raise Differently” and let go of the shame and deficit-focus that often comes with traditional parenting, and some therapeutic models. You can find her at PlayToLearnConsulting.com.
Do you find that one of you wants more sexual intimacy in your relationship?
Differences in libido and desire levels are common in a relationship because of how penis and vagina owners are wired differently and because of the differences in how their sexual organs work. This is especially true for heterosexual couples, but still true for all couples in that individuals bring their uniqueness to their interactions and sex life…
Partners come to their intimacy with a rich background of mental, physical, emotional, and energetic conditioning that influence their experience and desires… And that inform what style of sexual beings they are…
In today’s episode I’m excited to have a very informative and reassuring conversation with Deborah Fox, Sex Therapist, about how conditioning and other factors affect libido and desire, how partners are usually also opposite in sexuality styles and what to do about it, reasons for difficulties with female orgasms and male erectile dysfunction and how to address them, the truth about sexual satisfaction when couples have been together a long time and in older couples, and how to maintain a healthy sexual relationship to ensure a mutually satisfying sex life… This is an episode not to be missed!
Hope this information serves you and helps you get on the path to your Successful Relationship and Meaningful Life.
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🌟ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Deborah Fox, MSW, LICSW, is a clinical social worker with over thirty-five years of experience in private practice in Washington, DC. She is a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and a Certified Sex therapist, providing individual, couples and group psychotherapy, as well as clinical consultation.
Deborah lectures on the integration of mind-body strategies into couples therapy, sex therapy, and the treatment of sexual trauma, as well as conducting small group seminars and consultation groups.
Her most recent publication is The Integration of Somatic-based Strategies into Couples Therapy, published in the Clinical Social Work Journal (Oct 2023). You can find her at DebFox.com.
Have you ever experiences stretches where you feel like nothing you do is working? That you just can’t seem to get ahead?
You might feel stuck in your relationship, can’t seem to lose the weight, your income or revenue is not increasing, your kids are getting on your nerves, and so on?
I have found that when this happens, we are in need of a refresh and reset. We might be going at things the old way that no longer give us the results and outcomes we seek. What might have worked once, no longer does. We are in need of a new approach… So, after refreshing and resetting, we can go at our new beginnings and fresh start differently!
In today’s episode I’m excited to have an energizing conversation with Francois Lupien on just what it takes to change things around. We talk about the power of our internal dialogue and how to have impactful interactions with others, how to go from victim of circumstances to creator of our own reality, how to reframe situations for more happiness and joy in our relationship and our life, and he offered a golden tactic to take things to the next level.
Hope this information serves you and helps you get on the path to your Successful Relationship and Meaningful Life.
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🌟ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Francois Lupien is a dynamic coach, speaker, and presenter whose experience includes working with Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People) and as a consultant with Bob Proctor (Movie: The Secret). Achieving excellence in everything he puts his mind to, Francois has been a Tae Kwon Do Canadian champion, a Top Real Estate agent for 11 years with Remax, and a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful 6-figure businesses. He is a living example of the success he teaches. Francois is an expert at helping people uncover hidden beliefs that slow them down or stop them on their quest for success. Energetic, passionate and dedicated, he shows you how to get real results that stick and he’s here to teach you how to become more. Find him at HowToBecomeMore.com.
Rituals are a significant facet of our human experience. They enrich and give meaning to our life, and they make everything more fun- if done right!
If we didn’t have rituals, our days would just meld into each other as would our weeks, months and years… Our life would not have distinctive segments to focus on for personal care, productivity, creativity, relaxation, connection, fun and enjoyment… It would be a string of passing time without it being acknowledged and properly experienced…
Rituals help us delineate time as in our daily routine. They help us celebrate accomplishments, holidays, and other significant events. They facilitate the rites of passage and mark life-cycle transitions or milestones. They give meaning to our experience.
But they are even more impactful than this – they connect us, they give us identify, they give us family/relationship cohesiveness, they transmit legacy, they deepen our experiences. And most importantly they can serve as a mechanism for creating change…
In today’s episode I’m honored to share time with the wonderful Dr. Evan Imber-Black a prominent contributor to the Marriage and Family Therapy profession. We have a lovely conversation about the significance of rituals, their purpose, what makes a great ritual and how to create them, and how they are impactful in special family and relationship circumstances like step-families and multicultural families.
Hope this information serves you and helps you get on the path to your Successful Relationship and Meaningful Life.
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🌟ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Dr. Evan Imber-Black is the Program Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Mercy University. Dr. Imber-Black was the editor of Family Process, 2004-2011, the major scholarly journal in family systems research and family therapy. She founded and directed the Center for Families and Health at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City, where she is affiliated as senior faculty. She was also a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, where she founded and directed the Urban Institute for Families and Family Therapy Training. And, Dr. Evan Imber-Black was a past president of the American Family Therapy Academy.
Throughout her internationally recognized career, Dr. Imber-Black has made major contributions in thematic areas that cut across different models of practice, including Families and Larger Systems, Family Rituals and Family Secrets. She is the author of over 80 original papers, and several books, and has received major awards for her contributions. Learn more about her here.
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Emma K. Viglucci, LMFT has been in the mental health profession in varying capacities for the past 20+ years. She is the Founder and Director of metrorelationship.com a psychotherapy and coaching practice specializing in working with busy professional and entrepreneurial couples who are struggling getting on the same page and feeling connected. The work helps couples create a radiant and successful relationship and meaningful life by becoming a strong partnership and increasing their connection, intimacy, and fun. Emma is the creator of the MetroRelationship™ philosophy and the Successful Relationship Strategy™.
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