041 - New Focus of the Podcast: Calm, Confidence, Connection and Community

Welcome to the podcast. This is going to be the quickest episode ever. I will be just addressing some changes coming on a podcast that will start next week so

let's do it. Welcome to Parenting the Intensity, where we'll talk all about how we can drop the general parenting advice that doesn't work with our emotionally intense kids anyway, and let go of the unrealistic expectations society puts on us as parents. Together we'll find solutions and ideas that work for you and your kids. Chances are, deep down, you know what you need. But you need a little encouragement to keep going on harder days, and permission to do things differently, and help you fully trust that you already are a wonderful parent to your exceptional but challenging kids. Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and uncertain when it comes to parenting your emotionally intense child? Do you often find yourself playing with guilt, fearing that you're not doing enough to help them navigate their intense emotion? You are not alone. Many parents face these challenges and struggle to find the right path forward. But take a deep breath, there's hope. That's why I created the Parenting the Intensity community. Imagine having a clear roadmap tailored specifically to your child's unique needs, and your family's reality. Picture feeling empowered and confident in your parenting, knowing that you are providing the support and understanding your child needs. It may seem like an unattainable dream right now, but I'm here to tell you that it is

within reach. Come join us for monthly group support to connect with other parents and get supported with your challenge right now. You also get one -on -one chat and audio office hours for the things that you're really not ready to share in the group, and workshop tools, courses to help you in the process of finding that balance of parenting in a way that works for you, your child, and your family. This will be very quick but I just wanted to let you know of a little reframe if you will of the podcast subject topics I want to make it easier for you to follow understand and I want to keep deep big deeper in some specific topics that I consider like essential for parents of emotionally intense kids so most of everything that we will be talking about will fall under five categories for like starting now or next week. There will be basically parenting emotionally intense kids. What does that mean? Why are emotionally intense kids? How to help them calm down? Basic, not how but why, the basic principles and things like that. There will be regulation for kids and parents that means how to stay calm and we will be addressing many topics because I know that's one of the big thing. Another one will be parental confidence and I've surveyed my subscribers of my email list recently and that was the biggest one the thing that people wanted to hear most about over on the podcast how to feel confident parenting emotionally as kids so I'm very excited about that because this is basically my favorite topic. It was like the basis of my master's degree and social work so I'm really happy to talk more about that. By the way if you want to go on my email list you can click a link any link to the podcast page and you'll get an option to join or get a free resource that will put you on my list. The other topic that was very asked for in that survey was connection or relationship and how hard it can be and how the intensity can deter our relationship so we will talk about family connection and relationship and because I know how important that is in going through it all we will talk about community and belonging and basically being understood and supported so those will be the five umbrellas, if you will, under which the next few episodes will fall. And so starting next week, all of the episodes that we will have will find their way in one of those umbrellas.

If you have any suggestions, any questions, anything you would like me to address, any guest you think could help with any of those topics, please reach out. You have my, just going on my website or on Instagram at Parenting the Intensity. And I will try to make it happen as much as I can. Because I really want that podcast to be for you. So I'm trying to modify things we also just went through a lot of guest episodes and I will be completely honest with you I love I love having guests but it's a bit more work for me when I have guests it takes me more time and because I really have lots of time and because I have a lot of things I want to share with you I will come back to a mix of guest episode with guests and episode where I'm alone talking. So they will like the first 13 episode I think of this podcast we're just me talking then we basically add a lot of guests and now we're coming to a little mix of all of the things. So yeah so if you have any question anything you want to share I will really love to I would really love to hear from you and if you need any kind of support feel free to check out my website there's a lot of things free paid that you can get to support you with your emotionally intense child so I can't wait to see you if you will I'm not singing at all but anyway it's a way of saying things but yeah we'll come together next week I'm so glad you joined me today and took that time out of your intense life to focus on finding a new way to parent that works for you and your kids. To get the episodes as soon as they drop, make sure to subscribe to the podcast and please leave everything in review so other parents can find it too. Also, check out all the free resources on my website at familymoments .ca so you can take action on what's the most important for you right now. And take a deep breath, keep going, we're all in this together. you