Episodes

  • Reclaiming Your Power and Rebalancing Your Life

    Reclaiming Your Power and Rebalancing Your Life
    Nov 13 2017
    Are you unconsciously giving your power away? Are you giving and giving not realizing you are putting yourself in a position where you are not where you want to be? Those who are natural caregivers tend to give away so much of themselves they forget they have their own desires and needs. It isn't until their own vessels are empty and they realize how dissatisfied, tired disempowered or stressed they have become. In order to reclaim our power we need to understand what triggers us to give it away. Is it because we want to be seen as caring, adequate, responsible, competent or even perfect? Is it because we are afraid of being alone, criticized, or verbally attacked? In order to take back our power we need to stop thinking we can control negative circumstances or negative responses by others by handing our power over to someone else. If we continually give our power away eventually we feel we have lost control of our own lives.
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    55 mins
  • A Trailblazer in Women's Sports and Equal Rights

    A Trailblazer in Women's Sports and Equal Rights
    Nov 6 2017
    Shannon Miller found a love for hockey as a young girl watching NHL in her Canadian family home. She went on to be the winningest coach in NCAA as the head coach for University Minnesota-Duluth women’s hockey team. She also was the first female head hockey coach in the Olympics bringing home the silver medal in women’s hockey. During Shannon’s hockey career she faced discrimination for being a female playing and coaching sports as well as being openly gay. She was attacked from insiders and outsiders but kept her eye on the puck and her focus on her team’s goals. As she climbed up the coaching ranks things got more difficult for Shannon as the higher one climbs the more vulnerable she was to personal attacks to her reputation. Shannon also was a strong advocate for equality, funding and pay in women’s sports which also made her a target to bring down. Shannon was let go despite her enormous success, bringing into question the real reason for her dismissal.
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    54 mins
  • Resilience: The Role Meaningful Relationships Play

    Resilience: The Role Meaningful Relationships Play
    Oct 30 2017
    Stress from an event or life situation that disrupts a child’s sense of security can have a negative impact on his or her emotional and mental development and well-being. Positive relationships can be a contributing protective factor that offsets environmental stress for children this includes relationships outside of the family model. Resilience is one’s capacity to cope with or recover from extreme stress, trauma and maltreatment. It is an important element to cope with adversity, adapt to stressful situations and reach one’s full potential. Although an individual’s traits have some correlation in their ability to deal with hardships and adversity having nurturing, supportive and committed people in one’s life can make all the difference. Ken Wynes, Treena’s husband, had experienced a major life disruption at three years old when his father shot and killed his mother. He will speak on how this greatly affected his life and what he believes helped him through.
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    55 mins
  • Parent Alienation Is More Than High Conflict Divorce

    Parent Alienation Is More Than High Conflict Divorce
    Oct 23 2017
    When a marriage falls apart and the couple separates the child or children's wellbeing should be at the forefront of both parents. We have all heard of volatile or high conflict divorces where children are caught in the middle becoming the true casualties of divorce. Many times parents cannot agree with joint custody or shared parenting. Parenting experts would agree that it is beneficial that the child or children have a positive relationship with both parents. Shared parenting or regular visitation schedules are helpful in maintaining a parent-child bond. What if one parent turns the child or children against the other parent? If there is no intervention then the child-parent relationship with the targeted parent will eventually be severed and estranged. What can the alienated parent do to remain in his or hers child's life? What methods of intervention can be put in place if the obsessive parent seems to have all the control? Learn about parental alienation syndrome.
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    52 mins
  • Life After Retirement - A Treat or Travesty

    Life After Retirement - A Treat or Travesty
    Oct 16 2017
    Most of us are looking forward to our retirement daydreaming in our cubicles about all the free time we will have to do the things we never had time to do. However when the day comes to pack up your office you wonder what you are going to do with all your free time. Those 40 hours or more a week, that are no longer taken up, will need to filled with something that inspires and motivates you. Retirement is a major transition socially and emotionally. After retirement you will have more than 5000 waking hours every year, or more than 130,000 hours in the next twenty-five years, waiting to be filled with interesting, meaningful and enjoyable activities. How to emotionally plan for that time is often the missing piece of the retirement planning puzzle. What do yo really want? What will you miss? Have you honestly communicated your ideas to your family? these are some of the discussions we will be covering on the show.
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    54 mins
  • Epilepsy Stole My Life And Gave Me Purpose

    Epilepsy Stole My Life And Gave Me Purpose
    Oct 9 2017
    Epilepsy is a disability that greatly affects emotional, social and physical development. It always causes the child and parents to live in constant fear of the “next one”. Just Like the Lotus is a biography of 18 year old, Chiara Sparks, living with a disorder that hijacked her entire adolescence. Suffering several seizures a day she was unable to live a normal teen life. Her social and school life always involved having protective measures in place which made her feel different from her peers. Just Like the Lotus is a first-hand real and raw narrative of her experiences as she has struggled through the last six years of living with epilepsy. The book also contains accounts from her mother’s perspective as it also greatly impacted her life as well. Chiara weaves poetry and prose together to share her deepest thoughts about how epilepsy has changed her life and how hope was the only string she had to grasp onto.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Managing The Cancer But Still Living Our Lives

    Managing The Cancer But Still Living Our Lives
    Oct 2 2017
    A cancer diagnosis can be devastating as it comes with many harsh uncertainties. You know your health should be top priority but with medical bills and costs piling up self-care sometimes takes a back seat. All the demands and worries can put stress on every part of your being. You wonder what your life will look like in a month, six months or next year. As scary and exhausting as it can be, cancer can be a time of awakening. Cancer can shake you up and demand you to take notice of things you have been putting off or ignoring. There may be areas in your life that need reassessing or resetting. A health crisis can bring forward losses but it may also bring a new focus on what is really important in your life.
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    57 mins
  • You are Not Alone: Grieving Your Baby Loss

    You are Not Alone: Grieving Your Baby Loss
    Sep 25 2017
    The death of your baby is not something that is viewed as a sad thing happened. It is a major loss and greatly impacted your life. Your baby was a much-wanted child who was already loved unconditionally by you. You had plans, dreams and hopes for your child. Losing a baby due to miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death is a traumatic experience for the mother carrying the child but also a great loss for the other parent. It is often the parents that lean on each other for comfort and healing. Dealing with this loss can be a lonely and intensely emotional experience and support may not always be sought out or even worse not available. Empty Arms was organized because the people in the community recognized the lack of support for parents who lost their babies and were left struggling on their own. This show is a space where you can find comfort knowing you are not alone.
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    55 mins