Dr. Reedy take live questions and talks about finding a therapist, and how to find a therapy program when a child is high-risk. He also talks about how to avoid putting pressure on our children when offering treatment or therapy. He explains ways to support siblings of the identified patient.
Dr. Reedy talks about how to engage resistance in others without provoking it and making it worse. He talks about how attachment theory and attachment-based therapy inform therapists and parents about how to deal with troubling symptoms or defenses in children. He explains how "honoring" the defense heals and how the goal is to "find" clients and others rather than try to "fix" them and in finding them, they fix themselves.
Dr. Reedy welcomes Sanford Shapiro back to the podcast. Sanford shares the story of parenting a stepson through mental illness, doing our own work, and how neuroscience informs parenting.
Dr. Reedy takes live questions and talks about how to find people that can support you on your journey. He explains how children need to retain their dignity and how to respect their boundaries while still holding true to yourself.
Dr. Reedy talks about when our children self-sabotage and how understanding primary and secondary gains can prevent reactive parenting.
Dr. Reedy takes live questions and talks on the issues of praise and how to make difficult parenting decisions when no option is devoid of risks.
Dr. Reedy explains how narcissism and entitlement develop in children. He explains how a parent’s unhealed and unexplored attachment issues impact children. Dr. Reedy explains how understanding the wound beneath the symptom creates compassion and a more effective response to our children. And he warns against shaming children and instead invites parenting into their own work.
Dr. Reedy takes live questions and talks about relationally based therapy vs behaviorally based therapy. He also explains how accepting yourself as imperfect and flawed is the door to freedom and the basis of the ability to love others. He explains how to separate-out and honor our feelings while maintaining boundaries with our children.
Dr. Reedy talks about how the seasons affect the clinical aspects of the program. He explains how should and shouldn't get in the way of self awareness and self esteem. He also talks about mother and father wounds and how they affect a child’s development.
Dr. Reedy takes live questions and talks about what it means to let go and how to love our children and support them on their journey.
Dr. Reedy explains the theory of wilderness therapy and how to introduce (or not) wilderness therapy to your child. He explains the pitfalls in selling it to your child and empowers parents to avoid justifying their decision to family and friends.
Dr. Reedy discusses the role of the parent in the child’s life and why a parent’s feelings weigh so heavily on the child’s psyche. He also talks about what to do when a child doesn't respect a #boundary. He talks about how grandparents can support their grandchildren buy learning and doing their own work. This is a live Q&A with family members of Evoke Therapy Programs.
Dr. Reedy discusses communication in the context of wilderness therapy. He talks about how our communication can reveal family patterns and dynamics and how we can notice our feelings but not react to them. He gives suggestions for approaching a visit to get the most out of it.
Dr. Reedy takes live questions and talks about various subjects like dealing with your child’s diagnosis, how grandparents can support the process, and understanding the interplay between the disease model of addiction and the mental health/trauma model.
Dr. Reedy takes live questions and talks about various subjects like transitioning home after treatment, how sharing our feelings with our children impacts their development, and the role of parents as teachers for their children.
Dr. Reedy explores the trauma and grief of raising a child struggling with mental health issues. He talks about how therapy and 12-Step groups can offer a place to feel and heal. He explains how attachment and attachment trauma relate to trauma and resiliency. He implores parents and other family members to do their own work so they can be present with those struggling, providing a reparative experience.
Dr. Brad Reedy discusses how we heal childhood attachment patterns and wounds. He talks about validating feelings but not trying to control feelings and how some skills suggest that when we listen to others’ feelings, we can make they dissipate. He also discusses treating borderline traits and how techniques only show us how to be; they do not dictate what we do and say.
Dr. Brad Reedy discuss trauma and experiential therapies. He explains how the trauma affects the brain and how psychodrama accesses aspects of ourselves beyond words (talk therapy).
Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience and discusses the journey of parenting and how enlightenment is a process of accepting our fallibility. He talks about how owning our issues and doing our work is the first step towards awareness and a step that few people take. He talks about how to think about questions regarding boundaries with our children.
Dr. Brad Reedy discusses how to create a support network for yourself. He talks about how our outer world mirrors our inner world. Brad explains how one must learn to require others to treat them well, instead of threatening, pleading, arguing, debating, or begging to be treated well.
Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience and discusses journey of parenting and how enlightenment is the process of accepting our fallibility.
Dr. Brad Reedy discusses the Myths of Being Right, Chapter 9 of The Journey of the Heroic Parent. He talks about how the defense we set up is to protect us from being alone or abandoned. Dr. Reedy explains how being right is a counterfeit form of being who you are, being a self, being a vulnerable human being. He explains how parents can become more human and model this to their children by doing their work and discovering their authentic self.
Dr. Brad Reedy talks about what to do when communication skills don't work. He also talks about when to negotiate boundaries and when to stay firm.
Dr. Reedy talks about how when we support our children, we must avoid trying to control them even when we think our motives are pure or will prevent them from making big mistakes. He explains how children are not capable of holding their parents’ feelings without suffering some great cost, primarily the loss of the authentic self.
Dr. Reedy destroys myths surrounding guilt and shame. discuss how guilt and shame are not effective tools in parenting and moral development. He explains how we have to tolerate feelings of guilt in order to do the right thing.
Dr. Reedy takes live questions from audience members and talks on themes of when to share your feelings with your child and how to be support a sibling returning home from treatment.
Dr. Reedy discuss a central theme in his book, distinguishing control from levels of structure and strictness. He talks about how controlling parenting is toxic and involves the use of emotional coercion (shame, fear, guilt, debate, lecturing). He talks about how boundaries come from a place of self-care and demonstrate healthy psychological boundaries. He explains that permissive parents tend to be controlling because they use emotions to manipulate children and to ask children to take care of ...
Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience on parenting. He talks about how our wounds and the symptoms created to protect us can hurt those close to us. The tittle of this broadcast is taken from Dr. JD GIll's book. "The Letters of Juliet to the Knight in Rusty Armor."
Dr. Brad Reedy welcomes Michael Mclean and Jeff Mclean to the podcast. Michael, the father, is a renowned L.D.S. songwriter, playwright, author, and filmmaker. His son Jeff is an accomplished artist, singer, voice teacher, and actor in his own right. This podcast is as preview for a book the three are writing of navigating the landscape from a conservative, small-town, religious community to a father and son finding each other after the son comes out gay. We talk about faith, God, love, and what...
Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience. He talks about making parenting decisions from a place of willingness and capacity rather than from a place of should or should not.
