As we enter this month of transition from the school year to the summer break, we honor parents and caregivers of children of all ages; whether your school-aged children are in currently in daycare, summer camp, or home from college, this episode is for you! Pod-host Vanessa Durrant is both a mother and a licensed clinical therapist with over fifteen years of supporting children, parents, and families. She brings her expertise and empathic perspective on the things that get in the way of parents relating to our children, one another, and ourselves, and getting back to easeful connection.

In this episode, Vanessa shares from a pragmatic perspective how adults and parents experience stress as well as how children experience stress. Vanessa guides listeners through the process of truly being with parent stress. Only when we spend time on identfying the stressors can we tackle how to problem-solve around it. Vanessa provides insightful interprentation of statistics on parent stress, spending time sitting with the feelings that come up around helping children navigate their very real stress reactions. She discusses the weight of the sometimes heavy responsibility we owe to our little ones while dealing with our own stress, and the collective stress related to the atrocities impacting anyone tuned into what's happening on a global scale.

Vanessa shares practical suggestions for parents looking to reconnect with themselves, their partners, and children. She highlights the importance of caring for the self in small, practical ways, and cultivating support systems with partners, friends, and even therapists. Tune into this episode to reflect, feel seen, and take stock of the ways you might be experiencing and coping with stress as a parent or caregiver!

Join us for a follow-up minisode all about relational attunement! If you haven't had an opportunity to listen to season 2, episode 5, go back and listen to our host and attachment therapist Vanessa Durrant, LCSW-C, share her wisdom about the importance of relational or emotional attunement.

For this episode, Vanessa is sharing the "how-to" of relational attunement in a practical, 3-step process:

1. Tuning Into Non-Verbal Communication
2. Kindly Name What You Notice
3. Offer Validation And Non-Judgemental Support

Tune in to learn more about these steps and how to practice them in any of your own relationships with others. Happy 'tuning', Tree'ple!

Get nerdy with us for season 2, episode 5 of the Kindred Tree'ple Podcast! In this episode, pod-host and licensed clinical social worker Vanessa shares her expertise as an attachment based therapist to explain the art of relational attunement.

Vanessa breaks down what relational attunement means, and how it enhances and deepens the human experience. She shares how relational attunement looks in nature to promote surviving and thriving in the animal kingdom, and then helps us to understand how this connection-building skill helps support humanity. Vanessa explains how and why attunement creates easeful connection between people from a neurobiological perspective, and how this supports conflict resolution as it comes up. Vanessa shared what relational attunement is and isn't, and practical steps to foster it in your own relationships.

We've spent all season long devoted to the topic of relationships, and this episode offers listeners the opportunity to grow their knowledge base on what healthy, connected relationships need to have a strong foundation. This episode helps us all to understand how relationships between individuals help us create a more peaceful, conscious world.

Learn more about Vanessa and the Kindred Tree Healing Center team at

www.kindredtreehealing.com

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Join us for another episode this season, focused on relationships! Episode four is about examining our relationship to the collective through the lens of the archetypical nature of tarot theory.

Vanessa talks with Kindred Tree therapist and tarot practitioner, Anna See-Jachowski, about the themes of the collective card of the year for 2024: Strength (8). Anna and Vanessa discuss the archetypal psychology of Strength, what this card is bringing up for all of us in 2024, and how individuals can engage with the themes of this card in order to be in better relationship to the collective on a global scale.

In addition to listening to this week's episode, we highly recommend that you go back and enjoy season one, episode seven, which explored the collective card of the year for 2023, The Chariot. Follow us on social media to learn more about upcoming programming at Kindred Tree Healing Center that will help support you in finding your personal Card of the Year for 2024!

Learn more about Vanessa and the Kindred Tree Healing Center team at

www.kindredtreehealing.com

Follow Vanessa on instagram at @thekindredhearthealer & @kindredtreehealingcenter

Catch our latest Facebook posts https://www.facebook.com/kindredtreehealing

Have you ever wondered how the Myers-Briggs Personality Types Indicator (MBTI) can support you into knowing more about yourself and how you may relate in relationships? Join our podhost, Vanessa Durrant, and Kindred Tree Healing Center therapist Daisy, as they take a deeper dive into the MBTI types and how this impacts relationships to self and others. As a certified MBTI practictioner, Daisy brings forward relavent knowledge on how we can utilize our MBTI types as our biggest strengths, and be aware of how they can be our biggest liabilities. Are you curious about the MBTI? Find out more information at https://www.mbtionline.com to take the assessment yourself. If you're interested in being further supported into your MBTI type, reach out to us via our website at www.kindredtreehealing.com!

Follow Vanessa on instagram at @thekindredhearthealer & @kindredtreehealingcenter

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This minisode features a guided meditation by our host, Vanessa Durrant. This meditation serves as a supportive companion to episode 1 of this new season; if you’re open to reflecting upon the feelings you’re experiencing as an individual in our collective world, this meditation will help guide you through your thoughts and feelings, by connecting you to self-reflection queries for total mind, body, soul awareness.

Season 2, episode 1 is here! Join us this season as we discuss all things relationships! Love is complicated, beautiful, and integral to our lives and wellbeing. This week, podcast host, Vanessa Durrant, touches on how critical it is to be in relationships with others, but also with ourselves, and with the collective world. Her expertise as a licensed clinical social worker, trainer and consultant, in conjunction with her lived experiences inform Vanessa’s wisdom about the importance of interdependence. Vanessa speaks to interdependence and humanity’s survival being intertwined, and how each of us carry some mutual responsibility for one another’s healing. She speaks about current and historical events through both an ancestral and trauma based lens, and the impact of power dynamics and oppression on our communities, but also on our individual nervous system. Vanessa and all of us at the Kindred Tree’ple podcast are inviting all of our listeners to join us in contributing our voices, actions, and intentions towards the greater healing of the world! 

Meditación Que Puede Usar La Siguiente Ves Que Esté Caminando Afuera

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Enjoy these minisodes featuring practical resources for mental health management all brought to you in Spanish by pod-host Vanessa Durrant, and special guest Silvina Ecthegoyen, LMSW.

¡Feliz Mes de la Herencia Hispana! Disfrute de estos minisodios que presentan recursos prácticos para el manejo de la salud mental, todos presentados en español por la presentadora Vanessa Durrant y la invitada especial Silvina Etchegoyen, LMSW.

En este episodio les enseñamos cómo combinar otras maneras de estar consciente en este mundo para su salud mental. Caminar meditando es una manera de manejar el estrés y reflexionar más profundamente. Silvina enseña esta técnica de caminar y meditación. Les prometemos, se van a relajar oyendo esto!

Learn more about Vanessa and the Kindred Tree Healing Center team at

www.kindredtreehealing.com

Follow Vanessa on instagram at @thekindredhearthealer & @kindredtreehealingcenter

Catch our latest Facebook posts https://www.facebook.com/kindredtreehealing