Be Whole. Do Good. Podcast

Part 2: Helping Your Kids Get a Good Night’s Sleep with Courtney Zentz

"Sleep is the foundation of the home." While other things are also foundational, this thought from child sleep expert Courtney Zentz is so right! We have all observed the increased levels of grumpiness, fighting, and stress, and decrease in motivation, connection, and willingness that occur after one or more family members have a poor night’s sleep. We have long known that sleep is foundational to our family culture, and that we want to improve our sleep habits. If we only had a dollar for every time we have said, “If we could just get to bed earlier.” Which is usually followed by, “If we could just get our kids into bed earlier.” Which is why we decided to interview Courtney! In the interview we gained a host of helpful insights and tips regarding child nighttime hyperness; sleep habits vs. sleep needs; helping our kids rooms be more supportive of bedtime; different products that are supportive for children’s sleep; sleep shaping, training; and behavior modification at different ages; and more. If you feel a need to improve your child ’s sleep (and by extension yours) then check out this interview!

Part 1: Helping Your Kids Get a Good Night’s Sleep with Courtney Zentz

"Sleep is the foundation of the home." While other things are also foundational, this thought from child sleep expert Courtney Zentz is so right! We have all observed the increased levels of grumpiness, fighting, and stress, and decrease in motivation, connection, and willingness that occur after one or more family members have a poor night’s sleep. We have long known that sleep is foundational to our family culture, and that we want to improve our sleep habits. If we only had a dollar for every time we have said, “If we could just get to bed earlier.” Which is usually followed by, “If we could just get our kids into bed earlier.” Which is why we decided to interview Courtney! In the interview we gained a host of helpful insights and tips regarding child nighttime hyperness; sleep habits vs. sleep needs; helping our kids rooms be more supportive of bedtime; different products that are supportive for children’s sleep; sleep shaping, training; and behavior modification at different ages; and more. If you feel a need to improve your child ’s sleep (and by extension yours) then check out this interview!

Part 2: Eliminating Food Battles and Taking the Stress out of Feeding Your Family with Sarah Ladden

Do you have a picky eater? Ever experience friction in your family around eating? Then like us you likely have felt at a loss about how to better support your child(ren) and improve the sense of family connection and joy around eating. In fact, it was from this place of worry and desire for deeper understanding that we reached out to family feeding expert, Sarah Ladden. Sarah’s focus is not on what we should feed our families, but how to feed them in a way that leads to connection, joy, trust, autonomy. This interview felt like the best free 1-hour consultation we could have ever received. There are so many insights we received, including how to help kids (even picky eaters) have an intrinsic curiosity with food from a safe and confident place, what a good feeding schedule looks like, what is our and our kids roles in eating and how to stay in them, the ultimate goal of our kids relationship with food, how eating disorders fit in all this, and more. We hope you find the interview as insightful as we did!

Part 1: Eliminating Food Battles and Taking the Stress out of Feeding Your Family with Sarah Ladden

Do you have a picky eater? Ever experience friction in your family around eating? Then like us you likely have felt at a loss about how to better support your child(ren) and improve the sense of family connection and joy around eating. In fact, it was from this place of worry and desire for deeper understanding that we reached out to family feeding expert, Sarah Ladden. Sarah’s focus is not on what we should feed our families, but how to feed them in a way that leads to connection, joy, trust, autonomy. This interview felt like the best free 1-hour consultation we could have ever received. There are so many insights we received, including how to help kids (even picky eaters) have an intrinsic curiosity with food from a safe and confident place, what a good feeding schedule looks like, what is our and our kids roles in eating and how to stay in them, the ultimate goal of our kids relationship with food, how eating disorders fit in all this, and more. We hope you find the interview as insightful as we did!

Part 2: Feeling Safe and Secure - The Path to a Good Night's Sleep with Dr. Wendy Troxel

“The best bridge between hope and despair is a good night’s sleep.” That quote from researcher Matt Walker has always resonated with us. Isn’t it true!? After a poor night sleep it is so easy to feel anxious, stressed, and overwhelmed. But after a restful night we feel so much more ready to tackle our life challenges. And yet, for so many reasons getting enough quality sleep seems to be one the more challenging wholeness habits. This interview with sleep expert, researcher, and author, Dr. Wendy Troxel is filled with wonderful reminders, as well as new insights. A few of those helpful insights include the importance of feeling safe and secure as we go to sleep, practical ways to increase that feeling before bedtime, how we should see bedtime more like a plane slowly descending rather than a light switch, and how to approach the morning to best prepare the way for the night.