59. How I fell in love with a tool
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
Release Date: 05/02/2025
130. The truth about regulation - with guest Holly Dryden
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
There is so much talk (even on this podcast!) about regulation... but what is it, and what isn't it? And how do we put it into action in our homes? Join this joyful discussion with OT Holly Dryden about the importance of play, and how to really connect with your kids! About Holly Dryden: I'm a 35 year old wife, mother of 2, and occupational therapist specializing in sensory processing difficulties. I started a parent coaching business called Nature Nurture Neuro in 2024 to help parents use sensory informed play to strengthen co-regulation and build meltdown management tools. I spend as much...
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129. Three Key Elements Missing from Traditional Behavior Models
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
I've worked in the behavior field my entire career... I implented, taught, and supported behavior modification plans for hundreds of neurodivergent kids and teens. Behavior plans are great for gettting at what's just underneat the behavior... but there are 3 key elements missing that I believe are teh differenrce between creating kdis who fit-in, and kids who are empowered and authentic. Join Angie Grandt for this powerful, and short, episode! About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is...
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128. A Powerful Tool To Break Generational Patterns
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
I've been using the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) as an amazing relaxtion and anxiety/stress reduction tool for a while now... and I continue to be amazed with how powerful it is! Recently - I've been digging deeper, and am blown away at how powerful EFT really is! Join me as we dive into the power of EFT - and I'd love to hear your experience too!! About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is also an author, Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Quantum Alignment System...
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127. What frequency are you parenting from?
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
In the most recent episode, we dug into the power of creating a vision. This week we take it deeper, and make it more personal as we look at the gift that Human Design gives us to shift our frequency – once we know what we’re working with, it becomes so much easier to make real shifts in our life. Join Angie as she digs into her life’s work through Human Design – and how knowing the energy of this particular energy has the power to get her unstuck, and moving into a higher frequency. Be sure to grab your chart to dig into your life’s work energy – and schedule a Connection...
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126. Creating a vision for your future
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
Our minds are designed to put worries and fear on repeat. We get stuck in a negative thought loop in many, if not all, areas of our life and then feel frustrated that life isn't turning out the way we want. But what if the solution to creating what we want in life, and relationships, starts with the thoughts we allow to loop through our mind? In this grounding episode, Angie revisits the power of creating a vision, and some practical steps to put it into action! About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of...
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125. Breaking the Victim Loop with Your Kids
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
It's easy to get stuck in a victim loop with our kids - their behaviors cause our reactions and negative feelings, and our reactions fuel their behaviors. Yet we somehow hope our kids will be the one to break the loop (hint - that isn't how this parenting thing works!) In this episode, Angie Grandt digs into what's really happening in our parenting relationship, and what we get to do about it! About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Quantum...
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124. Do You Really Want Empowered Kids?
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
We talk about wanting to empower our kids... but what does that really look like in action? Do we really want empowered kids, or is that just lipservice? In this episode, Angie Grandt digs into tools to empower our kids, what empowerment looks like, and a challenge to reflect on your parenting for empowerment. About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Quantum Alignment System certified, Certified Family & Relationship Coach & an early...
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123. Practical tips for connecting with your teen
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
Our teens behaviors, just as is true for behaviors at any age, are an attempt at communicating a need. In this episode, Angie Grandt digs into a few core human needs, how they present in our teens, and some practical things you can try in your relationship wtih your teen! About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Quantum Alignment System certified, Certified Family & Relationship Coach & an early intervention speech therapist with extensive...
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122. You can enjoy the teen years with your kids!
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
If you love a teenager, this episode is for you. The teen years can be so hard - hormones, physical changes, more hormones... to us parents we can feel like we totally lose any semblance of control, or connection, in our home. But what if there's a perspectice shift, and a new approach, that's simple and powerful to build reconnection? I'd love to hear your thougths about the simple yet powerful meditation inside - what do you notice in your body???? About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is...
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121. What if it's not the "terrible two's?"
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
As parents, we have been taught to think that kids are "supposed to" go through the "terrible two's" - tantraums, defiance, emotional outbursts - you name it. But what if those behaviors are more a reflection of unmet needs... and we can do something about it? When we understand our kids through energy needs (aka human design) developmental norms, and start really investigating our own beliefs about kids - things change! In this episode, let's dig into what's really underneath those toddler behaviors, and what we can do to shift many of them. Plus - you might see some similarities in...
info_outlineI don't know about you, but I feel like I have a TON of tools in my parenting tool box. I also have a ton of self-care, relationship, mindset, and self-improvement tools.
Yet why is it so hard to make change? Why is it so hard to get unstuck?
In this episode, I'll share why the science of differentiation, and the art of deconditioning together are the keys to unlocking you... and your potential to create impact in your life, your relationships, perhaps even on a much bigger scale. This one is a must-listen!!
Grab your personalized Human Design Chart here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/ (just scroll to the bottom of the page!!)
About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist
Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Quantum Alignment System certified, Certified Family & Relationship Coach & an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. As a bio parent, adoptive parent, and former foster parent, Angie has been in your shoes – through the good, and the scary. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.
Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm. Angie uses a Human Design based parenting plan – the most POWERFUL way to stop losing your cool with your children, and start connecting with them on a deep, energetic level!
If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this video Angie made for you: https://youtu.be/qCL1SIe8kG0?si=B68dqmzmDFLT3zSZ
And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://www.angiegrandt.com/sessions
If you are looking to better understand you – your unique challenges, gifts, and your purpose in life – book a Human Design reading! You’ll leave with an action plan to tackle your most important relationships, as well as some key insights about your next steps towards your goals! Book here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/choose-your-path
Learn more about working with Angie here: www.angiegrandt.com
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❤ Angie Grandt, Generational Healing Specialist