69. 🎙️ Summer Guest Series: Redefining Self + Healing (with Criss Madrigal)
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
Release Date: 07/12/2025
89. Conscious Discipline, Real-Life Parenting, and Raising Emotionally Safe Kids with Katie Jones
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
In this powerful and heartfelt conversation, Angie sits down with Katie Jones—longtime childcare provider, Conscious Discipline–trained parent educator, and the creator behind Katie’s Kids Childcare in Oregon, WI and BU Daily Tools for Transformation. Katie shares her deeply personal journey from burnout and “rock bottom” to becoming the grounded, emotionally present caregiver and parent she is today. Her story of awakening, self‑reflection, and reparenting herself is not only inspiring—it’s a masterclass in what conscious, connected parenting really looks like in practice. In...
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88. Trauma, parenting, and resilience - with Guest Dina Lobo
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
Our personal experiences have such a powerful impact on the parent we are being with our own kids. If we want to really break the cycles that have caused us to be someone we're not, then we MUST heal us first. Join me for this powerful interview with Dina Lobo Lewis as we dig into how our stories about ourselves dance with our parenting, and the choices we get to make to break the cycles. About Dina Lobo Lewis: Empowering leaders to be SEEN, HEARD, and AMPLIFIED in the Era of Individualism. Dina Lobo is a sought-after global speaker and...
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87. 12 Reasons to Ditch Punishment for Good
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
In this passionate and perspective-shifting solo episode, Angie pulls back the curtain on one of parenting’s biggest misunderstandings: the belief that punishment changes behavior. With deep insight from her experience in behavior management and emotional healing, she walks listeners through 12 powerful reasons to rethink spanking, yelling, and punitive discipline altogether. This isn’t just a list—it’s a wake-up call for every parent who’s trying to do the right thing but feels stuck in reactive patterns. Angie shares how these strategies affect a child’s self-worth, nervous...
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86. You Don’t Need More Parenting Hacks—You Need This
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
In this refreshingly honest episode, Angie Grandt breaks down a pattern so many parents fall into: the endless search for more parenting strategies, hacks, and expert advice. Sound familiar? But what if the real breakthrough doesn’t come from learning more… but from shifting how we feel and what we believe? Angie pulls back the curtain on what’s really keeping parents stuck—even when they know all the “right” things to do—and shares why mindset, energy, and emotional regulation matter far more than another sticker chart or consequence plan. Whether you’re navigating tantrums,...
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85. Co-Parenting Without Losing Your Mind
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
Host: Angie Grandt Episode Summary In this heartfelt episode, Angie shares her personal journey and hard-earned wisdom around the messy, beautiful, and often frustrating world of co-parenting. Drawing from her own experience navigating divorce, blended family dynamics, and emotional healing, she offers parents a grounded, compassionate lens to reframe their co-parenting challenges. You'll hear how prioritizing your child’s sense of safety and emotional security—rather than trying to “win” at parenting—can shift everything. Angie breaks down the trap of blaming the other parent and...
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84. A Brother’s Journey: Understanding the Shadows After Loss
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
Suicide trigger warning in this episode This episode is deeply personal. Angie opens her heart and shares her journey of trying to understand her brother after losing him to suicide — and how that loss became a doorway into psychology, self-awareness, and the human shadows we all carry. Through reflection and compassion, Angie explores how two siblings — shaped by the same family, yet carrying very different energies — processed pain, divorce, and life’s challenges in completely different ways. What she discovered along the way wasn’t just about him… it was about all of us. ✨ In...
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83. The Cost of Yelling: What It’s Really Doing to Our Kids (and Us)
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
We’ve all been there—yelling out of frustration, exhaustion, or overwhelm. But have we ever stopped to ask: What is this really doing to our kids? In this episode of Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough, Angie peels back the curtain on the lasting impact yelling can have on our children’s sense of worth, safety, and connection. This isn’t about shame or blame—this is about awareness, healing, and reclaiming peace in your home. Angie shares the deeper emotional toll yelling takes on kids (and us as parents), and what actually changes the pattern: not more discipline, but more compassion......
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82. What if your story isn't true?
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
There’s a voice in your head that says: “I’m failing.” “My kid doesn’t respect me.” “They’ll never change.” But… what if that story isn’t actually true? In this solo episode, I dig into: How subconscious stories shape how we see our kids—and ourselves Why we default to narratives of shame, blame, or hopelessness How to gently question the script you’ve been living by What becomes possible when you stop reacting to the story—and start rewriting it This one’s short, honest, and powerful—a nudge to stop letting old beliefs run the show, especially in...
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81. What do I do when my kid misbehaves?
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
If you’ve ever found yourself thinking “I don’t even know what to do anymore…” in the heat of a behavior meltdown—you’re not alone. In this episode, I unpack: Why our instinct is to “correct” misbehavior—and why that often backfires What your child’s behavior is actually trying to communicate The real difference between reacting and responding (and how to catch yourself in the moment) The first steps to take when everything feels triggering, loud, or just too much This isn’t a checklist for perfect parenting—it’s a perspective shift. One that can help you...
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80. Guest Series: Stories That Heal (with Kathy Bailey)
Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough: The Parenting Through Challenges Podcast
In this rich and reflective conversation, I’m joined by Kathy Bailey—a writer, mother, emotional wellness advocate, and fierce believer in the healing power of storytelling. With decades of lived experience in parenting, self-awareness, and relationship repair, Kathy brings her deep understanding of human behavior and healing into every word she writes—and shares. We explore: How storytelling becomes a tool for emotional wellness and generational healing The raw, unpolished reality of rebuilding relationships after rupture Why lived experience can sometimes offer more wisdom than...
info_outlineIn this episode, I’m joined by the radiant Criss Madrigal—author, life alchemist, and a powerful voice for women ready to return to themselves.
Together, we explore:
· Why alignment is your natural state, not a destination
· The connection between creativity, nervous system regulation, and self-trust
· The difference between doing healing and living healed
· What reclaiming yourself looks like as a parent, leader, and cycle-breaker
This conversation is like a deep exhale—real, nourishing, and soul-stirring.
Connect with Criss and her work here: @crissmadrigal
Tune in to reconnect with what matters most: you.
mentor to high achievers. After spending 20 years in corporate HR, Criss walked away from
the system and pivoted into entrepreneurship where she experienced a full identity
deconstruction to return back to HER. Diagnosed with an autoimmune condition at 40,
she realized her body was signaling what her soul had long known: she was out of alignment. She
was living in survival mode and through deep inner work, Criss healed from within, reprogrammed her mind, reclaimed her power, and redesigned her life with intention. Today, she helps women go from misaligned to magnetic by guiding them back home to themselves. Whether it’s releasing guilt, rediscovering their voice, or turning their story into impact, Criss guides women on a journey of remembrance back to the truth of who they are. Her mission: to elevate the consciousness of 1 million women worldwide by 2029, one story, one alignment, one breakthrough at a time.
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
Grab your personalized Human Design Chart here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/ (just scroll to the bottom of the page!!)
Learn more about working with Angie here: www.angiegrandt.com
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❤ Angie Grandt, Generational Healing Specialist