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The Most Important Medicine Dr. Amy
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5.0 • 11 Ratings
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The Most Important Medicine is connection! If you’re a professional who wants to have a greater impact in the lives of children and families, building resilience in relationships, this podcast is for you. It's where pediatricians, educators, nurses, advocates and other folks who are in children's lives meet and discuss how to respond and mitigate trauma by building buffering mechanisms that address adversity and build connection. We'll listen to stories and bring our humanness into spaces to transform how we think about children, early relational health and connection. It's truly, the MOST important medicine!
Join us to become a trauma-informed champion by nurturing connections through relational health to help kids and families thrive. Every time you join me, I want you to hear practical information and leave with tangible tools you can use every day.
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Dr. Amy’s New Book!
On Amazon here
From the American Academy of Pediatrics
RESOURCES
Dr. Amy's Newsletter
Learning Collaborative - The ConnectED Collab Invitation
Dr. Amy Youtube
FREE DOWNLOADS
Top 10 Guiding Principles When Working with Children & Families
Start Creating Boundaries Handout & Script
Finding Calm to Prevent Overwhelm
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Glowing Together: How skincare boosts teen confidence
Join Dr. Amy & Dr. Sheilagh as we discuss skincare, teen confidence, and how we can relate and bond with our teens about this important topic!
We chat about why this topic is so important, for teen girls AND teen boys. And she provides her top tips on managing teen skin care. Hint, it's super straightforward!
Dr. Sheilagh Maguiness is a double board-certified Dermatologist and Pediatric Dermatologist with a busy practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She currently serves as the President of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology.
She is mom to two tween boys and co-founder of Stryke Club, a personal care brand made just for boys.
Dr. Sheilagh is passionate about education and prioritizes teaching with every patient encounter. She strives to educate the next generation of dermatologists and pediatricians in her practice, and teaches families and caregivers through content created for national pediatric and dermatological societies and her social media presence (@dr.sheilagh.m on Instagram and @drsheilagh on TikTok).
Dr. Amy’s New Book!
On Amazon here
From the American Academy of Pediatrics
RESOURCES
Dr. Amy's Newsletter
Learning Collaborative - The ConnectED Collab Invitation
Dr. Amy Youtube
FREE DOWNLOADS
Top 10 Guiding Principles When Working with Children & Families
Start Creating Boundaries Handout & Script
Finding Calm to Prevent Overwhelm
Don’t Forget! Follow Dr. Amy on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram
For more information visit www.doctoramyllc.com -
Lazy, Unmotivated Teenagers: How to shift from problems to potential with Will Elliott
Let's dive into three ways to create mentorship, success, and unlock potential in teenagers with Dr. Amy & Will Elliott. Will Elliott is one of the world's top life coaches for teens and is dedicated to helping the next generation live confident, bold, and purpose-driven lives. We discussed why teenagers feel misunderstood and what the TRULY need from adults.
You can find Will @coachingwithwill on Instagram!
Dr. Amy’s New Book!
On Amazon here
From the American Academy of Pediatrics
RESOURCES
Dr. Amy's Newsletter
Learning Collaborative - The ConnectED Collab Invitation
Dr. Amy Youtube
FREE DOWNLOADS
Top 10 Guiding Principles When Working with Children & Families
Start Creating Boundaries Handout & Script
Finding Calm to Prevent Overwhelm
Don’t Forget! Follow Dr. Amy on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram
For more information visit www.doctoramyllc.com -
Moving from Conflict to Cooperative Co-Parenting with Aurisha Smolarski, LMFT
Divorce does NOT have to be traumatic for children. Listen in as Aurisha and Dr. Amy discuss conflict-free co-parenting. Aurisha, author of Cooperative Co-parenting for Secure Kids, walks us through her own story of co-parenting and provides sage advice to stay connected to your child during turbulent times.
Aurisha Smolarski, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified co-parenting coach, mediator, and mother, with a clinical practice in Los Angeles, CA. She is the author of Cooperative Co-parenting for Secure Kids: The Attachment Theory Guide to Raising Kids in Two Homes. She specializes in working with co-parents, couples, and individuals. As a co-parent herself, she is very familiar with the challenges faced by parents raising kids in two households. For more than ten years, she has drawn on attachment theory and other modalities to help clients move from conflict to cooperation, make child-centered agreements, and create a secure co-parenting two-home family system. She lives with her daughter and her cat and sees clients both virtually and in person.
You can contact Aurisha at www.aurishasmolarski.com
Dr. Amy’s New Book!
On Amazon here
From the American Academy of Pediatrics
RESOURCES
Dr. Amy's Newsletter
Learning Collaborative - The ConnectED Collab Invitation
Dr. Amy Youtube
FREE DOWNLOADS
Top 10 Guiding Principles When Working with Children & Families
Start Creating Boundaries Handout & Script
Finding Calm to Prevent Overwhelm
Don’t Forget! Follow Dr. Amy on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram
For more information visit www.doctoramyllc.com -
10 Guiding Principles When Working with Children and Families with Dr. Amy
Dr. Amy reviews 10 guiding principles that she utilizes every day in her work with children and families and how you can incorporate them in your work too! In today's episode, she discusses 10 principles that are the cornerstone to her work - how she thinks about training, curriculum, and interactions with children and families. She breaks down 10 guiding principles that you can utilize today in your work too! From taking a developmental lens, to trauma-responsive care, to unconditional love - we cover it all! You can grab the free guide here!
Dr. Amy’s New Book!
On Amazon here
From the American Academy of Pediatrics
RESOURCES
Dr. Amy's Newsletter
Learning Collaborative - The ConnectED Collab Invitation
Dr. Amy Youtube
FREE DOWNLOADS
Top 10 Guiding Principles When Working with Children & Families
Start Creating Boundaries Handout & Script
Finding Calm to Prevent Overwhelm
Don’t Forget! Follow Dr. Amy on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram
For more information visit www.doctoramyllc.com -
Change-makers and Chain-breakers: The Power of Narrative Medicine with Dr. Anu French
Join Dr. Anu French and Dr. Amy to hear a beautiful story about how to heal intergenerational trauma & create trauma-informed pediatric practices.
Anu French MD FAAP ABoIM
www.anufrench.com
A New Wellness: Pediatrics, Integrative Medicine
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
On a mission to create healthier communities through healthier children
Dr French, an artist, musician, yogini, author and integrative pediatrician, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, double board-certified in Pediatrics and Integrative Medicine, with fellowship training in Integrative Medicine and Integrative Psychiatry.
With special interest in integrative nutrition, health care equity, childhood mental health and intergenerational resilience, she serves on professional and policy advisory boards of Let’s Integrate, ASPIRE and WholeHealthED and is a member of Integrative Medicine for the Underserved and the AAP's Section on Integrative Medicine.
In clinical practice for 28 years, she melds her passion to provide affordable, accessible integrative pediatric care with craftivism through her affirmative art series and her meditative music at her office in St Louis, MO. She has researched and published on the topics of nutrition, yoga, art and resilience and has taught mindfulness, food as medicine and sound healing workshops to medical, dietetic and yoga students, pediatric and psychiatry residents/physicians and Montessori educators.
Having found balance through the healing arts after professional and personal burnout, Dr French offers integrative resources she hopes will be helpful through her website and her Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram pages. Her choice of meditation is walking her backyard labyrinth, being a mindful partner to her beloved and a mindful parent to her two precious daughters and her sweet dog.
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RESOURCES
Dr. Amy's Newsletter
Learning Collaborative - The ConnectED Collab Invitation
Dr. Amy Youtube
FREE DOWNLOADS
Top 10 Guiding Principles When Working with Children & Families
Start Creating Boundaries Handout & Script
Finding Calm to Prevent Overwhelm
Don’t Forget! Follow Dr. Amy on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram
For more information visit www.doctoramyllc.com
Customer Reviews
Lifesaving information
Dr. Amy is clear, insightful, warm, and brilliant. She traces the impact of trauma throughout the intricacies of human life, and how that then presents in the healthcare setting, both in patients and clinicians. Her message is simple but not easy: the only medicine for trauma is loving connection, and without that connection, we can never feel truly safe.
Wonderful Interviewer!
Dr. Amy is a great interviewer - not surprising, as she’s a psychologist specializing in how trauma presents in primary care.
She interviewed me about my lived experience of having bipolar disorder. I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with her.