77 episodes
The Most Important Medicine Dr. Amy
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5.0 • 10 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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Sharing Values Amidst Violence: Talking to Kids about War & Violence
Lean into a conversation with my friend and colleague, Ann Brown, as we discuss how to talk to kids about war and violence. Ann is a Jewish Cantor, Educator, and incredible woman. We talk about ways to discuss war and violence with children in developmentally appropriate ways. And Ann walks us through a 10-step map that lays out how that conversation can happen through a values-driven lens. It's remarkable and trauma-informed.
Ann Brown has been a parenting educator and consultant for over forty years, working with individual parents, couples and groups. She taught her first parenting class when she was still pregnant with her first child, which means she really didn't know what raising kids was all about. Over the decades, she has raised her two sons, taught classes at Marylhurst Early Childhood Center in Oregon City, trained as a Waldorf teacher, created parenting support groups for the Hannah Andersson Family Foundation, and led workshops in California and Oregon. Her favorite gig, however, was co-hosting a cable television show with Dr. Amy, called "The Motherload", in which she and Dr. Amy answered parenting questions from callers and on-camera guests.
If you'd like to consult with Ann, you can reach her at annbrown.annbrown@gmail.com
Ann recommends getting accurate information about the conflict from: Al Jezeera or Ha Aretz (an Israeli Newspaper in English).
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
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Replay of Boundaries episode
Today, Dr. Amy talks about the "B" word, boundaries. Join us to learn the continuum of boundaries and why we should all take a radical look at our own boundaries. It's also a sneak-peek into our learning collaborative with a special invitation to join!
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 -
What Good Is Our Yes If We Can't Say No? Creating boundaries with the Boundary Therapist, Ashley Breland, RSW
As soon as Ashley said, "I'm in a relationship with boundaries," I was all in! Boundaries are dynamic, unique, self-reflective and a continual process. Take a listen to my friend, Ashley Breland, as she walks us through a path of insight regarding ways to integrate boundaries in our lives. Ashley Breland @ashley_theboundarytherapist supports people to stand within their own power. Through collaborative conversations, folks are able to become better acquainted with the knowledge and skills of their own lives that are relevant to the concerns, predicaments, and problems at hand. Ashley’s social media presence is dedicated to the topic of boundaries. How, when using intentional and value-centered boundaries, folks can move into a deeper, stronger relationship with themselves, the people they love, and the things they actually want to do.
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 -
My Teacher Friends are NOT Okay: FREE LIVE Educator Workshop
Join Dr. Amy and about 500 educators as we discuss why behaviors are so darn complex today!
It's important to be in community with one another, as our schools are grappling with increasing violence, teacher burnout, and concern. We need to come together and share wisdom.
Friends, I hosted a workshop ALL about this and uploaded it as Youtube video and podcast episode!
Watch or, if you prefer, listen at the links below or via the link in bio!
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK3g10DOxTY
Let's not just acknowledge the problems; let's equip ourselves with tools to support our kids and one another. It's okay to not be okay, but it's not okay to be alone. Join me as we discuss the challenges and tools for kids we are dedicated to and gain the support we need.
Let's make a positive impact together 🤝
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 -
Boundaries Are For Protection Not Punishment with Hayley Runnels
When families are tough, toxic, or hurtful to you and your children, what do you do? You set clear boundaries for your own mental health and protection. Listen in as my friend & colleague, Hayley Runnels, discuss why boundaries are important, albeit hard, especially as we move into the holidays.
Hayley is an author, advocate, influencer, and I'm lucky to call her my friend. She hosts and runs a group called, Daughters Recovering From Toxic Family Relationships on Facebook, where she has a group of over 45K members! If you experienced toxic relationships as a child, this is the group for you. Hayley's wisdom and compassion having lived this experience is like no other. I hope you join us for insights, especially as we discuss families and how to navigate tough conversations.
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 -
Balancing Acts: Doing it All and Reclaiming Boundaries with Dr. Whitney Casares, MD
It's all about balance! Dr. Whitney Casares, author of Doing it All, talks about how we can reclaim boundaries, empower working moms, and prioritize our needs! Take a listen as she takes us step-by-step through was we can prioritize and reclaim our time.
Dr. Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, is the Founder and CEO of Modern Mommy Doc, where she coaches overwhelmed, career-focused women to jump off the hamster-wheel of life and organize their stress so they can integrate work and life successfully. Her new book is Doing it All:Stop Over-Functioning, and Become the Mom and Person You’re Meant to Be.
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.
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