Erika Fotes, mother of 4 adult sons, is a Sacred Remembrance Guide and creator of The Sacred Return™, a two-phase soul journey that helps women reclaim their joy, sovereignty, and divine embodiment. A former real estate pro turned intuitive mentor and energy channel, Erika blends emotional alchemy, embodiment practices, and playful spiritual rituals to guide women out of survival mode and back into their truth. Through her podcast Powered by Joy, transformational events, and signature tools like The Sacred Shift Practice™, she supports women in harmonizing their feminine and masculine energies — so they can rise rooted, radiant, and wildly alive.

Today, she shares how she recommends keeping solid relationships with adult children so that those with adult children can reconnect and repair if needed, and those whose children are still young can look forward to the future with hope and excitement.

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This was an incredible interview with a passionate woman advocating for awareness, education, understanding, and compassion regarding roughly half the population's most hidden biological function! We get to end the shame girls and women feel around their bodies and their periods and she does this work with parents and children in first-moon circles that allow kids to learn shame-free and ask all their questions in a safe environment.

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This component of parenting is ESSENTIAL and so hard when no one demonstrated how to do it for us. We need to understand the nervous system and how to coach our kids through their emotional experiences so they can develop brain patterns for regulation and empathy. We also do this with Inner Child Healing work too because we are filling the gaps in what we didn't receive. If you're struggling with this you can set up a free call at bit.ly/callsami or visit www.sureparenting.com for more support.

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Today I had the honor of speaking with sleep specialist Kim Hawley. We share a love for biologically normal infant sleep and a whole-family approach to make sure everyone's needs are met with compassion and empathy and realistic science-backed expectations. Kim Hawley, MA, MPH, IBCLC is a Holistic Sleep Coach, Lactation Consultant, Peaceful Parenting Educator, mom, and the host of The Responsive Family Sleep Podcast. She helps tired parents bring together developmental knowledge, sleep science, and their intuition to improve family sleep. Her specialty is holistic, responsive sleep support for babies, toddlers, and nursing families. Kim lives in Capitol Hill, Washington DC with her husband, 2 kids, guide dog, and cat. She loves running, listening to audio books, coffee, chocolate, and wine.

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Sunshine Boatright will share a bit of her story and how to find harmony and the middle ground when you're tempted to pendulum swing too far in the name of breaking generational curses. She is a great example of self-advocacy, advocacy for our children, and advocacy for other parents breaking the cycle!

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We all have emotions we struggle to manage sometimes and the older we get the more shame we carry that we still struggle! This is one part of the process that I've found profoundly helpful and given me a sense of peace and groundedness. I share them here with you to encourage you to process your overwhelming feelings and uncover the messages they are trying to deliver. Feelings are fine. We can even learn from them. If you're feeling overwhelmed and need support in this endeavor, set up a free call to see what I might be able to do to help. https://lindsaybraman.com/emotion-sensation-feeling-wheel/

Jazmin Gill: https://msha.ke/amjaz/

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Jazmin is a mom of 5 and she is sharing her experiences helping humans lean into Observation and Awareness to find Ease. We don't need the constant judgement we typically lob on ourselves in order to be good people, good moms, good friends, etc. We are safe to be ourselves in all the messy glorious humanness that we each possess.

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Amanda shares the journey she's made to change her parenting as she attempts to raise her children with more emotional safety than she knew. Find Amanda at: https://www.facebook.com/AmandaWoodburyUnravelYourStress

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Mariana discusses her journey to learn the importance of emotional availability from being there in the hard feelings to repairing when needed. She's a cycle breaker parent to 2 Elementary aged kids and a daughter of immigrants with a unique and valuable perspective.

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This mom is concerned that her 4 year old will look down on feminine things and women in general because of his loud clear dislike of "girl things" now at 4. In this episode we explore what is typical development for a 4 year old and and helpful ways to ensure self advocacy, tolerance for different preferences, an expansion of nuance and perspective as this kiddo gets older. As per usual, it starts with us, the grown ups in his life and requires calm confident leadership and modeling.

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Sometimes I hear people say that their trauma is what made them strong and I vehemently disagree. Responsive respectful parenting is NOT making weak children or weak adults. This video gives several examples of how, when, and why SURE Parenting creates resilience, persistence, and a problem-solving mentality.

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