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In this Ask Me Anything episode, Dr. Reedy takes questions from the audience on topics ranging from how we communicate our energy to our children, making the unconscious – conscious, debunking the cause and effect thinking, and how small-t trauma is insidious. He answers a question on shadow work. And he talks about how to handle the mistakes we have made as parents when our children remain angry.

Why is “Small-t” Trauma So Insidious. (A.M.A.) - Ep 661

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The Power of Our Contexts - Ep 662

Dr. Reedy discusses his first book, The Journey of the Heroic Parent and how his work has evolved since then. He describes the goal of the book as one to help parents become their own expert by learning how to think differently about parenting. He emphatically invites parents to do their own work and to explore their own histories, their own psychology.

The Journey of the Heroic Parent: 10-Years Later  - Ep 663

In this thoughtful and enlightening episode of Older & Bolder, Debbie McCulloch sits down with Jennifer Kaufman—educator, principal, author, and proud grandmother—to discuss the unique and meaningful experience of grandparenting a child on the autism spectrum.

Drawing on her decades of professional experience in special education, Jennifer shares how her personal connection to autism deepened when her grandson was diagnosed. With warmth and insight, she explores the joys, challenges, and profound rewards of building a bond with her autistic grandson—and how grandparents can play a powerful role in both supporting their grandchild and their own adult children.

Jennifer is the author of Grandparenting on the Spectrum: A Journey From Both Sides of the Desk, a valuable guide for families navigating autism together. She also surprises us with stories of her unexpected second act—as a grey-haired model, proving that embracing your authentic self can lead to new and joyful opportunities.

This episode is a gentle reminder that growth, understanding, and adventure are always possible—at any age and in any role.

🌐 Website: www.grandparentingonthespectrum.com
🔗 LinkedIn: Jennifer Kaufman

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Recorded in Saskatoon & Rosetown, Saskatchewan
Show producer: Christina Cherneskey Communications
Theme music: ES_By the Neon Sign
Music for this episode: ES_An Instrument of Change - Peace Reels, ES_Ups and Downs - Martin Klem, ES_Life in Peace - David Celeste, ES_Peace at Last - Atlas Kind, ES_Whispers Of East - Daniel Kaede, ES_The Way We Used to Be - Harper Rey. 
Voice over: Christina Cherneskey
Original artwork: Jackie Peterson
Artwork developed for digital media pages: Christina Cherneskey

Season 3 Ep 28: Jennifer Kaufman, When Grandchildren are Awesome and Autistic

Conscious Parenting Workshop: A Teaser - Ep 665

Dr. Reedy discusses what to do when you are the only one in your circle doing their therapy work. He talks about how therapy changes us and how we can get stuck in trying to change the people around us..

What if I am the only one doing the work? - Ep 667

Dr. Reedy takes live questions from the audience on attachment, parenting, and relationships. He talks about how a parent’s self-acceptance, which leads to self-awareness, is the key to your children's healthy development. He explains that self-compassion is the key to greater awareness and consciousness. And he talks about how boundaries and skills are really the evidence or signposts that reveal where we are on our journey. He emphatically points out that the goal in therapy is not to be so good we are beyond reproach, but rather the outcome of therapy is learning to love and see our "horrible, rotten, human, fallible, lovable, selves."

Being the Villain in Your Child’s Story (AMA) - Ep 668

Dr. Reedy discusses how the identified patient is someone who expresses the issues with a system through mental health symptoms. He talks about projection and triangulation as ways for individuals in a system to scapegoat others and avoid the responsibility that each member of a system bears. He talks about how we can become a part of the solution as we learn to see mental health issues in the context of the greater system and make changes to disrupt patterns. He discourages the use of shame and guilt as barometers of our progress on our mental health journey.

The Identified Patient & You - Ep 669

Dr. Reedy discusses how skills and tools don’t make up the transformative substance of our therapy journey. He talks about a “transformation of consciousness” that occurs when we are deeply changed. He explains ego-death and how fear and love are the primary forces that drive our behavior. He explains that therapy is not about improvement but rather about self-compassion, increased consciousness, and rests on a foundation of sense of safety.

How Behavioral Therapy Falls Short - Ep 670

Dr. Reedy defines and discusses what makes for emotional safety. He talks about how emotional safety heals us and how repeated exposure to an emotional safe person changes our nervous system permanently. He explains that when the “big people” from our childhood were unable to sit with us and our feelings, we learned to hide and protect ourselves… and these efforts to protect ourselves become our mental illnesses.

Emotional Safety - Ep 671

Dr. Reedy takes live questions from the audience on parenting and boundaries. He explains how compassion is born by our boundaries. He explains that children and partners will inevitably require us to face aspects of ourselves we have avoided. We will have to fail, come up short and own our limitations as we practice self-care and attempt to meet our loved ones with love and compassion.

Carrying Your Own Shadow (A.M.A.) - Ep 672

Dr. Reedy talks about what it means to hold space for another, what gets in the way of doing so and how this impacts the development of a child or the client in therapy. He explains that seeing someone is the key to mental health and resiliency and that the foundation of our ability to do that is in how we have managed to heal our own narcissistic wounding (the wounding of not being seen and accepted as we are).

The Science of Holding Space - Ep 673

Finding You Therapy Programs is an experientially based therapeutic program serving individuals, parents, couples, and families. Email the host drbradreedy@gmail.com

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