Amanda Purvis is back to talk about the TBRI Connecting Principles! This episode is packed with information about why meaningful connection is so important, and practical ways to implement these princ...Show More
On this episode, Emmelie Pickett interviews Sarah Mercado about the TBRI Correcting Principles. Sarah is a training specialist here at the KPICD and this episode is packed with so much wisdom and prac...Show More
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is our guest today. She shares what it was like to be the first African-American student to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960. Ruby was just six...Show More
Psychologist and body-image researcher Charlotte Markey joins us to discuss myths and misinformation about body image, how chronic illness and pain affect perceptions of our bodies, the body positivit...Show More
Eating-disorders therapist Shira Rosenbluth returns to discuss how she was able to get into solid eating-disorder recovery after many years of struggling, her experience of recovering into a larger bo...Show More
Eating-disorders psychologist Alexis Conason joins us to discuss her background in “obesity” research, how she came to question the conventional weight paradigm and move to a weight-neutral approach, ...Show More
The Circle with Sarah Retreat begins August 2nd. Join us!If you’re a homeschooling mom, chances are good that you’re familiar with Sally Clarkson. She is one of the most beloved names in homeschooling...Show More
If you aren’t already excited about the Summer Olympics, the episode is going to get you there. Julie’s passion for The Games is contagious. She shares some of her favorite Olympic memories as well as...Show More
Callie Lillard and Melanie Parent tell the story of Tricia Lillard and her impact on Sycamore View's involvement with adoption and foster care. In 2028, Sycamore View Church will turn 50 years old, a...Show More
Today Virginia is chatting with Anita Bhagwandas, author of Ugly: Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards. Ugly is available in the Burnt Toast Bookshop!Don’t forget, you can always take 10 percent off t...Show More
Today on the podcast, Dr. Jana Hunsley shares her research regarding adoptive siblings and gives insight into how to use TBRI with every member of the adoptive family. For complete show notes, v...Show More
Continuing our series on discipline this new year, we've got a good one for you! Today on the show we have Dr. Matt Smith from the Memphis Family Connection Center here to walk us through the 3 C's an...Show More
In this episode, listen to Sycamore View shepherd and HST dean Mark Powell share a little bit of the Harding School of Theology's history. Each April, Sycamore View Church has a special contribution ...Show More
Randy Frederick and Jim Hinkle tell the story of why Sycamore View Church left "Elder" terminology, and why we now use "Shepherd" terminology. In 2028, Sycamore View Church will turn 50 years old, an...Show More
Join Anna as she sits down with previous Sycamore View Outreach Minister Mark Taylor to discuss the church's decision to stay at the 1910 Sycamore View Road location. In 2028, Sycamore View Church w...Show More
How can our families cultivate healthy relationships with technology? We’re all trying to impose limits on how, when, and why our kids interact with technology. But in our increasingly tech-driven wor...Show More
A picture book is an art gallery for the lap. 📚That’s something we say all the time here at Read-Aloud Revival, and today we’re going to introduce you to one of our absolute favorite examples of this...Show More
Therapists and authors Judith Matz and Amy Pershing join us to discuss our new collaboration, The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook; why the typical diet-culture re...Show More
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comEating-disorders psychologist Alexis Conason joins us to discuss her background in “obesity” research, how ...Show More
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comScience communicator Jonathan Jarry joins us to discuss his history of turning to alternative cures for chr...Show More
In her writing, it is Kate DiCamillo's gift to make bearable the fact that joy and sorrow live so close, side by side, in life as it is (if not as we wish it to be). In this conversation, along with g...Show More
Are you intimidated by the thought of teaching Shakespeare? You’re not alone. A lot of people struggle to connect to Shakespeare’s work, even if they really want their kids to be familiar with his pla...Show More
Why do lizards have scales? Why are reptiles cold-blooded? Why do lizards have long tongues? How do lizards grow their tails back? Are crocodiles dinosaurs? What’s the difference between an alligator ...Show More
Have you ever seen someone strike a match? The match rubs against a scratchy strip and a split second later – poof! It makes fire! But how does a match work, anyway?Join Molly and co-host Maxwell as t...Show More
11-year-old Alaska (from Colorado) wants to know: why do some kids love reading while others don’t? We know there’s a lot of debate lately about the best ways to teach kids how to read. But in this ep...Show More
How do glasses work? Why do some people need glasses and other people don’t? Why do we have different eye colors? We answer your questions about glasses and eyes in the second of two episodes with Dr....Show More
An abandoned research cabin in the Nicaraguan rainforest turned out to a cozy and save resting spot for Emma to spend the night, or did it???! Late at night, a mysterious visitor paid Emma a sneaky vi...Show More
Hello and welcome to our brand new season! We are diving deep on some burning questions like “what does the world look like to a fly, how do whales sleep and how does an octopus go into battle? (Well ...Show More
Today Virginia is chatting with Mary Mahoney, co-host of the Dolls of Our Lives podcast, co-author of Dolls Of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl, and author of Landline. Dolls Of Our Lives is...Show More
Satellites are like robots in the sky: they monitor the weather, make GPS possible, and take stunning pictures of outer space! But how exactly do they work? When a satellite named Meep Moop gets deliv...Show More
Laughter is like a language and humans are really good at understanding it. In this episode, Molly and co-host Milla decode different kinds of laughs, from uncontrollable goofy laughter to chuckles th...Show More
On April 8, a total solar eclipse will be visible on a path that crosses North America, from the west coast of Mexico to the east coast of Canada. In this episode, Molly and co-host Aminah cover all y...Show More
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comWriter and linguist Amanda Montell joins us to discuss “magical overthinking” and the cognitive biases that...Show More
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comRegistered nutritionist, author, and friend of the pod Laura Thomas joins us to unpack the problematic noti...Show More
🎉 Get FREE SHIPPING (in the U.S. and Canada) at Waxwing Books through 2/22. Use the code FreeShipFeb24 at checkout →Today, I’m sharing two recent episodes from my weekly coaching podcast, Circle with...Show More
Today, Anne is joined by Kim Hewlett to talk about creating a year of seasonal reading. Kim and her family relocated to Iowa a few years back, which led Kim to realize just how much she enjoys pairing...Show More
Today, we're doing something a little different. Kelly Corrigan, host of PBS's Don't Tell Me and the podcast Kelly Corrigan Wonders, is here to pull back the veil on some of the things that make me ti...Show More
Today we’re airing one of my favorite episodes from last year, all about Jolabokaflod, which is a Christmas “book flood,” in the Icelandic tradition.What if I told you this tradition makes your life e...Show More
Professor and SUGAR RUSH author Karen Throsby joins us to discuss why sugar became demonized despite a lot of actual uncertainty in the science, how anti-sugar sentiment is bound up with anti-fat bias...Show More
So we’ve tried to make the rest of 2023 easier, but even when we have a better understanding of what is going on, it can still be hard to get stuff done. When the rubber meets the road, it’s common to...Show More
In this episode, I’m going to share ten things, and these things make gift wrapping easier, more enjoyable, more fun, and in some ways more meaningful than if I didn’t have these things. So if you lov...Show More
December is a unique month, and therefore, you need to approach that month and your long to-do list in a way that feels kind and human and grounded and like yourself. But also where you get it all don...Show More
It’s our favorite time of year over at Read-Aloud Revival! It’s time for Christmas School!Most of us have too much on our plates before the busy holiday season begins. Then December hits and we feel b...Show More
We do these episodes about once a quarter where I answer your questions in more detail than I’m able to in an Instagram Ask-Me-Anything and more public than I might be able to in a DM. The idea here i...Show More
I want to introduce you to one of my new favorite authors.She's younger than most published authors. In fact, she says she decided to publish her first book at nine years old. When she was 10, she att...Show More
Amber O'Neal Johnston, the heart and soul behind heritagemom.com and a proud contributor to the Wild + Free homeschooling community, has woven her experiences into a beautiful narrative in her book, "...Show More
Just a content warning, in this episode we’ll be talking in some detail about food and eating disorders, so if you’re not in the place to listen right now, totally ok! We’ll see you next time. This we...Show More
The information and guidance discussed on the ep is not a replacement for individual therapy or care. This week, we’re talking about anxiety! To talk more about this topic I brought on Gabby Bernstein...Show More
We can’t believe we haven’t done an episode on this before, but we’re finally talking about periods! To help cover this topic, I brought on Nadya Okamoto, founder of August, a company focused on inclu...Show More
What do the laundry cycle and the learning cycle have in common? A lot, actually. Today, we apply KC Davis’s take on laundry to homeschooling.In her book “How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis ta...Show More
Katie Sturino is still looking for an answer to why plus size in-store expansions fail. In the first episode of this series, ‘Why is plus size fashion failing?’ Katie discovered the disconnect between...Show More
Join Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey as they give you a sneak peak of what's to come. Office Ladies premieres October 16th!
It's been 9 years since Katie Sturino began talking about fashion for women of all sizes. In many ways, a lot has changed since then. The conversation has made its way to mainstream media, advertising...Show More
Order While Everyone is Sleeping from Waxwing Books.On today’s Best of Read Aloud Revival episode, I’m replaying one of our most popular episodes.Without fail, at every homeschool conference, at least...Show More
Author and journalist Rennie Dyball joins us to discuss why she's reconsidered the rave review of a gut-health diet book she wrote for a major media outlet years ago, why journalists don't often ask c...Show More
Writer and ex–wellness influencer Lee Tilghman joins us to discuss how she got into wellness influencing in the first place (and the role of her eating disorder in that process), how it affected her m...Show More
Author and violinist Ling Ling Huang joins us to discuss her new novel, Natural Beauty, and the fraught nature of that term; how working in the clean-beauty and wellness space affected her eating-diso...Show More
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comQ&A: how to know whether a particular test is legit. Plus, in a bonus answer for paid subscribers, Christy ...Show More
Registered dietitian Jonah Soolman joins us to discuss his time working in an alternative medicine clinic run by integrative doctors. He shares some of the shady practices he saw his bosses engaging i...Show More
Today Virginia is chatting with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of Big Girl.Originally from Harlem, Mecca is now an associate professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington DC. S...Show More
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comIn this bonus episode, anti-diet Pilates instructor Helen Phelan-Guillemot returns to discuss workout selfi...Show More
Anti-diet Pilates instructor Helen Phelan-Guillemot joins us to discuss her history as a dancer and how that affected her relationship with food and her body, how she moved from disordered eating into...Show More
In this episode, I interview Amanda Martinez Beck. We explore the difficulties of fatphobia, the problems with intentional weight-loss, how to have body image conversations with your kids & how ...Show More
In this episode, I speak with Amanda E. White, MA, LPC on the nuances of body image & therapy. We explore themes of shame, addiction, eating disorder and addiction recovery. Follow Amanda ...Show More
In this episode, we continue to navigate the nuances of body image and how we begin to make peace with our body. Peace with our body starts with connection; it may not be comfortable at first. B...Show More
Trying to figure out where to begin on your body image journey can be overwhelming. In this first episode, I'll break down some terms like Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Body Image & Bo...Show More
When we reflect on things from the past that have meant something to us, it’s good for us. It’s fun! And since books are fairly universal as a thing people love, I’m sharing my 10 most memorable books...Show More
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comIn this bonus episode, Christy answers audience questions about how to be involved in the food and farming ...Show More
Today is a very special episode: You are all going to be the very, very first people to hear me read Chapter 1 of FAT TALK: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, which comes out in just 5 days, on Apr...Show More
Today Virginia is chatting with her longtime friend and colleague Christy Harrison, MPH, RD! Christy is a journalist, registered dietitian, and certified Intuitive Eating counselor. She’s the author o...Show More
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.comIt's time for your July Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into power lifting, sugar-y breakf...Show More
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Recurring guests Lisa Qualls and Melissa Corkum, whom you may know from their work at The Adoption Connection, are no stranger to blocked care. They joined us in episode 100 to talk Compassion Fatigue...Show More
Christy answers an audience question about whether eating sugar is bad for your health, with a deep dive into what the research really says. If you’ve ever felt bad about eating sugar, or ever wondere...Show More
Because of our wonky expectations about this supposedly magical season, we all have unmet expectations. There will be times when you don’t deal with them super well. So in today’s episode, let’s figur...Show More
In the realm of children's literature, certain authors create captivating worlds that inspire young readers to explore, imagine, and grow. One such author is Anna James, the British writer and journal...Show More
One of the most popular questions we get as a company is to define (or identify) our underlying worldview. Parents who sift through the Internet looking for homeschool programs want to find companies ...Show More
Author and podcaster Mary Jelkovsky joins us to discuss her history as a fitness influencer starting at age 16, and how it triggered and exacerbated her eating disorder; how social media algorithms dr...Show More
Order your copy of A Little More Beautiful: The Story of a Garden at alittlemorebeautiful.comWhy do we make things mean more than they actually mean?We all do it. We realize a kid doesn’t know how to ...Show More
Are you struggling with family drama and looking for ways to create a more harmonious home environment? You’re not alone! We recently sat down with Nedra Tawwab, a licensed therapist and New York Time...Show More
We've got a great one for you today! In today's episode, we are thrilled to have Lucinda Miles as our guest. Lucinda a TBRI Practitioner with Volunteers for Youth Justice in Shreveport, LA, where she ...Show More
In the penultimate episode of Food Psych, Christy answers an audience question about the wellness-culture trend of monitoring every bodily function, and whether it’s compatible with intuitive eating. ...Show More
When Marty Seligman started his long scientific career, psychologists concentrated on studying "misery and suffering" and what made people sad. But Marty wanted to discover what made happy people, wel...Show More
Laurie swaps seats in the studio to be interviewed by none other than Katie Couric. In this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Laurie's asked to define happiness; outline the best steps to re...Show More
Relationships can be TOUGH and maybe the toughest is our relationship with ourselves! Today I'm sharing 12 questions you can use to navigate tension or conflict in any relationship, including your rel...Show More
The other day, someone questioned my daily schedule and where rest comes in. I told her that rest is more about what's NOT on your calendar than what IS on your calendar and that burnout is more a ref...Show More
Today’s show features Charlotte Mason expert, Leah Boden. Charlotte’s educational philosophy from the early 20th century has beauty and riches to offer us. Yet we live in a radically different world t...Show More
Order your copy of A Little More Beautiful: The Story of a Garden at alittlemorebeautiful.comI’ve been homeschooling for a long time, and just like every other homeschooling mom I know, I’ve made a to...Show More
In our last discussion, we explored what it takes to feel good about home education and parenting, and we were left with a tantalizing idea: the key lies in habit formation. Eager to learn more, we se...Show More
In the first part of our series answering the question “How do I know if I’m doing enough for my kids’ education?” (which you should definitely listen to if you haven't already), we discussed how to e...Show More
A question that often comes up repeatedly in the minds of many homeschooling parents is: "Am I doing enough?" We know how stressful it can be — we've all been there. We're going to explore three key a...Show More
Nutritionist and author Laura Thomas joins us to discuss what it’s like for kids living in the long shadow of “clean eating,” the “almond mom” trend on TikTok, the "wellness to woo pipeline," how pare...Show More
Alan Levinovitz, religious-studies scholar and author of Natural and The Gluten Lie, joins us to discuss the problems with framing eating and wellness practices as “natural,” the weird parallels betwe...Show More
Christy answers a listener question about Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonist drugs, and why we all should be extremely wary of any new diet drug being hailed as a "miracle." Pre-order Christy's upcoming ...Show More
After a loooong winter hiatus, we’re back just in time to celebrate the launch of Ashlee’s book, Create Anyway, which is now officially out in the wild (!). From infusing art into the most mundane tas...Show More
Order your copy of A Little More Beautiful: The Story of a Garden at alittlemorebeautiful.comToday, I’m sharing a conversation with my friend and colleague, Cindy West.Cindy teaches at No Sweat Nature...Show More
Is there a way to compassionately experience stressful situations? There actually is, and author and licensed trauma therapist, Aundi Kolber, is on the show today to talk about how. Learn about the fl...Show More