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Authentic Parenting

Anna Seewald

Practical tools and powerful insights for trauma-informed parenting. Learn how to heal your childhood, do your own inner work, and break generational cycles—so you can raise capable, resilient, and emotionally healthy children. Each episode offers strategies and stories to bring more calm, connection, and joy to your parenting journey.

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448 episodes

  1. Why We Misunderstand One Another and How to Repair it 55:40
  2. No Contact: What Happens When Families Stop Speaking? 48:09
  3. What Death Can Teach Us About Living 1:12:08
  4. When Every Feeling Becomes a Diagnosis: the Problem with Self-Diagnosis and Therapy Speak 59:00
  5. The Screen Time Advice That's Hurting Your Kids 1:08:33
  6. Failure to Launch: When Your Young Adult Won't Move Forward 1:04:41
  7. Overcoming School Avoidance: What to Do When Your Kid Won't Go to School 1:12:10
  8. From Reactivity to Responding: A 90-Second Reset 50:05
  9. Discovering the Transformative Power of Walking 1:02:25
  10. How to Heal a Dysregulated Nervous System 52:02
  11. Rediscovering Play as An Adult 57:43
  12. When Self-Help Becomes Harmful: Why You Should Stop Trying to Heal All Your Trauma 1:16:45
  13. Rethinking Modern Fatherhood, Mental Health, and Masculinity 1:02:53
  14. The Mental Load of Fatherhood and Why Anger Isn't a Superpower 48:50
  15. Your Mental Health and What's Going Right with Dr. Paul Conti 59:39
  16. The Dopamine Crisis in Kids: Why Screen Time Advice Isn't Working for Your Child 1:03:22
  17. The Loneliness of Parenting: Why You Can't Do It Alone 1:07:44
  18. The Japanese Way of Raising Calm, Caring, Capable Kids 1:08:49
  19. How to Understand and Transform Your Emotions with Hilary Jacobs Hendel 1:02:54
  20. Generosity, Happiness & the Reality of Uneven Friendships 1:08:08
  21. Trailer: Welcome to Authentic Parenting 3:07
  22. Perimenopause Explained: Symptoms, Hormones, and What Every Woman Should Know 1:01:29
  23. Stop Trying to Be the Strong Mom: Grief, Joy and The Power of Vulnerability 49:45
  24. Are Our Kids Really Okay These Days? 52:50
  25. Are We Over-Diagnosing Our Kids? Rethinking ADHD, Autism, and the Search for Normal 1:09:40
  26. Toddlers, Tantrums, And Discipline That Works 52:45
  27. 10 Powerful Lessons on Becoming the Parent You Want to Be From 10 Years of Podcasting 1:11:42
  28. Where It All Began: Endings, Beginnings, and the First Authentic Parenting Episode 49:45
  29. How I Almost Quit the Podcast, Resented the Show, and What Made Me Come Back 1:01:53
  30. Episode 400: The Listeners Put Me on the Spot - 10-Year Anniversary Celebration Continues 59:01
  31. 10 Years of Authentic Parenting: A Monthly Special Episode with Real Parenting Stories 37:01
  32. Milestone Episode 300: Listener Voicemails, Podcast Evolution, and Behind-the-Scenes Secrets 1:13:29
  33. Traditions, Transitions, and Why 2017 Was an Important Year for the Authentic Parenting Podcast 53:47
  34. Ten Minutes, Ten Years Ago: A Conversation With My 10-Year-Old 28:39
  35. 10-Year Celebration: Parenting, Podcasting & the Green Stroller Moment 1:26:13
  36. 10 Years of Podcasting: Revisiting Our 100th Milestone Episode 1:01:53
  37. Ten Years, Many Lessons: A Personal Message to Begin 2026 13:37
  38. Final Episode of the Year: Top 10 Episodes of 2025 and My Personal Favorites 27:20
  39. A Year in Review: Pausing, Reflecting and Looking Ahead 1:00:11
  40. Reactivity, Fatherhood, and the Balancing Act of Ambition and Presence 56:20
  41. 7 Ways to Parent with Intention in 2026 (And Avoid Common Mistakes) 1:11:53
  42. 3 Ways to Follow Your Intuition (Even When Life Gets Loud) 47:56
  43. You Are NOT Your Child's Friend — You Are the Parent! with Dr. Laura Froyen 58:00
  44. How Your Unhealed Past Keeps Controlling Your Parenting with GG Renee Hill 1:02:13
  45. Struggling with Mom Guilt? 3 Steps to Feel Better Fast 48:28
  46. Why Chasing a Better You Is Making You Miserable with Seth Gillihan, PhD 48:44
  47. When Grief Turns Traumatic: What Happens After Sudden Loss with Jennifer R. Levin 55:01
  48. Critical Memory Integration: Unlocking the Body's Wisdom for Healing Trauma with Estefana Johnson 1:06:16
  49. The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Holds Fear, Pain, and Overwhelm, and How to Heal It 57:51
  50. The Middle Path of Parenting: On Attachment and Why Who You Are Matters More 58:36