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Preparing Our Kids to “Sit With Discomfort”

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to explore how we teach children to tolerate stress and sit with discomfort (and one thing our culture misses about how to do this). Then, you’re going to reflect on your patterns when you witness your child struggling. Once you know your pattern, we’ll unpack one action that you can experiment with today. You’ll also hear an excerpt from the book Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice in Everyday Parenting too.

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The Come Back to Care podcast explores how social justice, child development science, parenting, and family systems intersect—hosted by Nat Vikitsreth, a decolonized, licensed clinical psychotherapist, somatics, and social justice practitioner, and founder of Come Back to Care.

Preparing Our Kids to Meet this Moment

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, I’d love to invite you to change care to be radical by changing how we look at our children and therefore changing the way we raise them. You and I are going to explore what it takes for our children to survive and thrive. Then we’ll explore what it means to raise them to become change agents- not just quote unquote successful, or kind, or compassionate, or conscious? And lastly, how are we going to go beyond protecting our children by shielding them from reality to effectively preparing them for this reality?

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Why I’m Done With “How To Talk To Kids About …” Scripts

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we explore ways to make parenting less reactive and more revolutionary so we can prepare ourselves and our children for the chaos and uncertainty ahead.

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One Liberatory Way to Review 2025 With Your Family (Before Setting 2026 Intentions)

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0600

Before you set intentions for 2026, may I invite you to review one thing in 2025 first? So that you can begin 2026 with a lot of compassion that will ignite and sustain both your social justice parenting in your home and social justice advocacy in your neighborhood. In this episode, you and I are going to review moments when we made mistakes to see what those moments reveal about our tenacity, our sass, and our sovereignty.

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A Love Letter For Your Tough Parenting Days ft. Excerpts from Raising Change Agents Book

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you’ll hear two excerpts from the Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice In Everyday Parenting book. One excerpt is for the part of you that’s been feeling frozen in inaction and overwhelmed by injustices this year. The other excerpt is a loving invitation for you to remember how far you’ve come and remember who you are. There’s nothing for you to do, to plan, or to fix. If this story time feels generative to you, let’s get started.

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Redirecting Rage into Roles When Gratitude Feels Toxic

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to experiment with two actions to metabolize our rage so we can get to a headspace and heart space to practice genuine (not performative) gratitude as a family. We’ll connect the dots between Audre Lorde’s teaching and applied neuroscience.

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One Question to Turn Arguments into Aligned Actions at Family Gatherings

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we’ll cover one question from my Classical Chinese Medicine teacher that you can play with during family gatherings when you want to stay on purpose and stay politically spicy.

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Six Scripts for Talking to Our Children about Immigration Rights (in Ways that They Get & You Don’t Sweat)

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you’ll hear six scripts that you can use or adapt when your little one is asking who immigrants are and why people are protesting.

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[BONUS] 10 Roles to Play with Our Children in Collective Care with Deepa Iyer

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:00:00 -0600

In this bonus episode, Deepa Iyer shares her wisdom on staying engaged in social change when you’re a caregiver. You’ll explore the roles you can play in liberation and make your advocacy “sustainable and effective.”

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Power With With Your Neighbors: Pod Mapping

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:35:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to roll up our sleeves and dig into how to build a parenting support system. We’ll explore what social justice actions like pod mapping can teach us about how to build a parenting support system that’s based on trust, reciprocity, and interdependence. We’ll also unpack how inner child wounds can sometimes make this interdependence and community building work so uncomfortable and challenging.

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Power-With With Your Family this Holiday with this Political Messaging Strategy

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 06:00:00 -0600

I first shared this episode with you last November and my mailbox got flooded with kind feedback from so many listeners saying how compassionate and concrete the strategy was. So, I’d love to share it with you again today, my dear co-conspirator.

In this episode, you and I will explore a framework for strategic communications that a political messaging expert and campaign advisor, Anat Shenker-Osorio, teaches. Then, you’ll adapt and apply this three-part framework to craft your own statement that you can use to set boundaries and protect your peace with those who judge or critique your parenting choices. I’ll share various examples of what this framework can look like when the critiques range from “you’re too soft” to “you’re gonna let your child do that?” This way you can experiment with this framework, leave what doesn’t feel right, and as always make it your method.

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Power-With With Gaza at Your Child's School with Nora Lester Murad

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:00:00 -0600

Today’s episode invites you to take direct action and practice power-with at our children’s schools through a campaign called Drop the ADL from Schools.

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Mothering, Not Smothering: Power With When Your Child is Struggling

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to explore one action to power-with with your child when they struggle. You’ll also explore the science behind how power-with nurtures your child’s motivation and perseverance. You can prepare your child for the real world using power-with. This way you get to practice what feels aligned with your values and promote your child’s development at the same time.

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Unlearn Adult Supremacy & Power-With with Your Child

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to explore one barrier that prevents many of us from meeting our children where they’re at. And that barrier is adult supremacy. Let’s unlearn this pattern of oppression together so that you can shift from power-over your child to power-with with them… most of the time. Then, we’ll pick one adult supremacy pattern to unlearn together and explore one fear that fuels our resistance to change. This episode is part one of our exploration and we’ll continue our unlearning in the following episode.

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[BONUS] Politicians aren’t Our Parents: What Disorganized Attachment Teaches Us about this Moment

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I will explore the both-and of voting and organizing in your community through the lens of disorganized attachment. Then, we’ll unpack what disorganized attachment can teach us about ways to get organized in this moment of uncertainty.

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[Bonus] Back-to-School Grounding Guide

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this bonus episode, you and I are going to explore two invitations to stay grounded amid the changes and transitions of back to school. Then, we’re going to unpack the sense of “here we go again” you might be feeling when it comes to both back to school and social justice action during these times.

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Why Re-Parenting Inner Child is Hard

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:00:00 -0600

This episode concludes our inner child re-parenting series (Ep 50-58). In this episode, you and I are going to recap some key concepts of inner child re-parenting that we’ve been talking about since episode 50. Then, we’ll explore some reasons why the people closest to you might not be the most supportive of you when you choose your own healing and choose to break the family cycles.

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How Elisa Sets Boundaries with Her Mom in front of her Teenagers

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 06:00:00 -0600

Our inner child re-parenting series (eps 50 to 58) continues.

In this episode, you will hear the conversation that I had with Elisa about boundary setting, intergenerational family healing, inner child re-parenting, and parenting teenagers. At the end, you’ll have one reflection question and invitation to integrate this discussion into your own boundary setting practices.

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Are You Regulating or Coping?

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to explore how our inner child wounds can complicate our ability to practice regulation. Then, we’ll discuss one action we can do to slowly cultivate regulation and safety, going beyond coping and surviving. So that you can offer regulation to your child and meet their needs where they’re at, most of the time. And this practice will help you stay centered in moments when your child pushes your parenting buttons too.

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Pep Talk: Listen When You Have a “Bad” Parenting Day

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 06:00:00 -0600

Let’s take a quick breather from our inner child re-parenting series to re-center ourselves. It’s been a lot to process, hasn’t it? In this mini episode, you and I are going to explore three measures of parenting success that aren’t shame based but are more aligned with liberation and informed by child development science. If that sounds generative to you, let’s get started.

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[BONUS] Using Household Chores to Ground Yourself & Demand a Gaza Ceasefire

Tue, 28 May 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this quick bonus episode, we’ll explore three body-based self-regulation exercises you can experiment with while doing household chores to get out of the freeze response and get back into direct action.

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Two Overlooked Actions to Soothe Your Parenting Triggers

Tue, 21 May 2024 06:00:00 -0600

Ep 51-52: Our inner child re-parenting series (eps 50 to 58) continues.

In this episode, you and I are going to unpack what happens when we’re triggered both in parenting and social justice advocacy using our react-revert-reduce cycle. Then, we’ll close out the episode with two actions you can experiment with.

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How to Raise Change Agents: Lessons from Gaza Solidarity Encampments

Tue, 07 May 2024 06:00:00 -0600

Ep 51-52: Our inner child re-parenting series (eps 50 to 58) continues.

In this episode, you and I are going to connect the dots between re-parenting our inner child and raising our children to take social justice action that’s aligned with their values, just like the university students who are a part of the anti-war movement now. You’ll explore three things you can play with today in your parenting to nurture your child’s sense of justice and advocacy skills.

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Why Intentions Don’t Matter When You’re Triggered (in Parenting & Activism)

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0600

Ep 51-52: Our inner child re-parenting series (eps 50 to 58) continues.

In this episode, you and I will zoom in on our nervous system and see what’s going on in there when we’re triggered both in parenting and community organizing. Between this episode and the next one you’ll learn about three concrete tools to replace automatically reacting when you’re triggered with intentionally responding to your child and your co-conspirators in the community.

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Why Inner Child Healing Boosts Your Child's Development

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0600

Ep 50: Welcome to our inner child re-parenting series (eps 50 to 58).

In this episode, you and I will explore these themes: why Inner child healing boosts your child's development and what inner child wounds are. Then, we’ll wrap up the episode with one action you can play with to care for your inner child wounds.

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[BONUS] How Aireen’s Breaking Generational Cycles & Transforming Parenting Triggers with Her Daughter

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you’ll hear about Aireen’s healing journey and how she puts the social justice parenting and inner child re-parenting ideas that we discuss in our podcast into action…most of the time. In our conversation, you’ll hear us talk about how Aireen was working with her parenting triggers to get unstuck from yelling at her little one. You’ll hear about some of the body-based strategies she and her child used together too.

Special note: I’m taking a season break until late March.

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[BONUS] Why I Love Working with Parents & Young Children

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you’ll hear about how I started social justice organizing back in 2007, how I’ve learned to love and trust myself in the world that simply hates that I exist and look fabulous, and what made me fall in love with serving young children, parents, and families aka you.

** This episode is originally published as an interview from the Burn the Box with Dr. Sonali Deepika Podcast.

*** I’m still on a season break and returning for Season 5 in March 2024. Thank you so much.

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[BONUS] How to Practice Social Justice Parenting Today

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to explore what social justice parenting means and what it actually looks like in practice using a framework I’ve been using with families for 15 years. You’ll see how the two components of the framework fit together so that you can begin applying it to your daily parenting at your own pace.

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Integrating Lessons from Season 4

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this season finale episode, you and I will explore what parenting agility or the hokey pokey of parenting means to our liberatory practices. Together we explore how do we stay in the struggle for liberation and shape the liberated future for our children to grow up in amid climate catastrophe and systemic oppression? How do we keep going without blowing our pain through others or giving in to despair, cynicism, and burnout? How do we keep building the liberated future we want when we only have a vague idea of what that might look like? How do we honor the uncertainty and complexity of our liberatory practice in a culture that demands that we find the single, holy grail, evidence-based solution that comes from a top-down expert?

Special note: I’m taking a season break and returning for Season 5 in March 2024. Thank you so much.

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Find Your Roles in Liberation: An Antidote to Cynicism & Despair

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to explore the roles that you play in liberation both in your home as a decolonized parent and in your community as a social justice advocate. You’ll hear examples of small-yet-significant parenting moments that you’re already doing. My hope is for these mundane and messy moments to be a concrete receipt that tells your inner critic, “excuse me, I am powerful, not powerless, because of these specific roles I’m playing as a parent in literally shaping the brains, hearts, and spirits of the future generations.” Then, you’ll reflect on 10 roles you can play in your community organizing based on the Social Change Ecosystem Map created by Deepa Iyer of the Building Movement Project.

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Protect Your Peace this Holiday with this Political Messaging Strategy

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 06:00:00 -0600

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How to Keep Fighting for a Ceasefire when You Can’t Go Marching: Wisdom from Disability Justice

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to unpack this question: how do we keep fighting for liberation in Gaza, Sudan, Congo, and Ukraine in between school drop off, pick up, and grocery runs? How do we fight against antisemitism and Islamophobia in between our work shifts, Zoom meetings, and the kids’ homework? How do we grieve the lives that have been lost when we can’t fall apart…otherwise the whole family will fall apart too? I invite you to explore a liberatory practice from disability justice by adapting the rhythm and pacing of your advocacy according to your capacity to replace burnout with sustained organizing. In this rhythm and pacing, you’ll experiment with ways to unplug and other advocacy actions to take to stay plugged in. It’s a bit of political analysis, a bit of neuroscience, and a whole lot of action.

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[BONUS] Somatic Warm-Ups Before You Demand a Gaza Ceasefire

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 14:30:00 -0600

Special note: I’m taking a break for real now and I’ll be back on Nov 21st.

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In this episode, I’ll walk with you through a few somatic or body-based exercises. So that you can take a moment to take care of your nervous system and fill your cup. And then with fuller cups you and I can take action and demand a ceasefire…from a place of dignity and solidarity not fear, confusion, or performative allyship.

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Politicizing Abandonment Wounds & Practicing Interdependence in Parenting

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0600

A quick note: I’m taking a brief break and returning the first week of November.

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In this episode, you and I are going to unpack the concept of “organized abandonment” together. A term that’s enlivened by professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a prison abolitionist and scholar. Then, we’ll explore one antidote to abandonment and codependence which is interdependence. We’ll close out the episode with four invitations for you to play with when you practice interdependence in your daily parenting. So that you can strengthen your social justice muscles of interdependence- not codependence- when you go out to your community and advocate for change.

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Healing Abandonment Wound & Shifting from Codependence to Interdependence

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to explore an aspect of attachment theories that can help us make sense of our fear of rejection and abandonment. As per usual, we’ll also layer a political analysis on top. Then, you’ll unpack one invitation you can experiment with to heal your wound of abandonment and shift from codependence to interdependence in your parenting practice.

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Attachment Basics to Know Before Re-Parenting Your Inner Child

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to explore a question that one listener emailed me about attachment theories: what inner child wounds are and how to re-parent our inner child. So we’ll start by going right to the heart of attachment to explore why we need to shift from saying “attachment styles” to “attachment strategies.” Then, we’ll continue our exploration of why attachment discussions need to be grounded in a social-political analysis; otherwise, we risk perpetuating ableist, individualistic, and patriarchal illusions of mental health. We’re going back to basics together to get at the heart of what it takes to heal.

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How Sylvia Shifts from Triggered to Centered, Most of the Time

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, Sylvia shares her decolonized parenting practices as she’s raising her bi-cultural and bilingual 8- and 10-year-old mixed race children. You’ll hear how Sylvia re-parents her inner child to move through her parenting triggers. I’ll offer reflective questions for you throughout the episode as invitations to reflect on and enrich your own parenting practices.

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Where do I start “meeting my child where they’re at”?

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to explore two needs that children across cultures and abilities need from their caregivers to thrive. Then, you’ll unpack three things- action, awareness, and agility- that you can play with to meet those needs in your child...most of the time. Together, we’ll find ways to put 60 years of attachment research into action, so that you’re ready when systemic oppression leaves you too tired and inner child wounds leave you too triggered to show up fully for your child.

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Three Ways to Power-With and Meet Your Child Where They’re At While Keeping Them Safe

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to unpack parenting worries and fears that drive us to unintentionally center coercion, control, compliance, and domination in parenting. Then, we’ll explore a three-part process of powering-with so you can design your own way to balance power-over and power-with in your parenting. You’ll also look at how power-with builds children’s brain development and social-emotional development.

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Four Ways Your Child Can Help You Unlearn People Pleasing

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0600

The pressure to teach and prepare your child to survive systems of oppression can easily take over your parenting driver’s seat and put your social justice values in the back seat, especially when you’re exhausted. To relieve this pressure and slow down the urgency to teach people pleasing to your child 100% of the time, let’s step back and notice four lessons your child is already teaching you about liberation.

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Breaking Cycles of People Pleasing: Attachment Theory Meets Power Analysis

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to unpack people pleasing or appeasement. We’ll unpack what’s going on in our body and nervous system when we people please. Then, we’ll zoom out and look at people pleasing in our social, cultural, and political contexts. And we’ll close out by discussing ways to address people pleasing in parenting. I hope we can shift the question from “am I raising my child to be a people pleaser?” to “how do I teach my child to use people pleasing when they need to be safe and then set it aside and be their whole self when they no longer need it?”

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One Way to Celebrate Pride as a Decolonized Family

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I are going to explore lessons from research on queer and trans resiliency. And perhaps, when it’s safe-ish to do so, we can apply them in our lives so we can be all of who we are instead of contorting our bodies to fit into the tiny gender binary boxes defined by white, colonial, capitalist patriarchy. Next, we’ll explore ways to apply the same intention to family building so that our children can be proud of all facets of who they’re becoming too. You’ll hear reflective questions, political analyses, research on queer and trans resiliency, and child development science so you can design and discern how you’d like to integrate these ideas into your daily parenting.

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How to Work with Parenting Guilt and Self-Judgment Pt. II

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, you and I will explore a practice that can lower the volume of your inner critics and strengthen your nervous system at the same time too. I’ll share why this practice can be really nourishing, drawing on lessons from neuroscience, western psychology, and social justice action. If that sounds generative to you, let’s get started.

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How to Work with Parenting Guilt and Self-Judgment: The 4 D’s Framework

Tue, 23 May 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, I invite you to explore your parenting guilt and self-judgment through a new perspective, specifically through the lenses of both western psychotherapy and social justice action. You’ll walk you through reflective questions in a framework I call the 4 D’s to transform your parenting guilt and inner critics into actions that align with your values.

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Integrating Lessons from Season 3

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -0600

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How to Support Trans Rights, Reproductive Justice & Disability Justice As A Decolonized Parent

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -0600

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What Parents Can Learn About Boundary Setting From Black and Asian Solidarity

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:00:00 -0600

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Why Your Child’s Resilience Needs Your Parenting Mistakes

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:00:00 -0600

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Answering Your Questions About Decolonized Parenting & Inner Child Re-Parenting

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:00:00 -0600

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Bridging the Gap between Intention & Action for Your 2023 Parenting Goals

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 06:00:00 -0600

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A Love Letter to Parents

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Three Social Justice Actions to Build Your Parenting Support System

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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How My Parents & I Are Breaking Our Family Cycles Together

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty and Oppression Without Toxic Positivity

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Recapping & Reviewing Season 2

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Social Justice Parenting For The Long Haul

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Why It’s So Hard to Get Free Pt.2

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Why It’s So Hard to Get Free Pt.1

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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What Children Can Teach Us About Change & Liberation Through Emergent Strategy

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Four Ways to Practice Interdependence in Parenting

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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How to Start Healing Inner Child Wounds & Practicing Decolonized Parenting

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Decolonizing Discipline: Replacing Punishment with Boundaries & Accountability

Tue, 31 May 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Three Ways to Turn Toddler Tantrums into Teachable Moments

Mon, 16 May 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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What We Can Learn About Decolonized Parenting From Transgender Day of Visibility

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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The Top 4 Questions Parents Ask Me About Talking to Kids About Race & Racism

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Three things to know before talking to your toddlers and preschoolers about race and racism

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Lessons from Encanto on Intergenerational Family & Inner Child Healing

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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How Tori Heals Her Inner Child While Raising Her Toddler

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Lessons from “parenting advice” from 1880 to 2022

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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What Parents Can Learn from Performative Allyship & Performative Parenting

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0600

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Three Ways to Practice Social Justice through Parenting & Promote Your Child's Development At the Same Time

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0600

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Three Tools to Use When Your Inner Child Gets in the Way of Your Best-ish Parenting Intentions

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:30:00 -0600

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Re-Imagine Parenting: Deeply Decolonized & Intentionally Intergenerational

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:15:00 -0600

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Welcome to the Come Back to Care podcast!

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0600

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Introducing the Come Back to Care Podcast

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0600

Are you looking for ways to align your parenting and social justice values? You’re in the right place. I’m Nat Vikitsreth, licensed clinical psychotherapist, somatic social justice practitioner, and founder of Come Back to Care. Here’s the thing, bold, conscious, and decolonized family-building is possible whether you want to build your family to be different from the one you grew up in or break free from the script written by systemic oppression. I created this podcast for you, and I deeply honor your commitment to raising your child with intention and integrity.

On this podcast, we explore how social justice, child development science, parenting, and family systems intersect with one another. In each episode, we find ways to unsubscribe from oppressive norms and unlearn intergenerational family patterns. I hope that you’ll walk away from each episode feeling empowered, knowledgeable, and inspired to practice both intentional parenting and social justice in your home while promoting your child’s development… most of the time (because life is real, and perfection isn’t).

This podcast is for you if you are a caregiver of young children and want to build your family at the intersection of social justice practice and intergenerational family wellness.

All you have to do right now is make sure you’re subscribed to this podcast in your favorite podcast player, so you don’t miss a thing.