What Participants Are Saying
Shanna A.
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Lindsay is a great life coach and understands the challenges of parenting teens and knows how to help parents connect with teens. The course is totally worth the time and money. I learned so much and have become more the mom I want to be! I am now more curious about what is really going on for my teens and for myself. I am more compassionate with my teens and myself. I am more connected with my teens.
Kimberly M.
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Working with Lindsay has been life changing in the best way possible! Through coaching calls with her I learned so much about my nervous system and how that was affecting how I responded to my teenage daughter. She was so kind and compassionate with us and has great resources for both of us to help navigate the tricky teen years. The communication between my daughter and I has been so much more positive than it used to be as I've learned to validate her and better help in processing emotions for both of us. I've been able to have more patience and understanding for my teen and I'm just grateful for the good relationship between us since going through the Rooted Relationship program with Lindsay.
Cherelle P.
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There is no manual for parenting teenagers with anxiety or depression, but if there was one, I think it should be Lindsay's workshop. After years of trying to work through my children's anxiety, this was the first time I was able to address mine. Lindsay gave me tools to walk me through better ways to act and not react to my kids when they are down.
Here’s the situation
You have this incredible, amazing teen in front of you, but somehow you are not able to communicate to them that you think they are amazing.
You care so deeply about them, but this somehow turns into fear and worry over how they’re handling friends, the effort they’re putting into school, and how they treat you.
Your attempts to connect and be a part of their life turns into directing them and telling them what to do.
You long for those days when they wanted to snuggle and tell you all the things that happened at school. Now they seem to spend most of their time sad or anxious and not coming to you.
The thing is:
Some of these things are just part of the adolescent years
AND
There are ways to improve connection and trust in your relationship
And to feel better about things that just aren’t going to change.
What if instead:
You trusted that even though your teen is having a “bad” day and doesn't want to talk to you, it doesn’t mean that you messed up or even that they have.
No matter what your teen says or does, you have the confidence to know what to say and not freak out, most of the time.
You are able to let your teen know that you see and hear them, no matter how anxious or depressed they seem.
You develop a way to relate with your teen so they don’t feel like they have to perform or prove themselves to be accepted by you.
The Solution is a Rooted Relationship
Rooted in compassion, curiosity and connection
Compassion comes from:
- Understanding your teens brain better
- Giving space for your own stories of worry
- Knowing why, how and when to set boundaries
Connection Emerges when:
- You can understand key concepts of attachment theory and apply them
- You understand practical skills that create connection and acceptance
- Your role as a parent is more attached to creating safety than results
Curiosity blossoms when:
- You are able to stay calm even when your teen is freaking out or ignoring you
- You can process the emotions that come up in the moment
The Rooted Relationship Live
Create a trauma informed, connection based relationship that has your teen talking to you
When: September 26, October 17, October 30 and November 28, 6-9pm
Where: Mindful Somatic Wellness #210 9715 Horton Rd. SW, Calgary AB
What: 4 interactive group coaching/somatic exploration sessions with workbook to explore between sessions
Session Topics:
Trauma informed parenting
Befriending your Nervous System
Teen Brain Development
Validation and Connection Tools
Attachment Theory
Setting Boundaries
Emotional Regulation
Understanding Your Stories and Role
Sept. 26- What's happening under the surface?
- What is trauma? How does it show up for both you and your teen? Learn new ways to respond so your teen feels safe to come to you.
- Better understand your responses of stress and shutdown in your relationship with your teen and how to shift them to more connection.
Oct 17- The teenage brain and connection
- Gain a greater understanding of what it is like to be YOUR teen, creating the safety for them to be seen by you.
- With knowledge of the science of connection, you will make a plan for practical connection steps within your nervous systems capacity.
Oct 30- Boundaries and Emotional Regulation
- You can't talk about parenting without talking about boundaries. We will delve into the why, the how, and the embodied presence of holding them with kindness.
- You will practice being with your emotions in those tough moments, so your teen feels safe to be with you too.
Nov 28- Step into being the parent your teen will talk to
- Redefine your role as the parent of YOUR teen
- Own your story and where it leads to next
When you show up more as the parent you want to, it impacts the way your teen responds
When you show up curious, compassionate and connected, here are some possible scenarios:
- Your daughter will come to you at 10 pm on a Tuesday to tell you all about the days friend drama
- Your son will look up from his phone on the way to school to tell you something that happened at the football game last night
- You'll get a text from your teen saying, "Thanks for helping me", or "Do you want to go for a walk?"
After living with anxious, depressed and even suicidal teens in my own home and coaching hundreds of teens and parents, I have compiled the most important concepts and resources into a digestable, actionable, transformational course and I'm sharing it with you through my group parenting intensive "The Rooted Relationship" where you will learn to be the strong, grounded parent that your teen needs you to be.
You will access compassion, curiosity, and connection, 3 essential ingredients for showing up as the parent you want to be and create life long connection with your teen.
Join The Rooted Relationship
How "The Rooted Relationship" is different
- Small group setting where you will have the opportunity to share and be coached on personal situations and actively practice processing emotions and regulating your nervous system. This will not just be a course to fill your brain with more information. We will be using multisensory/somatic practices to create internal change.
- You will be in community with other parents who have similar struggles. This adds the aspect of common humanity which allows you to have more compassion for yourself and your teen.
- You will be guided by a coach that coaches teens just like yours every day. I know first hand how they feel and respond to your efforts to connect, both helpful and not.
- You will be guided by a coach who is in the thick of raising teens, young adults, and kids right along side you. 6 of them! My daily struggles allow me to help you on a deeper level as I apply these same tools every day in my own parenting.
Meet Lindsay, your Rooted Relationship Guide
- Certified Life Coach and Somatic Integrationist
- Licensed Pediatric Physical Therapist for 10 years, working with children with special needs
- Homeschooling mother of 6 children, 2 adult children, 2 teens and 2 littles
- Sought after coach for youth with trauma history such as divorce, sibling suicide, severe depression
- Parent Coach specializing in helping parents build connection while also building their teens self esteem
