TPP 038: Dr. Jenna Flowers on How to Practice Conscious Coparenting
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is conscious co‑parenting and why does it matter?
Typically with kids that have more high needs are are definitely wired, they're really sensitive to what's happening into the emotional lives of their parents. So the more calm you are about how you relate this, the more that you've done your own inner emotional work before you share with the kids what is about to happen to the family, the better off your kids will be.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today's guest is Dr. Jenna Flowers, a licensed marriage and family therapist, author and speaker, and the woman behind the new book The Conscious Parents Guide to Co-Parenting, a mindful approach to creating a collaborative, positive parenting plan. Dr. Jenna's book is aimed at helping parents who are no longer together design a healthy alliance and share their parenting duties in a way that best supports their children. In our conversation today, we talk about the extra considerations for those co-parenting differently wired kids, kids for whom consistency and support is critical to their healthy emotional development.
I found our conversation very interesting and very relevant even for those of us whose partnerships and marriages remain intact because at the end of the day, parenting our kids in a way that respects our partner's experience while also prioritizing our kids' well-being, it's important for any family, regardless of its makeup or who lives where. This is just one of those episodes where you're bound to have at least one aha moment. I hope you enjoy it. Today, my guest is Dr. Jenna Flowers, a licensed marriage and family therapist, co-developer of the Conscious Mothering Class, and author of the new book, The Conscious Parents Guide to Co-Parenting, a Mindful Approach to Creating a Collaborative, Positive Parenting Plan.
Welcome to the show, Dr. Jenna.
Great to be here, Debbie. Thank you so much for having me.
Well, yeah, I've been really looking forward to having you on the podcast because we haven't spent a lot of time talking about the relationship between partners raising differently wired children. And we haven't at all touched upon how to make it work when a relationship ends and two parents are no longer living together but Rather are trying to navigate how to best raise their child or their children. I've also recently read that some of the frequently quoted statistics about the percentage of marriages that end in divorce when a child is autistic or has another special need may be greatly over-exaggerated, but there's still no denying that raising differently wired kids can put a tremendous strain on a couple and that it's not unusual for those marriages to end in divorce or separation.
So I think this is a fantastic. fantastic topic to be bringing to the podcast and I'm just really happy to have you here.
I agree and even for parents that are together to be preventative with their marriages is really key. So, you know, this is something to be conscientious of of when you're parent uh parenting a child that is differently wired, how are you maintaining and sustaining your your your marriage so that you guys are a healthy team for your children and for yourselves?
Absolutely. And I think that I'm glad you said that up front because I do think, you know, I have your book. I think it's fantastic. And knowing what we're gonna talk about today, this is definitely something that all Parents raising differently wired kids, all parents in general could really benefit from Agreed. Uh well, I gave a brief introduction to you at the head of the podcast, but would you mind just before we dive in, taking a few minutes to tell us more about what you do as a licensed marriage and family therapist? Sure.
Sure. My practice is in uh Newport Beach, California and I see individuals uh as well as couples. I do parenting consultations and then I have been teaching a curriculum that I co developed called conscious mothering.
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