The Reflective Parent: Parenting Strategies to Improve Communication And Build a Strong Relationship With Your Teen and Family
For parents who feel exhausted trying to reconnect with their child & feeling stuck. Nothing you do seems to be working and you’re ready to dive deep, get vulnerable, and take on a different approach.
Here, on the “The Reflective Parent” podcast, we start by looking at ourselves and begin to make small shifts for change. When we better understand ourselves, we are better equipped to engage with the family and its unique dynamics. Small changes in your own behavior and way of thinking will have a big impact on your family dynamics, your relationship with your partner, and even the behavior of your teen or pre-teen. When you change, they change, and you’ll see them adopt better strategies that align with your family value system.
I’m your host, parent coach Jason Denham. With nearly 20 years of experience in family dynamics, including 14 years living with adolescents and 2 years managing sober living for adults, I’ve worked with diverse personalities and diagnoses in families across the globe. My background spans wilderness therapy, residential treatment, transitional living, foster care, and sober living. Since 2021, I’ve been a parent coach and continue to support families, drawing from my own experiences with recovery, ADHD, and epilepsy. These insights help me provide practical tips and actionable parenting strategies for those families facing similar challenges.
“The Reflective Parent” podcast is a place where parents like you can come to seek community, connection, confidence and competence in deepening your family relationships, increasing your peace, feeling less exhausted, and more motivated to teach.
In this podcast, you can expect to learn about topics like:
- Building a strong relationship with your family;
- Setting boundaries and limits;
- Showing up to teach and guide;
- Screen hygiene or screen misuse;
- How to deal with a lying or disrespectful teen;
- Improving communication with your teen and family;
- Teen drug and screen addiction;
- Teens struggling with Autism, ASD, ODD, or ADHD;
- Teen mental health issues;
- And much more.
Bring your most challenging questions and your most courageous, vulnerable self as you learn with other parents, because together is better and you are not alone.
To learn more about my work as a parent coach, visit www.awakenedshadow.com
The Reflective Parent: Parenting Strategies to Improve Communication And Build a Strong Relationship With Your Teen and Family
“The Cost of Silence” Season 2 ep 1
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Season 1 was about how to show up for your kids. Season 2 asks a harder question: what's getting in the way? This season, we slow down and look at the content, the technology, and the silence that quietly erode connection — and what it's costing our families. Not by arguing politics. By counting the cost.
There's a conversation you've probably stopped having out loud. Not because you stopped caring — because the cost of saying it got too high. The risk of being misunderstood, labeled, sorted into a camp you don't belong to started to feel bigger than the risk of staying quiet. So a lot of good people went quiet.
This is the first episode of Season 2 of The Reflective Parent Podcast, and it's the most personal one I've recorded. Before I ask you to look at anything uncomfortable, I owe you the honesty of looking at myself first. So this episode is about silence — not the peaceful kind, the expensive kind — and what it quietly teaches the people watching us, especially our kids.
I'm an integrative family coach. I've spent twenty years sitting with families in crisis, and I keep seeing the same pattern: by the time people land in front of me, something has been quietly eating away at their ability to connect, and most of the time they never saw it happening. This season is about noticing it sooner.
Your invitation this week: notice one moment where you edit yourself — not because what you were going to say was wrong, but because you were afraid of how it would land. Don't change anything yet. Just see it. Then ask two questions. What did that silence cost me? And what did it cost the person who needed to hear what I didn't say?
If today's episode moved you, the best way to support the show is simple: come hang out. Follow on Instagram and Facebook, jump in the comments, and tell me what you're wrestling with as a parent right now. The whole thing runs on connection.
The Family Agreement Workshop is open right now inside the Reflective Parent Support Group — the first piece of something bigger I'm building over the coming weeks. Come in early and you grow right alongside it.
Listen, follow, share, and most of all, connect. Now pull up a chair.
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