TAPROOT

#007
It’s challenging enough to be a parent of a teenager-but to be a parent of teen during a Pandemic can take us to the edge and push boundaries we never even imagined we’d have to have!

To provide us with insight, perspective and guidance so we can both maintain our own healthy boundaries and support our teens developmental needs and unique life challenges during this time-I’ve invited my colleague Jenni Wiech-a social worker and psychotherapist who has been working with teens and their parents for over a decade.

Jenni specializes in family systems theory and teaches practices for healthy attachment and healing trauma. She works through a mindfulness based approach called Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) that helps people to develop skills for self-awareness, emotional regulation, effective communication and healthy boundaries.
Here's a peak at a few things we talked about:

• Understanding and making space for grief-in ourselves and in our teens for the loss of traditional ways of celebrating and experiencing significant life events (graduation, moving up ceremonies, awards ceremonies), delayed or interrupted college life and more...
• Effective ways of dealing with pushback, anger and defiance around social distancing guidelines.
• How to stop fighting and work compassionately with our teens to find solutions for socializing that meets the safety needs of the entire family.
• Simple strategies for helping our teens (and ourselves) manage anxiety, stress and panic attacks.

This will be a 2 part series focused on parenting teens! Our next episode in two weeks is Part 2 which will be focused on issues parents and teens are facing related to the ongoing protests and the burgeoning racial justice movement we are living through.

To learn about Jenni's Parenting and Teen Workshops
To contact Jenni by email: [email protected]

To learn more about your host Penny Rosenzweig

To learn more about our practitioners and Roots and Wings Healing Arts

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#010

In this episode, we discuss the powerful tool of Astrology for personal and spiritual growth and evolution. Not the often misunderstood, over-simplified pop-culture sun-sign horoscopes you may be familiar with. But we're talking about the deep insight and wisdom that can come from a professional astrological reading of our birth chart which my guest, Astrologer Sarah Fuhro, describes as a personal map and compass for our soul's journey in this lifetime.Here some things we discussed:

• Fate vs. free-will through the eyes of astrology
• How astrology can reveal the soul lessons and gifts hidden in our life challenges, losses and traumas
• How astrology can help us see the soul contracts and opportunities for growth in our key relationships
• The important influence of the position of the Moon, and our Ascendent (planet on the horizon) at the moment of our birth.
• A primer of the 12 houses of the zodiac-what aspects of our life they each represent and how the planets that are transiting through them at the moment of our birth set up the framework for our life story.
• Covid pandemic-astrological influences and evolutionary potentials for humanity held by this event
• Generational astrology-understanding timed astrological events that affect each of us (new and full moons, Saturn Return (mid-life “crisis”) as cosmic forces that usher in initiations for our personal growth and our Soul’s evolution

Links mentioned in this episode:

https://sarahfuhro.wordpress.com

http://www.sarahfuhro.com
To learn more about your host Penny Rosenzweig

To learn more about our practitioners and Roots and Wings Healing Arts

About Sarah:

Sarah Fuhro is a graduate of the Astrology Institute’s certificate programs in Astrology and Astrological Counseling. She has combined her background as an astrologer with her training as a practitioner to work with clients in a unique combination, which she calls, Star-Flower Alchemy.

Sarah is also a professional Tarot reader and teacher. She offers her students a deep knowledge of the Western Mystery Tradition which she has studied since 1976.For over 30 years, Sarah has practiced as an astrologer.

Rate Review and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! "I am really enjoying the Taproot Podcasts. Each episode has had powerful stories about bringing more peace to your life when everything we know has changed. There is so much wisdom about the deeper levels of how we are all connected. I can’t wait to hear more!"
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#008
This is Part 2 in our special series for parents of Teens in this epic time of change where we are facing both a global pandemic and a burgeoning racial justice movement. To provide insight, perspective and guidance so we can both maintain our own healthy boundaries and support our teens developmental needs and unique life challenges I’ve invited my colleague Jenni Wiech LICSW-a psychotherapist who has been working with teens and their parents for over a decade.
Here's a peak at what we discussed:

• How to support the strong desire in many of our teens to be activists while keeping them safe in a pandemic.
• How we can keep our eyes and minds open while we ride the steep learning curve we are on as parents as many of us are working to educate ourselves and keep pace with the awarenesses many of our kids already have around racism, and inequality and the effect of implicit racial bias and white privilege on people of color.
• How to help our kids respond to the complexities of activism in the world of social media, where they may be finding themselves being called out, criticized and sometimes bullied by peers whether they speak out against racism or stay silent.

Jenni Wiech specializes in family systems theory and teaches practices for healthy attachment and healing trauma. She works through a mindfulness based approach called Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) that helps people to develop skills for self-awareness, emotional regulation, effective communication and healthy boundaries.

Show Notes:
The book Jenni Mentioned:
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Kids in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

To learn about Jenni's Parenting and Teen Workshops
To contact Jenni by email: [email protected]

To learn more about your host Penny Rosenzweig

To learn more about our practitioners and Roots and Wings Healing Arts

Rate Review and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts!"I am really enjoying the Taproot Podcasts. Each episode has had powerful stories about bringing more peace to your life when everything we know has changed. There is so much wisdom about the deeper levels of how we are all connected. I can’t wait to hear more!"
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#004-Imagine the inner journey that it would take to give up the glamor of being a professional opera singer in NYC for a simpler life as a Hula Hoop instructor and Yoga Teacher?

That’s the story of my guest today, Kat Suwalski and that’s the kind of inner conviction, spiritual courage and playful curiosity Kat so powerfully teaches others to cultivate in their every day lives through the practice of mindful movement!

Here’s a look at what we chatted about:

• The deep inner wisdom that is held in our bodies.
• The inspiring story of how her courage to learn to Hula Hoop as adult became a sacred path of self discovery and empowerment.
• How we can use mindful movement of any kind as a practice ground for learning to live with with more presence, self-compassion and joy.

Plus-Kat shares specific tools and strategies to feel more calm, grounded and embodied in the face of the stresses of the Corona Virus Pandemic

You’re going to love this episode and Kat’s upbeat, playful, and deeply wise approach to life!

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Links mentioned in this episode:

Hooping Videos on Kat's YouTube Channel

Kat's Hooping and Yoga Class Schedule (online and in-person)
Kat's Website

To learn more about your host Penny Rosenzweig please visit

www.pennyrosenzweig.com or contact her at [email protected]
To learn more about our practitioners and Roots and Wings Healing Arts

#003-My guest is Kathleen Nagy who for over 20 years has been a professional musician, bio-acoustic researcher and sound healing practitioner.
In this episode you’ll learn:

• How we each have a unique and natural sound blueprint coded in our voice that we can discover and attune to shift our bodies out of stress and dis-ease and back into health and well-being.
• About the primordial nature of sound as the essence of life and the essence of who we are as both physical and spiritual beings.
• About an exciting new sound technology that is showing promise in treating symptoms of the Covid-19 virus.

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Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Kathleen's website
Kathleen's Facebook page
Sound healing for Covid-19 symptoms
To learn more about your host Penny Rosenzweig please visit:
https://pennyrosenzweig.com or contact her at [email protected]
To learn more about our practitioners and Roots and Wings Healing Arts Center