Your Kids Don’t Suck: Cultivating Closeness with your Kids through Non-Coercive, Conscious Parenting
Claim This Podcastby Rythea Lee and Cara Tedstone
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<p>Non-coercive, conscious parenting is a radical departure from mainstream, traditional parenting practices. The essence of the mindset involves collaboration and mutuality with our children.</p><p>Through in-depth discussion and disclosure, therapists and parents Rythea and Cara explore the personal and societal challenges of choosing this uncommon parenting philosophy. The intention behind this podcast is to empower parents with education and tools to help them dismantle the patterns that cause power struggles, disconnection, and stress within our family systems.</p><p>This podcast is fun, punchy, vulnerable, and exploratory. Let's dive in and grow together!</p>
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Recent Episodes
March 20, 2026
Trauma Survivor Unfiltered: How a Mom Approaches Parenting Amidst Epstein Files Triggers
<p>Content Advisory: This episode discusses healing from childhood sexual abuse. While co-host Cara is on maternity leave, Rythea welcomes in Season 4 with a solo episode. Rythea weaves in and out of her horrific upbringing, her loving relationship with her daughter, the temporal news of the release of the Epstein files and how it is impacting her at this time. As she shares more about her abusive childhood and how she copes, she links her experiences to parenting and helping other parents.</p><p>Not only does Rythea draw parallels to details within the Epstein files to her own life, she also offers a bright light of hope, showing that unfreezing past wounds can—and inevitably will—lead to a more free, full, and beautiful experience of life. Rythea doesn’t sugar coat how difficult recalling suppressed memories has been (which are still happening to this day), but amidst a deeply difficult topic of abuse comes a passionate and inspired message of healing.</p><p>In this loving and generous episode, Rythea talks to you like a friend, allowing her vulnerability to lead her (and you) through questions and answers that cut to the core of what it means to be conscious, awake, and fighting the oppressive systems we live in, as a parent and as a person.</p><p><strong>Key Topics</strong></p><ul><li>Unfreezing past wounds</li><li>Suppressed memories</li><li>Healing from a traumatic childhood</li><li>Breaking the cycle to generational abuse</li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Parenting Resources</strong></p><ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.meaningfulideas.com/">Vivek Patel</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1720726548724642">Facebook Parent-Support group</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://calendly.com/rythea/mentoring-sessions-with-rythea?back=1&month=2025-08">Rythea’s parent-mentor sessions</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.caratedstonetherapy.com/your-relationship-toolkit">Cara's Relationship Toolkit</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rythea.com/support-materials">Rythea's Support Material</a></li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Support YKDS: </strong>We (Rythea and Cara) are white, cis-gender, straight, middle-class women living with financial and societal privilege. Our perspectives are limited. We are committed to featuring guests from diverse lived experiences to reflect the realities of a broader parenting community. 25% of proceeds from this podcast go to creators of color who have shaped our work.</p><p><strong>Rate & Review: </strong>Your feedback helps us reach more families who are parenting with presence, resistance, and love. Let us know what this episode stirred in you.</p>
November 21, 2025
Siblings and Non-Coercion: How Collaboration Created a Deeper Love With Their Kids
<p>In this episode, we are joined by Amy Niemczyk, a parent (just like you!) whose family dynamic has drastically shifted since adopting the non-coercive, collaborative parenting philosophy. This is an excellent episode for parents who are searching for concrete tools for navigating kids’ physical expression (like biting) and resolving sibling struggles.</p><p>Amy and her partner are the parents to four young children who have been on this journey for just over three years. Amy shares how she struggled with letting go of screen time control as her seven year old autonomously navigated balance, and how she turned toward love and not shame to work through weeks of her three year old pinching her. Her stories go deeper than the parent-child dynamic, seeping into the sibling relationships as well. </p><p>Rythea and Cara are moved by Amy’s earnest and heart-felt admission of the changes she’s experienced with her children: how removing authority from her parenting paradigm revealed a deep love both with her children and within herself. </p><p><strong>Key topics:</strong></p><ul><li>The tornado faze </li><li>Guiding kids toward their autonomy </li><li>Collaborative parenting as a model for repair after rupture</li><li>Non-coercive parenting as a deep act of self love and personal healing</li></ul><p><strong>Resources mentioned:</strong></p><ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/meaningfulideas/?hl=en">Vivek Patel</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/share/g/17dnAojgvK/">Rythea’s Facebook Parent-Support group</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://calendly.com/rythea">Rythea’s parent-mentor sessions</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.caratedstonetherapy.com/your-relationship-toolkit">Cara's Relationship Toolkit</a></li></ul><p></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/yourkidsdontsuck">Support YKDS</a></p><p>We (Rythea and Cara) are white, cis-gender, straight, middle-class women living with financial and societal privilege. Our perspectives are limited. We are committed to featuring guests from diverse lived experiences to reflect the realities of a broader parenting community. 25% of proceeds from this podcast go to creators of color who have shaped our work.</p><p><strong>Rate & Review: </strong>Your feedback helps us reach more families who are parenting with presence, resistance, and love. Let us know what this episode stirred in you.</p>
November 7, 2025
Unpacking Attachment Wounds and How They Affect Our Parenting
<p>In this episode, we explore how attachment wounds impact our ability to see our children as separate from us, and even from our own parents. We discuss the incredible, unconscious urge to replay our attachment pains onto our children, and what it takes to recognize (and change) those impulses within the non-coercive, collaborative approach.</p><p>Join Rythea and Cara as they get vulnerable about their personal attachment histories and current struggles as parents. They go deep about self-love and the challenge to heal after a childhood of broken attachments. Rythea offers a powerful parenting tool she calls “The Psychic Apology” where parents can take accountability through intention and visualization. Cara discusses life with a free-feeling toddler and how to recognize covert blocks to healthy attachment.</p><p>Key Topics:</p><ul><li>Attachment to our caregivers is a survival need</li><li>Can we REALLY heal our attachment trauma?</li><li>Attachment styles and its relation to Internal Family Systems</li></ul><p>Resources Mentioned:</p><ul><li>The Will to Change by Bell Hooks</li><li>Vivek’s Parent-Support group</li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/share/g/17dnAojgvK/">Rythea’s Facebook Parent-Support group:</a></li></ul><p></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/yourkidsdontsuck">Support YKDS</a> </p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://calendly.com/rythea">Book a mentor session with Rythea</a> </p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.caratedstonetherapy.com/your-relationship-toolkit">Explore Cara's Relationship Toolkit</a> </p><p></p><p>We (Rythea and Cara) are white, cis-gender, straight, middle-class women living with financial and societal privilege. Our perspectives are limited. We are committed to featuring guests from diverse lived experiences to reflect the realities of a broader parenting community. 25% of proceeds from this podcast go to creators of color who have shaped our work.</p><p><strong>Rate & Review: </strong>Your feedback helps us reach more families who are parenting with presence, resistance, and love. Let us know what this episode stirred in you.</p>
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<p>Non-coercive, conscious parenting is a radical departure from mainstream, traditional parenting practices. The essence of the mindset involves collaboration and mutuality with our children.</p><p>Through in-depth discussion and disclosure, therapists and parents Rythea and Cara explore the personal and societal challenges of choosing this uncommon parenting philosophy. The intention behind this podcast is to empower parents with education and tools to help them dismantle the patterns that cause power struggles, disconnection, and stress within our family systems.</p><p>This podcast is fun, punchy, vulnerable, and exploratory. Let's dive in and grow together!</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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