Evoke Therapy Programs

Dr. Reedy explains the theory of wilderness therapy and how to introduce (or not) wilderness therapy to your child. He explains the pitfalls in selling it to your child and empowers parents to avoid justifying their decision to family and friends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy discusses the role of the parent in the child’s life and why a parent’s feelings weigh so heavily on the child’s psyche. He also talks about what to do when a child doesn't respect a #boundary. He talks about how grandparents can support their grandchildren buy learning and doing their own work. This is a live Q&A with family members of Evoke Therapy Programs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy discusses communication in the context of wilderness therapy. He talks about how our communication can reveal family patterns and dynamics and how we can notice our feelings but not react to them. He gives suggestions for approaching a visit to get the most out of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy takes live questions and talks about various subjects like dealing with your child’s diagnosis, how grandparents can support the process, and understanding the interplay between the disease model of addiction and the mental health/trauma model. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy takes live questions and talks about various subjects like transitioning home after treatment, how sharing our feelings with our children impacts their development, and the role of parents as teachers for their children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy explores the trauma and grief of raising a child struggling with mental health issues. He talks about how therapy and 12-Step groups can offer a place to feel and heal. He explains how attachment and attachment trauma relate to trauma and resiliency. He implores parents and other family members to do their own work so they can be present with those struggling, providing a reparative experience. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy discusses how we heal childhood attachment patterns and wounds. He talks about validating feelings but not trying to control feelings and how some skills suggest that when we listen to others’ feelings, we can make they dissipate. He also discusses treating borderline traits and how techniques only show us how to be; they do not dictate what we do and say. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy discuss trauma and experiential therapies. He explains how the trauma affects the brain and how psychodrama accesses aspects of ourselves beyond words (talk therapy). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience and discusses the journey of parenting and how enlightenment is a process of accepting our fallibility. He talks about how owning our issues and doing our work is the first step towards awareness and a step that few people take. He talks about how to think about questions regarding boundaries with our children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy discusses how to create a support network for yourself. He talks about how our outer world mirrors our inner world. Brad explains how one must learn to require others to treat them well, instead of threatening, pleading, arguing, debating, or begging to be treated well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience and discusses journey of parenting and how enlightenment is the process of accepting our fallibility. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy discusses the Myths of Being Right, Chapter 9 of The Journey of the Heroic Parent. He talks about how the defense we set up is to protect us from being alone or abandoned. Dr. Reedy explains how being right is a counterfeit form of being who you are, being a self, being a vulnerable human being. He explains how parents can become more human and model this to their children by doing their work and discovering their authentic self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy talks about what to do when communication skills don't work. He also talks about when to negotiate boundaries and when to stay firm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy talks about how when we support our children, we must avoid trying to control them even when we think our motives are pure or will prevent them from making big mistakes. He explains how children are not capable of holding their parents’ feelings without suffering some great cost, primarily the loss of the authentic self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy destroys myths surrounding guilt and shame. discuss how guilt and shame are not effective tools in parenting and moral development. He explains how we have to tolerate feelings of guilt in order to do the right thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy takes live questions from audience members and talks on themes of when to share your feelings with your child and how to be support a sibling returning home from treatment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy discuss a central theme in his book, distinguishing control from levels of structure and strictness. He talks about how controlling parenting is toxic and involves the use of emotional coercion (shame, fear, guilt, debate, lecturing). He talks about how boundaries come from a place of self-care and demonstrate healthy psychological boundaries. He explains that permissive parents tend to be controlling because they use emotions to manipulate children and to ask children to take care of parents' emotions—he explains how this dynamic leads to a lack of a sense of self in the child. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience on parenting. He talks about how our wounds and the symptoms created to protect us can hurt those close to us. The tittle of this broadcast is taken from Dr. JD GIll's book. "The Letters of Juliet to the Knight in Rusty Armor." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy welcomes Michael Mclean and Jeff Mclean to the podcast. Michael, the father, is a renowned L.D.S. songwriter, playwright, author, and filmmaker. His son Jeff is an accomplished artist, singer, voice teacher, and actor in his own right. This podcast is as preview for a book the three are writing of navigating the landscape from a conservative, small-town, religious community to a father and son finding each other after the son comes out gay. We talk about faith, God, love, and what it means to find each other when the dominant messages in our culture drive us away from each other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Brad Reedy takes live questions from the audience. He talks about making parenting decisions from a place of willingness and capacity rather than from a place of should or should not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.