Topics

  • Relationships:
    • With yourself.
    • Family:
      • Baby Relationships:
        • Babies are conscious in the womb.
        • Planning her/his sacred birth.
        • Mother-infant communications.
        • Bonding and attachment.
        • Integrating the newborn into the family.
        • Basic trust vs. mistrust issues.
      • Toddler Relationships:
        • Mother-toddler communications.
        • Key developmental milestones.
        • Feeding / immunization advice.
        • From the toddler’s point of view.
        • Beginning discipline.
        • The not-so-terrible twos.
        • Autonomy vs. shame and doubt issues.
      • Child Relationships:
        • Parenting with Love & Logic™.
        • Parenting styles.
        • Unstructured playtime.
        • Building self-image.
        • Updated bonding and attachment.
        • Family interconnectedness.
        • Fostering initiative, not guilt issues.
      • Tween Relationships
        • Healthy eating and sleeping.
        • Being a parent, not a friend.
        • New developmental milestones.
        • Sexual awareness.
        • Chores and allowances.
        • Cannot be too loving.
        • Fostering independence.
        • Fitting in vs. feeling inferior issues.
      • Teen Relationships:
        • Love & Logic™ when it is tough.
        • Sexual awareness on steroids!
        • The teen brain is really not chaotic.
        • Peer and dating relationships.
        • The second major individuation.
        • Family constellations.
        • Identity issues and role confusion issues.
      • Young Adult Relationships
        • Depression and anger issues
        • Supportive role models.
        • New in-laws and extended family.
        • Grandchildren.
        • Still cannot be too loving!
        • Fostering independence II.
        • Fostering intimacy not isolation issues.
      • Spouse / Partner Relationships
        • Reality based vs. fantasyland.
        • Keeping the fire burning.
        • Staying out of the intimacy potholes.
        • Being each other’s biggest fan.
        • Overcoming infidelity and other betrayals.
        • Authentic communication.
        • Getting the love you want and retuning it.
  • Family Matters:
    • Wedding preparation for after you marry.
    • Planning for your first or next child.
    • Pre- & post-pregnancy help.
    • Parenting:
      • Understanding your baby’s requests.
      • Consequencing not disciplining.
      • Intimacy in marriage after children.
      • “Healthy Selfishness” for the mom/primary caregiver.
      • Responding to your child’s needs, not their behavior.
    • Household functioning.
    • Dealing with children, tweens, teens, & young adults.
  • Communication:
    • Village communication style vs. deep honest inquiry style.
    • Active listening, Validation, & Verification.
    • Conflict Resolution, “Alpha / Beta” tendencies, Co-dependency traits.
    • How “You” is a word of war.
    • Boundary setting.
    • Becoming more authentic.
    • Getting to yes.
    • Non-violent communication.
    • With children, tweens, teens, & young adults.
  • General developing body & mind:
    • Conception through old age.
      • “Terrible twos” & teenage individualization.
      • Child and teen brain development.
      • Physical, mental, & emotional sexual maturity.
    • Body – mind wholeness:
      • Awareness.
      • Authenticity.
      • Diet & Nutrition.
      • Healthy physical, mental, & emotional lifestyles.
      • Body & mind interconnectedness (“Gut-Brain Connection”).
      • Sleep, exercise, & nutrition.
    • Attachment:
      • Bonding issues.
      • iGen.
      • Millennials.
  • Trauma:
    • How trauma affects your brain & body.
    • How trauma affects your relationships.
    • Mental vs. physical trauma.
    • Posttraumatic shock (Dr., Wade does not think it is a disorder!).
  • Small Business:
    • Workplace ethics.
    • Being an effective leader.
    • Goal setting and success.
    • Small and family-owned business legacy planning.

Dr. Wade

Wade is passionate about helping children and adults free themselves from the lingering effects of psychological, emotional, and physical abuse. Now that he is semi-retired, Dr. Wade helps others through his presentations to groups, contribution to a somatic psychology book, and his articles on a wide variety of parenting, developmental issues, forgiveness, and living an authentic, love-filled life!

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“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit” Erik Erikson