Here’s where you’ll find recordings of Invincible Voice calls. When you need a little inspiration, a gentle nudge that reminds you of your own value, or ideas about how to support your friends, kids and colleagues in sharing their unique voices, just listen in on any one of these calls.

Finding your voice will change your life.

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February 3, 2010 – Raising Depression-Resistant Kids

As a parent, you have tremendous power!  This teleclass, the first of the weekly series, Invincible Voice — your inner antidote to depression,will give you a simple, deeply effective approach that you can implement immediately to raising kids who feel invincible — not invisible.  You’ll also come away with understanding that you can act on about how your own experiences as a child continue to affect your mood, even today.

Listen here: Raising Depression-Resistant Kids

February 10, 2010 – Relationships That Drain You: changing the terms of connection

Over time, relationships settle into a set of unspoken rules — about what you will and will not say or confront and the expectations you silently agree to meet. You can find yourself dreading spending time with the very people you love the most! We’ll be talking about how to renegotiate the silent rules that leave you feeling drained and resentful. It takes courage, but opening up the conversation can breathe new life and commitment into valued relationships.

Listen here: Relationships That Drain You: changing the terms of connection

February 17, 2010 – Seeking Your Passion: the new recipe for depression

We’ve all heard it by now: “Adequate” people are supposed to be able to point to something and say, “This is my passion” — and then build a life or a career around it.

Which is great in theory. But it leaves women hammering away at themselves trying to pound out whatever their “passion” is supposed to be. And you usually can’t find it that way.

But what really is possible is to have passionate moments by following sparks of curiosity and energy. Out of those sparks a pattern emerges, over time, making it possible to have and share more and more of those passionate moments. In this Invincible Voice call, I’ll talk about how to do it – as well as the implications for parenting.

Listen here: Seeking Your Passion: the new recipe for depression

February 24, 2010 – From Invisible to Invincible

If being invisible equates to feeling depressed and drained, being
invincible means really putting yourself out there — and feeling energized and alive as a result.

How do you go from being invisible to feeling invincible? What are the basic fears we all share that might cause you to choose to stay hidden?

Even though remaining “invisible” may feel safer, is it really? What are the hidden costs of quietly staying out of the limelight?

Listen here: From Invisible to Invincible

March 3, 2010 – Conflict Strengthens Bonds with Kids, Partners and Friends – steering into the “emotional skid”

Conflict feels like high-risk territory to many women.  If the idea of entering into the fray with your kids, your partner or your friends carries a sense of doom for you, it’s probably because you anticipate at a very deep level that speaking your piece will cause the people you love and need to reject you, to lose interest, to fade away from your life.

But what if conflict actually holds with it an opportunity to strengthen these precious relationships?

Psychiatrist and author John Birtchnell used a metaphor to illustrate this how this can work. Just like hitting a slick spot while driving in snow, the way to come through a disagreement is to “steer in the direction of the skid.”

We’ll talk about the power in that idea both for relationships and for parenting.

Listen here: Conflict Strengthens Bonds with Kids, Partners and Friends — steering into the “emotional skid”