The Masterful Parenting Podcast - Heal Your Childhood and Parent Better Through Relational Parenting
Anne Alvares is a parent coach, educator, and the founder of the Masterful Parenting Program, known for helping families build stronger, healthier relationships through relational parenting and healing from childhood wounds.
š§ Background & Experience
- Anne has over 20 years of experience working with families as a school counsellor, teacher, and parent coach.
- She has spent 15+ years supporting teens and their parents, giving her deep insight into emotional development and adolescent challenges.
- Sheās also a mother of two, bringing firsthand parenting experience to her work.
š± Her Story & Approach
Anneās coaching is shaped by her personal healing journeyāshe grew up experiencing childhood pain, including abuse, controlling parenting, and being parentified. This inspired her to heal those patterns and not repeat them with her own children.
Her mission is to help parents understand how their own childhood experiences influence their parenting, and to guide them in building confidence, connection, and emotional awareness.
š” What She Teaches
Anne specializes in:
- Relational Parenting: Prioritizing connection and understanding over control.
- Healing from childhood pain so parents donāt unconsciously repeat old patterns.
- Practical strategies to strengthen communication and connection with children.
- Support through one-on-one coaching, group programs, and online courses focused on emotional regulation and relational skills.
š§ Public Presence
Anne also hosts the Masterful Parenting Podcast, where she shares insights into how parents can heal, understand triggers, and foster healthy, connected relationships with their children.
ā¤ļø What Makes Her Different
Rather than simple tips or behavior modification, Anneās approach blends emotional understanding, self-awareness, and healing, helping parents not just change behavior, but transform relationships.
In short, Anne Alvares is a coach who helps parents move beyond outdated patterns and cultivate calmer, more connected family lives rooted in understanding, healing, and relational awareness.Ā
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Episodes
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Please meet my special guest, Caprial Leung, my former high school student who was inspired to become a Counsellor because of our work together.Ā She will share her experiences as a teenager.Ā Caprial is a counselling intern registered with BCACC.Ā Caprial is passionate about advocating for children, and strongly believes in the importance of listening and showing respect to every child. Through various roles, Caprial has gained eight years of valuable experience in providing support to children with disabilities. Caprial is committed to representation, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
#masterfulparenting #parenting #teenagers #listening #identity #parentingcoach #parentcoach #acceptance #emotions #advocate #children #parentingadvice
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Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Do you focus on having a good relationship with your children?
Learn why it's so important to put your relationship with your children first.
#masterfulparenting #children #relationships #goodrelationships #healthyrelationships #teenagers #video #podcast #love #feelinggood #feelgood #kids #family #healing #feelgood #feelings #emotions
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Special Guest: Christian Armstrong.Ā Christian is a professional speaker and actor who is a huge advocate for autism! Being diagnosed with autism at 7 years old, he was told by a lot of doctors that he couldn't achieve a lot, including his dreams and goals for his life. He now helps kids, families, teens, and adults reach their fullest potential and wants nothing more than to see them all succeed!
#masterfulparenting #autism #support #notadisability #fullpotential #limitless #beyondlimits #nevergiveup #inspirational #parenting #parentingadvice #parentingtips #parentcoach #parentingcoach #supportourkids #children #teens
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Special Guest Mah Ekonde. Mah Ekonde is a certified parental coach from IDEFAS, a mom of 2 adorable kids and Sunday School teacher for 10 years now in FGMC. Her passion to see children raised consciously made her create the Gift Handler Community where she helps parents sail through the challenges of parenting.
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
We, as parents, will need to have some tough talks with our kids.Ā These tough talks do not have to be difficult.Ā We start with a question, listen to our child's response.Ā Then we offer support.Ā Use words that invite conversation and allow our children to feel our care, concern, and love for them.Ā This is relational parenting.
#masterfulparenting #children #toughtalks #teenagers #parentingtips #parenting #parentingcoach #parentcoach #conversations #open #safeplace #invitations #care #love #relationships #relational #question #connection #ourkids
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Parents, we need to remember that love is an action, not just a feeling.Ā When we act with love to our kids, they feel loved.Ā Just saying the words is not enough.Ā Our actions need to speak love or our children do not feel loved.Ā When you are yelling, demanding, controlling, and punishing, you are not acting in love with your children.Ā All our actions need to speak love.Ā Then our children feel loved, secure, safe, and connected to us.Ā This is how we build healthy relationships with our children.Ā Let's explore the 5 Love Languages of Children to learn how to act in loving ways to our kids.
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
My cousin and I grew up similarly as our moms are sisters and both parented us in the same way.Ā The control from our moms in our childhoods affected our adult lives and my cousin explains in detail how this affected her marriage and changed how she raised her three boys once she realized she did not want to repeat the pain she experienced with her own children.
#masterfulparenting #childhoodpain #childhood #children #teenagers #healingourchildhood #changinggenerations #generationalchange #healthymen #showingemotions #emotions #kids #emotionsaregood #feelings
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Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
So many times we get stuck in believing our negative, fear-based thoughts.Ā But the real lesson is to learn that our thoughts are not real and we can change them at any moment.Ā We must learn how to change our disempowering thoughts into strength based, empowering thoughts.Ā Then we can teach this to our children.Ā This will make the difference in their lives.
#masterfulparenting #changeyourthoughts #thoughtsarenotreal #empowering #disempowering #change #strength #thoughts #teachourchildren
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Monday Jul 17, 2023
This is the story of how I confronted my mom with my childhood pain story so that I could have a voice and share what my experience as a child was.Ā When we are ready to confront the people who may have hurt us, then we can release the pain and move forward to live more empowered lives.
#confront #healingtrauma #moveforward #release #masterfulparenting #healingthe past #reframe #empoweringthoughts #changeourthinking #changeourstory #love
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
When we have childhood pain, we were not role modelled healthy relationships in our home lives so we need to learn this.Ā When we know what healthy relationships are, we can teach this to our children.Ā The key is that healthy relationships feel good and unhealthy relationships feel bad.Ā Our feelings will tell us if we are modelling healthy or unhealthy relationships.Ā Let's model healthy relationships with our kids.
#masterfulparenting #healthy #relationships #children #teens #parenting #behealthy
Ā Masterful Parenting
Does the pain from your childhood get in the way of you becoming the parent you want to be? Do you get triggered by what your child says and become over reactive and at times irrational. You are not alone, believe me. I too have carried pain from my childhood and I have struggled to be the parent I wanted to be. And parenting can be difficult at times. But what if I told you that there's a way to heal from your childhood pain, feel more energized, less reactive, more confident, and truly enjoy your children.
In the Masterful Parenting Program that runs for 8 weeks, I will help you become the parent you want to be. You will know how to heal from your own childhood, become more self-aware, learn how to connect better, and ways to communicate that touches your child's heart and ultimately have a healthy relationship with your child. I have helped many parents, as a high school counsellor, and I am also the mother of two boys, ages 23 and 13. My healing has come from by parenting and yours can, too.
If you want to heal, feel good about your parenting, less tired, more connected, and more appreciated by your kids, message me for a free 30 minute helping session and we will make a plan!
I truly believe parents can heal and raise healthy children and in doing this we will change the world. Let's do this!