Podcasts We Recommend
Sometimes it helps to hear a thoughtful conversation from someone who understands the questions families are carrying. These podcasts have been reviewed by CATCH parents and volunteers and selected as potentially useful resources for parents and caregivers. Topics include parenting, mental health, relationships, resilience, and supporting kids and teens through difficult moments.
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Parenting Support
Practical conversations and strategies for coping with life’s stressors, with a particular focus on parenting and family challenges.
Compass Health Center blends clinical expertise and lived experience to help caregivers better understand topics like anxiety, OCD, digital overwhelm, and family stress.
Dr. Lisa Damour and Reena Ninan take on timely parenting questions about tweens and teens, including stress, anxiety, school pressure, friendships, and technology.
Conversations with parenting and education experts about helping kids build healthy motivation, independence, resilience, and confidence.
Each episode offers three practical takeaways in about 30 minutes, covering parenting, motherhood, relationships, and everyday family life.
Clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy tackles common parenting challenges with practical guidance aimed at strengthening connection and helping families navigate difficult moments
Emotional Regulation, Big Feelings, and Self-Acceptance
Mayim Bialik explores mental health, human behavior, relationships, and broader questions about what shapes how we think, feel, and experience the world.
Brené Brown explores vulnerability, courage, connection, and the experiences that shape how we live, love, parent, and relate to one another.
Author Kelly Corrigan uses thoughtful conversations, curiosity, and humor to explore relationships, family life, change, connection, and what helps us better understand ourselves and others.
Eating Disorders and Body Image
Conversations focused on eating disorders, recovery, mental health, and the experiences of individuals, families, and professionals navigating treatment and healing.
Therapist Rachelle Heinemann explores the deeper meaning behind our relationships with food and body image through conversations with eating-disorder and mental health experts.
Gratitude and Mindfulness
Why We Picked It
A calming mindfulness podcast for kids that blends imaginative stories with simple social-emotional tools. With both daytime and bedtime episodes, it helps children explore feelings, frustration, resilience, growth mindset, breathing, body awareness, and being present. Designed for younger children through about age 12, Mello can be used to wind down, calm big emotions, or build coping skills in a way that feels natural and engaging.
Anxiety and Stress Management
Why We Picked It
A practical, parent-friendly approach to anxiety. Lynn Lyons explains how worry works, how it can show up in family life, and what parents can do to help kids build skills without letting anxiety take over.
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