Podcast Spotlight: Single-Parenting with Connection (NOT Perfection)
Hosted by Gila Z Reckess, PhD
Single-parenting in a world that isn't built for you — or your beautifully complex kid — is hard enough without advice that doesn't fit your reality. That's the gap this podcast is built to fill: practical, heart-centered support that meets single parents in their actual, messy lives. No platitudes, no lectures, and never — ever — a suggestion to "just tag your partner in."
New episodes drop every Tuesday morning, moving between solo episodes, expert interviews, listener questions, and real stories from real parents. Topics range from what's really underneath big behaviors, to emotion regulation (both the kids' and the parents'), co-parenting with a difficult ex, boundaries, school struggles, and more.
If you're in the middle of it right now
For a parent in the thick of divorce, scrolling for something to listen to at 11pm, Episode 6 is the one to hand them: "2 Reasons You Can't 'Calm' Your Way Out of the Hard Stuff."
Mid-divorce, everyone hands out the same advice — breathe, stay calm, be consistent. She's tried all of it, and it's still hard. So she starts to think the problem must be her. This episode makes the case that it isn't, unpacking why calm-down advice keeps failing and what to try instead.
A few other episodes that meet parents where they are mid-divorce:
Keeping Your Cool: Emotion Regulation for Parents
Why Kids "Lose It": What's Beneath the Big Behaviors
Communicating with a Difficult Ex, with Jill Kaufman
Raising Securely Attached Kids in Single-Parent Families, with Aurisha Smolarski
From Survival Mode to Steadier Ground after High-Conflict Divorce: Sara's Story
Boundaries in Parenting (There's More to It Than You Think)
Ready for more support?
For parents who want to go deeper than an episode can take them, semi-private Coaching Circles are currently enrolling — a space to work through this alongside others who get it, when you're ready for that next step. Learn more about the Coaching Circles.
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