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Family Reset: Parent/Child Edition

Healing Together Through Honest Conversations and Real Connection

Length: 2 - 90-minute core program (10 lessons) + optional facilitator sessions | Tools: Printable guides, conversation frameworks, and downloadable worksheets | Access: Included in Learner and Builder memberships

Families don’t need perfection; they need a place to start again.

The Family Reset – Parent/Child Edition brings together two companion courses; Before It Spills for parents and Real Talk for teens, to rebuild trust, improve communication, and create a calm, connected home environment.
It’s the full reset experience: parents learn to lead with empathy, teens learn to speak with honesty, and everyone learns how to listen.

This is where family healing stops being an idea and starts becoming a practice.

Who This Is For

  • Parents, caregivers, and guardians ready to build calmer homes and stronger bonds.

  • Teens and young adults struggling to communicate or manage emotions.

  • Families in foster care, group homes, or blended households rebuilding trust.

  • Youth mentors, family facilitators, and counselors guiding parent/teen workshops.

Why It Works

Because families don’t need perfection; they need a reset.

Each lesson combines emotional intelligence with practical family tools, helping parents and children rebuild communication in real time. The system works because it’s simple, repeatable, and safe-teaching skills families can use every day, not just when things fall apart.

For Parents (Before It Spills):
How to stay calm and communicate through tough moments.
How to model healthy emotional regulation and repair after conflict.
How to guide kids through stress and frustration without power struggles.
How to build connection and safety through consistent, caring conversations.

For Teens (Real Talk):
How to express feelings honestly without fear or anger.
How to set healthy boundaries and communicate needs clearly.
How to build trust and empathy in family and peer relationships.
How to navigate emotional challenges with maturity and confidence.

You can’t rewrite yesterday, but you can reset today.
Start your reset now and make healthy communication the rule, not the exception.

Before It Spills

  1. Seeing the Cycle

    1 lesson
    1. INTRODUCTION

  2. Week 1 -

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 1: What’s In Your Glass? How What Filled You Is What Spills From You
    2. What’s In Your Glass? – End of Lesson Quiz
    3. Chapter 2: Sponges and Spills How Children Absorb More Than What We Say
    4. Sponges and Spills – End of Lesson Quiz

  3. Week 2 - Seeing the Cycle II

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 3: What Wasn’t Yours to Carry Healing from Sexual Abuse, Boundary Trauma, and Generational Silence
    2. What Wasn’t Yours to Carry – End of Lesson Quiz
    3. Chapter 4: Yelling Is a Leak Why We Explode, and How to Catch It Before It Spills
    4. Yelling Is a Leak – End of Lesson Quiz

  4. Week 3 - Recognizing the Patterns

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 5: Don’t Pass Down the Mask How Hiding Your Feelings Can Hurt Your Family
    2. Chapter 5 Quiz: Don’t Pass Down the Mask
    3. Chapter 6: The Voice in Their Head Might Be Yours How Kids Inherit the Way You Speak to Them, and Yourself
    4. Chapter 6 Quiz – Boundaries & Follow-Through

  5. Week 4 - Building the Shift

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 7: Trigger Translation Understanding Why Certain Moments Hit So Deep
    2. Chapter 7: Trigger Translation Understanding Why Certain Moments Hit So Deep
    3. Chapter 8: Apologizing Without Fear: Why Accountability Builds Trust, Not Weakness
    4. Chapter 8 Quiz – Parenting Under Stress

  6. Week 5 -

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 9: They’re Not Giving You Attitude, They’re Giving You Fear
    2. Chapter 9 Quiz – Triggers & Old Wounds
    3. Chapter 10: How to Stay When You Want to Run Being Present Even When It’s Hard
    4. Chapter 10 Quiz – Modeling Emotional Regulation

  7. week 6 -

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 11: When You’re Hurting Because of Them
    2. Chapter 11 Quiz – Building Connection
    3. Chapter 12: Forgiveness Isn’t Forgetting, It’s Releasing
    4. Chapter 12 Quiz – Discipline vs. Punishment

  8. Week 7 -

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 13: Boundaries Are Not Betrayal
    2. Chapter 13 Quiz – Parenting Styles & Flexibility
    3. Chapter 14: Reparenting Yourself Without Abandoning Them
    4. Chapter 14 Quiz – Generational Healing

  9. Living the Legacy

    3 lessons
    1. Chapter 15: Parenting the Healed Version of You
    2. Chapter 15 Quiz – Raising Kids With Resilience
    3. Appendix A: Reset Tools, Reflection Practices, and Key Definitions

Family Reset Series: Real Talk:

  1. Introduction

    2 lessons
    1. This Book Is for You, Because I Was You
    2. My Brave Words Page – Real Talk

  2. Week 1 - Part I: YOU’RE NOT BROKEN. YOU’RE BECOMING.

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 1: What’s In Your Cup?
    2. Chapter 1 Quiz: What’s in Your Cup?
    3. Chapter 2: Sponges and Spills
    4. Chapter 2 Quiz: Sponges and Spills

  3. Week 2 - YOU’RE NOT BROKEN. YOU’RE BECOMING II

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 3: You’re Allowed to Be Angry
    2. Chapter 3 Quiz: You’re Allowed to Be Angry
    3. Chapter 4: Who’s Driving the Car?
    4. Chapter 4 Quiz: Who’s Driving the Car?

  4. Week 3 - Part II: YOU CAN FEEL DIFFERENT WITHOUT BEING DIFFERENT

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 5: The Respect Reset
    2. Chapter 5 Quiz: The Respect Reset
    3. Chapter 6: Don’t Let the Old Stuff Write the New Story
    4. Chapter 6 Quiz: Don’t Let the Old Stuff Write the New Story

  5. Week 4 - Part II: YOU CAN FEEL DIFFERENT WITHOUT BEING DIFFERENT II

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 7: How to Be Heard (Even When They’re Not Listening)
    2. Chapter 7 Quiz: How to Be Heard (Even When They’re Not Listening)
    3. Chapter 8: Apologizing Doesn’t Make You Weak
    4. Chapter 8 Quiz: Apologizing Doesn’t Make You Weak

  6. Week 5 - Part III: WHO YOU’RE BECOMING MATTERS

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 9: It’s Not Just Attitude, It’s Overload
    2. Chapter 9 Quiz: It’s Not Just Attitude, It’s Overload
    3. Chapter 10: Staying Present When You Wanna Dip
    4. Chapter 10: Staying Present When You Wanna Dip

  7. Week 6 - Part III: WHO YOU’RE BECOMING MATTERS II

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 11: When They Hurt You and You Can’t Say It
    2. Chapter 11 Quiz: When They Hurt You and You Can’t Say It
    3. Chapter 12: Forgiveness Isn’t Fake
    4. Chapter 12 Quiz: Forgiveness Isn’t Fake

  8. Week 7 - Part III: WHO YOU’RE BECOMING MATTERS III

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 13: Boundaries Aren’t Drama
    2. Chapter 13 Quiz: Boundaries Aren’t Drama
    3. Chapter 14: Healing Isn’t a Solo Sport
    4. Chapter 14 Quiz: Healing Isn’t a Solo Sport

  9. Week 8 - Part III: WHO YOU’RE BECOMING MATTERS IV

    2 lessons
    1. Chapter 15: You’re the Author Now
    2. Chapter 15 Quiz: You’re the Author Now

  10. Final

    3 lessons
    1. Teen Tool: Legacy Letter – Teen Edition
    2. From My Heart to Yours
    3. Final Quiz for the Real Talk course

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