Parenting Doctors Podcast
In five minutes or less, get powerful strategies for effective parenting. Dr. Daniel van Ingen illustrates evidence-based parenting strategies through stories and clear-cut examples. Dr.
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The Big Five — What Thriving Relationships Actually Require (opens the original)
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Episode 19: The Big Five — A Framework for Relationship Health What actually makes a relationship thrive? In this episode of What We Were Never Taught, Dr. Dan presents The Big Five—five core relationship processes that help explain why some relationships deepen while others slowly deteriorate: connection, continuity, repair, reciprocity, and progression. This framework applies whether two people have been dating for three months or married for fifteen years. Dr. Dan examines what each process l
When Connection Isn't Enough: The Three Essentials of a Lasting Marriage (opens the original)
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WHEN CONNECTION ISN’T ENOUGHEpisode 18 | What We Were Never Taught How can two people genuinely love each other, remain committed to their marriage, and still feel profoundly disconnected? I've seen couples experience extraordinary moments of closeness. They sit together for hours, share their feelings, remember why they fell in love, and promise to make their relationship a priority. For a moment, everything feels different. But then life resumes. Work gets busy. Responsibilities take over. The
When the Bridge Gets Blown Up: The Emotional Skills We Were Never Taught About Conflict, Cutoff, and Preserving Love When We’re Angry (opens the original)
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Episode 17 — When the Bridge Gets Blown UpThe Emotional Skills We Were Never Taught About Conflict, Cutoff, and Preserving Love When We’re Angry What happens when conflict does not simply create distance, but seems to erase the entire history of a relationship? In this episode, Dr. Dan explores one of the most destabilizing patterns in relationships: when anger, hurt, or emotional overwhelm leads to sudden cutoff, extreme declarations, symbolic destruction, or the sense that years of connection
When Attachment Gets Activated: Self-Regulation, Co-Regulation, External Regulation & the Ways We Seek Safety (opens the original)
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Episode 16: When Attachment Gets Activated Self-Regulation, Co-Regulation, External Regulation & the Ways We Seek Safety What happens to us when a relationship suddenly feels uncertain, disconnected, or unsafe? Some of us move closer. We want to talk, understand, repair, reconnect, and receive reassurance. Others move away. We need silence, distance, independence, or space before we can feel settled again. And some of us move back and forth between the two. In Episode 16 of What We Were Never Ta
The Part of Repair We Never Talk About — Silence, Space, and Self-Regulation (opens the original)
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Episode 15: The Part of Repair We Never Talk About — Silence, Space, and Self-Regulation We often think of relationship repair as talking things through—apologizing, explaining, resolving conflict, and finding solutions. But what if a crucial part of repair happens after the conversation? In Episode 15, Dr. Dan explores the often-overlooked role of silence, space, and self-regulation in healthy relationship repair. Drawing from his own experience with defensiveness and over-explaining, he examin
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