How To Deal
by Attachment Nerd
Latest episode
#44 How to Deal with Trauma When Healing Hurts | With Kobe Campbell
#44 How to Deal with Trauma When Healing Hurts | With Kobe Campbell
About this podcast
How To Deal is the podcast for parents who want to raise emotionally healthy kids in a world full of messy moments. Therapist and bestselling author Eli Harwood (aka The Attachment Nerd) brings you real stories, expert advice, and practical tools to build stronger relationships with your children—and yourself. Attachmentnerd.com
Episodes
The newest 20 of 48 episodes
- #44 How to Deal with Trauma When Healing Hurts | With Kobe Campbell · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 44Why can healing make the past hurt more? Eli Harwood sits down with therapist and author Kobe Campbell to explore how past wounds can shape our identity, relationships, and…
- #43 Navigating Pregnancy and Infant Loss | With Heather & Cody Baker · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 43Heather and Cody Baker join Eli Harwood to talk about pregnancy and infant loss, grieving differently as partners, and parenting through grief. Drawing on their experience of…
- #42 How to Deal with Food, Bodies and Connection | With Kathryn Garland & Vanessa Scaringi · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 42Food can bring up a lot of worry for parents. How do we stay curious about what a child is experiencing when our first instinct is to fix what they are eating? Eli talks with…
- #41 How to Deal with Childhood Wounds | With Galit Atlas · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 41]Why can it feel easier to understand everyone else than to let yourself be known? Eli Harwood joins psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas to explore how childhood experiences can shape…
- #40 When a Partner Isn’t on Board with Connection Focused Parenting | With Kyle & Sara Wester · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 40What do you do when you want to parent through connection and your partner keeps reaching for control? Eli talks with Kyle and Sara Wester about the years when they were on…
- #39 Nerd Notes | Victim Mentality vs. Real Harm · 14 min · Season 2 Episode 39In this solo episode, Eli dives into one of the most nuanced — and most needed — conversations in the world of relational health: the difference between genuinely being…
- #38 How to Deal with Raising Conscious Sons and Daughters in an Anxious and Chaotic World | With Dr. Shefali Tsabary · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 38Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Columbia-trained clinical psychologist and multiple NYT bestselling author, joins Eli to discuss her groundbreaking new companion books: Raising Conscious…
- #37 How to Feel Worthy | With Dr. Marisa G. Franco · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 37What if feeling unworthy isn't a flaw — it's a memory? In this deeply moving episode, Eli sits down with NYT bestselling psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco to unpack the science…
- #36 How to Deal with The Mental Load | With Eve Rodsky · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 36Eli sits down with Eve Rodsky — Harvard-trained lawyer, NYT bestselling author, and founder of the Fair Play movement — to dig into the invisible crisis hiding in most…
- #35 How to Deal with Rejection Sensitivity | With Dr. Sasha Hamdin · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 35Eli sits down with board-certified psychiatrist and ADHD specialist Dr. Sasha Hamdani to unpack one of the most misunderstood emotional experiences: Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria…
- #34 Teaching Kids Self-Trust in a Manipulative World | With Dr Naaila Chagani · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 34In this episode, Eli sits down with Dr. Naaila Chagani (Hudani), a child development specialist with a PhD from Tufts University, to explore the concept of "heart safety" —…
- #33 Nerd Notes | Co-Regulating with Our Neurodivergent Children · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 33In this solo episode, Eli Harwood (the Attachment Nerd) unpacks one of the most misunderstood intersections in modern parenting: raising a neurodivergent child while trying to…
- #32 How to Deal with a Spicy One | With Mary Van Geffen · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 32Episode Summary Eli sits down with international parenting coach and author Mary Van Geffen to talk about raising "spicy ones" — those intense, strong-willed, wonderfully complex…
- #31 How To Use Play To Set Limits and Boundaries | With Dr. Kim Van Dusen · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 31How to Deal with Parenting Through Play | Dr. Kim Van Dusen Episode Summary What if the secret to fewer tantrums, less mealtime drama, and a deeper connection with your kids…
- #30 How to Deal with Feeling | With Dr. Marc Brackett · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 30Episode Summary Eli Harwood sits down with Dr. Marc Brackett — founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and bestselling author — to tackle one of modern…
- #29 How to Deal When Your Kids Are at Odds with Each Other | With Dr. Laura Markham · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 29Episode Summary In this deeply personal and research-backed conversation, host Eli Harwood sits down with Dr. Laura Markham — clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and…
- #28 How to Be Honest about Motherhood | With Libby Ward · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 28Episode Summary Eli sits down with Libby Ward — writer, speaker, and author of Honest Motherhood: On Losing My Mind and Finding Myself — for a deeply honest conversation about…
- #27 Navigating Marriage in the Parenting Years | With Eli Weinstein · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 27Episode Summary Therapist, author, and host of The Dude Therapist podcast Eli Weinstein, LCSW joins the show to talk about one of the hardest (and least talked about)…
- #26 How to Deal with Sex Talks | With Kimberly Wolf · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 26Episode Summary In this episode, Eli sits down with sex educator and Harvard-trained expert Kimberly Wolf to tackle one of the most anxiety-producing topics in parenting: talking…
- #25 How to Deal with Feeling Disconnected from Your Sweetheart | With Morgan Burch · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 25Episode Summary Relationship coach Morgan Burch joins Eli to unpack one of the most common — and most painful — dynamics in modern partnerships: the moment you need your partner…







