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You have a Spicy One™ if more than a few of these apply…

• Feel things intensely and express themselves in big emotional outbursts (from rage to joyful screaming)

• Possess a fierce drive for independence and doing it their own way

• Choose to be completely true to themselves, not others

• Seem unafraid to take up space or disappoint others (but feel outsized shame when corrected)

• Powerfully negotiate with adults until they lose hope and melt down

• Struggle to be consoled physically

• Either exhibit a zest for life or complain that they don’t want to live anymore

• Have energy to spare and tend to be moving all the time

• Test as gifted in some ways but completely inept in others

• Have a deep sense of justice (but are fine if they themselves break the rules)

• Refuse to rest long in contentedness always wondering “what’s next”

• Sometimes hurt folks unintentionally

• Default to brutal honesty with powerful words that can wound or delight

• Seem acutely aware of others’ feelings yet miss the social cues that peers are feeling disgruntled

• Learn best through defiance and personally experienced failure (rather than parental guidance)

• Share a silly subversive sense of humor (and dark misuse of toys)

• Enjoys “poking the bear” or bothering other children in order to get a dramatic reaction and some sensory needs met

• Play so competitively that they meltdown when they lose and/or refuse to play by the rules

• Notice everything from how a chair was moved, to mom waking up in a bad mood

• Prefer to direct the play of peers

• Refuse to say “I love you” until they feel it

• Are a change-maker, free spirit or innovator but rarely a follower

But it also depends on your own unhealed need to control, your propensity to judge rather than accept, and the work you’ve done to articulate your own childhood.

It depends if you are a Highly Sensitive Person or if you struggle with attention-related difficulties.

It depends on how strong your fear of displeasing others is. We start to explore all of that in MOSO.

MOSO will take you anywhere from one hour to three hours a week depending on your ability to participate.

For just one hour/week, you could watch the pre-recorded curriculum only and complete the self-reflection journal entries.

If you can afford another hour, you could attend or watch the live coaching session on Tuesdays.

If you were able to add a third hour, you could sign up for an accountability partner, and join the online community to make some friends.

Optional coaching calls are weekly on Tuesdays. You choose the ONE call a week that you need based on your most difficult child’s age.

Week 1: 4/8 10AM Kids & 6PM Teens
Week 2: 4/15 10AM Teens & 6PM Kids 
Week 3: 4/22 10AM Kids & 6PM Teens
Week 4: 4/29 10AM Teens & 6PM Kids
Week 5: 5/13 10AM Kids & 6PM Teens
5/14 6pm Dads of Spicy One Check In
Week 6: 5/20 10AM Teens & 6PM Kids
Week 7: 5/27 10AM Kids & 6PM Teens
Week 8:  6/3 10AM Teens & 6PM Kids
Call times are PST

All calls are recorded for those who are unable to attend and are viewable for 30 days after the meeting.

Call times are PST. All coaching calls are recorded and available to watch until 1 month after class ends.

Note: you may attend only one group call per week but you may watch all recordings.

Plus 3 optional LIVE Social Hours and Rapid Fire Q&As:

April 18 at 3pm PT
May 5 at 5pm PT
May 23 at 9am PT

Additionally, the weekly curriculum videos are released each Thursday. It’s recommended to watch them before the following Tuesday coaching call.

All parents can benefit from learning to parent their Spicy One well!

This course is designed for two groups:

Kids: parents of kids aged 2-10 and Teens: parents of kids 11 - 18.

You will have to chose which group you want to participate with when it comes to coaching calls. Pick the child who takes the most energy to parent right now.

Worried it’s too late?

C.S. Lewis said it best, “You can’t go back and change the begining, but you can start where you are and change the ending”

Heck yes. I promise not to give you techniques that assume you have a village supporting you or even someone who can watch your child while you shower!

All material can be consumed a-synchronistically to work with the meager free time you have to learn. Plus, you can request that your accountability partner is also a single mom (if that feels critical for someone to be a suportive listener for you).

Yes. You are invited to watch all the recorded curriculum and recordings of coaching calls with your co-parent.

No extra purchase is required.

Plus I have a weekly “Attention: Dads!” 3 minute video to alert partners, unable to invest the time to watch, to what topics we are covering in that week. The “Attention Dads” videos include supportive questions they can ask you.

There will also be an optional Dads of Spicy Ones Check in Zoom on November 6th. A therapist and fellow dad will be joining to co-facilitate. No moms needed on this call.

Please note: Only moms will have access to an accountability partner and get to attend the live coaching calls. Those calls can be emotional and need to stay a private safe space with no spectators.

Nope. While I personally identify as a deconstructing, radically affirming Christian, no religious affiliation is explored or communicated in this course. I believe Moms of Spicy Ones need the benefits that come with opening up to a higher power, but how you define that is up to you.

Lisa Miller wisely says, “Spirituality is a necessary human capacity that exists in every person through which we experience love and connection, unity and sense of guidance from and dialogue with life.”

The 8 weeks of MOSO pre-recorded weekly curriculum and self-reflection journals are yours forever.

Please note: Bonus access to Tweens & Teens , Kind:Gentle Parenting 101 and Calm is only available for 2 months (through the duration of the live course).

The recordings of the LIVE coaching session (from Tuesdays) are kept on-line for 1 month after each meeting takes place. After that, they are moved into the Spicy Ones Society membership wall to protect the vulnerability of constantly shifting mammas! No one needs to have their BEFORE moments memorialized forever.

The optional accountability partner might become a friend for life.

The online community ends after 8 weeks (unless you decide to join the graduates membership called Spicy One Society).

Because the course is a digital product that is immediately accessible, to be eligible for a refund, you must NOT have accessed any of the course modules.

Additionally, refund requests must be received within fourteen (14) days of purchasing the course to be considered.

Vulnerability and authenticity are core values of the MOSO community. Therefore, I put a lot of effort into an accurate representation of the course experience. I am happy to answer any questions in advance of purchase.

Thank you for understanding.