Description: Parenting is hard. Parenting a strong-willed child is something else entirely. Author, coach, and fellow mom to a Spicy One offers you grace in your parenting journey while helping you develop calm, connection-based habits that don't diminish your child's light and will transform both your relationship with your larger-than-life kid and yourself.
Brief description: Mary Van Geffen is an international parenting coach for Moms of Spicy Ones, as well as a Spicy One herself. Mary helps parents practice the spiritual discipline of staying calm, kind, and firm with their strong-willed kids--especially when they don't deserve it. She combines her training as a Simplicity Parenting counselor and Professional Co-Active Coach with hard-earned personal experience raising her own spirited child as well as her mild-mannered child. She has transformed the lives of over eight thousand mothers with her eight-week group program and on-demand digital courses. She shares daily inspirational tips with her 400,000 followers on Instagram. Her greatest achievement is cultivating a connected relationship with her now-adult children.