Loving Parent Podcast

Hi, Everyone!

I’d like to introduce myself. I’m Brita, and my newest adventure is as the host of the Loving Parent Podcast. I am also Wife, Mom, MIL, and Grams.

In previous iterations of my professional life, I have been a telephone operator, big box store manager, corporate billing clerk, non-profit grant writer, and artist. I went to college in my late 30’s, earning a BS in Health Science and an MA in Education.

I’m the co-founder of Happy Child, Inc, and served as its Executive Director and Principle Investigator. Happy Child provided substance abuse prevention education to children and parenting/reparenting cLasses for adults, while researching self-esteem in the families before and after the classes. It was funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services. I wrote two curricula, Happy Child for children 5-12, and Secret Families-Problem Families for their parents, translated into Spanish as El Niño Feliz and Familias con Secretos-Familias con Problemas. I’m also the author of the book, Secret Families-Problem Families—It’s Never Too Late to Be a Happy Child. All above materials are available in the website store for free while supplies last…you pay book rate postage only. 

I have been in recovery as an adult child for over 38 years, and as an alcoholic for 37 of those years. I’ve been with my current alcoholic husband (sober) for 37.5 of those 38 years. In that time we have been privileged to parent/reparent children and help raise grandchildren while doing our own work in meetings, therapy, and with fellow travelers as we discover and reparent our own childhood trauma. (Hear Episodes 4 and 5 for that story!)

I would not trade my life, with its ups and downs, bumps, bruises and traumas, with anyone! To paraphrase The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, pages 83, 84: I do not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it… No matter how far down the scale I have gone, I can see how my experience can benefit others…