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  • We Need THIS in the Worst of Times | Summer Tips w/Kids | Date Night | Oops, I Did It Again

    We Need THIS in the Worst of Times | Summer Tips w/Kids | Date Night | Oops, I Did It Again
    2026/06/20

    Hello!!

    Happy Juneteenth!! Happy World Cup!! Happy Pride Month!!

    Give it up for Michelle Obama!! She gave another amazing speech this week. Save this link for any day you are feeling down and out. It will give you a boost of motivation in less than 20min.

    Watch Here

    I was drawn to the part about her speaking to every single person's innate goodness.

    AND

    “We want you to come here and put away your phones and talk and laugh and cry…and make new friends,” she said. “Get your hands dirty in my garden. Push your baby on a swing in the playground. Have a romantic picnic on the great lawn. Because that’s the work of democracy too. Being neighborly. Taking care of public spaces. Having some fun enjoying each other. Shaking out of the isolation and division that have crept too deeply into our lives.”

    This made me think:

    What would it look like for you to shake out the isolation and division in your personal relationships??

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    Water Safety from the Red Cross

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    Relationship Tip:

    Judgement is not understanding. Read that again. Your judgement is not understanding.

    I judged this author early on in the book. And then he spent the rest of the book explaining/telling additional stories to prove my judgment incorrect.

    I’m so glad I didn’t write the author off and stop reading. Is this not what we do with people?! Mistake judgment for understanding…

    Keep listening. Stay engaged. Keep an open mind.

    Cook County ICU, by Cory Franklin, MD | 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

    Very good book about hospitals and medical care in a fast changing world.

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    Sweet Deal Date Night @ Salt & Iron & The Edmonds Theater

    https://www.theedmondstheater.net/

    Showings $5 for Throwback Thursdays

    $10.50 for regular adult ticket | $5 for kids

    Show your movie ticket stub at Salt & Iron and you can get two drinks and some oysters for $38.

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    Not in the show bonus thoughts

    I just saw an attractive guy with a shirt that said Chores included and I chuckled at that.

    Once time I had a very good dream. I was in some sort of office and it was late at night. Michelle Obama came in and sat down, tired from a long day. I said hello, and asked if she wanted a foot rub. She said, "Yes, I would." And I rubbed her feet.

    Then I woke up. I enjoy giving foot rubs so much. To my clients and Michelle Obama.

    Thanks so much for taking time out of your day to read what I have to say.

    Much care and joy to you!!!!!

    Hugs,

    Amity

    P.S. Do you have a question for me? Send me a note and I'll try to work it into the show. amity@thresholds.info.

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  • #3 Is Your Relationship Unhealthy? If You Do These 4 Behaviors, It's Failing | Free Family Activities & A Free SPICY Date Night

    #3 Is Your Relationship Unhealthy? If You Do These 4 Behaviors, It's Failing | Free Family Activities & A Free SPICY Date Night
    2026/06/12

    **Amity Kramer (Not AI) made this podcast and this blurb. Expect it to be less than perfect!!**

    Hello Everyone,

    In today's show we have:
    • The 4 warning signs your relationships are melting down (and how to prevent them)
    • Low tides are coming-- mark your calendar
    • Non-productive time as a family
    • SPICY Date Night (that's FREE)
    • Personal bit | How I feel about podcasting
    Links

    I forgot to mention it in the show, but I do have upcoming classes that can help prevent relationship meltdown.

    • Bringing Baby Home. Aug 20 & 30 https://thresholds.info/bringing-baby-home/
    • Parenting From Within /Emotional Education (Online & Pay what you want!!!) https://thresholds.info/emotion-education/
    • Birthing From Within https://thresholds.info/childbirth-classes/

    ----more----

    Family FUN!!!

    Low Tide Calendar

    https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/noaatidepredictions.html?id=9447130&units=standard&bdate=20260601&edate=20260630&timezone=LST/LDT&clock=12hour&datum=MLLW&interval=hilo&action=monthlychart

    I found this link in a short article in The Seattle Times.

    **Nature tips— don’t move the creatures from their zone.

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    Do Nothing Time | Color Together!!

    Check out these coloring sheets. Or think up an idea for yourself.

    https://www.gaycity.org/queer-trans-coloring-book/

    ----more----

    Date Night Idea | Naked Yoga

    https://www.nakedinmotion.com/

    Save the date | Seattle Pride is June 28th

    https://seattlepride.org/events

    Lots of local + smaller pride events happening all month.

    Have questions or ideas about how I can make this show better?? Send them my way.

    amity@thresholds.info

    Thank you SOOOOO much for reading or listening. It means the world to me.

    : )

    Amity
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  • #2 The Real Reason You Can't Keep Your House Clean and How to Get a Break!! & Amity got defensive.

    #2 The Real Reason You Can't Keep Your House Clean and How to Get a Break!! & Amity got defensive.
    2026/06/05

    Hello,

    In this episode you will learn about:

    • the book Essential Labor, Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes (It's great and you should go and read it asap).

    • Some ideas about how to manage the stress of parenting in community
    • Where to get rest away from the mental load of parenthood.
    • A personal story about how I got super defensive and my process for getting unstuck and learning about myself in the process.

    This is about 25min long, listen at double speed to enhance your experience.

    Links to things mentioned in the show:

    (I do not get paid for sharing this information)

    Household Help to Get Support for the Harder Projects

    My friend Barb @ I Mind Your Matter

    Rain City Maids | Priority Cleaning

    https://ppc.raincitymaids.com/

    Finally Take A Break at Family Camps:

    Camp Seabeck

    2026 Summer Camp Schedule | Register Today for Exciting Summer Camps — Ekone Ranch

    About Camp Huston - a brief description of facilities and programs

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    Private family retreat food included

    Breitenbush Hot Springs

    Sleeping Lady Resort | Mountain Resort in Leavenworth, WA

    If you want to learn more about my work at Thresholds or take a class check out all of the offerings at www.thresholds.info.

    Thanks for taking a listen!!

    Amity

    (AI was used to edit this recording and take out the empty spaces and filler words)

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  • #1 | What is the Best Therapy Advice For Dads? | Easy Way to Balance the Mental Load

    #1 | What is the Best Therapy Advice For Dads? | Easy Way to Balance the Mental Load
    2026/05/30
    Sound Healing Presents | Tomorrow! New park for the whole family New off leash dog park in Shoreline. (There is a kid park there too!!) Best Therapy Advice for Men and the rest of us... Best therapy advice for men source: The best comments from Threads post by @kendriquecoats 4/27/26 Free 1st class | All ages fitness in Edmonds & Bothel "You'll find coaching that meets you where you are and a community that genuinely cares." Check it out!! Book Equal Partners by Kate Mangino Great book. Full Transcript Hello everyone and welcome to the Amity Kramer Show. I am coming to you from my recording studio on Queen Anne (the "studio" is really a blanket fort). And I'm excited to talk to you a little bit about some things that might be helpful for new parents or people who are already parenting. I wanted to tell you about a few things today. So I'm going to tell you about some advice that I found searching the comments on social media site. I'm going to tell you about some upcoming classes that I have going on, a date night idea, family fun idea, and another idea to help potentially equalize the mental load. So I got a few things here that I'm going to tell you about. And if you have any questions for me, feel free to send them my way and I will blend them into my next show. Okay, let's get started. Date night idea coming up on May 30th, there's two different events, but there is this, it's supposed to be really cool. It's a sound healing experience. You can buy tickets. You either lay down or sit down and it, yeah, it's on Capitol Hill and it looked kind of interesting. Lots of music and sound, bath, bowls. And, yeah, could be a nice way to relax with yourself or somebody that you like, maybe a date night or maybe a friend. So that is sound healing. And what I'm going to do is put a link to all of the things that I talk about in the notes. So feel free to look at that. And then the other thing that is coming up is there is there is a brand new park and it's fun for the whole family, even those of you with dogs. So there's a new off leash dog park that I learned about and I want to tell you, it is up in shoreline, 167th. So you could take exit 175th and then go west or you could take exit 145th and go, I guess go west and then north on meridian. So it's right off the freeway, New off-leash, Dog Park, and Kid Park. You can check that out. There is also, oh, yeah, I found this thing. I've been reading a lot of comments lately. One of my kids, you know, they're a teenager and she's 18 now, so she's a grownup. And sometimes I don't get things online and she's like, Mom, you got to read the comments, like the good stuff is in the comments. And so I've done this. I've started reading more comments lately. Because, you know, I always think about it as like, oh my gosh, I'm not going to read the comments. People are always snarky or mean, or that's where the argument happens. I just like never look at comments. But she's been telling me that that's where all the comedy is. And so I've been reading the comments and sometimes I do just laugh out loud, laughing. But these comments I was reading were not funny, but they were helpful. And I thought it might be helpful for you. So this person posted and also, I'll send a, I'll put a link in the show notes. But this person posted a question that was, what's the, for men? He was like, hey, hey, men, what's the best advice you've ever received in a therapy session? And I thought this was a great question. And so I started reading the show reading the comments. And there was a couple of really good nuggets, and I was like, this is public information online. I want to share it to you all because I know that a lot of people that read my newsletter are not also online. So here are some things that might be useful for you to hear today. I also, you know, I wanted to say that I'm, you know, I'm not a therapist, but I do a lot of coaching with families. And I, these things resonated with me personally, but they also resonated with, you know, I feel like I say something similar to my clients when they're maybe going through a tough spot. So, here they go. Advice that people have received in therapy sessions that was specific for these men, but can be useful for all of us. Advice number one, you're not going to be able to share your feelings honestly if you don't understand them honestly. Woo. This one really packs a punch, right? How many times have you, you know, maybe been arguing about something, but not really understood how you felt? And so it's always that good recommendation to sit down and figure it out, figure out what you're thinking, what you're feeling before you engage in that conversation. If you just go right to talking about the issue, sometimes it's a missed opportunity for that self-reflection that needs to happen often in private, but sometimes you might want to talk to a therapist or a good friend to kind of help figure out what you're feeling ...
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