The Calm and Connected Parent: Ending Power Struggles Through Emotional Leadership with Todd Sarner

The Calm and Connected Parent: Ending Power Struggles Through Emotional Leadership with Todd Sarner

Published: September 15, 2026

Duration: 29:31

Todd Sarner 

For more than 20 years, I’ve worked with parents who love their children deeply, have read the books, tried the advice, and still find themselves stuck in daily conflict, power struggles, and self-doubt. Again and again, I saw the same pattern: good parents were being taught to manage behavior at the surface, while the real drivers of family stress were going unaddressed.

As a licensed psychotherapist, parent coach, and former faculty member of the Neufeld Institute, I built my work around a different approach, one rooted in attachment, emotional regulation, and calm, connected lea...