Once Upon An Upset has episodes for a wide range of ages. Not only stories, but conversations about a variety of common upsets, big and small. The intention of each episode is to inspire families to reframe their upsets in order to discover new ways to understand and connect with each other.

I created Once Upon An Upset for kids who might be having difficulty coping with life’s challenges, expectations and disappointments.

Maybe they feel disconnected or misunderstood. Stuck or lost or afraid. Maybe they communicate differently or think differently or learn differently.

And I also created this podcast for parents who might have had very difficult childhoods and are learning to reparent themselves while also parenting their children with the love and empathy they wish they’d grown up with.

My intention for Once Upon an Upset is to share some of the tools that have worked for me and also for my own son, to help us both learn to reframe our perspectives and try to understand the stuff we can’t control, rather than making it mean something negative about who we are.

Because no matter what any of us are going through, who we are, is a gift. Our perspective, and our ideas and concerns are not only valid but valuable.

And when we connect with each other just as we are and just as we aren’t, we get to understand each other, and the experience of being understood and connected is the stuff that makes life fulfilling.

All episodes written, performed and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane, and the music was made by Jerome Rossen at Freshmade Music.