Caron Goode

Breathing new life into parenting skills is what Caron Goode has done for families for more than 30 years. As a psychotherapist and educator, Goode works with children and their parents to discover each youngster’s innate gifts—and to nurture them with joy, common sense and a mindbody connectedness that enriches and benefits parents and child.

Dr. Goode created the pioneering Inspired Parenting programs, books, and web site in the year 2000. The programs are is committed to helping families nurture, nourish, heal, adapt, and gain health and happiness for their communities through education, experience, and enrichment.

Caron is a leading proponent of Self-Help for parents. Her purpose is to inspire parents and educators to master the art of building relationships, develop happiness and health, and empower their personal style and strengths.

Countering the influences of invasive media and technology, Goode advises parents, grandparents and caregivers on the ways to help children mature into adults. “Each child comes into the world with a potential, a talent,” says Goode. “Usually, the child recognizes his personal roadmap and exhibits appropriate temperaments. Our opportunity as parents and models is to serve as guides who can show the child how to solve problems creatively, cope with stress, and use self-dialogue, imagery and music to thrive and live his or her childhood dreams.”

Goode has written six books on child development, plus two monographs, and has collaborated with two other authors to write two more books. In spring, 2004, she released, Healthy and Happy Kids. Her articles have appeared in more than 200 national newspapers, including Colorado Parent, The Edge, Equilibrium, Convergence, The Joyful Child Magazine, Connecting Link and Mentoring Magazine and more than two dozen websites. Others often seek her views on childhood development issues, quoting her as an expert in such publications as Energy magazine, Black Family Digest and Better Homes and Gardens.

With her husband, Tom Goode, ND, Caron directs Inspired Parenting, LLC and Inspired Living International, Inc., education and training organizations in Tucson, Arizona. Their teams of trainers offer parent educations workshops, Full Wave Breathing™ and Mindbody Talk™ wellness workshops.

Goode graduated with a Doctoral degree in education in 1983 from George Washington University, Washington D.C. In addition, she holds the following: Licensed Certified Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and Diplomat of the American Psychotherapy Association. Her interest in childhood development began at her first professional position when she taught special education children and later worked as a research consultant at the National Headquarters of Special Olympics in Washington, D.C. Since then, she has worked with children and families in private psychotherapy practice, and has designed empowerment seminars for parents, professionals and corporations, consulted for public and private school programs, conducted research in mindbody approaches to lifestyle, while writing and publishing for professional journals as well as major mass media.

She often conducts seminars and workshops, gives keynote speeches and shares her insights about children on radio and television.

She and her husband live in Tucson, Arizona. She is the mother of one daughter.