Polyvagal-Informed Strategies For a Calmer Family Part 2

This is how I meet my nervous system where it's at, no matter how stressed out I am.

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If you missed last week’s post, read it below before this one:

Polyvagal-Informed Strategies For a Calmer Family Part 1

I’m speaking at the Anxiety SOS Summit October 3-6! Register here:

Let’s review: This is a challenging time to be a parent.

• You’re uniquely qualified to meet the challenge!

• You can tune your own brain to absorb contentment, confidence, and connection, so that you can share that regulated state with your family.

• 80% of information goes from our bodies to our brains, 20% goes from our brains our bodies.

• Not everything is an emergency, but it sometimes feels that way.

• Stress indicates that you're living a meaningful life.

• We need ways to discharge stress that builds up in our bodies.

3 Positive Outcomes of Parents Practicing Self-Regulation:

1. Resilience: we can help our kids because we’ve had the experience ourselves.

2. Be your child's second chicken: when something unexpected happens, their nervous system will look to your nervous system for cues of danger or safety.

3. Teach the tools by modeling the…