Sabotage and Being Set Up {EP 210}


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It’s very common to feel like our kids are either intentionally sabotaging good things or that they are purposefully setting us up to be mad or disappointed or to have to say no. 

You aren’t imagining this phenomenon!

All humans do it, but our kids with vulnerable nervous systems and big, baffling behaviors may seem like they do it more often.

In this episode, you’ll learn

  • The neuroscience behind WHY our kids sabotage situations or set us up to be dysregulated
  • What they are really doing (and it’s actually full of hope)
  • How we might respond differently that could actually change their brain

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Robyn

Author of National Best Selling Book (including audiobook) Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work

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No One Is Coming To Save Us {EP 209}


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It took me a looooooong time to really truly believe and understand that- no one is coming to save me.

I had to do the hard work to take responsibility for my own triggers, my own nervous system, my own change. This only happened after oodles and oodles of safety, connection, and co-regulation.

Maybe you, like me, have held onto the hope that someone else will fix this. Your child will change, you’ll get the services you need, something will happen and everything will get better. 

Maybe this journey through some of the intimate moments of my own healing journey can assist you on your’s.

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Or, you can read the entire transcript of the episode by scrolling down and clicking ‘transcript.’

Robyn

Author of National Best Selling Book (including audiobook) Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work

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    Bravely Being With Grief with Rose LaPiere {EP 208}


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    Rose LaPiere LPC, RPT-S, and ACS invites into a space of safety and connection so we can make room for grief. Rose brings her own experiences of grief to her work as a play therapist (and co-leader in Robyn’s immersive training program for parenting professionals, Being With) so she can bravely welcome in, and be with, her client’s big, at times overwhelming, feelings. 

    In this episode, you’ll learn

    • The importance of authenticity, naming, and acknowledge even really really hard feelings
    • The role of playfulness is processing grief
    • The importance of self compassion for the grown-ups and therapists supporting kids and families in their grief

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      Is It Time to Raise the Bar? {EP 207}


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      You’ve lowered stress and demands. You’ve reframed your child’s behavior as a response from their autonomic nervous system. You’ve worked hard to help your child’s stress response system rest and begin to heal

      Now what?

      In this episode, you’ll learn

      • How rest is only one part of the healing process
      • The importance of reintroducing stress
      • The difference between stress that prompts growth and stress that leads to injury and burn-out

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      This blog is a short summary of a longer episode on The Baffling Behavior Show podcast.

      Find The Baffling Behavior Show podcast on Apple Podcast, Google, Spotify, or in your favorite podcast app.

      Or, you can read the entire transcript of the episode by scrolling down and clicking ‘transcript.’

      Robyn

      Author of National Best Selling Book (including audiobook) Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work

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