Talk Description
Parenting kids with big emotions and who have survived trauma that mirrors your own as a child, is an exhausting and overwhelming challenge. Any healing you have worked on so hard, can quickly fall to the wayside as you see it replayed in the heart, or hearts, that are beating outside our own body.
As you all know, breaking this cycle is harder in reality than in concept; and while it is still a system of awareness and productive rest to manage the triggers of my own trauma, this is a goal I have achieved in my own family - raising my children with principles of neuroscience and attachment from their early childhood trauma into beautiful, kind and brave young adults.
My kids, and the children, teenagers and families I have been honoured to work with over the years have inspired me to be an advocate for child, adolescent, and parent, especially maternal, mental health. Every year I could see this crisis worsening. Through the privilege of my education, I was aware there is so much preventative work that could be done to turn this around, and wished I’d had a community applying these ideas while I’d been struggling with this across my children’s early childhood. These experiences inspired me to build a connected community where parents have a safe space to not only work through their own triggers and healing; but also learn sustainable science-based strategies to help their children grow into happier, healthier, more helpful humans. A system of strategies I learned through direct, lived experiences, and by working with many, many families with similar experiences of trauma and challenging emotions. I’d love to share with you my story of triumph, and how this connected community has brought healing for me and many others.