Somatic Healing for Moms: How to Regulate Your Nervous System in Real-Time With Brittany Piper
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Episode Highlights With Brittany
- Why this work is so important, especially for moms
- How babies co-regulate with moms for several years and how our children borrow our nervous systems for several years until theirs' develop
- How dysregulated nervous systems affect parenting and the parent child bond
- Children are wired to come to their caregivers for regulation, so when the caregiver is a source of fear or dysregulation this can create attachment issues and other issues
- Perfection is not required- in fact an in-depth study found that mothers being attuned even just 30% of the time led to secure attachment in the child. So we don’t even have to get it right the majority of the time!
- Navigating rupture and repair well can actually lead to more resilience and secure attachment
- Somatic practices that moms can do on the go when we feel overwhelmed
- Practical tools that moms can use to benefit our nervous systems and our families
- How movement is so helpful for the nervous system
- What resourcing is and how doing this for just a couple minutes a day can be really helpful
- How attunement is so important and can be helpful even if we're personally not regulated
- Ways to help our kids develop healthy nervous system regulation and attachment.
- Her advice for those struggling with mom guilt.
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