Eps 186: Teasing apart Emotional Regulation with Anna Seewald

My guest today is Anna Seewald. Anna is a Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author and Host of The Authentic Parenting Podcast. With background in psychology and education, having worked with children for 18 years, today she helps conscious moms and dads to become calm and connected to themselves and their children through trauma-informed education. She believes in helping children by helping parents. She has a private practice that specializes in parent education, where she provides one-on-one parent coaching, parenting, court ordered, and co-parenting classes. 

www.authenticparenting.com

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• What is emotional regulation?
• Gaining perspective on what it means when our child is emotionally dysregulated
• Why toddlers struggle with emotional regulation
• How emotional dysregulation of kids triggers parents
• How stress contributes to emotional dysregulation in parents
• How emotional regulation supports conflict resolution, jobs, relationships, academics
• What is co-regulation?
• How parents can stay regulated
• The Four-Step Calm Formula
• Coaching your child’s emotional regulation
• The role of compassion in emotional regulation
• Assessing the level of urgency in an emotionally dysregulated situation
• Language and emotional dysregulation
• Mindfulness and emotional dysregulation
• Validating our children’s feelings in a way that matches the intensity of their distress
• The impact of dysregulation on the verbal centers of the brain
• Dealing with emotional dysregulation under time constraints
• Post-dysregulation problem solving and how to nurture it
• What to do when your child won’t talk about their feelings
• The power of relationship in bringing emotional regulation
• Tips for listeners who are looking to get better at helping their children grow their self-regulation skills or themselves

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