Do you worry about how to protect your kids from online dangers, from predators to porn? As Post-Traumatic Parents, we are especially aware of how dangerous the world can be! In this episode, Kristen A Jenson, from Defend Young Minds, helps us explore how to protect...
Is shame the hardest part of Post-Traumatic Parenting? Shame and trauma go together, and shame and parenting do, too. Dr. Patti Ashley, author of Shame Informed Therapy, website https://pattiashley.com/ is the expert on this. We talked about how shame is a sense of...
Post-Traumatic Parents know what helpless feels like, and we don’t want to inflict that feeling on our kids. We don’t want to parent coercively. But the behavioral approach to parenting seems to be the only game in town! Is there a way to help our kids learn emotion...
Post-Traumatic due to divorce? You’ll want to hear what Dr. Ann Buscho has to say. She’s a psychologist and an expert in “Nesting,” a form of divorce where the kids stay home and parents rotate in and out. Her book, The Parent’s Guide to Birdnesting, is a roadmap to...
Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of Indistractable. Distraction is familiar to us Post-Traumatic Survivors and Thrivers, right? It’s part of our recovery. As PTPs, we struggle with time management and distraction. Reading Indistractable changed my life – and my...
Sometimes, what appears as helicopter parenting isn't due to an effort to control, but an effort to protect. Here’s how trauma distorts our instincts, and what to do instead.
This year’s big back-to-school story isn’t “COVID kindergartners,” it’s their parents. Parental stress affects kids, so let's focus our intervention where it belongs.
The Back-to-School Scaries are a thing. For post-traumatic parents, the return to school routines brings overwhelm. Here’s what’s happening inside your brain and how to calm it.