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RESOURCESPost Traumatic Parenting and Shame with Dr. Patti Ashley
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...
The Beyond Behaviors Approach to Parenting with Dr. Mona Delahooke
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...
Divorce and Post-Traumatic Parenting with Dr. Ann Buscho
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...
Distraction and the Post-Traumatic Brain with Nir Eyal
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...
Why Do We Mom-Shame? Part Two With Dr. Kelly Odenweller
Part II of my interview with Dr. Kelly Odenweller, a professor of communication at Iowa State University. To read my Psychology Today blogpost about Dr. Odenweller’s research on Mommy Wars, click here:...
Why Do We Mom-Shame? With Dr. Kelly Odenweller
As long as we’ve been momming, we’ve been mom-shaming. The Internet just lets us do it on a grand scale. In this installment, I talk with Dr. Kelly Odenweller, a professor of communication at Iowa State University. Turns out, mom-shaming is predictable and...
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