Let's face it... family life gets pretty tangled up and knotted sometimes. Inside our grown-up adult bodies and the still-growing bodies of children is a great big nervous system that regulates our emotions, thoughts, and behaviors all day long. Having an understanding of how we all regulate ourselves gives us a broader perspective of what’s really going on when we’re dysregulated. This awareness gives us access to a set of tools for getting and staying steady. In this episode, Carrie explains how families are simply a bunch of nervous systems bumping up against each other, creating knots, and getting tangled up. However, when we become aware of what’s happening under the surface, and become skillful at keeping ourselves and our kids resourced, we start to navigate more peacefully and consciously through the turbulence and into calmer waters.
BIO
Carrie Contey, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized coach, author, speaker and educator. Her work offers a new perspective on human development, parenting and family life. She guides, supports and inspires her clients to live with wide-open and courageous hearts so they can approach family life with skill and spaciousness. Carrie received her doctorate in prenatal and perinatal psychology and is masterful at synthesizing and articulating the science, psychology and spirituality of humanhood. She is the co-founder of the Slow Family Living movement, the co-author of CALMS: A Guide To Soothing Your Baby and creator of a variety of impactful parenting courses intended to support and guide parents from toddlerhood all the way through teenhood. Carrie has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, NPR, CBS radio and in many publications including Time, Parenting and The Boston Globe. You can learn more about Carrie at www.carriecontey.com.
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