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Immediately on Dr. M’s Ladies and Youngsters First, we welcome one of the essential voices in fashionable youngster growth and behavioral science, Mona Delahooke.
Dr. Delahooke is a licensed scientific psychologist, internationally acknowledged speaker, and the creator of groundbreaking books together with Past Behaviors and Mind-Physique Parenting. Her work challenges one of many deepest assumptions in fashionable parenting and schooling: that troublesome behaviors are merely decisions to be corrected. As a substitute, she invitations us to ask a radically completely different query, what’s the nervous system attempting to speak?
This dialog sits proper on the crossroads of neuroscience, attachment idea, polyvagal idea, developmental psychology, and the lived expertise of parenting. In some ways, Mona’s work provides language to one thing clinicians and oldsters usually really feel intuitively however battle to articulate: conduct shouldn’t be merely compliance or defiance, conduct is biology expressed by way of the physique.
We discover how stress physiology, early attachment, sensory processing, trauma, neurodivergence, and autonomic nervous system states form the best way youngsters work together with the world round them. We focus on why punishment-based fashions usually fail susceptible youngsters, how “unhealthy conduct” may very well symbolize adaptive survival responses, and why security and connection are foundational to studying, resilience, and emotional regulation.
For me personally, this dialog resonates deeply with the broader themes we frequently focus on on this podcast, the interplay between surroundings, physiology, immune well being, metabolism, and neurodevelopment. Mona helps bridge the hole between mobile stress and relational stress, between physique and thoughts, between physiology and conduct.
For those who’ve ever cared for a kid with nervousness, ADHD, autism, sensory challenges, explosive conduct, faculty struggles, or continual dysregulation, this episode affords each compassion and a basically completely different framework. One which strikes away from blame and towards curiosity. Away from management and towards connection.
It is a dialog about seeing youngsters extra clearly. And maybe, seeing ourselves extra clearly too.
Please take pleasure in this dialog with Dr. Mona Delahooke.
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