About this episode

This episode discusses the complexities of behavior intervention in parenting, emphasizing the lack of a simple flowchart due to varying stress capacities and nervous system interactions.

You want the flowchart. Of course you do! If X, then Y would be something to follow when there's no bandwidth left to think it through in the moment. But there isn't a flowchart, and this episode gets into why: stress capacity shifts by the hour, different nervous system states pull different memory networks online, and two nervous systems are shaping each other in real time, not just one. What there is instead is a map. Knowing both how to read it and how to adjust when something unexpected ...

People in this episode

Host: Robyn Gobbel

Topics covered

• behavior intervention
• stress capacity
• nervous system
• parenting
• trauma

Keywords

• behavior intervention
• flowchart
• stress capacity
• nervous system
• parenting after trauma

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