The Baffling Behavior Show {Parenting after Trauma}
Formerly the Parenting after Trauma podcast, internationally recognized children's mental health expert Robyn Gobbel decodes the most baffling behaviors for parents of kids with vulnerable nervous systems. If you're parenting a child who has experienced trauma or toxic stress or a child with a neuroimmune disorder, sensory processing, or other nervous system vulnerability, this show will let you know you are not alone. You can stop playing behavior whack-a-mole because Robyn offers you tools that actually work.
You can become your child's expert, feel more confident as a parent, and bring more connection and clarity into your family.
Educators, therapists, coaches and consultants- you too can learn all about what behavior really is and become more effective at helping the families you support. You can love your work again!
The Baffling Behavior Show {Parenting after Trauma}
Ep 210: Sabotage and Being Set Up
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It’s very common to feel like our kids are either intentionally sabotaging good things or that they are purposefully setting us up to be mad or disappointed or to have to say no.
You aren’t imagining this phenomenon!
All humans do it, but our kids with vulnerable nervous system and big, baffling behaviors may seem like they do it more often.
In this episode, you’ll learn
- The neuroscience behind WHY our kids sabotage situations or set us up to be dysregulated
- What they are really doing (and it’s actually full of hope)
- How we might respond differently that could actually change their brain
Resources mentioned in this podcast:
- Rupture Repair podcast episode
- Match the Energy not the Dysregulation podcast episode
- Regulated, not Calm podcast episode
- Brilliant of Attachment podcast series & eBook,which goes deeper into the concept of hope vs. expectation
Read the full transcript at:RobynGobbel.com/setup
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