Creating Safety, Pt II: The Power of Rupture-Repair

Life will pull us in all sorts of directions… …A bad night sleep….         … Traffic on the way to work….                 …A sick kiddo….                         …The next breaking news story. Even our adultContinue reading “Creating Safety, Pt II: The Power of Rupture-Repair”

When in doubt, empathy

We’ve all been there: A simple request of our child, like hanging their jacket on the hook by the front door, results in a behavior disproportionately larger than needed. Your child stomps their feet proclaims fiercely “I’m not going to! You can’t make me!” More than likely, this response triggers us and our once calmContinue reading “When in doubt, empathy”