Identifying Triggers and Self Regulation
One of the biggest challenges to Conscious Parenting is managing our own triggers and emotions. In this session, I’ll talk about how to identify and process your own triggers, as well as some things you can do to slowly shift from reactive to responsive.
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Resources
In this session, I refer to a phrase from the Conscious and Connected Discipline course, “Unmute your soundtrack”. This stems from the idea that we always have a song playing in the background of our lives, that sort of sets the tone or mood for how we experience our present moments. Just as the soundtrack of a movie sets the tone for what we’re watching. Most of these songs were put on our soundtrack long before we had kids, but impact how we parent moment to moment. Most of us have our soundtrack on mute and have no idea what is “playing” in our minds that is impacting our reactions to our kids. The worksheet below is a series of questions that will aide in this process. You can go to the “Conscious and Connected Discipline” Course, Part 2, to explore this topic further.
Taken directly from the live session, here are some perspective shifts that you can hold on to, that help your mind from “perceiving” your kids behavior as a “threat”, which shifts you automatically into one of the “stress” responses (fight, flight, freeze or fawn).
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Mindfulness Resources
Mindful Mentor Mama, the author of “Raising Good Humans”, Hunter Clarke-Fields, has some free resources including a few short guided meditations on her website. Click the link below to access them.