How to Stop Losing Your Shat with Your kids
Carla Naumburg, PhD. 2019
Sketched by Sacha Chua (sach, ac, @sachac)
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Feelings
&
Automatic
in reaction
Reactive
in response
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Toxic
to danger
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What do you do when you
freak out? That's the only
thing under your control.
story: bad parent raising
bad kid
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You're doing an p30
incredibly hard job,
and you're doing it without
the right information.
Support, resources, and rest
Therapy (or conversations)
a place to lose it
• clarity & insight
•
•
perspective
skills & strategies
medication
know
Prefrontal cortex p42
plan, decide, think, Calm down
· gets tired
kids don't really have one
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Fight Flight Freeze
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Calm
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