“Don’t cry.” “Stop being so sensitive.” “You’re overreacting.” “Toughen up.” “There’s nothing to be upset about.” Every one of those phrases was said with love. By people who wanted to protect us from pain, from embarrassment, from the discomfort of being too much in a world that didn’t always make room for feeling. And every …
You lost it. You raised your voice, said something sharp, walked out of the room when they needed you to stay, or just completely shut down. Now the moment has passed and you’re sitting with the weight of it — the guilt, the spiral, the quiet awful question of whether you’re getting this wrong. Why …
If you’ve ever wondered why your child can calm down at school but completely falls apart at home — or why they seem to regulate better around certain people — co-regulation is the answer. It’s one of the most important concepts in nervous system parenting. And once you understand it, a lot of things that …
By Adrianne Reeves · Easy Mama Alchemy It was a school morning. We were already late. And my kid was on the floor, completely undone, because of a jacket. Not a metaphor. An actual jacket. The wrong one, or the right one done up wrong, or maybe just the fact that a jacket existed and …