Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast Regulating Our Emotions as Parents with Alissa Jerud, PhD
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Aug 18, 2025 In this engaging discussion, Dr. Alissa Jerud, a licensed clinical psychologist and author of Emotion Savvy Parenting, shares valuable insights on navigating parenting's emotional challenges. She introduces the ART framework to help parents accept, regulate, and tolerate their feelings. Dr. Jerud emphasizes the importance of mindfulness, compassionate responses to children's behaviors, and practical strategies for managing bedtime struggles and youth sports pressures. Her evidence-based tools aim to foster resilience and deepen connections between parents and children.
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Practice Mindfulness In Low-Stakes Moments
- Alissa described using mindfulness practice in low-stakes moments to build the skill before applying it under stress.
- She likened early practice to riding a bike on flat ground before attempting downhill.
Exposure Builds Tolerance, Not Just Calm
- The core mechanism of exposure therapy is building distress tolerance, not just anxiety reduction.
- Success is being able to act effectively despite anxiety, not necessarily making anxiety disappear.
Let Reality Disconfirm Fears
- Avoid restructuring anxious predictions before an exposure; let reality create a mismatch with feared outcomes.
- Process beliefs after exposures to strengthen corrective learning from real outcomes.
