Trauma and Triggers: Navigating Our Own Stuff While Supporting Our Kids

In this episode, we're diving deep into the often uncharted waters of parenting and trauma. Just about every parent has some kind of trauma from their past. Even if you don’t think of yourself as a trauma survivor, it’s possible your body has some natural reactions to stress that you find overwhelming. Tools for trauma responses in the body can be so helpful. Also, we live in a traumatized world and have to interface with truly painful realities every day. How does this affect our parenting? We’ll open up about our own personal histories with trauma and how it influences our parenting.

We share our own experiences with trauma; how our histories challenge us when attempting to be present with the beauty and magic of our kids. We highlight that it's okay for parents to have their own struggles and traumas, and it doesn't make them bad parents. We talk about people on the healing journey who also get triggered regularly into memories, bodily reactions, emotional overwhelm, and so much more. We also have harnessed tools that we use every single day in order to manage our triggers. Triggers often stem from our unresolved trauma, and we discuss how they affect our ability to be open, be connected, and have fun with our children. We use our own stories to show how we deal with triggers, and we introduce a powerful tool that all parents can use when they notice they're feeling triggered by their children.

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