On Attachment #206: How Understanding Your Nervous System Can Make You A Better Partner & Parent with Alyssa Blask Campbell
Sep 16, 2025
In this insightful discussion, parenting expert Alyssa Blask Campbell shares her journey as an author advocating for emotional intelligence in children. She emphasizes that understanding your own nervous system is crucial for healthier relationships and effective parenting. Alyssa debunks common misconceptions about emotional regulation, highlighting the need for personalized approaches. Listeners learn practical strategies to transform reactivity into grounded presence, fostering compassion and connection with loved ones.
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Nervous System Literacy Creates Agency
- Understanding your unique nervous system creates agency and clearer choices in relationships and parenting.
- Alyssa says knowing your system shifts you from passenger to driver of your reactions and needs.
Dinner Mix-Up Reveals Mental-Load Differences
- Alyssa describes a taco/burrito dinner mix-up with her husband to show differing executive-function strengths.
- She used compassion and setup-for-success instead of frustration, avoiding relational escalation.
Behavior Is Often Dysregulation, Not Choice
- Behavior often looks like choice but frequently occurs from dysregulation and lack of accessible self-control.
- Alyssa explains self-control requires regulation, tools, and self-awareness to access the whole brain.
