Managing Emotions as Passengers in Our Car

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Our feelings or any thought is a part of us and not all of us. Our feelings don't give us problems as long as they're passengers in our car. Our feelings give us problems when they take over the driver's seat. Instead of trying to throw out difficult feelings, we should acknowledge and accept them as passengers in our car to prevent them from taking over the driver's seat. By suppressing or avoiding difficult emotions, we're only setting ourselves up for those emotions to take over later in life. Just like vaccination, by allowing our kids to experience and handle difficult emotions, we're helping them develop the ability to deal with those emotions in the future.

On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks with clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy on how we emotionally vaccinate, the ability to cope through stress, educating our kids on emotions and her new book Good Inside

Dr. Becky Kennedy is an American clinical psychologist who is founder and chief executive officer of the Good Inside company, an online parenting advice service. She has been called the "millennial parent whisperer" by Time Magazine and is a number one New York Times bestseller for her book Good Inside. As a mom of three, when she was first starting out, she practiced a popular behavior-first, reward-and-punishment model of parent coaching. But, after a while, something struck her: those methods feel awful–for kids and parents. She put together everything she knew about attachment, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and internal family systems theory, and translated those ideas into a new method for working with parents.

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Podcast: Good Inside with Dr. Becky

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