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Podcast: Raised Resilient: Help Your Highly Sensitive Child
Episode: Constantly Yelling at Your Child? Why Trying to "Stay Calm” Is Setting You Up to Fail (& What to Focus on Instead!)
Description: As parents – especially in the gentle, respectful, conscious parenting space – we’re constantly told that we have to “stay calm” in order to be effective with our kids. But sometimes staying calm feels unreachable, and it’s easy to feel like you’re failing in those moments.
In this week's episode, I unpack why it’s so hard to stay calm in the face of your child’s dysregulation and why focusing on this alone sets us up to fail. I then share what to focus on instead and how to set yourself up for success with realis...