I was walking through Oaxaca City, Mexico’s Zocolo last Friday evening. There were so many families playing in the courtyard next to the church with the street vendors selling their elotes or corn on a stick, the smells of food wafting through the air. On the other side of the park, street musicians also added to the playful atmosphere.
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After all this talk so far this week about dysregulation and feeling unsettled, which happens when a relationship isn’t going well, we’re going to shift a bit into thankfulness. Finding something to be thankful for makes a huge difference in your body and your ability to regulate yourself! This is not about denying something is going poorly or that
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Yesterday, we talked about Time-In and I mentioned a little bit about the science behind time-ins. I wanted to tell some stories about what the word regulation means to help you understand this idea more deeply. Wisdom Wednesday is all about the science behind what I’m talking about on the All Relationships Can Heal podcast. I love the research
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Time-in has become a bit more common a term over the past 5-10 years and the reason is that our new understanding of growing brains supports it. The old way of thinking about time-out was that when a child misbehaves, they need to go away by themselves and think about what they’ve done. Sounds good in theory and it’s
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Welcome to the All Relationships Can Heal podcast. My name is Rebecca Thompson Hitt and I am your guide on our healing journey together. I will be sharing stories of hope, healing, and support during our time together. Today is Mindful Monday and I’ll be sharing a story about Personal Space. Paying attention to our own experience- our thoughts,
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Welcome to the All Relationships Can Heal podcast. My name is Rebecca Thompson Hitt and I am your guide on our healing journey. I will be sharing stories of hope, healing, and support during our time together. Today, I’ll be sharing with you why we’re here with a little bit of my own story. The idea for The Consciously
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All Relationships Can Heal. It’s a bold statement, but one that I stand behind. I would argue that most people have a relationship that needs some healing balm. Whether the relationship is with a child, a partner (coupled now or not), your parents, a friend, or your relationship with yourself. I’ve dedicated my life’s work to helping families to
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When your child is doing something that makes no sense to you, you make up a story to help make sense of it. Sometimes this story is helpful. Sometimes it’s not. We all do this. And it happened to us when we were growing up, too – our parent(s) made up stories about our behaviors. Maybe you’ve had the experience
Read MoreHow is this different from your other courses in the Learning Center? This course is a guided course. Rebecca is creating the content for this group as we go along, customizing it for your questions and stories. There is live support in both the Facebook group and the Healing Story Circle calls, with other members of the class, specifically about this material.
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Whenever I ask a group of parents what they want for their children, the topic of respect inevitably comes up. Parents want their children to be respected, but parents also want to feel respected by their children. Many parents grew up not feeling respected themselves and most parents, it turns out, grew up having at least one experience (most had
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