Podcast Episode #47 – Raising Boys Q&A: Deescalation Techniques

Raising Boys

Welcome to our final conversation with Nathan McTague of The Center for Emotional Education. This portion of the conversation is about deescalation.

Rebecca and Nathan look at how intentionally connecting with our children throughout their childhood can help us when we get to the teen years, by giving them and us the tools needed to move through intense emotions as they come up, before they escalate into something hard to handle. They also discuss ways to compassionately work with our teens in those situations where emotions have gotten very intense and the situation has escalated or morphed into something it wasn’t about originally.

By honoring the emotional brain and allowing space for our children to experience their emotions in a safe environment, we can help empower them and teach them how to remain connected with themselves, with us, and with others.

Rebecca and Nathan discuss the roles of the sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous systems, and Nathan offers some practical, accessible tools to help us and our children trigger our para-sympathetic nervous systems and remain or become regulated.

Resources from this Episode

The Center for Emotional Education

Author

Rebecca Thompson Hitt

Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT is the founder of The Consciously Parenting Project (2007) and Thriving Humans (Thrivinghumans.org). For over thirty years, she has walked alongside individuals, couples, and families as they find their way back into relationship with their children, with each other, and with themselves. Her approach reaches beneath behavior to the earliest experiences and nervous system patterns that shape how we connect. With gentleness, deep listening, and no pathologizing, she helps people so see themselves and the ones they love with new eyes. She offers online consultations and groups, and works with people all over the world, supporting the transformation needed in the world starting with our closest relationships. With over 30 years of professional experience working with individuals, couples, and families, Rebecca is dedicated to transforming our relationships stories, one relationship and one family at a time. Rebecca is the author of four books and the mother o...

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