Manage the Overwhelm of Parenting with Neuroplasticity
Caregiving requires a lot of emotional and physical energy. Often, we find ourselves parenting from an empty cup, which makes it challenging to parent in the way we had envisioned for ourselves and our children. We often feel overwhelmed and our emotions are out of control.
When our cups are full, we feel comfortable, safe, and capable of dealing with daily stressors without becoming overwhelmed, depleted, or anxious. We feel grounded, flexible, creative, open, curious, present, and well-regulated. We can maintain boundaries without shutting down and be warm and connected to our children and the important people in our lives.
However, when our cup is empty, we are more likely to react to stressors with fight, flight, or freeze responses. We may become reactive and impulsive, yell or lash out, withdraw and avoid, and take others' behaviours personally. Our actions are not aligned with who we want to be.
You will learn To:
> Discover a range of practical tools and techniques to refill your parent cup.
> Reduce reactivity and impatience so you can remain connected even during times of stress.
> How to nurture connection when your baby is calm and alert.
> Rewire your brains for resilience. Not only are you filling your cup, but you are learning to expand the size of your cup and the amount you can hold.
> Nurture your stress system and learn how to return and repair when you become reactive.
> Live in your values as a parent and align your actions with how you want to show up in relation to your children.
As parents, we’re helping build our babies’ resilience through experience, but we also have our own capacity for regulation and dysregulation that is shaped by our childhood. This workshop allows you to explore your nervous system and work with our brain's neuroplasticity to create the change we need to have more ease and control in our daily lives.
Friday, December 1, 2023
12 pm - 2:00 pm EST, includes a 30-minute Q&A
A recording will be sent to all participants.
Dr. Greer Kirshenbaum PHD
Welcome to The Nurture Revolution! Transforming lives by improving mental health for babies and parents is my life's work. Throughout my neuroscience career at The University of Toronto and Columbia University, with training at NYU and Yale - I have studied how genetics and experience shape the brain, nervous system and body to influence lifelong mental and physical health. As a neuroscientist, doula, mother and educator I am passionate about bringing this knowledge to families to create a nurtured future for our babies and the planet.