Parenting and educating children is one of the greatest experiences in life, but it comes with plenty of emotionally draining challenges. Join me as I discuss strategies and tips for how to hack your brain, build and strengthen relationships, and teach people how to recognize and neutralize their emotional states.
Not happy with a child’s behavior? Feeling stressed out? Just want to learn more about emotions and the brain? This podcast is for YOU.
What is self-regulation? Being able to monitor and manage your energy state, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Adults have the intellectual and emotional capacity to change their emotional states. This is much harder for kids since their brains are not as developed. The Prefrontal Cortex (IE Thinking Brain) is not fully developed until the late teens or 20’s.
Read MoreLauren has an in-depth conversation with Catherine Dennis, early childhood specialist, adjunct faculty, and Mom to seven kiddos. Catherine explains how she came to better understand the effects of trauma in children, and in what ways it changed her approach to working with children and adults.
Read MoreProblem-solving is so important. The primary goal is to first learn how to calm yourself down. The important next step is learning to prevent the problem that caused elevated emotions.
Read MoreLearning how to neutralize BIG FEELINGS is the key to returning to calm. This episode includes various coping mechanisms you can start using TODAY. Easy-peasy!
Read MoreThe first step in our emotional intelligence blueprint is learning how to categorize emotions. Teach kids (and adults) how to easily recognize their emotional state and put it into the proper “color” category.
Read MoreLauren talks about calm down spaces……what they are and what they are NOT. She also discusses how this can be used for any age group, including adults.
Read MoreLauren talks about the Emotional Intelligence Blueprint she created to help kids learn to naturally manage their emotions. The four-step framework is discussed and will be broken down in more episodes.
Read MoreWho doesn't love to laugh?
In this episode, Lauren talks about the benefits of humor and how to integrate it across all different age groups. Humor helps get us all back into our Thinking Brains, which means less reactivity and more calm responses!
Read MoreEver wonder if food impacts the way your brain functions? Why yes….yes, it does!
In this episode, Lauren talks about five brain foods to remember to grab at the grocery store.
Read MoreLauren talks about the autonomic nervous system……….the part of the brain responsible for our Fight or Flight response. Best of all, she talks about how to calm the nervous system naturally.
Read MoreThe Emotional Brain. Lauren explains what it is and how it works. She also breaks it down into a simple hand signal that even young children can understand. And once we understand how behavior works within the brain, we can change and shape behaviors.
Read MoreThe 5 Needs Areas drive challenging behaviors. Those behaviors occur when 1 or more of these needs are unmet. Want to see those challenging behaviors disappear? Listen now to find out more!
Read MoreJoin Lauren Spigelmyer in this episode describing why The Behavior Hub was created. Find out what it is, why it started, and how we ended up here.
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