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November 15, 2022

Dr. Becky Kennedy: Wire Your Children for Resilience

Dr. Becky Kennedy (clinical psychologist, founder of Good Inside parenting workshops, author) helps us use attachment, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and internal family systems theory to break down better ways to parent! She not only provides great, practical parenting tips, but also helps us understand our own upbringings, how they impact our lives into adulthood, and provides insight into why our parents did the things they did. Dr. Becky discusses why she found the best way to work with children was actually working with their parents through body-based approaches to psychotherapy, her own paradigm shift in parenting styles, and the differences between attachment parenting and helicopter parenting. She explains the importance of wiring kids for resilience with self-soothing techniques in order to ditch old patterns of behavior, building skills to manage emotions through validation, and how to provide kids with tools to process difficult emotions. Mayim and Dr. Becky define reflective listening, boundaries vs consequences, and how feeling alone can lead to shame and fears of abandonment. They discuss the benefits of learning to embody your authority as a parent, ways to provide structure to a child with anxiety, and the benefits of internal family systems (IFS) therapy. Mayim and Jonathan break down the benefits of cooking with your children.

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Dr. Becky Kennedy

PhD, CEO, Author

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Mayim Bialik

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Dr. Becky Kennedy's Good Inside | Become the parent you want to be.
Good Inside is the expert-guided, community-powered platform equipping parents with a new way of seeing and solving challenges at home.
Dr. Becky Kennedy's Book: Good Inside
The parenting manual you’ve always wanted. Parenting strategies robust enough to tackle your biggest challenges, but simple enough to remember.
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(Podcast) Good Inside with Dr. Becky
Join millions who listen to Good Inside weekly. Tune into our weekly parenting podcast to hear real parents’ questions answered directly by Dr. Becky
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Good Inside's Online Parenting Classes
From Deeply Feeling Kids to Potty Learning, all of Dr. Becky's parenting workshops are here—and they’re all yours. You won’t be able to watch just one.
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