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The helpers ~ therapists, coaches, teachers, advocates ~ are burning out at alarming rates. We talk endlessly about self-care, caseload mana...
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Robyn Gobbel is a writer, trainer, speaker, and educator dedicated to understanding why humans behave the way they behave. She teaches parents of children who have experienced trauma how the...

The helpers ~ therapists, coaches, teachers, advocates ~ are burning out at alarming rates. We talk endlessly about self-care, caseload mana...

You've learned about the nervous system, you're trying to co-regulate, you're thinking about felt safety and connection — and...

This episode originally aired in September 2024. Almost every time I teach, especially if there are folks in the audience not already famili...

Listen in on a conversation I have with a Club member whose family lived through years of intense, violent, and deeply isolating behavior…an...

Parenting a child with big, baffling behaviors can feel terrifying sometimes. Especially when those behaviors aren’t just frustrating… they’...

What if the biggest barrier to learning in the classroom isn’t behavior… but safety? Teachers are overwhelmed. Kids are dysregulated. And so...

When your kid melts down after school, it seems like they just have a bad attitude or don’t want to do homework. But sometimes those explosi...

Have you ever had one of those moments where your child completely loses it over the wrong cup, a sibling getting too close, or one tiny thi...

The Grief No One Talks About in Trauma-Informed Parenting Sometimes the hardest part of parenting isn’t your child’s behavior, it’s the grie...

This episode is an update and re-record of episode 56 Consequences. Punishments. Limits. Boundaries. These words don't mean the same th...

If you’re parenting a child with a vulnerable nervous system when you have your own history of trauma, you know that sometimes your reaction...

This is a re-record of a foundation episode, episode 94 The Stress Response System plays a huge role in our children's behaviors and al...

Content note: This episode discusses trauma, nervous system activation, and protective responses such as shutdown, dissociation, anger, and...

This is a re-record of a foundation episode, episode 7 The brain has two modes- connection or protection. Protective behaviors include oppos...

Content note: This episode discusses trauma, parenting stress, nervous system activation, and self-compassion. There are no graphic details,...

On February 3, I taught a live webinar online- Focus on the Nervous System to Change Behavior . This is the audio-only version of that webin...

Content note: This episode discusses trauma, parenting stress, and nervous system activation. There are no graphic details, but please take...

This episode originally aired in 2020. It's a very popular episode that deserved being updated because so many folks are still listenin...

Content note: This episode discusses trauma, parenting stress, and nervous system overwhelm. There are no graphic details, but please take c...

Content warning: This episode includes discussion of severe trauma, abuse (including sexual abuse), dissociation, and suicidal ideation. Ple...

Should we be talking about felt safety when so much is genuinely unsafe? I’ve been thinking a lot about this hard and honest question that s...

In part 3 of this series on Boundaries with Connection, Juliane Taylor Shore talks us through how boundaries work in relationships with our...

In part 2 of this series on Boundaries with Connection, we explore how to set boundaries that create success by providing structure and cont...

Focusing on understanding what's driving behavior can sometimes make it feel like we aren't addressing the behavior at all. It can...

In this episode, I unravel how to extend connection to our children while acknowledging that some might see this connection as a threat. I o...

If offering safety and connection is the antidote to oppositional behavior, what do you do if connection isn’t experienced as safe or regula...

Last week we talked about the science of oppositional behavior. This week, let’s look at strategies to help children rest into felt safety s...

What if oppositional behavior is a normal response to feeling unsafe? In this episode, we unfold the layers of oppositional behavior and its...

Cues of safety, danger, or life threat come from three places- inside, outside, and between. In part 3 of this series on felt safety, we are...

In this second episode of a three-part series on felt safety, we are going to explore all the ways our kids (and ourselves) are neuroceiving...

Let’s go back to basics! Last week we talked about seeing behavior through the lens of the nervous system and then took a deep-dive into co-...

To celebrate our 5th birthday, I gathered 5 tips from our top 5 episodes. I’m revisiting important take-aways from episodes about boundaries...

Ever notice how some kids just cannot talk about hard things- especially if it’s about their own mistakes or ‘bad’ behavior? Maybe they melt...

Does your child get stuck in “buy me, buy me, buy me!” mode? Or maybe they melt down when they can’t have what they want right now? I know i...

Is your child suddenly quiet … but you can feel something bubbling under the surface? They aren’t yelling, running, or arguing like usual- b...

This episode originally aired in October 2024. All behavior makes sense and no behavior is maladaptive- in the moment that behavior emerges....

If you're parenting a child with a vulnerable nervous system, grief is an ever-present companion, whether we acknowledge grief or not....

Sometimes our kids look completely calm- even smug — while doing something that definitely isn’t a behavior of connection. But…they’re not m...

You ask your child what happened, and before you can finish the sentence, they’re already saying, “It wasn’t my fault!” Sound familiar? I kn...

Sometimes you share something about the brain—like how all behavior makes sense—and people push back hard. Maybe they dismiss it. Maybe they...

Sometimes, your kids can handle frustration or disappointment with ease, and other times the exact same challenge sends them into meltdown m...

Have you ever smiled while you were seething inside? Or told your child “it’s fine” when it absolutely wasn’t? That mismatch (incongruent af...

Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors turned TWO! 🥳 So, we’re having a party right here on the podcast. Parties have gifts, so I’m offer...

Understanding behavior helps us actually solve the problem, leads to compassion, and actually helps behavior to change, but first we must un...

Parents aren’t the only ones providing co-regulation — we need it too. In fact, connection is a biological imperative for every nervous syst...

Your child’s behavior isn’t telling you the whole story. Their behavior is telling you just the story their nervous system is writing in tha...

Parenting kids with vulnerable nervous systems often means that parents and caregivers are living in a state of chronic chaos and danger. Ev...

What if dysregulation isn’t the problem? I know I know- that’s really hard to wrap our brain around! At least, it was for me. In this episod...

Polyvagal theory isn’t just a theory- it’s a way of living that can transform how we show up for our kids, ourselves, and everyone around us...

When kids swear, it often feels jarring, disrespectful, or even threatening. But swearing isn’t about defiance or being a bad kid- it’s a cl...