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Why Does Life Feel So Hard?!
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Laura and Mishayla explore how childhood experiences create lasting templates in our nervous system that trigger automatic responses in similar situations throughout our lives.
• Our nervous system takes "snapshots" during emotionally charged moments that can be triggered later in similar circumstances
• When we feel helpless or threatened, our body goes into fight, flight, or freeze responses that can become habitual patterns
• Children often interpret negative experiences as meaning something about themselves ("I'm not good enough")
• Adults can help children process difficult experiences by acknowledging their feelings rather than dismissing them
• Grounding techniques help bring our prefrontal cortex back online when we're triggered
• Different grounding methods work for different people - find what works specifically for you
• Accepting anxiety rather than fighting it can reduce its power over us
• Changing our narrative about past experiences helps rewrite our nervous system templates
• We can learn to recognize when we're triggered and create plans to respond differently
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Laura's Free Course on Emotional Development and Regulation:
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This show is sponsored by:
Core Self
Benavieri Counseling & Coaching
www.benavieri.com
Active Healing Psychiatric Services
www.activehealingpsych.com
Chapters
1. Welcome to Why Am I Like This? (00:00:00)
2. How Past Experiences Affect Us (00:03:43)
3. Marks on the Nervous System (00:07:13)
4. Helping Children Process Hard Experiences (00:17:35)
5. Retraining Your Nervous System (00:21:43)
6. Managing Anxiety and Breaking Templates (00:28:06)
7. Accepting Emotions and Moving Forward (00:34:23)
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