Click above to listen to an interview with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson and the phenomenal Debbie Reber, parenting activist, NYT bestseller, and founder of the TILT Parenting podcast series.

THINGS YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE:

• What it means to show up as a parent

• What the four components of secure attachment are: safe, seen, soothed, and secure

• What to do about parental guilt and how to repair past trauma and mistakes

• The brain science behind secure attachment theory and why it is so vital for healthy human development

• What are the most important things we can do right now to foster secure attachments with our children, according to Tina

Description from the TILT Parenting website

 In this episode of the TiLT Parenting Podcast, my guest is psychotherapist and author Tina Payne Bryson. Tina is the co-author (with Dan Siegel) of the groundbreaking brain science and parenting books The Whole-Brain Child, and No-Drama Discipline. She’s also the Founder/Executive Director of The Center for Connection, a multidisciplinary clinical practice, and of The Play Strong Institute, a center devoted to the study, research, and practice of play therapy through a neurodevelopmental lens. Her new book is called The Power of Showing Up and is perhaps my most favorite of all the books that she and Dan have written together. It focuses on what I believe so deeply is important with our differently wired kids—that we show up for them. 

Tina and I do a deep dive into what it looks like to show up for our kids, the theory of secure attachment and how it affects our children on a neurological level. What I love about this conversation is that not only is Tina is all about brain science and helping parents understand the power of secure attachment, but that she also offers such a positive and hopeful message to parents, encouraging us to be more forgiving and generous with ourselves in order to show up for our children in the best possible, but not necessarily perfect, way. This episode sheds some insight into how to do just that.