You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, Relationship Coach Stephanie Rigg, and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

Today I'm joined by Alyssa Blask Campbell, who's a parenting expert and author of Tiny

Human's Big Emotions and her new book, Big Kids Bigger Feelings.

Elisa's work centers on helping parents and caregivers understand the role of the nervous

system in raising emotionally intelligent children.

In our conversation today, we explore how a deeper understanding of your unique nervous

system can not only make you a more attuned parent, but also a more grounded partner. Rather than

taking a one-size-fits-all approach, Alyssa shares how tuning into the specific traits and needs

of your nervous system can totally transform the way that you show up in all of your relationships.

I so enjoyed my chat with Alyssa, and I'm sure that you will too, so let's dive straight in.

Hi, Alyssa, thank you so much for being here.

Hello, I'm so jazz to be here and get to hang with you, Stephanie.

I'm quite.

So maybe for anyone who doesn't know you and your work,

you could give a bit of an introduction to what you do in the world and how you got here.

Totally. So my master's is an early childhood education, but I did research in building emotional intelligence.

And we look so deeply at the nervous system. And what I kept finding in space after space were

regulation strategies for like how to calm your body and how to regulate and how to practice

self-care. And they were one size fits all prescriptive or feels like, oh my gosh, I need so much

time and energy and capacity or money to access

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