BEST MOMENTS of Ep. 148 with Dr. Amber
Express Yourself Black Man
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In XYBM 148, I sit down with Dr. Amber Thornton, a licensed Clinical Psychologist and author, to discuss gentle and conscious parenting and what it looks like in Black families. Dr. Thornton shares how self-regulation, emotional intelligence, and intentional parenting help children build emotional resiliency without fear, control, or corporal punishment. We explore conscious parenting, the long-term impact of fear-based discipline, setting expectations and routines early, and how healing misunderstandings strengthens parent-child relationships, closing with a direct message to Black fathers.
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| 0:00.0 | In the book, I have a framework called the PCR framework. |
| 0:02.7 | Okay. |
| 0:03.7 | And I'll break it down a little bit. |
| 0:05.5 | But basically, I think from what I've talked to parents about this, about emotional |
| 0:10.6 | dysregulation and what that then means for their parenting. |
| 0:13.9 | And there's three different approaches that I think that people should take and really work |
| 0:19.3 | through. |
| 0:19.6 | Okay. |
| 0:20.0 | The first approach is to be very practical about what is going on in my life that is making |
| 0:27.2 | me feel emotionally dysregulated. |
| 0:30.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.4 | And so, and I'll actually, I'm going to keep with your mom's example because I think |
| 0:35.1 | that's a good one to kind of stick with. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.2 | And it could be a dad. It could be like either parent, right? Practically thinking about, |
| 0:42.8 | well, what are my triggers? What are the things that I notice like when I see it or when I experience |
| 0:48.3 | it? There's this intensity of emotion for me that I'm having a hard time managing. So identifying those |
| 0:53.8 | triggers, really understanding what they are so that you can then decide, okay, well, what do I do about them? For some of your triggers, you might realize, oh, now that I know what it is, I can easily get rid of that. Like, we can just eliminate that for my life. There might be other triggers where you're like, oh, I can't get rid of it, but I'm going to |
| 1:11.4 | build my awareness around it so that I can do something different to manage it. So it might be |
| 1:16.7 | on my way home before I get to the kids, I'm going to like just sit in the car for five minutes |
| 1:22.8 | to just decompress. Or it might be on my way home, I know that I need to listen to my favorite album to kind |
| 1:30.3 | of get into a different zone. |
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