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Hello and welcome to Raising Good Humans.

I'm Dr. Eliza Pressman and today's episode is with Dr.

Lisa Pressman, and today's episode is with Dr. Janina Fisher,

who's a psychotherapist with a tremendous background

and experience as a nationally recognized trauma. and

Nenena is known for expertise as a nationally recognized trauma clinician.

And Janina is known for expertise as a therapist and a speaker and a consultant and a

teacher,

She's been the president of the New England Society

for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation.

She's an EMDR specialist.

We're going to actually talk about that on a different episode.

In this episode, Dr. Fisher is talking about

what being in this collective state of trauma does to our brains and our nervous systems

and what are the actionable steps that we can take to better regulate ourselves and help our kids

regulate. And we also had a really interesting cool conversation about how to make

something of the fact that kids are going to be wearing masks for much

longer than we thought, maybe in schools and masks and operating in the world in a different kind of way and how can we take that,

get past the part of it that just is terrible

and think about what we can do to make masks easier on kids for communication, how we can practice

getting better at reading body language when we're so used to reading facial expressions and you know stuff that makes

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