Hey, friends. Welcome to the Raising Boys and Girls Podcast. I'm Sissy Gough.

And I'm David Thomas. And I'm Melissa Trevathan. And we're so glad you've joined us for this conversation. Let's dive in.

I haven't told you what happened to me the other night. What happened?

It was after reading the audio book for four hours. And I think four podcast interviews. And I was just exhausted. And so I was laying on my couch and I was watching the bear.

And David, it was that episode where he goes on the date and the people are fighting in the restaurant when they come in. Do you remember that?

Yes.

I've never done this before. I had, I literally did square breathing during a TV episode. It was making me so worked up because I was so tired. I thought, I don't really have panic attacks.

I'm like, I'm watching how stressed and fast they're moving. Silly.

No, I'm just so sad thinking you needed so badly to relax after that day. And you got to employ everything you've just been talking about.

Totally. It really got. I really was like, breathe in. I felt very tense watching that show. I'm with you. It's a great show. It's an amazing show.

But get ready. You're going to need to know the breathing techniques. We talk about a lot. And we do talk about these breathing techniques all the time.

Yes. You're going to need to know all the things we're going to be talking about today. All the help we're about to offer you might be useful for that show for a lot of moments.

How seriously? How often would you say you talk about regulating your body in your office with kids in here?

Sometimes on the hour, like at least multiple times a day. Yes.

Because boy struggles so much with regulation. It's just an ongoing conversation in my office.

Well, and I've started joking around that I feel like at least the amygdala part, which we're going to talk about a couple of things.

But you we know the amygdala is the fight or flight part of our brain. I think there's something like, sorry guys that are listening.

That it's a little bit like if you lived in a sorority house or you lived in a dorm. I remember living in the cap of house at the University of Arkansas.

And every time one person on the hall was on their period, everyone was on their period.

And I feel like that scene gets described to me all the time from parents who will say, my child spun out, got really anxious.

It's just they were screaming at me and I didn't know what else to do but to scream right back.

Or it wasn't even intentional, but I found myself jumping in the midst of it with them.

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