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Minimalist Moms Podcast | Simple Living for Overwhelmed Moms

From Meltdowns to Mindful: Simple, Playful Ways to Help Your Kids (and You) Stay Calm | Lisa Danahy (Bonus Episode)

Minimalist Moms Podcast | Simple Living for Overwhelmed Moms

Diane Boden

Self-improvement, Home & Garden, Leisure, How To, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

What if you could help your kids—and yourself—move through the day with more calm, focus, and balance? In today’s episode, I’m joined by Lisa, an educator with a background in psychology, who brings a wealth of experience in early childhood education and social-emotional learning. Lisa shares her own journey from a career in human resources to working closely with children and families, and why she’s so passionate about integrating mindful movement into daily life. We’ll explore simple, playful techniques—like balloon breath and the thunder and lightning exercise—that can help both kids and adults manage stress, regulate emotions, and stay grounded. You’ll also hear about the power of co-regulation—how modeling calm, centered behavior can guide children in learning self-regulation—and why a joyful, flexible approach makes all the difference, whether you’re in a classroom or at home.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

especially for children, every part of our environment is a classroom to them. And learning isn't

0:05.7

compartmentalized. Self-regulation we know is the ability to regulate how we feel, how we interact,

0:13.6

how we behave. And for most people, it's keeping our control of ourselves, right? The nervous system is that super high way of connection. It connects our

0:24.2

outside and our inside, and it moves messages. We are wired to belong, right? So our mirror neurons are

0:31.4

always telling us, this is what you got to do to match and belong. When we are dysregulated all the time, we're hypervigilant,

0:41.3

we no longer can accurately read the cues in our community and in our tribe. And so even when

0:51.0

things are going really well, if I'm always disregulated and if I don't have the tools to feel safe,

0:57.5

the last thing I want somebody to do when I'm feeling edgy or on the outside or inside of an overwhelm is have somebody say,

1:07.1

calm down.

1:08.1

Hello and welcome to the minimalist moms podcast.

1:13.0

What if you could help your kids and yourself move through the day with more calm, focus, and balance? In today's episode, I'm joined by

1:18.8

Lisa Dan Hay, an educator with a background in psychology who brings a wealth of experience

1:24.0

in early childhood education and social emotional learning. Lisa shares her own journey

1:28.9

from a career in human resources to working closely with children and families and why she's so

1:33.7

passionate about integrating mindful movement into daily life. We explore simple playful techniques

1:38.9

like balloon breath and the thunder and lightning exercise that can help both kids and adults manage

1:44.1

stress,

1:44.9

regulate emotions, and stay grounded. You'll also hear about the power of co-regulation,

1:49.9

how modeling calm-centered behavior can guide children in learning self-regulation,

1:54.7

and why a joyful, flexible approach makes all the difference, whether you're in a classroom

1:58.9

or at home.

2:05.4

But before we get there, I quickly want to ask you if you have yet to leave a rating and review for the Minimalist Mom's podcast, pause the episode. It only takes a moment or so,

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