How do you encourage children to thrive when their lives are filled with stress and trauma?

Michelle Kinder of the Momentous Institute is here to tell us today on Live Happy Now.

What we've found is that when you teach children the basic biology of their emotions,

they feel a greater sense of control in managing them,

and they're even recruited into their own development.

Hello, this is Jeff Sanders, and welcome back to another episode of the Live Happy Now podcast.

Today we're going to talk about how some innovative and important work is being done by the

Momentus Institute in Dallas to help change the lives of children. For nearly 100 years,

the Momentous Institute has helped children overcome trauma and toxic stress to learn how to live

happy, healthy lives. Working with children and their families to help them achieve their greatest potential,

the Momentous Institute has seen dramatic, measurable results in both personal and academic outcomes.

Live Happy Science Editor Paula Phelps talked with Michelle Kinder,

Executive Director of the Institute, to see how their practices are

changing lives and what we can all learn from them.

Michelle, I'm really happy to have you on Live Happy Now because you are doing some really

fascinating work that's going to impact the future of children for a very long time.

And so before I get into some of my questions, I wondered if you'd give me

a little bit of background on the Momentus Institute and what it is that you do.

Absolutely. Thank you, Paula. I'm so happy to, I'm the happiest one to be here because we're

huge fans of live happy and what you all are doing and definitely swimming in the same ocean and trying

to move the same needles in terms of the well-being of children and families and people.

So Momentus Institute is a 98-year-old organization, and we've always been focused on children's

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