How the Body and Nervous System Protect our Kids

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever said your child, “Don’t yell at your brother!” What’s happening in a child’s body filled with anger is louder than what’s going on in their brain. As Christi says in this episode, “Our body sends 10 messages to our brain for every 1 our brain sends to our body.” This is why lecturing an overwhelmed child often feels useless.

In other words, our body speaks louder than our brain. So why have we stopped listening to the body? What’s actually going in our child’s body in their anger? What’s happening on our body in our anger? And why, for our children, is loving touch the most powerful way for the body to know “felt safety?”

As we close out season 6 on Relational Intelligence in Kids, Christi answers these questions and shares why the body protects our children anytime there is a threat to their connection, belonging, safety, and dignity. She also explains how we as parents can help our kids restore felt safety and why these principles will be an integral part of KidsRQ.

Time Stamps:
0:00 KidsRQ and body-based tools
3:00 Why the body matters for healing
5:20 The tripartite God and what it means for us created in His image
9:12 How the nervous system and emotions protect children
17:47 Relating to our kids on earth as in heaven
21:52 Moving emotion through your body
25:27 Ways to learn this through Famous at Home

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0:00.0	Kids have the ability to be able to let all the emotion out.
0:04.9	They're kicking their bodies.
0:06.2	They're screaming.
0:07.0	They're doing all the things.
0:09.0	And it's easy for us to look at it as rebellion, but they're actually working it out of their bodies.
0:14.2	And our ability as parents to understand that probably what's underneath that kicking and screaming and going underneath there is what Christy's alluding to. There is a threat to their safety, their connection, their belonging, or their dignity. And they can't verbalize that. They don't have the ability to verbalize that. Well, I don't even think as adults we can verbalize that. I mean, think about when you step off a curb, right? And there's a car there. It's like that jolt that you feel, like that's how fast we can move. And you don't even
0:42.3	know what's moved you. But it could be a comment. It could be the way it was said. It could be someone's
0:47.6	body language. And one of those four things feels threatened and we move. I won't lose hope in the night when the fire is growing down. I'll just let go and I'll try. Help me walk this road and find my way back home. Find my way back home.
1:12.6	Find my way back home.
1:23.6	Welcome back to the Famous and Home podcast.
1:26.6	We're so delighted to be with you again today. We are in season
1:30.2	six, episode seven, the last episode on relational intelligence and kids. I brought back with me today,
1:37.3	my beautiful wife, Christy. She's back. Has it been that long? It's been a while. It's been a minute.
1:42.9	It's been a minute. She is back as we've been talking about KidsRQ.
1:47.6	By the way, KidsRQ.com, we would love for you to check it out.
1:50.7	You can check out the show notes today.
1:53.0	We would love for you to become a founding member here this fall as we launch it.
1:57.7	Our goal is to get this curriculum, this coaching, this community in as many
2:02.0	churches, schools, therapy offices, and particular homes, your home, as much as we can.
2:09.3	And kids need it. And the reason we're talking about this is we've got emotional intelligence.
2:15.3	We want them to grow in understanding and hearing the voice of God in their lives.
2:19.6	We had our son on a few weeks ago. We had our daughter on a few weeks ago talking to them about how they have experienced emotions,
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