Hello and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast. I'm Katie from Wellness Mama.

com and this episode goes deep on the topic of nervous system health and

regulation for the whole family including some very specific strategies you can do to set your home up as a nervous system friendly environment for yourself and for your kids and I'm back with my personal friend Dr David Raben who is both an MD and a PhD.

He's a neuroscientist, a board certified psychiatrist, an inventor and entrepreneur and

the CMO of a company called Apollo Neuro, which has a wearable that helps signal nervous system safety.

And this is definitely a focus of this episode.

Like I said, we go deep on the topic of creating a safe home environment and a lot of strategies we have

control over that we can do with ourselves and with our children to create not just a calmer home

environment but also to signal our nervous systems that they are safe and to teach our

kids the skill of self-soothing and regulation at a young age.

There's a lot of tips in this episode.

He gives some very practical advice that you can do

completely free at home and I also can now say that a neuroscientist has

validated that houseplants are good for you because they bring an element of

nature in so I am considering my house plant

addiction neuroscientist approved but there's many many practical tips beyond that in this episode so let's

join Dr David Rabin. Dr Dave welcome back it's always a pleasure to have you here.

So good to do with you, Katie. Thanks so much for having me again. Well, as you know, the majority of our

listeners are parents and I'm really excited to learn from the perspective of a neuroscientist and a psychiatrist today how we can create sort of optimal nervous system environment in our homes for our kids and the strategies we can use to create sort of parasympathetic nervous

system activity in our houses because as a mom this is a big topic and one that makes a huge

difference and so I think to start broad I think think a lot of people, especially moms, feel like they're very stuck in fight or flight. And we talked at our previous episode. I'll link to that in the show notes about autonomic nervous system and sympathetic versus parasympathetic,

seems like many moms especially are stuck in that fight or flight phase.

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