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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and today it's just us together.

I wanted to do an episode that helps you answer some of the questions that you asked me on my

Instagram DMs on at Raising Good Humans podcast because what happens is I get hundreds of questions.

I can only answer a few and some of them I just know you can answer yourself if you have these

simple steps rooted in science and just made a little bit easier to kind of walk you through how to

manage parenting challenges, the ones that are non-threatening in the heat of the moment,

no bears are chasing you, and you just want to figure out the best steps to get to the answer

that you need. If you enjoy this kind of episode, please, it would be so wonderful if you could

write a review. You can go to Apple Podcasts and it shows you how to give a rating, ideally five stars.

If you have something not so nice to say or criticism, maybe instead of doing it there, you could

just DM me on Instagram at Raising Good Humans, but if you like this and you want more solo episodes

that are just talking straight to you, just go ahead and put it in the review section what you

liked and what you want to see more of. And today's episode, we're going to do a quick mindfulness,

meditation practice to help you get centered to make the best decisions. Then I'm going to go

through the seven steps that you can almost always go to when you have a parenting challenge.

And then finally, I'm going to answer some listener questions using those steps so that I can

show you how to apply them in real time. And we're going to first start with a quick

mindfulness exercise because it can set us up to the place that we can be most open to make our

wisest choices. And also, it's nice to take a quick break and be present.

So let's start for a moment with just a little practice of arriving where we are.

So find a posture in which you can be relaxed, but a little bit alert. That can be in a chair,

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