Right now, when we're talking about safety in a really unsafe time, when we don't feel safe ourselves because our

neuroseption is constantly being pulled for danger and threat, is all of us as mental health people have

significant and I think valid concerns about the mental health implications of this time.

And there is something we can do that is so simple that I think is so powerful and that is this.

To be thinking about our messaging. So with our kids, when we say things like, we're not going to the

playground or you can't go to school or, you know, you can't see your friends because it's not safe.

It's dangerous to do that. People can get sick and we use threat-based, danger-based messaging and we do

that repeatedly. We know that the brain is making these neural associations and my fear is that we

are creating neuroseption of danger around things like going to school, being with friends. So what

we want to do with this idea of creating safety and our children relying on us as being safe

harbors and safe havens from the storm is to focus all of our messaging from a safety-based place.

Therapist Uncensored brings you decades of experience with interpersonal psychotherapy,

relational neuroscience, modern attachment, and anything else they think will be helpful in healing

humans. Now hear your co-host Dr. Anne Kelly and Sue Marriott.

Hi everyone, this is Anne and we are doing replays of some of our most important episodes

and timely episodes throughout our five seasons. Today's episode was originally recorded in May

of 2020, during one of the most intense times of the coronavirus lockdown. And in this episode,

my co-host Sue Marriott talks with Dr. Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson about strategies for

showing up for yourself and your children, especially white under significant stress.

Now given the reason why he's again across the world in cases from the variant,

and the increase in fear and restrictions, we decided that this episode was extremely relevant

today. So Dan and Tina, as well as Sue, are all experts in attachment and interpersonal neurobiology.

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