Being a mom is the toughest job there is and it doesn't come with instructions.

So it's okay if you don't have all the answers.

We'll figure it out together.

This is Mombrain with Alaria Bulbun and Daphne Az. Hey guys, welcome back to Mombrain.

I'm Yolaria.

And I'm Daphne.

And today we are lucky to be chatting with Dr. Dan Siegel.

I feel like if you've been listening to Mom Brain for a while,

you might have heard a number of his books recommended

by other GASPAD on this show, which is always a great sign.

His book, The Whole Brain Child, was one of my favorites and one of the only ones I actually read when, you know, you buy like a library of preparing for baby books before you have your first kid and all of them go unread and sit at your

sit on your bedside table for about 400 years. This was one of the books I

actually did read and it really I found it very empowering as a parent to be learning about how to support my child through the

eventual growth and education she would have in terms of not just you know being a functioning person in the world

but internally like her emotional health integrating the two halves of her

brain letting her it was obviously I was pregnant with Philomena, letting her feel her greatest sense of self-knowing

and power in the world as a result of that.

And it was a lot of it began with reading this book.

Anyway, we're gonna chat with him today about brain integration, about what was the word that he kept saying was not about attachment and about how we as parents can overcome the things that we dealt with as

children ourselves so we don't pass them along to our children how we give them the

gift of mind sight which is how they can, we can give you all secrets.

I know, you know what, it might seem complicated at the beginning, but what you're going to find,

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