Hey, it's Debbie. Today I'm sharing a playback Friday episode. Unless you're a long-time listener,

you likely haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, I bet you'll get something

completely different from it this time around. Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast

featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents

raising differently wired kids. My guest today is likely no stranger to you because I am thrilled

to be talking with psychotherapist and author Tina Payne Bryson. Tina is the co-author of some of my

favorite groundbreaking brain science and parenting books,

including the whole brain child and no drama discipline, which she co-wrote with Dr. Dan Siegel.

She's also the founder and executive director of the Center for Connection, a multi-disciplinary

clinical practice, and of the Play Strong Institute, a center devoted to the

study, research, and practice of play therapy through a neurodevelopmental lens.

Tina's new book is called The Power of Showing Up, and it's perhaps my most favorite of all

of the book she and Dan have written together. It focuses on what I believe so deeply

is important with our differently wired kids that we truly show up for them. And now here is my

conversation with Tina. Hello, Tina, welcome to the podcast. Hi, so good to be with you, Debbie. I look forward to our

conversation. Me too, and I feel like this conversation is a long time coming and there's so much

that we could talk about, but I'm really grateful to be, I don't know if I'm even introducing

you to my community. I think everyone knows who you are, but to'm really grateful to be, I don't know if I'm even introducing you to my community. I think

everyone knows who you are, but to be sharing your new work with them and just have this

conversation. So I always ask my guest to, you know, tell us a little bit about who they are in

the world as a way to get started. Maybe because I've already introduced you kind of professionally,

how would you just introduce yourself in terms of, you know, your why maybe for what you do?

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