Episode #8
Community and teaching children to feel with Lara Gregorio
Therapy is one hour a week. That leaves 167 hours where most people don't get support. I'm joined by Lara Gregorio , licensed clinical social worker with over 25 years in behavioural health and founder of 4C Mental Health , to talk about why community might be the missing piece in emotional wellbeing and how we teach our children to sit with their feelings rather than rush to fix them. Lara shares how becoming a parent reshaped her understanding of support, and why a quote from a high school English teacher has guided her parenting more than her clinical training. We talk about the difference between allowing emotions and managing them , why children can't process boundaries when they're emotionally flooded, and the simple neurobiological tools that can help the whole family regulate. We also get into: Why your child might have only heard you once, even though you've said it a hundred times The 90-second truth about every emotion, and what keeps it alive after that Connection before correction: why timing changes everything Quick regulation tools from DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) that any parent can use "Be the stick": a whitewater rafting metaphor for riding out emotional storms Go Deeper: Attune IN® delivers connection science education for busy parents. The Attune IN program provides self-paced guidance by a psychiatrist turned educator and mum of 3. If you are a parent/practitioner looking for the science of connection, or an employer wanting to support working parents in your organisation, visit attunein.co.uk for more info. Originally published on Spotify .
