We often have opportunities to be guests on other podcasts, and we’ve had some great conversations. We’d hate for you to miss them. Because we’re taking the month of July off from recording new episodes, we thought it would be the perfect time to share some of those interviews with you right here on our podcast.
Blocked Care is language identified by Jon Baylin & Dan Hughes which describes the experience whereby:
Overwhelming stress in a parent’s nervous system can create this subconscious, not on purpose, self-protective mechanism that makes it so that some of the parts of our brain and nervous system that bring us the joy and the compassion into parenting shut down.
This can look like parents who are doing a lot of the actions of parenting (i.e., making therapy appointments, packing lunches, driving kids, etc.), but all the reward of parenting– that reciprocal relationship, the enjoyment, the satisfaction– has left, and it leaves parents feeling a sense of apathy towards parenting, which then cycles into guilt and shame.
The stress in a parent’s nervous system that causes blocked care is not always, but can often be related to big, baffling behaviors.
Melissa and Lisa help parents begin healing their nervous systems by looking at three different aspects of their lives:
Note: Robyn’s podcast is now titled The Baffling Behaviors Show
Click here to download a transcript for this episode.
Relevant LinksThis episode first appeared at https://robyngobbel.com/blockedcare/.
Reclaim Compassion* by Lisa C. Qualls and Melissa Corkum
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#225: [workshop] Using the TBRI® Nurture Group as a Family with Tristen McGhee
#224: [Summer Swap] Finding Connection Through Your Adoption Journey
#223: [Summer Swap] Our Enneagram and Blocked Care Journey
#221: Questions to Ask Yourself
#220: Why Encouragement May Be Better Than Consequences with adoptee, Stephanie Fast
#219: [workshop] Successful Vacation Planning for Adoptive Families
#218: [mailbag] connection with adult children, older child adoption, hugs and attachment
#217: [workshop] Explaining Our Families to Others with Beth Smith Feger, PhD
#216: Breaking Free from the Cycle of Generational Abuse with Former Foster Youth Kristen Thomas
#215: [mailbag] birth family, psychosomatic symptoms, blocked care for non-parent caregivers
#214: Reclaim Compassion Book Preview
#213: [workshop] Attached to God with Krispin Mayfield
#212: The World’s First Embryo Adoptee Comes Full Circle with Hannah Strege
#211: [mailbag] Boundaries, structure vs. nurture, separation anxiety, birth family
#210: Exploring How Your Past Impacts Your Parenting
#209: [workshop] Connection Matters More than Vegetables with Dr. Rowell
#208: Using Bibliotherapy to Tackle Tough Topics with Darren and Margie Fink
#207: How to Help Your Children Navigate Their Identity and Thrive with Jenn and Josh Hook
#206: [mailbag] the sibling experience, choices, are we making a difference
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