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
Free blocked care assessment
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#204: [workshop] Raising Worry-Free Kids with David Thomas, LMSW
#203: Adoption as a Single Mom
#202: Simple Ways to Increase Self-Esteem in Students with Learning Differences with Melissa Corkum
#201: [mailbag] Holiday Edition
#200 Finding Successful Post-Adoption Support
#199: [workshop] Making Sense of Meltdowns with Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH
#198: Staying Connected to Your Spouse When You’re Grieving Differently with Lisa Qualls
#197: Staying Curious About the Adoptee Experience with Jennifer Dyan Ghoston
#196: [mailbag] victimhood mentality, lowering the bar, transracial adoption, Job Corps
#195: [workshop] Maintaining a Strong Marriage When Parenting Is Hard
#194: Weird But Effective Ways to Stop a Tantrum with Melissa Corkum
#193: Living a Love-Stretched Life with Jillana Goble
#192: [mailbag] getting breaks, hug refusal, running away
#191: [workshop] Why Kids Lie and What the Bible has to Say about It with Greg Lombard Rea
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#188: [mailbag] transitions, destruction of property, and grief
#187: [workshop] Creating the Best IEP for Your Child with Karen Yingling
#186: [Summer Swap] How the Enneagram Can Help Us Become Better Parents
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