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Episode 91: Dr. Jenny King – Micropractices to Help With Stress and Trauma

64 min • 5 juli 2022

Dr. Jenny King is a licensed social worker who focuses on trauma and is the co-director of the Center on Trauma at Case Western University in Cleveland. She is the mother of 3 and her and her husband unschool their children.

In this episode, we focus on stress and trauma and the importance of play as adults. We talk about moving away from surviving and actually thriving after trauma and how we can work to calm anxiety in everyday life through these simple micropractices that Jenny has developed.

I hope that this is an insightful conversation to help you in your everyday life and also in your parenting!

What we talked about:

4:00- Introduction to Dr. Jenny King and her work

6:15- Creating a device for kids to self-report their trauma

8:30- Helping people move from surviving to thriving after trauma

10:10- Talking to our kids when their emotions are high

17:35- How our kids perceive us

21:35- Daily micro-practices to help reduce our stress

27:45- Playing as adults

30:50- Finding our baseline for stress levels

36:10- Other micropractices to center yourself

38:20- Unschooling her kids