Dayna Abraham
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831 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard Aug 2023
Dayna Abraham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If we go back to those four elements, you connect, understand, empower, the you piece is all about telling your brain you're safe, you're okay, you're going to get through this, you've done it before, you can do it again.
And so the way we do that is by doing something called stop, breathe, anchor, which is just stopping in your place.
And I'm not talking about for 5-10 minutes and doing a meditation practice, just literally just stopping in your place, taking a big deep breath, and then
anchoring with something that you've practiced ahead of time.
And an anchor is something like a memory or an affirmation or a visualization.
So the memory anchor is really powerful because if ahead of time you have envisioned something that always brings you
calm and joy and a reminder that you're a loving family and you are going to get through this and this is just a moment, then it reminds your brain, hey, you're safe, you're good, you can get through this.
And it means that you're going to be less reactive to all of the danger that is around you, the kicking, the hitting, the screaming.
So that's the first step is just stop, breathe, anchor.
And a
And if you didn't have a traumatic birth, then, you know, this is where people will remember their child when they were born and holding them the first time or the first time they got their child, if they have a foster or adoptive child.
If you didn't have a great birth, then sometimes parents will remember like cuddling at night with their child, like those moments where your child is just your child.
And you just have that deep sigh of like, ah.
I really love you, right?
Like if you remember that moment, that will help you go into any situation and wait it out.
And another example, my husband uses a radically different anchor.
His is actually, to me, a traumatic experience.
It was when my son was
We had to take him to the emergency room because he was having such a fit that it was incredibly dangerous.
And we didn't know what else to do.
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