Dr. Lori Desautels
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322 appearances
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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And touch points are those micro moments of connection.
It's validating, it's noticing.
It's asking those questions that require that child or that adolescent to feel empowered.
And then the fourth pillar is really exciting, Debbie, because we have been labeling and giving rulings and classifications to our neurodivergent children for so long.
that what we have found is we're giving our families, our teachers and our students the language of the science.
and not pathologizing anxiety or depression, but saying, you know what, your nervous system is working for you and not against you.
Your nervous system is perfection.
It is protecting you when you feel anxious and
Our children love this.
We talk about the amygdala.
We talk about the prefrontal cortex.
We don't water it down or use analogies.
My five year olds that I go into classrooms with, they know they're a middle.
They love to say the name of it.
They love to say the word.
One little girl said, I love how it sounds in my mouth.
so exhausted from pathologizing what our nervous system does well.
and the strengths that are that that go unrecognized when we misunderstand behaviors.
And knowing as Mona says so beautifully, you know, behaviors are only indicators.
They're just signals of what's happening in the nervous system.
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