Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

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549 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 27 Apr

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So when something scary or stressful happens with one of our boys, right, what's the first thing that we do?

We grab our kids, we bring them in, right, and we say...

you're okay, right?

And we're calm, we're regulated, right?

And we say, you're okay.

It's going to be okay.

That was scary, wasn't it, right?

We acknowledge the fear.

We let them know that they're safe, right?

And we pull them in.

Maybe we pull them into a hug.

What does that do?

First of all, the hug releases oxytocin.

Oxytocin directly blocks the activation of the biological stress response.

So we're literally releasing hormones in their bodies to be able to inhibit the activation of the stress response.

But the other thing that we do is help them understand, okay, what happens when we feel all these big feelings?

We feel them, we see them, we recognize them.

And then if you're our kids, you get help

And then that brings things back to baseline again.

And so that is, essentially, that's buffering.

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