Kristy Forbes

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1,527 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2019 last heard Feb 2025

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And we have to start working on making changes within ourselves as the adults to be able to help that process.

So many families will be focused on working with the child.

But this is the crucial time for us as the adults and the parents.

to start learning more about how we can help our child.

Now if we don't know our child is PDA, this is where we can run into trouble.

Because many people will say, Oh well you must have expectations for them.

You must have a plan of recovery for them.

Or they won't even recognise it as the child being traumatised and needing space to recover.

It's really important and the way that I work with parents is

We work on letting go of assumptions, expectations, fears, panic, dread.

And we work on changing our language to be non directive.

For our children.

We work on seeing who our children are and loving them and identifying their most wonderful parts because underneath this

Are these beautifully intuitive?

Incredible little people and big people.

The the children that we know

They still are the children that we know, those sweet, kind, compassionate, deeply empathetic children.

And this is part of their difficulty.

Those qualities are their greatest gifts but they're also their greatest challenge because it leads them into burnout so often.

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