Susan Stiffelman
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353 appearances
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first heard Oct 2019
last heard Oct 2019
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Sometimes emotional challenges were affecting their academic performance and vice versa.
Sometimes a child had a legitimate learning challenge that was making it harder for them to feel good in their skin or to behave in a way that didn't create agitation around them or inside of them.
So I went back to school and I became a
marriage and family therapist.
It was a wonderful training.
I
spent many years getting my hours, thousands of hours, and finally was a licensed psychotherapist who continued to specialize in working with parents and children.
And I started doing workshops just to help parents kind of fold in some of the principles I had developed about allowing each child to be who they're meant to be and
not taking our kids' behavior personally and most importantly
really understanding that even though I believe every child and every parent are equals, that we are not better than our kids or more worthy of respect or anything like that, I I saw how important it was for children to have a grown up in the room as they were moving through life.
And so the workshops began to reflect more and more of this idea of being
The calm, confident captain of the ship that I now talk about.
And in the course of doing my workshops with parents, it it seemed to be moving me more and more in a direction of working less with kids directly.
and more with their parents so that we could make progress more quickly.
Yeah, I found that if you could get parents to understand the importance of holding this place for their children, no matter what they were going through, of being big enough and sturdy enough to be the one that they turned to and not be reactive, but rather be responsive that everyone did better.
The family just did better.
So that's a
Long short answer to your question of how I got where I am.
Well,
Yes, I do think there are.
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