TPP 090: Dr. Daniel Siegel on Helping Our Kids Develop a "Yes" Brain
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of the Tilt Parenting podcast and who is the guest in this episode?
Just because you have sensory integration difficulties and emotion regulation difficulties and even difficulties understanding the mind of yourself or others, that doesn't mean you don't have a need for close, affectionate connections that feel supportive. That's called attachment. So while you might have these other issues that make behavior atypical, your needs for attachment are are in fact typical. That is, they are the need for closeness.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today I am thrilled to share with you a conversation I recently had with Dr. Dan Siegel. Dr. Siegel is an internationally recognized educator, practicing child psychiatrist, and the author of several books, including Mindsight, The Whole Brain Child, Brainstorm, No Drama Discipline, and Parenting from the Inside Out, many of which sit well worn on my bookshelf. He's also the founder of the MindSight Institute, an educational organization offering online learning and in-person workshops that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families, and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human.
Relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel's newest book, which actually comes out today, is The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child. It's co-written by Tina Payne Bryson. And the Yes Brain gives parents skills, scripts, ideas, and activities to bring kids of all ages into a yes state of mind. which helps them approach life with curiosity and become more open, creative, and resilient, even during difficult times. Dr. Siegel has such an extensive and important body work, it was hard to narrow down where to take this conversation. But we focused on exploring the important concept of brain integration Mindset and the yes brain as they relate to differently wired kits.
I hope you enjoyed the episode. And if you get value from it, I would love it if you would consider helping me amplify this conversation by sharing it on social media with friends and other parenting communities that might get value from it. And if you aren't already signed up for my Tilt Parenting newsletter, I would love for you to join me. Every Thursday I send out a short email including Including a quick note from me, a link to that week's podcast and bonus after the show video, and links to five must-read articles from the news that week that are relevant to parents of differently wired kids. Just visit tiltparenting.com and sign up where it says join the Tilt Revolution. Lastly, I wanted to give you a heads up that I have another very special episode of the podcast coming out next week.
My guest is Steve. Dave Silverman, author of the New York Times best-selling book Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. This interview was months in the making, and it's a conversation you won't want to miss. And now here's my conversation with Dr. Siegel. Hello, Doctor Seago. Welcome to the podcast.
Thanks for having me, Debbie.
I'm really excited to have you on the show and there's so many directions this conversation could go in because your body of work is so impressive. So I'm gonna try to focus on the things that I think are most relevant to My audience, which as you know is made up of parents raising differently wired kids. But before we get into that, I always like to ask guests just quickly what their personal why is. I'm so curious to know what drives you to do the work that you do.
Well, that's a a very interesting question with a a a complex answer, but the short version of it is Um, both personally trying to understand what it means to be human and then professionally as a physician and therapist and also as a scientist, I wanted to understand what our mental lives are really all about beyond just the physicality of our bodies. And that led to kind of a deep dive into a whole range of sciences from
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the Tilt Parenting podcast and who is the guest in this episode?
0:00–21:17
2
What drives Dr. Daniel Siegel to study interpersonal neurobiology and how does he define his “personal why”?
21:17–34:11
3
How does Dr. Siegel explain brain integration using the walking‑leg analogy?
34:11–43:33
4
Why is brain integration especially challenging for neurodiverse children and how does it affect their development?
43:33–47:14
Speakers
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