TPP 285: Dr. Mona Delahooke on the Power of Brain-Body Parenting
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is Brain‑Body Parenting and why did Dr. Mona write the new book?
I just want to, again, set the record straight that from the evidence from relational neuroscience about our human bodies is now coming in very strong without dispute about what builds resilience. And what builds resilience is attunement and responsive care when we're responsive to those emotions and not viewing it as a temper tantrum or something that we should ignore.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber, and I am so excited to share this episode with you because my guest is someone I've come to know and love and respect and learn so much from, Dr. Mona Delahook. If you are not familiar with Mona, she is the author of the book Beyond Behaviors, using brain science and compassion to understand and solve children's behavioral challenges, which we talked about together on this podcast about two years ago. Well, Mona has a brand new book that is out today, and it is even more powerful and profound, if that's even possible.
It's called Brain Body Parenting, How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids. So a little bit more about Mona before we get started. Mona is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience caring for children and their families, as well as a senior faculty member of the Perfectum Foundation and a member of the American Psychological Association. She's also a frequent speaker, trainer, and consultant to parents, organizations, schools, and public agencies. But today we're going to talk all about Mona's new paradigm shifting book, Brain Body Parenting, which honestly, and you'll hear this in our conversation, it sparked so many aha moments and caused me to reflect on many aspects of my own parenting journey.
Mona and I talk about why it's never too late to make changes to our parenting approach, what our child's platform is and how we can help our children have a sturdier one, the critical role of our co-regulating to support our children, and the hopeful news and science that Mona is encountering in her work. I am just so excited to see how brain-body parenting supports children and families as it makes its way into the world. So please listen, re-listen, and share this episode with your friends. All right, and now let's get to my conversation with Mona. I hope you enjoy it. Hey, Mona, welcome back to the podcast.
Thank you so much, Debbie. I'm so excited to be back.
I'm so excited you're here. And usually I start like, tell me your whole story and your personal why. And there's so much I want to talk about that I don't want to spend a lot of time there. But tell us about your why for this book, because we're talking about your new book, Brain Body Parenting. And you told me. when we first talked about this book, that this is like your most favorite book, that this is the book that you're so excited about, even more than Beyond Behavior. So can you kind of tell us about the why as part of your story in writing this book?
Yeah, thanks. So this was the dream book that I've always dreamt of writing for parents, although I loved writing Beyond Behaviors. Beyond Behaviors was kind of in my office voice, in my nurturing, helping parents voice, navigate systems. And a bit of the system change that I really believe needs to happen too. When I saw children being essentially, either punished or reinforcement scheduled or sticker charted for their individual differences and not respected for those unique differences, that was a huge driving force behind my blogging and writing at all. Because it wasn't squaring with what I then knew about how human beings develop resilience and trust in the world. So So it's all been an incredibly fun journey.
And so beyond this book, Brave Body Parenting expands beyond the idea of behavioral challenges to basically every aspect of rearing our children. And the reason I wrote it, the why, is that as a psychologist, as a child psychologist over the past 30 years, you wouldn't believe the difference
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Brain‑Body Parenting and why did Dr. Mona write the new book?
0:00–6:42
2
How does the book explain the difference between a “behavior” and a symptom of stress?
6:42–11:25
3
What are the three nervous‑system pathways (green, red, blue) and how do they show up in children?
11:25–16:43
4
Why is it never too late to re‑parent and reshape a child’s nervous‑system platform?
16:43–22:18
5
How can parents use co‑regulation to keep kids in the “just‑right” challenge zone?
22:18–27:57
6
What practical steps can families take to advocate for neuro‑divergent kids in schools?
27:57–34:15
7
How does self‑care for parents create a sturdier platform for their children?
34:15–39:46
8
What is the key hopeful message for listeners navigating resilient parenting?
39:46–45:36
Speakers
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