TPP 457: A Conversation with Dr. Alissa Jerud About Emotion-Savvy Parenting
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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I'm Debbie Reber, and this is Full Tilt Parenting, formerly known as Tilt Parenting. And this is a podcast for parents, educators, for therapists, for anyone who is raising and supporting neurodivergent kids. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Alyssa Jarrett, a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in exposure-based treatments for anxiety disorders, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of the new book, Emotion Savvy Parenting, a shame-free guide to navigating emotional storms and deepening connection. So in this episode, you're about to listen to we're going to dig into what it really means to be emotionally savvy as a parent. Alyssa is going to share simple practical tools to help us accept, regulate and tolerate our own big feelings so we can better support our kids through theirs.
So if you're ever overwhelmed by emotional storms, yours or your child's, you will find a lot of insight and relief in this episode. So here's my conversation with Dr. Alyssa Jared. Hey, Alyssa, welcome to the podcast.
Hi, Deli. Thanks so much for having me.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting into your new book and your work. This is your first time on the show. So would you take a few minutes and tell us a little bit about your work in the world? And I always ask people about their personal why. So if you want to slip that in, that would be great.
So I am a clinical psychologist and really I work with people to help them better manage their own emotions because as a human, as a parent, right? I think that's part of the hardest thing about living is just that we have sometimes some really uncomfortable emotions that come up. That's part of being human. We all experience those. And so My why is all about how can I help people to better navigate that very human experience and to do so in as skillful of a way as possible so that they can live more fully in line with their values. They can show up in the world as the people they want to be.
Is there a reason why this idea is so tied to you? Like, did you know always that this is the work you wanted to do? Because it's pretty niche.
Yeah, I didn't know. I knew in undergrad, actually, I decided I wanted to help people who had experienced a trauma of some sort and had post-traumatic stress disorder. And what I found in doing that work, I loved it. And it also really aligned very closely with work that I later did. And when I was a postdoc, which was really treating anxiety more generally and helping people again, learn how to navigate that anxiety more skillfully. And also kind of moving back in time to grad school, also helping people to better manage, again, other emotions aside from anxiety and just realizing that at the core or the heart of the treatments that I was providing was this notion that we can feel strong and comfortable emotions when they show up and still choose to move through the world.
in an effective, skillful way, right? That those emotions are very important and very valuable.
What is emotion‑savvy parenting and why does it matter?
We don't want to ever try to fight them or suppress them because that actually usually tends to backfire and cause us more distress down the road. And we can allow those emotions to tag along for the ride, again, without pulling us away from what matters most to us. And so I think it was just in working with lots of people and even in my own life, practicing what I preach and realizing there were moments where I maybe wasn't allowing myself to be as skillful as possible, where those emotions were kind of hijacking me and calling the shots and realizing, like, even though sometimes it feels almost impossible to refrain from giving into some of those unhelpful urges that accompany really intense emotions, it actually is possible.
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