Thrive Like A Parent

Achieving Your Dreams While Maintaining Mental Health and Life Balance.

EP: 64 On today’s episode of Thrive Like a Parent Podcast, I have a friend I want to introduce you to, her name is Kelly Brock. She is a business mentor, a coach, a mom, a wife and frankly overall bad ass.
Kelly has been an entrepreneur for 14 years now. She spent 10 years in network marketing and has even been on the billboard in Times Square. But, in her last years of network marketing, she developed anxiety and depression. This made it difficult for Kelly to function as she used to and for anybody who knew her at that moment, it would not have matched the identity that she saw for herself or that was portrayed online.
There is definitely a difference between achieving your dreams and achieving those dreams while maintaining your mental health, balance, and authenticity. And that’s literally exactly what Kelly does. And she does it in such a vulnerable and honest and beautiful way. And I’ve seen it firsthand.
So a lot of what we want to tell you about today is entrepreneurship and finding the right people to work with, while keeping your authenticity and mental health a priority.
It's important for everyone to know that you can be your own beautiful mess, yet still be a really awesome leader at the same time. It is possible to have that darkness but yet, what comes out of it is not icky and traumatizing but beautiful and healing and moving into alignment with, especially, entrepreneurship and business. You can be a human being and run a business, you can be a human being and be a leader. It is possible.
Living in integrity is so crucially important to me, and having the trust of my community and knowing how important it is to find the support from humans who truly care, rather than just be a sales tactic or finding financial gains is what continues to motivate me in making a difference in people’s lives while helping them thrive like a human.
You can follow Kelly on Instagram @KellyBrock or you can go to her website www.kellybrockco.com
XOXO,
Dr. B

Interrogation vs. Connection & Safety

EP:63 I promise you I am not getting political.
My stance on what is going on in the world is that "a human is a human is a human '' and anytime there is loss of a human, it's devastating. With recent events, was I devastated to see what happened on October 7th? You bet. Does it hit home for me? Sure, I am a white Jewish female. But a human is a human is a human, and I need you to know that before I speak on anything I say today.
As someone who has a voice you are always going to say things wrong. No matter what you say, it is always the wrong thing. I was told I was a disgrace, uneducated, disappointing, unfollowed, ignorant for my stance. But I want to take this example of what happened to me to speak about what often happens to us in our daily lives.
It is important for you to understand that when having a conversation with someone you feel you are being heard, seen, your boundaries are being respected, and your position on a particular subject or matter, matters. It is also important for you to know, prior to any conversation, if that conversation will meet:
1. Conversation dialogue of safety
2. Connection
Everyone needs to feel a safe connection rather than feeling shut down and defensive.
You might be experiencing this right now and I'd like to help guide you and move you through how you can support yourself in moments where you don't feel seen, heard, shut down, defensive, etc.
Those hard conversations will lead to the most beautiful safety and to the most beautiful connection if you go into them with vulnerability, honesty, and chipping away at all the walls around you. And if you have fear going into those conversations, that means that you're doing something different than you've ever done in the past. And that fear can guide you into knowing you're actually making changes in your life and making changes in your brain patterning and you're growing as a human because you're saying no fear.
Join me on this week's episode of Thrive Like a Parent podcast to talk through how you can build safety within your brain.
XOXO,
Dr. B
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Finding Balance Within the Chaos

EP:62 In this podcast episode of Thrive Like a Parent podcast I am so honored to be joined by Maria Gonzalez, a Doctor of Physical Therapy. Maria is also one of the coaches on my team who helps support our clients.
Personal growth doesn't happen overnight and requires trust in the process. So many of our clients initially seek rapid, linear changes, but it takes time. We must learn to embrace the journey with its highs and lows that eventually turn into rolling hills.
We must understand what truly mental health looks and how to support your mental health on a neurological level. And it stems so deep that we are then able to impart this wisdom on to our children.
Once you make that shift, your child is then living with that parent, that version of you. And that's the version you've always been, but maybe never let out. And our children will then learn that and we help our clients learn how to support our children through the same mindset.
If you tired of living in a constant state of fight or flight and are ready to find balance and piece.. My team and I would love to support you.

How to Go From Fight or Flight to Rest and Restoration

EP:61 If you are tired of being exhausted, if you're tired of being lonely, if you are tired of snapping at your kids, if you're tired of feeling like it's an uphill battle, if you are tired of only getting that dopamine hit when you buy something for yourself and there's no other joy in life, if you feel like your partnership is stale, or you want to rip their heads off…..
That means ding ding, ding, ding, ding, it's time for support! Because you we aren't meant to do this alone.
Take time to support you in the way that you need. That is how you go from fight or flight (red zone) to rest, restoration, peace, calm and all the different things that you long for. So take some time to rest and move through the yellow which is will be wildly uncomfortable but oh so worth it when you come out on the other side.
Today I urge you to check in see how you're feeling for the day.
- Are you picking your skin?
- Are you chewing your nails? Are you biting your nails?
- Are you emotionally eating? Are you snapping at your kids?
- Are you completely disconnected from your partnership?
- Are my shoulders raised?
- Is my jaw clenched?
- Is my forehead lifted?
- Do I have a headache?
Do a body scan. What are the things your body is telling you that suggest you may be in the red. What are you feeling? Where in your body are you feeling it? Then go give yourself three hours to take care of you because you're so damn worth it.

Building Safety Within The Brain

EP:60 You can create positive feedback loops of finding connection and safety and trust within the world around you. WHILE you are just simply being yourself. No costume. No act. No performance.The combination of no performance, just simply being yourself And finding safety in moments where you are just yourself is the secret sauce to that feedback loop of trusting you can simply be who you are. Know and trust your loved for exactly who you are. And it’s okay to be that person.So much good can come out of the awareness of finding safe moments and letting down your walls to simply be yourself, show up as yourself and trust those humans around you that they are safe. And if they don’t feel safe, that’s great awareness too.Join me on this weeks episode of Thrive Like a Parent podcast to talk through how you can build safety within your brain.XOXO,Dr. B#thrivelikeaparent #poscast #newepisode #thrivelikeaparentpodcast #parenting #emotionalregulation #buildingsafetywithinme #parent #sensory #sensoryregulation #nervoussystem #nervoussystemregulation #momlife #dadlife #trauma #traumahealing #childhoodtrauma #postpartum #thrive

Are You Struggling Supporting Your Child?

EP:59 This episode of Thrive Like a Parent podcast is for the parent who is struggling with a child. And that is the bottom line. No matter diagnosis or not. The reason I'm doing this podcast, is because I've been there.Maybe you haven't realized how to put it into words.Maybe you haven't allowed yourself to fully feel those emotions.Maybe you haven't given yourself the permission to just validate that sometimes this shits hard, and you're exhausted and you're tired.I want you to know you're not alone. I want you to know it's okay to feel those feelings. And I want you to know that you are not the only parent on the roller coaster.If you need more support the team and I would love to support you. We would love to support your child into learning how to regulate. This journey is not meant to be taken alone.Comment “SUPPORT” and let’s chat.XOXO,Dr. B
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Feeling Like You Are Too Much

EP:58 Join us in our latest episode on Thrive like a parent Podcast, where we chat about something we've all felt at times--- that feeling of being 'too much.'
It's a deep-seated issue that quietly influences many areas of our lives, often without us realizing it.
In our journey of self-discovery, we often seek empowerment, self-confidence, and control over our lives. These desires can be powerful driving forces, but sometimes, in our quest to achieve them, we unintentionally create a mask that usually hide our true selves where we end up portraying another version of us that doesn't align with our genuine feelings and identity, and make it hard for us to embrace confidence, honesty, and control which are helpful in rewiring the brain.
But if we learn how to embrace our authenticity, speak up, and dance to our own rhythm, fear won't hold us back.
So in this podcast, we talk about honoring exactly who you are, so that being too much will be your greatest gift.
Actually, you are not too much, you're just being all that you're meant to be in this life.
Take a risk! It's your brain's way of saying, "Be yourself, it's worth it!"

Supporting Sensory Seekers Through the Client Lens

EP:57 Today, I have a guest on the Thrive Like a Parent podcast. Her name is Lindsay Kane now and I've known Lindsey since playgroup! Lindsey is a an incredible wife and mamma to two amazing boys. Lindsey owns a beautiful jewelry company. The link is in stories!
I've worked with Lindsay and her family for a few years now. I've worked with Lindsay regarding herself and I've supported Lindsay with her kiddos.
This episode is an authentic look through the lens of what a session with one of my clients looks like.
We talk through our kids different nervous systems and how sometimes their underdeveloped nervous systems is what's getting in the way of them being able to attend and focus and how to support them through it all!
My hope is that this will help you and other parents relate to Lindsey’s story.

It Is Ok Not To Be Ok

EP:56 It is ok for you to be an individual.
It's okay to not have the same opinions. It's okay to feel things that others don’t.It's okay to be a quote sensitive human. It's okay when others tell you to get over it and are not ready, and it affected me and that's okay.
All of our brains function differently. And if you're trying to model someone else or a generation or you're trying to keep up with something that was taught to you that you quote should be keeping up with but deep down you're you feel empty… Listen to that!

When Are You Fully Healed From Truama?

EP:55 A question I get asked all the time… When do you know you are finally healed from trauma?
The truth is… It's not about when is the healing over. It's about gaining awareness to understand that you actually do have control over how you feel in the midst of a trigger.
It is the ability to say, I know that I can support myself through this. I know I have the capacity to do it. I've done it before. And I know I'm going to feel okay on the other side. And that is what it's about.  
The healing and work always continues. Am I more healed now than I was a year or two ago or five years ago, you bet. But I also love the person that I am here today. And I also look forward to the person I will be in a year. Like I look forward to that. And it's okay to accept it all. Healing can happen, but it does happen very slowly. And I do believe that we become wiser as we get older, we become more comfortable within our skin and more comfortable with the choices we're making and who we are and how we choose to lead our lives and not caring about what others think as much like all that happens with with time, right and experience, but also healing. So best of luck on your healing journey and know that it's okay to go slow.