E16: Navigating Holidays With Your Adoptive Family Featuring Mike Berry
With the holiday season in full gear, you may notice a spotlight on shifting expectations and dysregulated behaviors. This time can be a reminder of loss, grief and the complex mixed feelings for many adoptees. Dr. Laura Anderson brings on Mike Berry to share tools you can use to navigate this stressful time of year.
Mike Berry is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Honestly Adoption, a virtual support, resource, and training site for foster and adoptive families. The Honestly Adoption Company is fiercely committed to helping parents gain insight into their child, change their parenting approach, and in turn, transform their family. They believe strongly in highlighting and spotlighting voices from the entire adoption triad. Mike and his wife Kristen have built this amazing network that has been voted in the Top 5 out of 100 best adoption blogs on earth 5 years in a row by Healthline.com and Feedspot.
What You Will Learn:
Become aware that this may be a difficult season for your child
Continue to look beneath behaviors for feelings driving behavior
To notice your own expectations and how those impact family regulation
Be mindful of overstimulation
How trauma history can dictate your child's behavior
Soothing and regulation tools for the holiday time
Resources:
https://honestlyadoption.com
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/honestly-adoption-mike-berry/1129825395
