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Your Baby's First 6 Months are Critical... Don’

“I’m totally fine! I’m calm. I’m cool. I’m in control.”

24 years of working in this business and this sentence scares me the most.

At some point in working with us, our children reach a point where their vestibular system, reflexes, and neurochemical pathways are challenged to the extreme. It can be the smallest exercise that can trigger the greatest reactions.

In fact, parents report they are typically doing worse than when they started with us!

And this is the magical time.

When we are creating new pathways that integrate to help them with automaticity, regulation, and new coping skills. But - and there's a big BUT - transference of behavior ONLY occurs when the caregiver or parent is physiologically present.

And no matter how much we explain this to parents they don't realize the impact.

So, I'm sharing it here. When your child is going through over-reactions and new neural pathways are being established, I beg of you - capture the physiological presence they need in order to save yourself time, money and effort in managing behaviors. This is the critical period. If you can be physiologically present, your child will be able to receive behavioral changes with no effort. Again, 24 years and it's the magic of this process. Why?

Our children are most sensitive when they are 'fighting' change and our physiological presence allows them to accept the change easily, translating to picking up new behavioral responses.

Think of the pain you have when working out. The change and the new components of stress create a feeling of stress but the result is new muscle fiber and new muscle memory. The same thing happens with our children's brains. In order to maximize the results, being fully present physiologically allows them to create new behavioral responses without effort. It's a byproduct.

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