Dr. Becky Kennedy
18 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 6, 2024 by Dr. Becky Kennedy · across every show →
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Kennedy: Events Do Not Traumatize Children, Their Internal Narrative Does
“Events don't mess up kids.
Events aren't even inherently traumatizing.
What, I don't like to mess up because it sounds so final, but what really impacts kids is not an event.
It's the story they tell themselves about the event.”
Feb 6, 2024 negative
Feb 6, 2024 negative
Kennedy: Fear-Based Parenting Conditions Kids for Unhealthy Adult Relationships
“Wireing fear next to love is not something I recommend, because yes, what that means, I'll lay it out, is your kid will go into their adult relationships thinking loving relationships are one in which you fear your partner, and that's who they'll be attracted …”
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Feb 6, 2024
Kennedy: Shame Triggers an Animal Freeze Response That Prevents Learning
“The thing about shame is it's a freeze response. It's like an animal defense state. Like, we talk a lot about fight or flight, but there's other animal defense states, too, right? And one of them is freeze, right? And so if someone's frozen, you can't, like, g…”
Feb 6, 2024
Feb 6, 2024 positive
Kennedy: Emotional Regulation Must First Be Practiced in Low-Stakes Moments
“If regulating your emotions is new for you can't expect yourself to start to regulate your emotions when you're in your most heightened emotions. That would be like someone who has never taken a foul shot, taking a foul shot game seven of the NBA finals when t…”
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Feb 6, 2024 positive
Kennedy: Mental Health Is Managing Internal Voices, Not Eliminating Them
“When I actually think mental health, It's not about getting those voices out of our car. They're there. They're not going anywhere, but actually just like talking to them when they're in the passenger seat to ensure that they don't take over at the driver's se…”
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Feb 6, 2024
Kennedy: Teens Form Identity by Overshooting Separation and Rejecting Rules
“The way you start to form your identity when you're a teen is actually through a lot of separation from your parents. That's actually, though, your job. Your job is actually to start to separate from them, and a lot of teens, most teens, they overshoot, just l…”
Feb 6, 2024
Kennedy: Do Not Communicate During Conflict Without a Collaborative Mindset
“I actually think this is, like, profound, because to me, nobody should ever communicate with anybody until you get yourself in that second mindset. We often think, what are the words? What do I say? What's the script? At the end of the day, the mindset's going…”
Feb 6, 2024
Kennedy: Collaborative Respect Is the Only Productive Path With Teens
“Approaching a teen in that, like, hey, I respect you. Like, here's the situation. Let's think through it together. That's the only way you're going to get to a productive solution anyway, because teenagers inherently, they don't care about their towel on the f…”
Feb 6, 2024 positive
Kennedy: Children Learn Emotional Regulation by Absorbing Their Parents' Calm
“The way kids learn how to regulate emotions is through their relationship with their parents, right? It's not something you could get taught in a textbook, and it's not to say when we get older if we didn't have a lot of those early experiences that helped us …”