The Full Potential Parenting Podcast with Alison Morris

Instead of staying with the swirling thoughts in your head, come back to your body and connect to the energies of the Earth by getting grounded and doing some grounding. Learn a few quick and easy ways to do both, even when the weather or other circumstances prevent you from being outside. You can teach these techniques to your children too!

Our children are energetically sensitive and many (most?) of them are feeling emotions that aren't even theirs. Learn easy tools you can teach or use on your children to help them release what doesn't belong to them and to help them maintain their own energetic boundaries going forward so they don't need to struggle with emotions that don't belong to them.

Surprise! It turns out that, from one perspective, we're more microbes than we are human. Get some basic facts about the microbiome, learn why the microbiome is key to not just immune health, but also mood and overall health, and find out easy ways to increase the diversity of the "good" microorganisms in your and your children's bodies.. 

Why do bacteria, viruses, and fungi exist? What role do they play? In this episode you're invited to take a higher perspective on the intricate web of life on Earth and how moving out of fear of microorganisms (and even being grateful for them) might be helpful in returning us to a more balanced place.

Everyone should be familiar with some nervous system fundamentals. Get to know the basics of The Polyvagal Theory by Dr. Stephen Porges, and learn the three major priorities of the nervous system. When you understand the main "jobs" of the nervous system and the order in which they developed (and go offline), you'll be in a better position to understand your child's behaviors and your own.

Strengthen your immune system using two quick and easy techniques from Eden Energy Medicine, and then teach your children how to use them as well! Learn the Thymus Thump and how to encourage your lymphatic system to get moving. Both techniques take almost no time and can be used multiple times a day. 

Shifting the question from "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?" is a step in the right direction but still doesn't go far enough. Find out why in Part 2 in the Understanding Trauma series

When we get stressed out we're not open to true social engagement because our nervous systems are primed for threats. Learn another quick way to put the break on the fight or flight (sympathetic nervous system) response and engage the parasympathetic system so you're ready to interact with your child, your partner, or your colleagues. This quick exercise was designed by Stanley Rosenberg and can be found in his book, Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve.

Learn why every parent, teacher, and therapist - heck, anyone who works with or interacts with children - should read this fabulous book by Dr. Mona Delahooke about why we need to look beyond (below) behaviors to understand what's really going on with our children and why they are behaving the way they are. 

Learn a short EFT Tapping routine to quickly release stress from your body. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT or Tapping) has been proven to reduce cortisol levels, send calming signals to the brain, and change brain wave states. It can be learned quickly and can be used anytime, anywhere, at no cost.