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Amy Nyvall

Amy Nyvall

Amy Nyvall is a Connected Families Certified Parent Coach near Portland, Oregon who homeschools her three kids and is founder of the Living Streams Education Retreat.

Aug 26, 2026

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physically painful to us.
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And what happens is, is we don't want to feel pain.
7:29
And so our body responds and it gets flooded with all kinds of chemicals and we get angry and anger actually feels good.
7:36
The chemicals that are poured out into our body actually feel good.
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And we'd much rather feel good than feel pain.
7:42
And so what happens is, as we want that, as we, our bodies learn to respond in that way can actually be difficult to kind of come off of that.
7:50
And so what's happening in those moments is we're going into fight or flight.

7 MINS LATER

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I'll
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Amy, do you have anything to add? I just am thinking about even being an organized person.
9:01
And man, I had to grow in that huge when I got started.
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You know, you get all these books, you get all these crafts.
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And then it's just like, where do you put all this stuff? And those were not skills that came easy to me when my kids were little.
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It felt like a lot, but there is just so much.
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There's just a large arc for growth when you're in it together.
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And oftentimes when I'm coaching a family that's wondering, are we doing okay? I remember asking that, am I doing okay? How are we going? And I say, what is it that you need? Right.

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past just the curriculum.

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