Becky Kennedy

This is the Rachel Hollis Podcast.

[upbeat music] Just in case someone is living under a rock, Dr. Becky, will you [laughs] will you explain to them who you are and what you do?

I am a clinical psychologist turned disruptor, I would say, in the parenting support [laughs] space.

I am also a mom of three.

I was, like, delivering that very, I would say, behavioral approach to parenting.

But then at, like, seriously my next session of the day, I'd see, Rachel, someone like you in therapy, and it just started to strike me.

Like, let's say you came to me and you said, "Becky, I was, ugh, had a bad week.

I yelled at, I yelled at my mom a lot.

He's been around forever.

Love Becky Kennedy and, and all those guys too, but he's been around forever talking to us about kids and people being able to do well if they can.

And I put a tag along if they have the tools and skills to be able to do well in that moment to begin with.

And oftentimes these kids reach down into their invisible toolbox and And they have a coping skill and they either don't find anything or they'll pull up a tool of running or eloping or whatever it might look like because it's still a tool.

they're trying to keep themselves safe in any way.

That Ross Green book, is it Explosive Child? Is that the one you mean? Yes, yes.

And Becky Kennedy, you know, as well, I love, and let's talk a little bit about those tools that you so much that I want to go back to as well.

Cause I don't know much about, I've not really heard about the phrase too much regressive autism.

It's one that left me with so many new thoughts and things that I wanna do today in my home.

I'm Dr. Becky, and this is another episode in the series How We're Raised, this one with Misty Copeland.

Misty, so you've recently retired from dancing.

You have a four-year-old.

The thing that happens to be loudest for me in my brain right now are kind of the word improv and this thing Misty said toward the beginning, freedom within the form.

I think those two things come into play all the time in parenting.

And, you know, some of my favorite moments when I meet a parent on the street or when I'm talking to a member who's been in the Good Inside app for a while is they'll say something to me like this: "You know, Dr. Becky, the whole, like, close your eyes hack you talk about sometimes, I took it, but honestly it doesn't really work for me.

I have like a different version I do in my house," uh, almost as if they're apologizing.

I feel like I've got it down to like around seven minutes.

Is that a Dr. Becky? think

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might be I'm actually not sure I

Try this one.

And then I had to be a grownup and go talk to Becky Kennedy.

I had to be a grownup and go talk to Sissy Goff here in Nashville.

I had to be a grownup and go learn a whole bunch of skills.