Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge on Regulating Your Nervous System First

And, and not only us, we need to teach our children how to do this, right?

Absolutely.

We want to as a society have people that are happier.

We want to avoid all these awful things that are happening in our world, including a shooting a day.

Um, just a massive global increase in mental health problems.

And, and a world struggling with attention and focus, and not everybody being neurodivergent, right? Stress can look just like that.

So, you know, in my book, The Dysregulated Kid, it really is a, a book for, for anybody.

Now, obviously there's a lot of parenting advice in there.

But I have it where it, I took the science of how to regulate yourself and I've made it stupid simple, where it is so easy.

And, you know, I love when you said taking a moment to refocus.

This is taking a moment to refocus on your nervous system, which is the base of everything.

You have to regulate first, again, or nothing works.

And so you will gain time back.

I think that's the hard part.

Nobody wants to slow down, but the way the body and brain work is you have to power down a little bit some of the times.

Just like you have to turn off your computer to-

Close the door.

Get in your own space.

Yeah.

You know, uh-

Yeah

... you know, i- i- you know, even there's times I've wanted to go and watch a movie or something, and I'm like, "I have to get this done."

Yeah.

Right? That, so yeah.

But the beauty of this, and I, I had such a terrible day on Monday.