How to Talk to Kids about Being Good Humans Everyday How can we remain mindful when we are rushing around and doing so much as parents? Dr. Robyn Silverman interviews best-selling author, Hunter Clarke Fields, on the How to Talk to Kids about Anything podcast. Hunter’s new book, Raising Good Humans Everyday, is featured Guest Expert: Hunter Clarke Fields As parents, we often think about the big things we’ve done with our kids—the trips, the outings, which school we chose, and wonder, have I done enough? But it’s the little things we do each day that really make the difference. While we are rushing around, and express frustration or may yell or melt down ourselves, because we are human—we may need some extra tools to help us parent with intention. And we get to receive those tools today by the amazing Hunter Clarke Fields who is on our show for the second time with her new book, Raising Good Humans Everyday. Hunter Clarke-Fields is a Mindfulness Mentor, Mindful Mama Podcast Host, Mom, Global Speaker, and Number 1 Bestselling Author of “Raising Good Humans” with a New Book: “Raising Good Humans Every Day” (Aug 1, 2023). Hunter has over 20 years of experience in meditation and yoga practices, and helps moms bring more calm and family cooperation into their daily lives. She is a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, the creator of the Mindful Parenting Course and Teacher Training, and has taught mindfulness to thousands worldwide, including a recent trip to Egypt. Hunter presents talks on parenting, is a certified teacher of Parent Effectiveness Training. In addition, Hunter coaches smart, accomplished, over-stressed individuals on how to cultivate mindfulness. Hunter is the mother of two active daughters, who challenge her every day to hone her craft! Her work has appeared in CNBC Make It, Parade, Paleontology, Motherhood Moment, The Hollywood Digest, along with on ABC Portland, NBC Milwaukee, and CBS South Bend, Kansas Public Radio, and many podcasts. And as part of her self-care, Hunter likes to do Scottish country dancing. Learn more about Hunter at https://MindfulMamaMentor.com Important Message: • MINDFULNESS: Mindfulness is a parental brain hack that we’re not utilizing to the degree that we can. Mindfulness is kind of like the non-reactive muscle. It’s like going to the gym of your mind to be less reactive! • WHO: It’s utilized by surgeons, active-duty military personnel, people in prisons and CEOs, people with very high stress environments for a reason because it really helps us to learn to calm or regulate ourselves in a high stress environment and be able to tolerate some of the challenges and difficulties of a high stress environment. • WHAT IT DOES: It helps us with the sensations and feelings in our body. • NOT ON AUTOPILOT: Normal to react on autopilot. Our stress response system is finally honed by millennia to keep us safe and alive, but is not so helpful and a lot of times in parenting when we want to actually slow down and use our whole brain. and, you know, • MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Mindfulness practice in brain scans show that it actually makes the prefrontal cortex, which is the area involved with executive function, impulse control, problem solving ability, verbal ability, all the things we need to parent. • BRAIN SCANS: Mindfulness makes the prefrontal cortex thicker and stronger. And makes the amygdala, which are these two little almond shaped clusters in our brainstem that are our, like, “oh crap” centers of the brain, the centers of our fight flight or freeze stress response, and makes them shrink- connectivity between the amygdala and the rest of the nervous system shrink as well. So it’s literally reshaping the brain.. • PROCESS: I’m sitting there and all kinds of normal stuff is coming up. I have an idea, I think of things I need to do later, or maybe some, I sense some anxiety arising. I notice all kinds of things and I just practice sitting with it and observing it. So then when you get to a moment
from Dr. Robyn Silverman
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