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11/03/2025

Remember, the goal is not a calm parent. The goal is a connected parent.

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Parenting doesn't mean never losing your cool - it means learning how to find your way back.

When we manage our frustration with awareness and repair, we're modelling something powerful for our children: that emotions can be messy and managed.
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11/03/2025

Being trauma-informed is the first step in helping to heal trauma.

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Types of Trauma: A Teaching Guide

Big-T Trauma
-Definition: Major, life-threatening events.
-Examples: Natural disasters, assault, war.
-Impact: PTSD, anxiety, depression, hypervigilance.

Little-t Trauma
-Definition: Less extreme but emotionally distressing.
-Examples: Divorce, bullying, job loss.
-Impact: Low self-worth, chronic stress, emotional dysregulation.

Acute Trauma
-Definition: A single shocking event.
-Examples: Car accident, sudden death.
-Impact: Intense short-term reactions, possible PTSD.

Chronic Trauma
-Definition: Ongoing exposure to distress.
-Examples: Domestic violence, long-term illness.
-Impact: Emotional numbness, trust issues, physical symptoms.

Developmental Trauma
-Definition: Trauma during early childhood.
-Examples: Neglect, abuse, unstable caregiving.
-Impact: Attachment issues, learning difficulties, emotional instability.

Complex Trauma
-Definition: Multiple, prolonged traumatic experiences.
-Examples: Childhood abuse, trafficking.
-Impact: Identity confusion, emotional dysregulation, dissociation.

Cultural & Historical Trauma
-Definition: Trauma experienced collectively by a group due to systemic oppression, colonization, slavery, genocide, Examples:
- Indigenous communities: Forced removal, boarding schools.
- African American communities: Slavery, segregation.
- Jewish communities: Holocaust.
- Refugees: War, persecution.
- Asian Americans: Internment camps.
- Latinx communities: Immigration trauma.
-Impact: Intergenerational grief, identity loss, mistrust of institutions.
-Healing: Cultural revitalization, community healing, storytelling, advocacy.

Discussion Prompts
- Which types of trauma are most relevant to your work or community?
- How might trauma show up in behavior or relationships?
- What does trauma-informed care look like in practice?

Support & Healing
- Trauma-informed therapy (e.g., TF-CBT, EMDR)
- Mindfulness & grounding techniques

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11/03/2025

Put your own oxygen mask on first!

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11/03/2025

If you get the seasonal blues, check out this free resource to find out your next best steps.

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10/31/2025

Consequences that disrupt our connection with our child, do more harm than good in teaching our children how to behave effectively.

Check out this post from Positive Parenting to learn more!

10/31/2025

Calming is a skill that children learn through co-regulation, or the leadership and participation of a parent or other trusted adult. A child without the maturity, teaching, and practice of the skill, cannot calm without our active help. It happens over years, in baby steps. Calming skills are best learned when practiced often, and not only in the upset moments when the skill is needed.

Here are some helpful phrases to use when co-regulating your child to help calm their emotional brain, as you teach them .

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10/31/2025

Wait, we know those words!

If I speak in the tongues a of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13

10/31/2025

Need help in clarifying your own perspective? Is it hard to hear exactly what the loudest voices in your life are saying, and if it’s even right or true? Check us out at www.christiancounselingmadison.org to explore your options and connect with one of our providers.

10/31/2025

Our brain believes what we tell it to believe, and responds accordingly. Don’t believe it? Try it and see what happens!

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10/31/2025

Do you recognize any of these Four Horsemen in your marriage or relationship? Counseling can help with that! Check us out at www.christiancounselingmadison.com to explore your options and connect with one of our providers.

10/31/2025

Perfection is the enemy of progress, after all!