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I help cycle breakers give their kids a childhood they won’t have to heal from! This page is not a replacement for therapy.

If you have a mental health emergency, or experiencing a crisis, please call 9-8-8 or 9-1-1. This page is not equipped for crisis response. Messages here are checked sporadically, and I cannot guarantee when I will return a message. This is my business online parent coaching page. I also am a clinical therapist in Missoula Montana. If you are a current or past client, I do not respond to messages on Facebook.

11/04/2025

👋 Hey!

I am thrilled to announce that my episode on just dropped this morning!

💖 It was an incredible experience sharing my insights, stories, and perspectives with all of you.

We had an interesting conversation and talked about the great city of together.

⏰ If you haven’t listened yet, now is the perfect time to tune in and come along on this podcast adventure with me!

I want to express my sincere gratitude to the amazing hosts, and
, for the warm welcome and for providing such an incredible platform to share my
story.

✨ It’s an honor to be a part of community. ✨

10/25/2025

😘I see you — the parents doing everything they can to make ends meet, juggling work, care, school, and hope.

I’ve been there. Programs like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helped me keep food on the table when every dollar was already spoken for.

🥰 The day I no longer needed those benefits, I felt proud — not because receiving help was shameful, but because I had finally reached a place where I could stand on my own.

🛟That’s what safety nets are for: to help us get through and move forward.

That’s why part of my practice includes helping outside my sliding scale when I can — because support matters.

💻If you need help finding resources, findhelp.org is a good place to start.

💗And if you’re in a position to give, supporting programs that meet families where they are can change lives.

10/14/2025

💖You don’t have to micromanage your kid’s every move to be a good parent.

Stepping back isn’t giving up — it’s giving them room to grow. 🌱

Real confidence doesn’t come from us doing it for them.

It comes from them realizing, “I’ve got this.” 💪

Take a breath and exhale. You’ve got this too. 💛

09/04/2025

Fantastic!!!

Mel Moon Comedy best ever!

https://www.facebook.com/melmooncomedian/videos/1031525742088973/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

09/03/2025

✨ Risky play isn’t reckless — it’s how kids learn courage, self-regulation, and resilience.

🌳From climbing high to disappearing around corners, 🚴‍♂️ kids naturally seek just enough fear to grow—and research shows it benefits emotional and physical development.

Ellen Sandseter describes six types of risky play—
1. heights,
2. speed,
3. tools,
4. elements,
5. rough‑and‑tumble, and
6. disappearing

—that spark joy and build real-life skills.

Evolutionary studies and animal research show that as structured play increases, free play decreases.

And risky play deprivation leads to anxiety, depression, and behaviors that struggle with fear, and lowered emotional resilience.

😬 Yet letting children take risks often feels terrifying. Parents face their own fears, overwhelming community scrutiny, and even the threat of CPS. 🚨

But here’s the truth: children are experts at knowing their edge.

They dose themselves with just the right amount of challenge—and stop when it’s too much. 🛑

👉🏻👉🏻In fact, they’re often safer in free play than in adult-directed sports.👈🏻👈🏻

Protecting kids doesn’t mean removing all risk. (Definitely remove HAZARDS).

It means creating brave spaces where they can stretch, explore, and say, “I can handle this.”

Risky play isn’t the opposite of safety—it’s the path to true resilience. 🦸‍♀️ 🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♀️

09/02/2025

🌱 Children hold stories in their bodies and play.

Sometimes the “problem” a caregiver brings them to therapy for is just the surface.

In play therapy, deeper layers often emerge—things that words can’t yet reach but show up in themes, movement, and patterns of play.

Over the years, I’ve witnessed children and toddlers work through and integrate experiences that shaped them long before they had words for it:

➡️ Early birth experiences, like cesarean delivery, or other complications and interventions.

➡️ Medical trauma from birth defects or ongoing procedures.

➡️ Generational wounds

➡️ Conception and pregnancy stressors, including IVF struggles, or being unwanted.

➡️ Adoptee grief and loss.

Through play, children find ways to express these imprints, release what overwhelms them, and re-pattern how their nervous systems carry it.

💞 When this happens, the symptoms that first brought them to therapy—nightmares, meltdowns, anxious thoughts, defiance or resistance behaviors—often decrease or resolve.

👉🏻 It’s not about me fixing them.

🪷 It’s about creating a safe, attuned space where their own innate healing and integration can emerge.

🎨 That’s the beauty and the power of play.

09/01/2025

✨What research and experience show us about awareness before birth, during birth, and in early life—and why it matters.✨

Awareness doesn’t begin at birth.

Research in the field of prenatal and perinatal psychology by pioneers like Thomas Verny, David Chamberlain, Wendy McCarty/Ray Castellino and William Emerson and in the field of Consciousness Studies (see my previous slide set on Jenny Wade’s work, which continues here), shows that consciousness exists even before conception and continues after death.

🎶 Babies in utero respond to music, language rhythms, stress, and joy. 💞

At birth, they imprint experiences of safety—or overwhelm—into their bodies, shaping a template for life.

➡️ Newborns live in connection, not separation.

➡️ Feelings are experienced through body and relationship.

➡️ What parents feel and believe at conception, pregnancy, and birth matters.

The good news? 💡 Even when early imprints are difficult (unplanned conception, stressful pregnancy, traumatic birth), healing is possible.

🌀 Through play, relationship, and attuned presence, children can re-pattern those experiences.

🪷 In my work with Synergetic Play Therapy, I hold space for the full spectrum of what children bring—including echoes of these earliest imprints.

Play becomes the language of integration, safety, and belonging. 🌱

You don’t have to stay stuck in early templates. Healing happens when those first imprints are met with compassion, safety, and connection.

08/30/2025

🤷🏼‍♀️ Why don’t they “get it”?

😣 Sometimes when we’re trying to explain ourselves, it feels like the other person just can’t understand.

It’s not always stubbornness—it may be that they’re operating from a different level of consciousness.

👩‍🏫 Two decades ago, developmental psychologist Jenny Wade, in her class and groundbreaking book Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness, changed my life.

📕 In her book, she maps how human awareness evolves in levels of complexity.

🌀 Each mindset—there are more but here I’ll just discuss Conformist, Affiliative, Achievement, Authentic—brings new capacities, while still drawing on earlier ones.

💡 This means:

🫡 Someone in a Conformist mindset may value rules and traditions above all else.

🏆 Someone in an Achievement mindset may be focused on success and results.

💞Someone in an Affiliative mindset may prioritize harmony and belonging.

🌀Authentic mindset integrates paradox and difference, holding space for growth and complexity.

When mismatches happen, it’s like a high schooler explaining algebra to a sixth grader—it’s not that one is better, it’s that they’re working with different tools.

Recognizing this can bring more patience, humility, and compassion to our relationships—and help us notice where we might be ready to grow, too.

🤔 Curious? This framework shapes how I hold space in Synergetic Play Therapy—because kids arrive with profound awareness, and adults are constantly evolving, often through the crises that stretch us into new mindsets.

👉🏻 Follow so you don’t miss the rest of this series when I share about the early awareness of your child and how it affects their development and healing!

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I believe children and babies deserve to be respected, and regarded as human beings in their own right, from the get go. I do everything I can to educate community members and parents on where we fall short of providing our children with this respect, in how we birth them, raise them, allow them to become educated, and allow them to play freely, and how we teach them how to be in this world socially. I am not currently taking clients, however I am happy to answer questions. I will be sharing blog posts, articles, and ideas here, and on my website at http://dylanannspradlin.com. Please consider signing up for my newsletter so you don’t miss a blog post! You can do that here: http://dylanannspradlin.com/sign-up/