
What Interferes with Development? with Debbie
About this episode
Many of us with good intentions are sabotaging development.
Over time, this can be really discouraging when you’ve invested your time, energy, emotions, and even money, and your neurodivergent young person is still struggling and not making much progress.
Listen in for one of the biggest things we see that gets in the way of development.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
- The biggest thing we see that gets in the way of development.
- Why we don’t develop when we’re in a lower brain / survival state.
- What we do as parents and mentors that can influence or trigger sustained lower brain states.
- When development does happen.
- What you have to navigate to support sustainable development.
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