Jacqueline Weiner, LMFT

11/27/2020

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10/02/2020

Discussing politics and current events with family members isn't always easy. Despite shared genetics, our identities, experiences, and generational

09/30/2020

Truth

09/27/2020

Currently, 1 in 10 children will be sexually abused by the age of 18!
🚫ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH🚫

✅ In efforts to prevent child sexual abuse, it is essential that parents have ongoing, age-appropriate conversations regards body safety.
✅ This includes everyday discussions on concepts related to body safety, consent, secrets and trusted adults.
✅ This includes teaching them correct anatomical body part names, modeling safe and healthy boundaries, emphasizing and supporting their control of their own bodies, identification of trusted adults, and the difference between secrets and surprises.
✅ It is through these continuous daily conversations with your kiddos that the formation of normalcy is generated regarding these vulnerable topics; while most importantly, promoting their safety as well.
✅ Silence perpetuates the cycle of abuse. It is our jobs to end it and begin the conversation - most especially of consent.

09/27/2020

"People often don’t realize they have formed a trauma bond."

09/27/2020

And simple, practical tools to overcome these patterns

03/13/2020

Based on the work of Dr. Daniel Seigal, this is his model that explains how we lose control of our emotions, words, and behaviors when we become emotionally dysregulated.

The lower floors of the brain, the limbic system (emotions and memory) and brain stem (essentially your central nervous system) highjack the upper floor of the brain which houses logic, reasoning, emotion regulation, and overall executive functioning.

Here is a video of Daniel Siegal speaking to his model —> https://youtu.be/gm9CIJ74Oxw