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65. Quiet Isn't Always Calm: Understanding Emotional Shutdown in Our Kids (and Ourselves)
Sometimes what looks like calm isn’t actually calm.
When our children move from screaming, crying, or melting down to suddenly becoming quiet and compliant, it can feel like the storm has passed. But sometimes, instead of moving from the red zone back into calm and connection, they’ve moved into the blue zone—a place of emotional shutdown.
And we can find ourselves there too.
In this episode, we’re talking about some of the ways shutdown can show up through withdrawing, disconnecting, numbing, or people-pleasing—and why learning to notice our emotional “dashboard warning lights” can help us…
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