Hypnotherapy for Coregulation: a 15 Minute Repair

Coregulation is one of the most important concepts in developmental psychology, and one of the least understood. The simplest definition: a child's nervous system uses its parent's nervous system as a tuning fork. When the parent is calm, the child can borrow that calm. When the parent is dysregulated, the child has no calm to borrow.This is not a moral statement. It is a physiological fact. Children's brains, until roughly the age of seven, cannot fully self-regulate. They are wired to regulate through co-presence with a regulated adult.What this means in practice is that the most important parenting work is not what you say to them. It is the state your body is in when you are in the room.This session is for building, in your body, the felt sense of being the ground. The steady one. The one whose nervous system the child can borrow from.