Season 1 | Episode 36 | Special Guest, Ron Deal -- Emotional Coregulation or Self-Regulation?

We welcomed back Ron Deal to the podcast to discuss an important topic that seems to be on everyone's mind (at least in the RT world) -- and that is the paradigm shifting move from emotional coregulation to self-regulation. And Ron helped us dive deep into the topic. If you have never met Ron before, he is the President of Smart Stepfamlies and Senior Director of Family Life Blended. We also had him on this podcast way back in Episode 7. Oh, and lest we forget -- Co-Author of The Mindful Marriage along with his wife Nan, and Terry and Sharon Hargrave. We covered a lot of ground in this conversation about coregulation and self-regulation, but some of the themes that emerged were: Significant paradigm shift of RT towards self-regulation vs coregulation AI as the new coregulatorThe virtue of self-control as critical to emotional self-regulationEmotional self-regulation as practice of discipleshipRon's scuba diving metaphor for self-regulation vs coregulationand much more(see our RT Dialogue Substack for the handout mentioned in episode}Mentioned in the EpisodePracticing the Way by John Mark ComerSelf-Regulation and Self-Control by Roy BaumeisterThe Mindful Marriage by Ron and Nan Deal Meditations by Marcus Aurelius