Key points

Human beings have social nervous systems. We feel each other’s activation.

Parents can use some of the same somatic reset strategies as athletes.

Your state of regulation can help induce regulation in those around you.

One of the only things I think I’ve learned in what will, pretty soon, be decades, plural, of work in elite sport is that everybody is human. Everybody. Every Body. (Including the refs!) Which means that we affect each other. Neurobiologically.

I am—alas—not a parent, so I won’t presume to know what it feels like to see your child out on a field of play, being hurt physically or emotionally, getting acknowledged for good or ill or in between. Or not getting acknowledged at all. I won’t presume even to guess what it feels like in your body when this is happeni

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