This conversation with fellow mama and Dr. Robin Dickenson, family physician who spent years doing trauma informed care for families breaking generational cycles, explains why (our) shame around puberty, reproduction, and sex education does the damage we don't want to do, and how to help ourselves out of it.
This conversation moves through adverse childhood experiences and why trauma shows up in the body as a physical health risk, not just an emotional one (we can't hear this enough!). It unpacks the difference between limerence, the biochemical spark of new attraction, and real love, and why confusing the two sends people into relationships that were never built to last. HELLO. Why did literally no one ever tell us about this until now, and how incredible we can teach out kids this now. And of course, we land on the idea every kid needs to hear early and often: you are already whole, you were never missing a piece someone else has to complete.
This is for all of us raising kids who want the fear taken out of these talks and replaced with honesty, timing, and age appropriate language that actually works. It's messy, it's real, and it's a reminder that you get to redo the moments you didn't handle well.
I love how down to earth and deeply practical Robin is. She is a(nother) mama who mastered her field, and then said, "we could be doing this better." In addition to this incredible conov, if you want to go deeper you can access age-by-age guides and the many other resources to provide clinical truth to our kids in a protective, age appropriate, and shame-free way. Enjoy the episode!
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