If you’ve been giving yourself a hard time for not staying calm, have a listen.

Perhaps being calm is overrated.

It feels so good to stay calm, but calmness doesn’t always fit the situation.  It’s also simply part of the human experience to go through challenges that throw us out of calm, dysregulate us, and leave us feeling off balance and stressed.  The Beatles may have sung about having “nothing to get hung about”, but the truth is there are things in life to get hung about.


I am proud to say that my teenager edited and published this episode for me. In our excitement of working together (and my impatience to get it published after a 3 week delay). Congrats on a job well done, Roo!

In this episode,  I talk about:

  • Is staying calm really the goal?

  • When things get hectic, stressful, or exciting, do we “stay” regulated?  Or do we match ourselves to the situation?

  • A 4-stage framework that is an alternative to “staying calm”: Recognize, Recalibrate, Reset, and Nurture

  • The analogy of squeezing a lemon

  • An incident this morning that gave Heather real world practice recognizing, recalibrating, and resetting.

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What you can do next:

  • Provide a review on Apple Podcasts.  It truly makes a difference to reaching families who would benefit from understanding their baby’s sleep better.
  • Book a screening call with Heather (receipts provided for families in many provinces in Canada -email Heather at heather@heatherboyd.ca if you wonder if your province is covered)

Credits: 🎵 Music: Jordan Wood



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