Stress pushes your nervous system into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. This toolkit identifies seven categories of stress that trigger these states in families, helping you recognize what sets off you, your teens, and everyone else in the house. Emotions are signals, not problems to fix.
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So every family needs the toolkit to understand what stress actually is. It's oftentimes not what you think it is. This is part of the work that you do with me when you work with me. And there are 7 different categories of stress that are running the show. 7. And stress is not necessarily good or bad. It's a trigger that prompts us to be out of balance in our own nervous system to perceive Threat, danger, and gets us into fight, flight, freeze, fawn. So there's 7 different categories. And when you work with me, I walk you through this where you understand on an intimate level what's triggering you and what your teen's triggers are, or what the other people in your house, what their triggers are, because emotions are not a problem to fix. They're just simply information, right? That communication is an expression of what we're believing or what we're perceiving. So by the time it's come out as an emotion, there's already stuff beneath the surface that we are believing or that we're perceiving.