Redefining Success in Parenting: A TraumaWise Panel on Connection, Grief, and Hope
A 2025 TraumaWise Parenting Summit panel reframes parenting success away from performance and toward felt safety, connection, co-regulation, and repair.
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When Your Body Doesn’t Feel Safe: Neurodivergence, Regulation, and Reconnection (with Katherine Connolly)
Somatic clinical counselor Katherine Connolly joins Renae M. Dupuis to explore trauma, neurodivergence, embodiment, and reconnecting with the body gently and without shame.
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Repair Over Rupture: Staying Connected When Caregiving Is Hard (with Dr. David Adams)
Connection is built in the after. Psychologist and adoptive and foster parent Dr. David Adams shares his REPAIR Map and safeguards against compassion fatigue.
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Advocacy Without Burnout: Trauma-Informed IEP Support for Families (with Karen Yingling)
Special education advocate Karen Yingling joins Renae M. Dupuis on how special education and trauma overlap, and why sustainable advocacy includes the whole family.
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Grief and Trauma: Healing Doesn’t Mean “Moving On” (with Maria Belanic)
Grief isn’t a deadline; it’s a companion. Bereaved mom and Certified Grief Educator Maria Belanic shares her CARE framework and body-first supports for living again.
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Boundaries That Regulate: IEP Scripts, “Voicemail First,” and The Long Game (with Karen Yingling)
Advocate Karen Yingling shares co-regulation-first tactics for IEP advocacy: voicemail first, the 24 to 48 hour rule, a short rehearsal script, and the equal-team stance. Part 3 of 3.
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Attunement in the Moment: De-Escalation, Delight & Micro-Repair (with Karen Yingling)
Advocate Karen Yingling maps real-time attunement for meltdowns: staying regulated, offering co-regulation choices, delight, and micro-repair. Part 2 of 3.
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Make Safety Feelable: Safe Adults, Substitutes & the School-Home Team (with Karen Yingling)
Felt safety is a body-level experience. Advocate Karen Yingling unpacks child-defined safe people, substitutes, and why relationship comes before tasks. Part 1 of 3.
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Nervous Systems First: Trauma-Informed Parenting (with Adair Finucane)
Trauma-informed coach Adair Finucane reframes caregiving as “nervous systems first”: felt safety, high nurture and high structure, repair, and resonance over calm.
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Rooting in Your Preciousness: Self-Worth, Systems, and Sustainable Care (with Scott Watters)
Counselor and former house parent Scott Watters on caregiving, burnout, delight, and honoring your own needs: you are precious because you are human.
