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We are excited to have Adrienne Moore from The Center for Healing and Justice through Sport back on Spill the TEA. Our co-hosts continue their conversation with Adrienne in part 2, where she opens up about her personal journey, provides coaches with new resources, discusses ways to encourage girls to participate in sports, and dives into the book What Happened to You with us. Get your favorite drink and join us- we saved a seat for you.

Check out the new Coach's resource Noting Heals Like Sport here. 
"After more than three years of living through a global health emergency – which caused both an unimaginable amount of direct loss and laid bare the inequity of social structures that have systematically and intentionally traumatized and marginalized minority groups for centuries – young people are struggling. Struggling to carry the weight of the chaos, of the disruption, of the trauma.

In today’s climate, we’re asking more of coaches than ever before. Modern coaching has proven to all that the quality of the coach-athlete relationship is the primary predictor for an athlete’s performance. And without an expanded tool set, coaches can feel frustrated as they work to meet the diverse needs of their athletes.

Nothing Heals Like Sport – A New Playbook for Coaches gives coaches these tools.

These are the tools that help them center their athletes and understand what happens as athletes develop. These are the tools to support athletes through adversity- whether that adversity comes only on the court or is part of their athlete’s lived experience. These are the tools that help coaches, so coaches can then help athletes.

Our partnership with Dr. Bruce D. Perry M.D., Ph.D., and the Neurosequential Network has fueled the development of this playbook. These skills and strategies are an intentional merging of Dr. Perry’s core, groundbreaking concepts and the coaching expertise and connected community of the Center for Healing and Justice through Sport.

We believe these tools will help YOU so that you can then support your athletes in all the ways a modern athlete requires. We also know that when your athletes feel supported and take ownership of their team, you win more games (a lot more games). The spaces where athletes perform their best athletically are exactly those spaces where they feel safe, seen and encouraged to be their whole selves. They are the spaces of healing-centered, brain-based coaching. ~Center for Healing & Justice Through Sport"

Grab a warm drink and join us- we saved a seat for you. Don't forget to stay updated with Spill the TEA by following us on Facebook at Women Gathering and Growing with TEA or on Instagram at Grow with TEA.

Join our cohosts for a conversation about healing in sports, brain science, ACE's, stress, and replicable tactics for healing.
 
When you think about the last sports team you watched or played on, did you consider that sports could play a role in healing trauma?  Neither did our co-hosts until listening to this week's guest Adrienne Moore.  Adrienne works for the Center for Healing and Justice in Seattle Washington. The CHJS mission is to make sports healing for all youth, everywhere, through training, consulting, and movement building. 

Grab your favorite beverage, and settle in- we saved a seat for you...

Grab a warm drink and join us- we saved a seat for you. Don't forget to stay updated with Spill the TEA by following us on Facebook at Women Gathering and Growing with TEA or on Instagram at Grow with TEA.

Was there one person in your childhood who you knew you could go to when you were in distress? You knew they would listen and allow you to have your feelings, providing comfort and support. This person represented a secure base in a world that may have been chaotic, confusing and scary. It turns out that having a secure base during your childhood makes all the difference in your whole outlook on life and relationships.  

Kevin and Niseema welcome Drs. Howard and Miriam Steele who have made it their life's work to study the benefits of having a secure base and what happens when there is none.  They have studied and developed effective ways to support parents learning the skills of being a secure base for their children and in the process learn what it means to be humble.

When parents are no longer afraid of their children and children no longer afraid of their parents then a whole new relationship is possible. A relationship that relies on co-operation, joy and a genuine interest in the emotional worlds of each other. 

Stay tuned for next week where we will expand on the ramifications of a world where striving for independence has eroded the human need for interdependence and community.
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Howard Steele, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Clinical Psychology, at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At the New School. Dr. Steele co-directs (with Dr. M. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Howard Steele is also senior and founding editor of the international journal, Attachment and Human Development, and founding president of the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, www.seasinternational.org

Miriam Steele, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, at the New School for Social Research where she co-directs (with Dr. H. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Miriam Steele is also an Anna Freud Center trained psychoanalyst. Miriam initiated the London Parent-Child Project, a major longitudinal study of intergenerational patterns of attachment, and has also carried out longitudinal attachment research in the context of child maltreatment and adoption.

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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488. 

These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing. 

Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email. 

Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology

The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:

Engineering: Geoff Brady

Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon 

Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello

Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com

Listeners will get a brief, 3 min, overview of what it means to keep PYD at the center of youth work. We then interview our expert on the topic, Nila Cobb with West Virginia Extension, regarding how she has successfully led with purpose in her career to keep positive youth development the focus of youth programming.  Lastly, we take what we have covered and apply it to our daily practice. To go directly to the individual segments, see the following splits: Segment 1 start :45/Segment 2 start 6:05/Segment 3 start 31:50.

Join us for our interview of Richard D. Smith, national speaker for the African American Community on mental health issues and intergenerational trauma. 
Asking "what happened to you?" as opposed to "what's wrong with you?" is the beginning of understanding and diffusing aggressive behaviors, all of which are rooted in trauma response.  When you stop and ask this question it can be an awakening to self-awareness. As a speaker, professor, community advocate and childhood trauma survivor Richard teaches us about the revolutionary act of self love. 

Follow Richard D. Smith on Instagram @rsspeaks, www.rsspeaks.com
PR contact: Kashanna Evans pr@kissinglions.com

For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488. 

These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing. 

Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email. 

Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax

End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology

The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:

Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon 

Engineering: Geoff Brady

Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello

Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com

This week's episode comes from a listener suggestion who emailed Ameé and said "Can you please interview Anna Runkle? Her Crappy Childhood Fairy course changed my life!" 

Anna Runkle is a coach and writer who recovered from her own Childhood PTSD and teachers others to heal the brain dysregulation that so often flows from early trauma and change self-defeating behaviors common to people with Childhood PTSD.

For anyone who's listened to the Season 2 monologue Ameé did, you would have heard Ameé share a particular moment in her life experiences that stood out and had lifelong consequences because as it would be determined 40 years later in therapy, the experience and the lack of caregiving following became a post-traumatic stress disorder for Ameé. 

In fact, many adults have had traumatic and adverse experiences growing up that have gone unrecognized for decades that have created long-term problems for them such as emotional dysregulation, problems with focus that may have been misdiagnosed as ADD or ADHD, as well as anxiety and depression. 

In this episode, you will hear:

• The differences here between the PTSD we are familiar with veterans, first responders, victims of violence, etc. versus the traumas of childhood that have similar impacts on the brain of a child.
• What kinds of events can be viewed as traumatic for children that adults might not see in that way 
• What are the signs an adult may have unhealed PTSD
• Strategies for gaining control and starting the healing process 

https://www.ameequiriconi.com/

Anna's The Crappy Childhood Fairy YouTube Channel 

https://crappychildhoodfairy.com/