Parenting after Challenging Circumstances

Watch ammi’s session on ‘Parenting after Challenging Circumstances’ in collaboration with Dr. Kara Davey, a clinical psychologist and coach. Gain a deeper understanding of birth/early parenting/fertility challenges, factors that might affect parenting, impact of trauma and of difficult life events on well-being. Learn how to improve social and psychological resources, threat regulation, and how to develop coping strategies to deal with the common effects of challenging experiences.
00:00 Introduction
4:01 Agenda
4:55 Audience chat about challenging situations experienced during parenthood journey
6:20 Fertility challenges
8:41 Challenging birth and/or early parenting challenges
10:07 Other factors that might affect parenting
13:30 Transitioning to parenthood
16:13 The impact of difficult life events on well-being
17:42 Regulating threat
19:20 How trauma affects us
23:20 Audience chat about difficult experiences and their impact on parenting
25:02 Common effects of challenging experiences
28:12 Common effects of challenging experiences in pregnancy, labour, post birth on parenting
33:28 Audience chat about coping strategies
34:43 What can help to reduce the impact on you
43:29 Battery Exercise
44:10 The Healthy Mind Platter
44:40 Improving Psychological Resources
45:12 Improving Social Resources
46:20 Improving Physical and Practical Resources
46:32 Closing: Coping Strategies