I am almost done watching the trainings inside the classroom. Here are a few of my reflections: Why I’m excited about attunement training: 1. 1. I’ll deepen my understanding of relational health and have an opportunity to work toward healing and reconciliation within my family of origin. 2. 2. I’ll learn the TIARA approach and bring those skills to the individuals and families I support as a burnout recovery advisor. 3. 3. I’ll be better equipped to help providers attune to their own bodies and environments, as well as to the people in their care. 4. Three things I’ve learned from the videos so far: 1. 1. To depersonalize a reactive moment by decoding what is happening and responding with care. (depersonalize, decode,nurture) 2. 3. 2. To recognize disconnection in the moment and practice nervous sytem regulation practices 4. 5. 3. That healing my relationship with my former spouse may support greater balance in masculine and feminine dynamics, creating more room for growth and healing.

I have watched all the training in Why Tiara, Restore, and Activate! I am excited about attunement because I can make my own bonds with my kids and husband even stronger, and I can level up my bonds with my brothers who themselves have children. I am hoping to connect more deeply with my sisters who are much younger than me and who both have significant mental health issues (we had one sister die of an overdose at age 28 which we have never fully processed I don't think. I was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of months after her death and I do feel they are related). She has two kids who I have formed bonds with (their dad struggles greatly with mental health) so I am sure he would be keen to learn about attunement as well and I am hoping to help them heal from their Mum's death (their dad shit talks my sister all the time). From a professional perspective I want to be a better foster parent and I want to help my kids be the best foster siblings they can be. I want to help foster parents have a sense of agency in their roles which can feel so heavy at times. Things are so disjointed and care is very reactive, so if I can do anything to break this constant cycle of reactivity, the pathologisation of children who basically become label collectors in their time in care, and help foster parents stay fostering because they are less burnt out, then I would consider that a massive win. From the videos... There is of course complexity in how we think about the ideas of attunement in specific contexts, but the underlying principles are very clear. We are naturally nurturing beings - this has been trained out of us as a race, we need to get it back. This, as far as I believe, is pivotal to our survival as a human race. There is no such thing as fixed or broken - I have always believed this but it is good to have that validated because it is NOT how the current system is set up. Diagnose..treat...send on their way... like a conveyor belt which no one has thought to get off of. This is allowing me to build on the stuff I leave learnt elsewhere in IFS which also strongly resists pathologising people. It also validated what I have been thinking about for a number of years as my own children have grown up, which is that it isn't my job to fix everything for them, they have to be able to own their own problems and I cannot carry everybody's problems in order to make myself "lovable" by being "useful". One thing it has also cemented is permission to express the fact that my needs matter too but in a way which everyone can win. If one person "wins" and one "loses" then everyone has lost.

Hey everyone! I just finished the “Why Attunement Works” 🎉 Here’s what I’ve watched 👇 ✅ The Attunement Origin Story Interview ✅ Integrative Psychiatry Didactics 1 ✅ Integrative Psychiatry Didactics 2 ✅ Principles and Benefits of The Attunement Model ✅ Preventing ODD Through the Attunement ✅ Bonus: Family Proximity ✅ Partner in Bringing Attunement to Your Community ⸻ Here are some of my comments 👇 I am so excited about Attunement because: 1. It will help me continue to build the relationships between my family and my girlfriend 2. It will equip me with the necessary tools, resources, and methodologies for my clients (I serve veterans specifically) 3. I believe it will ultimately help shape the entire mental healthcare system. Going from "treatment" to prevention and reversal. Three things I learned from the videos are 👇 1. No one is truly "disordered", as we live in an ordered world. 2. The current system is binary, saying "you have this disorder" or you don't. This effectively dehumanizes the person. The Attunement Model instead shares a "Stress Continuum" that every human experiences, regardless of previous mental diagnoses. 3. Since I work with veterans, it gave me a clearer insight of how this model can truly help reverse mental illness in this community, not just by working at the individual level, but looking at the family dynamics of the spouse and child(ren). Here’s a question about Attunement I have for the community: I do have certain discernments with what specific practices I'd like to introduce to my clients, particularly when it comes to spiritual/yogic practices. Throughout this training moving forward, is there an expectation of introducing those practices to my clients? Or is there optionality?