Eps 537: Unlocking youth mental health with Lori Baudino
Episode 540
My guest today is Dr. Lori Baudino and we’re talking about youth mental health. We chat about teaming up with your child – it’s you & your teen against a challenge, not each other. Dr. Baudino shares ways to find predictability in the bumpy teen years and her “Person, Place, Plan” strategy. We talk about toddler/teen parallels and share some ways to connect with your adolescent.
Guest Description
Dr. Lori Baudino has been a practicing clinician for over 20 years. Her professional work fuses integrative health into hospital care, private practice, parent education, academic teaching, and global outreach.
Dr. Baudino’s work is grounded in the belief that the mind, body, and spirit are interconnected. She uses an embodied methodology to support social, emotional, physical, and cognitive health, which promotes greater awareness and connection.
Dr. Baudino is a leading advocate for integrating movement and body awareness into psychotherapeutic practice. Her work is helping to change the way we think about health and healing, and she is inspiring people all over the world to celebrate and move together!
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Takeaways from the show
- The interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit
- Observing how your adolescent moves through the world and knowing their coping mechanisms & sensory profile
- DANCE = differentiate, attach, narrate, consciousness, empathic engagement
- Thoughtfully bringing lightness to your relationship
- “Person, Place, & Plan” strategy
- Your teen wants to be in relationship with you
- When coping skills are (or seem) destructive
- Teen years are messy for all families – it’s the terrain
- Introducing some gray to an adolescent stuck in a black & white mindset
- Dr. Baudino’s new book: Moving Moments in Childhood
What does joyful courage mean to you
Gosh, I can viscerally feel joyful courage. To me, joyful courage is about exploring new territories. Me, personally, I’m fortunate enough to do that with my family. We just lived in New Zealand for a year and went to the Green School there. Joyful courage is saying yes to things. Really saying yes to opportunities and not feeling like it’s a luck thing or something that you have to feel like is scary. Today, anyone listening, goes out and says, “I’m just going to say yes today. Yes, I’m going to try that on.” Or your child says, “Can we do this?” And you say, “Yes, let’s find a way to figure it out.” It doesn’t mean yes exactly in that moment, but that to me, that’s joyful courage.
Resources
“Moving Moments in Childhood” Book
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