282: What To Do In High Stress & Overwhelming Situations

In this week's episode of the Old Souls & Seekers podcast, we're happy to share with you a conversation on how to deal with highly stressful and overwhelming situations in a way that is empowering and helps you stay centered.

A couple of events happened this last week that was very challenging for Ilan's son. As he's just started sixth grade he experienced some events at school that was upsetting and painful.

In today's episode, we dive into one of the more painful things you can experience as a parent that makes you feel helpless and can stir up a lot of anger.

We believe that everything in life is a teaching moment. Everything is here to teach you a lessonIlan Ferdman

We've all to some degree experienced traumatic experiences at school where we've been mistreated, threatened, or picked on. And these experiences can become deeply ingrained in our identity and haunt us for the rest of our lives.

So, in this conversation, we want to share with you how to show up as a parent in these types of experiences and also how to heal them if you experienced them a long time ago. We give you tools and techniques that can be life-changing both for you and your kids. Tune in!

Episode Timestamps:

3.00 Ilan shares a story about his sons hard experience at school 

15.00 Guy shares his insights on the events

30.00 Ilan’s ability to guide his son through the trauma

36.00 How Guy parents his 4-year old kid

45.00 Taking ownership

We can train you how to regulate your own nervous system. Your parents didn’t have any of this training. If you learn these simple pratices that will help you heal, the impact on your surroundings is massiveGuy Ferdman

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