"Hope shines bright in the journey to find calm and rebuild resilience, even in our stressed-out world." 🐚 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Excessive stress disrupts homeostasis, affecting self-awareness deep within the Gray Brain. Let's delve into restoration." 💫 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is World Teacher’s Day. Your mission today: find a teacher, any teacher, and thank them. 🍏 #SelfReg

"Unlock the power of the Interbrain: a superpower for turning off stress responses and providing restoration." 💝 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"The greatest benefit that we have seen in all the Self-Reg work we've done with educators is how much they benefit personally from the experience of doing Self-Reg." 🪴 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Happy World Vegetarian Day! I only have one thing to say to non-vegetarians: “You have no idea what you’re missing.” 🥕 #SelfReg

Happy International Translation Day! 🌱 Every time one of my books is translated I vibrate at the thought of all the lives that might be changed. How can I ever thank my translators for such a priceless gift?

"I worry about a generation all hearing the constant stream of success messages pouring in their ears, without any awareness of the amount of toil and hardship it takes to achieve success. Or the disappointment and disillusion that so often occur afterwards if it was only success that was wanted." 💫

"Self-Reg is not a method for controlling Instant Gratification, it is a method of depriving it of its fuel and of reducing our vulnerability to dopamine-hijacking by restoring homeostasis." 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Stress is a dynamic phenomenon. Hence, we must never assume that a stimulus constitutes the same amount of stress for any two children." ☀️ #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Fear paralyzes children, they retreat from others and resort to maladaptive self-regulation diminishing their capacity to be resilient." ✨ #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Rosh Hashana begins today. 💜 Listen carefully to the shofar, which Rabbi Kook taught is the sound of someone groaning in a state of anguish and grief. What you are feeling is the impact of limbic resonance. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?si=JLd...

"But at any age a child or teen can transition, with the aid of sensitive Interbrains, from maladaptive to healthy modes of self-regulation." 🪴 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"The contrast we are concerned with is not between a resilient child and a non-resilient child. The contrast is between when a child is resilient and when a child is not." 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"While the limbic system may be primitive, it isn’t stupid. Just as it “remembers” experiences which required huge effort and minimal reward, so too it “remembers” experiences where there was no effort but maximal reward." 💝 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is International Day of Democracy. 💫 I have fought for democracy my entire life. because of the blessings that democracy has given me, my loved ones, my society.

"Motivation is more about the assessment of difficulty than the size of the reward." 💫 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca] 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Happy Selichot. Every day should be a day of self-reflection and introspection. Selichot reminds us why. ✨

"If what we’re after is the long-lasting benefits of self-motivation, we are going to have to help teens themselves start thinking in Triune terms." 💫 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"So many of the behaviours we see in children today seem inexplicable until we realize that we are dealing with the effects of excessive stress." 💫 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is Suicide Prevention Day. 🌱 Every single one of us must learn Self-Reg so that we prevent the trajectory that leads to the tragedy of suicide.

"Self-Reg helps teachers recognize and respond to their students' needs, improve their relationships, and ultimately, help their students learn how to care for themselves: i.e., how to self-regulate." 🪴 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Happy Grandparents Day! It’s official, Jasper Stuart Asher Shanker has made Ginny and me Bubby and Zaide. 💫

Today is International Day of Charity. 💝 My goal for #SelfReg is that every one of us has charity emblazoned in our soul and not just in our hearts.

"One of the most important aspects of the phenomenal response to TMC that we've seen is how much teachers are applying Self-Reg strategies to deal with their own stress." 🪷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"The whole point of Self-Reg is to provide the conceptual tools needed to reframe behaviour: to recognize the critical difference between misbehaviour and stress-behaviour." 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Self-Reg enables teachers to recognize and communicate with students who have "gone limbic," and help them transition back into "learning brain."" 💫 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"We are sending children into the world with not just values. We want them to be rational. We're not just trying to fill them with knowledge. We are trying to have them leave us with the ability to choose, to be able to think through their choices." 🌱 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"The Victorian view of stress: somehow stress is this force that is grinding us down." 💫 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Happy #NationalDogDay! 🐶 To all the dogs who have given so many humans so much love: thank you!

"It really isn’t about the mistakes that we may have made, or things that we could have done better. It's about now." 💝 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Self-Reg is about hope. Hope comes because what the new science is teaching us is that we can always change a trajectory, we can always move forward." ☀️ #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Part of the magic of Self-Reg comes from letting go of and moving beyond any kind of self-control bias that we’ve inherited." 🪴 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is #WorldHumanitarianDay. 🌍 The goal of Self-Reg is to make humanitarians of each and every one of us.

"To deal with stress, you need to have energy to stay in Homeostasis and to recover from the stress." 💫 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Can you bring us full circle on this idea of stress and what restoration is and where this all fits?" 🐚 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"There are three major causes for the sorts of meltdowns we are seeing. The first one is stress. The second one is maladaptive modes of self-regulation. The third one is the lack of oxytocin." 🪷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is #InternationalYouthDay, a Call to Arms. Learn Self-Reg so that you can help all the youth that are struggling today. There are a lot of them. 🍏

"The original function of dopamine, we call it the SEEKING mechanism. Dopamine drives us to SEEK energy. When dopamine is triggered, it causes a certain behaviour that impels us to get what we want." 🌱 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Happy #BookLoversDay! 📚 I read books every day, write books every day, cherish books every day.

"The greatest benefit that we have seen in all the Self-Reg work we've done with educators is how much they benefit personally from the experience of doing Self-Reg." ☀️ #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"You can only share calmness; you can only bring calmness to a school if you yourself are calm." 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"You bring your calmness into an entire school. But only if you genuinely are calm. That calm will only come from understanding, truly understanding in this personal embodied sense what Self-Reg is all about." 🍏 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is #TerryFoxDay. 🎽 To understand Canadians, look at our greatest hero.

Happy #NationalSisterDay, Shush. I love you dearly. 💝

"You cannot will yourself to be calm. You cannot become calm through an act of self-control." 🕊️ #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

We have a Self-Reg community now around the world. Find someone in a country remote from yours and reach out to them. Self-Reggers of the World, Unite! 💫 #InternationalFriendshipDay

How I spent my Sunday: baking a seeded sourdough. I took this in front of my toaster oven so you could all get a sense of the size! 🍞

"Instead of looking at our students as making bad choices, not having the sort of moral values that would lead them to make good choices, we see that they are not choosing. We see that their behaviours are caused. These are Red Brain behaviours, not Blue Brain choices." 🪷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"When students are overstressed, the Red Brain is in charge and the Blue Brain is pulled along." 🧠 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]