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There’s one word I want you to remember. It’s not trendy. It’s not inspirational. But if you understand what it means—and how it shows up in your parenting —it will change everything.
These responses don’t mean you’re broken. They don’t mean you’re a bad parent.
They mean your trauma app has taken over. (For more about how to handle dispoportionate parenting reactions, click here .)
If you grew up in chaos, neglect, rejection, or unpredictability, your trauma app learned to spot danger fast. Sometimes it kept you safe. Sometimes it made you hypervigilant, over-apologetic, dissociative, explosive, or over-controlled.
