When the meltdowns won’t stop, know what to do next.

Download The 5-Step Reset, a practical trauma-informed guide for foster, adoptive, and neurodivergent-parenting families.

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Inside the guide

01Regulate yourself first

02Lower the load

03Cue safety through your body and voice

04Move the stress through the body

05Reconnect, then repair

Brainspotting Certified

TBRI & Polyvagal-Informed

25+ Years with Families

Author, “It’s Not Your Fault”

Sound familiar?

You’re doing everything right, and the meltdowns keep coming.

The blow-ups feel out of nowhere.

One minute things are fine. The next, you’re in a full storm, and traditional discipline makes it worse.

You’re the calm one all day.

Co-regulating a nervous system shaped by hard things is exhausting work nobody warned you about.

Most advice doesn’t fit your child.

Generic parenting advice assumes a nervous system untouched by trauma. Your family needs a different approach.

You need help in the moment.

Not another book to finish someday. You need practical words and tools while the meltdown is happening.

Inside the free guide

Five steps you can use the next time things get big.

Grounded in Polyvagal Theory, TBRI, and more than 25 years of family work. Written so you can use it tonight.

01

Regulate yourself first

Settle your own breath and body first, so your calm becomes the evidence your child needs that they are safe.

02

Lower the load

Cut your words, dim the input, and drop every demand that is not about safety, so a flooded brain can settle.

03

Cue safety through your body and voice

Get low, soften your face, and slow your voice. Safety travels through posture and tone, not logic.

04

Move the stress through the body

Use heavy work, rhythm, and pressure to help the body finish the stress cycle it started.

05

Reconnect, then repair

Connect before you correct, name what happened without shame, and show your child that relationships survive hard moments.

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Meet your guide

Maxine Golden

Therapist, Parent Coach and Clinical Director, Center for Parent Coaching

Maxine has spent more than 25 years working with foster, adoptive, and court-involved families. She uses trauma-informed, somatic, and attachment-based approaches to help parents and children reconnect. She is also the author of the children’s book It’s Not Your Fault.

Brainspotting CertifiedTBRI TrainedPolyvagal-InformedAttachment Injury SpecialistPre-Licensed

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