Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhen Our Nervous Systems Hijack Our Parenting - Revisit
Episode 274
If you’ve yelled at your kid, you’re not a bad parent. You’re a good parent with an overwhelmed nervous system. In today’s revisit from the Good Insi…
2 months ago
Why Am I Always on the Edge?
Episode 273
Your kid hits. Melts down the second you leave the house. Argues about everything, all day, every single day. You've tried the time-outs, the consequ…
2 months, 1 week ago
When Depression Doesn't Look Like Depression
Episode 272
What does depression look like? It’s not always… sadness. It can be anger. Irritability. Picking fights. Checking out. Taking risks that don't make s…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Sex? After Kids? Tell Me More, Esther Perel - Revisit
Episode 271
What happens when two become three, or four, or five? Who is responsible for the needs and wants of a couple when days are filled with playdates, pic…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Belle Burden: The Burden of Being the "Good Girl"
Episode 270
Belle Burden was, by her own account, the good girl. Quiet, compliant, the kid who wrote her own book report and did her homework on Friday afternoon…
3 months ago
You Are the Technology That Builds Your Child's Brain
Episode 269
There's a lot of noise about what AI will do to jobs. What will it do to one of the most important jobs in the world: parenting?
Dr. Dana Suskind is…
3 months, 1 week ago
Great Dads Are Made, Not Born: The Neuroscience of Fatherhood
Episode 268
When a woman becomes a mother, her brain physically reorganizes around the baby. We've known this for a while. What we didn't know (until recently) i…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Are You Pushing Your Kid or Managing Your Fear?
Episode 267
“If I don’t push my kid, they’ll waste their potential.” A lot of us believe this. But is it true?
Myleik Teele joins Dr. Becky to work through a que…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Never Off Duty: Perfectionism and Motherhood
Episode 266
Dr. Cassidy Freitas grew up watching her mom — a Hispanic judge who fought her way into white male spaces with no margin for error — come home carryi…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Stop Trying to Make Your Kids Creative
Episode 265
Parents are being sold creativity like it's a subscription box. Workshops, kits, frameworks, scripts: the message being that your kid needs more imag…
4 months ago