2512: How to Raise Healthy & Resilient Children with Erica Komisar

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

How to Raise Healthy & Resilient Children with Erica Komisar

What inspired her to write her book ‘Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters’. (1:54)
The first 3 years are the first CRITICAL period of brain development. (4:52)
Various attachment disorders. (10:33)
Defining ‘learned helplessness’. (13:35)
The myths that children need daycare. (15:15)
Sleep with your children. (18:18)
Why little boys are more sensitive. (21:07)
Social-emotional development has to proceed with cognitive development. (24:59)
Regulating toughness and aggression. (28:24)
Mothers are the love objects of attachment, and fathers are the love objects of separation. (32:13)
Advocating for the importance of paid leave. (34:37)
The lost instinct. (37:53)
The causes of postpartum. (43:53)
Breastfeeding is best. (47:55)
The birthing effects on attachment. (51:49)
What can fathers do in the first three years to support? (54:46)
Young children benefit from being talked to. (57:14)
The greatest gift you can give your children. (59:15)
Can you repair attachment issues from the first three years? (1:00:07)
In adolescence, you have a second chance. (1:01:45)
The importance of the friends your kids choose. (1:04:12)
The impact of technology. (1:07:19)
Are children’s tantrums a reflection of the parents? (1:14:16)
Gentle separation process. (1:16:47)
Building the foundation of resilience. (1:18:45)

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Erica Komisar, LCSW (@ericakomisar) Instagram
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0:00.0	If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
0:06.3	Mind Pump.
0:07.0	Mind Pump with your hosts.
0:09.2	Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.4	You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast.
0:17.3	This is Mind Pump.
0:18.3	In today's episode, we have a special guest.
0:20.6	So in 2023, the guys and i went to
0:23.4	london to the arc event and we heard erika kumissar speak and she blew our minds we wanted her on the show
0:30.2	she's a clinical social worker cycle analyst she works with people for anxiety and depression
0:36.0	she dives into research and she wrote some pretty incredible books.
0:40.3	One of them, which I love, is being there why prioritizing motherhood in the first three years
0:45.9	matters.
0:47.3	She says some controversial things, but it's all backed by data and studies.
0:52.0	And in today's episode, we talk about parenting, raising children, what matters, how to
0:58.1	raise resilient, healthy kids.
1:01.3	Some of what you're going to hear might be counter to what you thought.
1:04.8	But again, she backs it with data.
1:06.7	She knows what she's talking about.
1:08.2	She's one of our favorite guests ever.
1:10.3	By the way, you can find her on Instagram at Erica Comisar.
1:14.0	Comasar, spelled K-O-M-I-S-A-R.
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