Trauma-Informed Parenting Preview
Three clinical tools from Chapter 8 — ready to use Monday morning
This month's content drop is a preview of Chapter 8 from the upcoming textbook, The Underrated Superhero: Parenting in Recovery.
These are three clinical tools you can use with clients starting Monday morning — no prep, no training, no paywall. They're designed to work together as one workflow.
This Month's Tools
What's Inside
Download, print, and start using with clients this week.
Understanding Trauma Responses — Infographic
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Fight, flight, freeze, fawn — what they look like in children and parents, and the trauma-informed response for each. Hang it in your office, hand it to a parent, or use it in a psychoeducation group. This isn't the standard trauma response chart — it includes the parent's experience too, because we can't help kids regulate if we're not acknowledging what's happening in the parent's nervous system at the same time.
Download Infographic ↓What I Notice in My Child — Observation Log
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A one-week tracking worksheet where parents log their child's trauma responses in real time. Date, time, trigger, behavior, response type, and what the parent did. Includes a completed example row and a weekly reflection section. Assign it as homework and use it to find patterns together in session.
Download Observation Log ↓Regulate, Relate, Reason — Wallet Card
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The three-step framework for responding to a dysregulated child, condensed onto a business-card-sized reference. Front: the three steps with brief descriptions. Back: how to know your child is ready for the next step, plus a self-check reminder. Based on Dr. Bruce Perry's Neurosequential Model.
Download Wallet Card ↓The Throughline
How They Work Together
These aren't three random resources. They're one clinical workflow:
Teach it. Assign it. Reinforce it. Repeat.
Extras
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Print-Ready Wallet Card — Cardstock File
The same Regulate, Relate, Reason wallet card, formatted with crop marks for professional printing or at-home cardstock. Four cards per page, ready to cut. Print a set for your office, hand them to parents, or keep one in your pocket.
Download Print-Ready File ↓Printed Cardstock Sets
Professional printed wallet cards you can hand directly to clients. No printing, no cutting, no fuss. Available for separate purchase soon.
The Book
Where This Came From
All three tools are from Chapter 8: Trauma-Informed Parenting in The Underrated Superhero: Parenting in Recovery. The book is in development now and covers everything from explaining addiction to children, to co-parenting in recovery, to building resilience and self-care — all through a trauma-informed, harm reduction lens.
More previews are coming. This is just the beginning.