Expert Series Dr. Sarah Levin Allen EPS 05

In the latest episode of the Flip N' Shift Podcast, my guest is America’s Brain Gal, Pediatric Neuropsychologist, Dr. Sarah Levin Allen.  Dr. Allen helps busy parents overcome their fear and anxiety of failing their kids by refocusing their view of parenting with applied brain science.

 

Dr. Sarah is a mom, parent coach, doctoral professor, and school program consultant. She has spent over 15 years studying neuroscience, and is the international best selling author of the book Raising Brains. After experiencing the loss of three children that only lived an hour, her mother’s battles with cancer, the loss of her 29 year old sister to breast cancer, and a divorce, Dr. Allen has both the personal and professional experience to recognize the importance of using the time you have with your children to create meaningful connections that focus on the development of social, emotional, and cognitive brain skills. She helps busy parents and teachers efficiently and effectively learn to look at their kids as little brains so they raise happy, connected, successful humans!

    

 Dr. Sarah’s work has been featured in PopSugar, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philly.com, Lifehacker etc. She has been featured on 6ABC, ABC15, NBC10, Good Day Rochester, Good Day Philadelphia, 957BENFM Her Story, WHYY, The Pulse, NPR, and more!

 

Website:  https://brainbehaviorbridge.com/

 

FACEBOOK handle: https://www.facebook.com/Brainbehaviorbridge

 

IG handle: https://www.instagram.com/dr.sarahlallen/

 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-levin-allen-phd/

 

 

 

Dr. Sarah talks about how she emotionally dealt with losing her twins during pregnancy and then having to process emotions around the birth of her best friend's baby.  She shared her personal journey through grief and loss. 

 

"You have to remember that you can feel multiple things at one time, you can feel happy for someone else, and feel really devastated for yourself at the same time." 17:19

 

"The second thing that we can gain from thinking about our kids as these little brains, is what we start to think about what they need to learn. Instead of thinking of managing behaviors, we are brain growers." 42:55

 

"We need to start asking ourselves two different questions what does this little brain need to learn and what can I teach this little brain." 43:11

 

 

Credit:  Podcast Editing Services through Brad Walsh, Empowerography Podcasting Editing Services