Inside Dysregulation

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Downloadable Workbook

Inside Dysregulation

A Parent’s Guide to What’s Really Going On

Why does your child melt down over “small” things?

Why do consequences sometimes make everything worse?

And why do so many neurodivergent children seem constantly overwhelmed?

Inside Dysregulation helps parents understand what’s really happening underneath behavior.

Combining neuroscience, nervous system education, trauma-informed parenting, and neurodiversity-affirming perspectives, Sandra Littlejohn explains how dysregulation affects emotions, behavior, relationships, and family dynamics.

Inside this book, you’ll discover:

• The difference between dysregulation, defiance, and disobedience
• How the autonomic nervous system impacts behavior
• The role of fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and flop responses
• Why behavior modification alone often fails neurodivergent children
• How co-regulation helps children feel safe enough to recover
• The hidden impact of masking and emotional overwhelm

This is not a parenting book about control.

It is a guide to understanding.

Because children are not giving us a hard time.

Often, they are having a hard time.

And when parents learn to see behavior through a nervous system lens, everything begins to change.