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Holding Space with Julia

Julia Clark

Kids & Family

Health & Fitness

Frequency: 1 episode/3d. Total Eps: 30

Holding Space is about showing up authentically and creating safety in the moments that matter most. From parenting littles to navigating friendships and partnerships, Julia Clark—psychotherapist and play therapist—reframes tantrums, conflicts, and messy feelings as invitations to connect. Each episode explores the building blocks of emotional literacy, co-regulation, and boundaries, while honouring the intergenerational stories we carry within. Blending science with lived wisdom, Holding Space reminds us that growth is playful, healing is possible, and we are all learning together.

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Episode #30 Flipping Your Lid – And What to Do Next

Season 1 · Episode 30

Monday, December 29, 2025 • Duration 12:49

Episode 30 – Flipping Your Lid: What to Do Next

In this episode of Holding Space with Julia, we explore what really happens after we "flip our lid"—and how moments of rupture can become powerful opportunities for repair.

Building on Dr. Dan Siegel's Hand Model of the Brain and the concept of the window of tolerance, this episode gently unpacks why overwhelm happens, how the nervous system moves into fight, flight, or shutdown, and what helps bring us back to safety and connection.

Through real-life stories and practical examples from parenting, partnerships, classrooms, and the playroom, this episode offers simple, compassionate steps for noticing dysregulation, pausing with intention, and repairing with honesty and care.

This is an episode for anyone who wants to respond rather than react—and to remember that flipping your lid isn't a failure, but a doorway back to connection.

https://www.clarity.family/

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Episode #29 Dan Siegel's Hand Model of the Brain

Season 1 · Episode 29

Monday, December 22, 2025 • Duration 10:13

Episode 29 – The Hand Model of the Brain: Understanding Big Feelings Without Shame

In this episode of Holding Space with Julia, we explore Dr. Dan Siegel's Hand Model of the Brain—a simple, powerful tool that helps children and adults understand what happens when big feelings take over.

Using real-life examples from homes, classrooms, relationships, and the playroom, this episode unpacks what it means to "flip our lid," why it happens, and how shared language can transform moments of rupture into opportunities for repair.

This is an episode about co-regulation, compassion, and removing shame from emotional overwhelm. You'll learn how to use the Hand Model to:
• Understand behaviour as nervous system communication
• Respond to big feelings without escalating or shutting down
• Build emotional safety with children, teens, partners, and students
• Support repair through presence rather than control

Whether you're a parent, educator, therapist, or someone learning to be gentler with yourself, this episode offers a practical, body-based way to meet overwhelm with understanding—and guide the nervous system back toward connection.

https://www.clarity.family/

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Episode # 28 Going Deeper with Julia

Season 1 · Episode 28

Monday, December 15, 2025 • Duration 08:02

In this episode of Holding Space: Going Deeper with Julia, I share the story of how I came to understand safety—not as a technique or a strategy, but as a lived, relational experience built moment by moment.

Drawing from over 25 years of work with children, families, and therapists—beginning in long-term residential care and evolving through play therapy, group work, and training—I reflect on what it truly means to create conditions where nervous systems can soften and healing can unfold without words.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, to understand behaviour as communication, and to explore how presence, repair, and compassion create safety in our homes, our practices, and within ourselves.

If you've ever felt the weight of trying to "do it right," this is a gentle reminder that safety begins not with fixing—but with being.

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Episode 27: From Behaviour to Connection: A Nervous System Lens

Season 1 · Episode 27

Monday, December 8, 2025 • Duration 10:30

Episode 27: From Behaviour to Connection: A Nervous System Lens

In this integrative and deeply grounding episode, Julia weaves together the themes from Episodes 19–26—behaviour as communication, adult regulation as anchor, compassion over perfection, and repair as the heart of relationship. She revisits the nervous system lens that runs beneath every parenting moment, helping us understand that what feels like chaos or defiance is often a call for safety and connection.

Julia also introduces the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), a gentle, evidence-based listening program rooted in Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory. Through her personal reflections and stories from families she's supported, Julia shares how SSP strengthens the vagus nerve, deepens emotional regulation, and transforms family dynamics from reactive to relational.

✨ This episode is both a reflection and an invitation—to pause, attune, and explore the practices that help you return to presence. Because lasting change doesn't begin with behaviour—it begins with safety, connection, and the nervous system.

https://www.clarity.family/

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Episode 26: Recovering After a Rupture

Season 1 · Episode 26

Monday, December 1, 2025 • Duration 09:38

Episode 26: Recovering After a Rupture

In this heartfelt and restorative episode, Julia explores what happens after the moments we wish we could take back—the ruptures. Whether it's with a child, partner, or student, she reminds us that disconnection is inevitable, but repair is where trust and growth truly begin.

Through the lens of nervous system awareness and attachment, Julia breaks down how rupture happens, why our bodies go into fight, flight, or freeze, and what it means to return to safety afterward. With practical, compassionate examples for toddlers, teens, partners, and classrooms, she shows how small, sincere gestures of repair rebuild connection more powerfully than perfection ever could.

✨ This episode is a gentle reminder that healing happens in the return. Rupture doesn't define you—repair does.

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Episode 25: "I'm Not My Parent… But Sometimes I Still Lose It"

Season 1 · Episode 25

Monday, November 24, 2025 • Duration 09:23

Episode 25: "I'm Not My Parent… But Sometimes I Still Lose It"

In this tender and deeply validating episode, Julia speaks to the parents who vowed to do things differently—and still find themselves slipping into old patterns. She explores how those moments of yelling, shutting down, or reacting aren't failures, but reflections of long-held nervous system wiring shaped by our own childhood experiences.

Through the lens of Polyvagal Theory and gentle self-compassion, Julia shows how awareness doesn't erase old patterns overnight—it rewires them slowly, through presence and repair. With examples from parenting, partnerships, and classrooms, she illustrates how to pause, breathe, and choose compassion over shame.

✨ This episode reminds us that breaking intergenerational cycles isn't about perfection—it's about noticing, repairing, and meeting ourselves with the same grace we long to give our children. You're not your parent. You're healing forward.

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Episode 24: "Good Parents Never Yell"… and Other Myths

Season 1 · Episode 24

Monday, November 17, 2025 • Duration 10:32

Episode 24: "Good Parents Never Yell"… and Other Myths

In this honest and freeing conversation, Julia dismantles one of parenting's most persistent myths: that good parents never yell. With warmth and compassion, she explains how yelling isn't a moral failure—it's a nervous system in overwhelm. Through the lens of Polyvagal Theory, she explores how stress, sensory load, and old emotional patterns can activate fight, flight, or shutdown responses—and how repair, not perfection, is what builds connection.

Using real-life parenting, classroom, and partner examples, Julia guides listeners toward self-compassion and repair practices that heal both parent and child. You'll learn to notice what's happening in your body, understand what your nervous system is asking for, and return to calm without shame.

✨ This episode reminds us that good parenting isn't about never losing our cool—it's about how we reconnect afterward. Yelling doesn't mean you've failed; it means you're human—and you can always come back to safety.

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Episode 23: Practices to Calm a Dysregulated Home or Classroom

Season 1 · Episode 23

Monday, November 10, 2025 • Duration 09:47

Episode 23: Practices to Calm a Dysregulated Home or Classroom

In this grounding and practical episode, Julia offers compassionate, real-world tools to bring calm to the chaos—whether it's the after-school whirlwind, a buzzing classroom, or a home that feels emotionally charged. She reminds us that true regulation doesn't come from control—it begins with connection.

Through simple, body-based practices and gentle nervous system resets, Julia shows how our own calm becomes the anchor for others. She explores how co-regulation, tone, and presence can shift a space from reactivity to safety, and how even small pauses can change everything.

✨ This episode is a soothing invitation to lead with steadiness, to bring peace to the room by settling your own nervous system first—and to remember that calm isn't quiet; it's connection made visible.

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Episode 22: What to Do When You Feel Like You're Failing as a Parent

Season 1 · Episode 22

Monday, November 3, 2025 • Duration 09:06

Episode 22: What to Do When You Feel Like You're Failing as a Parent

In this compassionate episode, Julia speaks directly to the tender moments every parent knows—the ones where guilt, exhaustion, or overwhelm whisper, "I'm failing." She reframes these moments through the lens of the nervous system, showing how what feels like failure is often a sign of flooding, fatigue, and deep care—not deficiency.

Through real-life examples from home, partnership, and the classroom, Julia explores how repair—not perfection—is what builds trust and connection. She reminds us that when we pause, breathe, and offer ourselves compassion, we model exactly what our children need most: the courage to be human and the safety to return to connection.

✨ This episode is an invitation to soften the shame stories, hold space for your own nervous system, and remember—you're not failing. You're healing.

https://www.clarity.family/

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Episode 21: When Our Kids' Feelings Trigger Our Own

Season 1 · Episode 21

Monday, November 3, 2025 • Duration 09:08

Episode 21: When Our Kids' Feelings Trigger Our Own

In this deeply resonant episode, Julia explores what happens when our children's big emotions awaken the unhealed parts of us. Whether it's a toddler's meltdown, a teen's eye roll, or a partner's sharp tone, our bodies often react not just to the moment—but to echoes of our own childhood experiences.

Through gentle reflection and real-life examples from homes and classrooms, Julia helps us understand how these triggers arise and how to meet them with awareness rather than shame. She offers language, grounding practices, and compassionate pauses that help us stay steady—modeling for our children what emotional safety truly looks like.

✨ This episode is an invitation to notice, soothe, and reparent the younger parts of ourselves—so we can hold space for the big feelings of others without losing connection to our own calm and clarity.

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