Beautifully Complex

Penny Williams

Parenting a neurodivergent kid is one of the hardest things you will ever do. If you are exhausted, overwhelmed, and wondering why nothing seems to work, this is the place for you.I am Penny Williams, parenting coach, author, and mom who's in the trenches alongside you. Each week on Beautifully Complex, I bring you honest conversations and real strategies for raising kids with ADHD, autism, anxiety, and learning differences. Our kids aren't broken, just wired differently.My work is grounded in the SIGNAL Framework™, a nervous-system-first approach I developed around one core truth: regulation is required before any skill or...

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Beautifully Complex

Episodes (379)

Thursday 374: Teaching the Body to Feel Safe, with Holly Bridges
Thu Sep 3rd 373: Overcoming The Wall of Awful, with Brendan Mahan, M.Ed.
Aug 27th 372: The Neurodivergent Learner, Emily King, Ph.D.

Beautifully Complex

Sep 10, 2026
36½ minutes
33 MB

Your kid's nervous system is not a machine you can just tell to calm down. It is more like an octopus: sentient, sensitive, and completely uninterested in being managed. That is the metaphor body-based nervous system expert Holly Bridges uses to describe what is actually happening underneath meltdowns, shutdowns, and the constant hypervigilance so many of our neurodivergent kids live with. Holly wrote “Reframe Your Thinking Around Autism” using polyvagal theory and brain plasticity over fifteen years ago, and has spent the years since building a body-based approach to nervous system regulation that works with kids, teens, and adul...

Beautifully Complex

374: Teaching the Body to Feel Safe, with Holly Bridges

Penny Williams

00:00 -36:27