I think this work may have actually saved my family. Walking together with people who understand the unique weight of kinship and foster care is a connection you can’t find anywhere else. I’m finally leading with confidence instead of fear.
Richard Dixson is an author and nervous system educator who broke generational patterns in his own family and now teaches caregivers to do the same.
Children do not just learn what we say.
They learn what our bodies teach.
Richard Dixson’s work helps caregivers understand what they are passing down and gives them the tools to change it.
How 9 Decisions will miraculously transform your parenting
Richard writes from the inside of the experience most parenting books only observe from a distance. A practical and honest guide for caregivers exhausted by strategies that do not stick and ready for something that actually works.
Moving Through Fear A trauma-informed children’s book designed to help kids identify where fear lives in their bodies and how to find safety again.
The Joy of Sharing A best-selling story that helps children move from the “mine” mindset to the “ours” mindset. Whimsical, energetic, and grounded in emotional regulation.
The Practice of Gratitude When children feel overwhelmed by expectations, Sophie helps them find the quiet power of being thankful. A holiday essential for every shelf.
As a parent and later a grandparent raising my four grandchildren, I discovered how little most caregivers are taught about regulation, trauma, and emotional safety.
What changed everything was not trying harder.
It was understanding how the nervous system works, how trauma shapes behavior, and how calm practiced daily creates the safety where real change becomes possible.
This work did not come from theory. It came from mistakes, repair, and learning to stay regulated when everything in me wanted to react.
Understanding behavior without blame. When we understand what the nervous system is doing, judgment gives way to clarity.
Calm is practiced, not performed. Learning to regulate yourself is a skill and it is one every caregiver can build.
Healing is not just for the child. This work restores meaning, hope, and belonging for the caregiver too.
Richard writes for caregivers who are tired of feeling like they are failing at something they care deeply about.
Foster, adoptive, and kinship parents raising children with big emotions, complex stories, or trauma histories
Grandparents who said yes when someone needed them
His work is grounded in trauma-informed parenting principles, practical neuroscience, coaching experience, and faith, hope, and restoration. Everything he shares is meant to be usable on your hardest day, in your hardest moment.
I think this work may have actually saved my family. Walking together with people who understand the unique weight of kinship and foster care is a connection you can’t find anywhere else. I’m finally leading with confidence instead of fear.
It’s never too late to break generational patterns and do better for the next generation. This supportive community has improved every relationship in my life from my grandkids to my own partner.
I have met people on the exact same journey, parents and caregivers who truly get the weight of raising kids with big emotions. Being in this community gives me the strength to keep showing up when the days get heavy.
I have been learning to lead my home calmly because of these tools. It’s been my “kitchen-table therapy” since I started. My kids are finally regulating because I finally learned how to find my own steady ground first.
Joining was the best decision I ever made. I’ve stopped reacting out of my own past trauma and started building a real, grounded connection with the kids. For the first time, our living room actually feels like a safe harbor.
I joined because I was exhausted. The way Richard explains the nervous system in such a digestible manner makes this feel so much more accessible than traditional therapy. I finally have a place where I don’t have to hide the “messy” parts of our home life.
If your home feels tense, begin here.
3 Days to a Peaceful Home is a short grounding guide that helps you restore calm with yourself and your children, one day at a time. No fixing. No pressure. Just calm you can feel.
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You take away the screen. You cancel the activity. You repeat the same consequence again and again… and somehow the behavior still keeps happening. Sometimes…
Your child seems completely fine at school… but falls apart the moment they get home. …
You ask your child to calm down, stop yelling, or take a deep breath during…
You tell yourself you’ll stay calm next time. But then your child starts screaming, ignoring…
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