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Beyond “Regulating Your Nervous System”
Stress, self-regulation, co-regulation, and what science actually supports
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What Actually Makes Birth Feel Safe
Jan 15
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Ann Ledbetter
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Inside the Nervous System
Jan 9
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
24
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Overwhelm isn’t a failure
Feb 6
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
18
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Depression After Weaning
Jan 4
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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The Healed Enough Mother
, and
Christine Staricka
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15
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Overwhelm isn’t a failure
On capacity, context, and support
Feb 6
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
18
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🧠 Big feelings aren’t really a childhood problem.
They’re a nervous system thing.
Feb 2
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Highly Sensitive Was Never the Problem
A collaboration with Rosalinda | On Regulation, Neurodivergence, and surviving 2026
Jan 26
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
and
Rosalinda Pérez-Everson
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Baby sleep, simply:
Sleep begins with feeling safe
Jan 25
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
8
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Supporting Parents After a Prenatal Diagnosis
Language, care, and nervous-system support in moments that change everything By Anna | Tender & True & Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
Jan 23
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
and
Anna | Tender & True
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When Two Nervous Systems Meet
The Child Side and the Adult Side of a “Power Struggle”
Jan 22
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Colleen-Child In Mind
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You Didn’t Lose Yourself After Kids. Your Nervous System Changed.
For the in-between season of becoming.
Jan 17
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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9
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Why Resilience Culture Gets Overwhelm Wrong
What chronic load does to the nervous system — and why pushing harder makes it worse.
Jan 17
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
11
4
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What Actually Makes Birth Feel Safe
A conversation with Ann Ledbetter on care, power, and the space between “pro” and “anti” hospital birth
Jan 15
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
and
Ann Ledbetter
29
4
7
Why Parenting Feels Like It Breaks You
A nervous-system explanation for why capacity shrinks under constant care
Jan 15
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
12
4
You’re Not Too Sensitive
Your nervous system is overtaxed — and that changes how everything feels
Jan 15
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
10
3
Why Public Meltdowns Feel So Hard
It’s not just your child — it’s the nervous system under observation
Jan 12
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
13
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Why “doing everything right” doesn’t always calm a child
Some children can’t be regulated into calm — and that’s physiology, not failure
Jan 11
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
12
6
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