Reactive Attachment Challenges in the Classroom
Aug 18, 2025
Dear Parent,
If your child has been through early loss, neglect, or abuse, you know that school can be a battlefield—one where big feelings, survival-mode behaviors, and misunderstandings can run the show.
In this week’s Unmuted Love with Ce Eshelman podcast episode—created for the Siskiyou County Office of Education Symposium—Ce presents a quick overview of the brain-based “why” behind Reactive Attachment Disorder (better known as Complex Developmental Trauma) and how it plays out in everyday classroom dynamics.
You might want to share this with your child’s teacher.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- 📚 What RAD really is
- 🧠 How early trauma wires the brain for survival, not learning
- 🚩 Common classroom behaviors and the hidden drivers behind them
- 🛠 Ten brain-savvy, compassion-driven strategies to keep connection
- 💛 How to engage without escalating—and keep your own nervous system steady
Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or mental health professional, this conversation will leave you with a bigger knowledge base, a calmer presence, and renewed hope.
Love Matters,
Ce
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Creator of the Love+ Parenting Model found only in the Love Matters Parenting Society Therapeutic Parent Program.
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