How Kids Learn to Trust, with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min
Why listen
Attachment theory explains the emotional patterns you inherited and are passing to your kids right now.
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In this episode
- How your early attachment style quietly shapes the way you parent
- What children actually absorb from us versus what we tell them
- Why chronic stress makes it harder for parents and kids to trust
- What it genuinely takes to break generational cycles of trauma
About this episode
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau turns this conversation with Jeff into a question most of us don't ask directly: what do we actually pass down to our kids, and what can we choose not to?
Sophie, a mental health advocate, author, and former first partner of Canada, draws on attachment theory to explain how the bond we form with a caregiver in our first years quietly runs how we raise our own kids, unless we do something about it.
- Secure, anxious-ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized attachment, and how each style shows up in parenting
- Why explicit parenting advice rarely lands, and what kids absorb from us instead
- How chronic stress hijacks the nervous system's ability to trust, in parents and kids alike
- Screens as a substitute attachment object, and what that actually displaces
- What actually breaks generational cycles of trauma and addiction
This episode is for any parent thinking about the emotional inheritance they're passing down. Want more parenting conversations like this one? Check out our Dance Dads series, new episodes every Tuesday.
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