Podcast | How Kids Learn to Trust, with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

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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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About the Commune Podcast

Hosted by Jeff Krasno, the Commune podcast features thoughtful conversations for modern times. Not always comfortable but definitely needed, we explore both humanity and our human-ness. How can we live healthy, purpose-filled lives and be in service of something bigger? Guests include spiritual teachers, poets, scientists, philosophers, and activists for food sustainability, functional medicine, mental and physical health, and collective healing.