Life changes can be exciting but challenging—especially when adding a baby, child, or grandparent to your home.For families with reactive dogs, these transitions require preparation and adaptability. Without planning, stress can overwhelm human and canine members of the household. This episode focuses on 7 essential steps to help your dogs adjust to a growing family, creating harmony, reducing stress, and ensuring safety.📍 The Key 7 Steps Answered: • 0:00 to 1:49 - Introduction: Preparing your home for new family dynamics. • 1:50 to 4:55 - Step One: Introducing new items, scents, and routines. • 4:56 to 6:24 - Step Two: Creating safe, relaxing spaces for your dogs. • 6:25 to 8:00 - Step Three: Teaching all family members to interact respectfully with dogs. • 8:01 to 8:28 - Step Four: Reassessing boundaries as dynamics evolve. • 8:30 to 9:00 - Step Five: Gradually introducing your dogs to new activities. • 9:01 to 10:19 - Step Six: Using sensory-based positive associations to prepare for changes. • 10:20 to 12:00 - Step Seven: Building calm, predictable routines to support impulse control. • 12:01 to 12:30 - Family as a system: Understanding behavior through relationships. • 12:31 to 15:30 - Final tips, insights, and reflections on Season 1.This episode isn’t just about adjustments—it’s about fostering long-term harmony and ensuring your dog feels secure as your family evolves.💡 Free Resources to Help You Today: • Free Interaction Signals Guide: Spot subtle signs of tension before fights escalate. • System Patterns Tracker (for Patrons): Map out behavioral loops and find leverage points for change.🔗 Links: • Free Interaction Signals Guide • Support us on PatreonTogether, we can stop breaking up families due to life transitions and give every dog the chance for a harmonious home.Episode List from Season 1:Episode 1: Dog Parents’ Secrets: Systems Thinking and PsychologyDiscover why your dog really acts the way they do—beyond treats and commands.Episode 2: Who is Controlling Your Dog’s Mind?Meet the four hidden forces running your dog’s brain: Tom, Conrad, Reggie, and Viv.Episode 3: Reactive Systems: Triggers and Long-term SolutionsExplore how sleep, family, and environment create reactivity and master NeuroBalance strategies.Episode 4: Healing Your Dog’s Trauma-Induced BehaviourUsing neuroscience and the NeuroBalance Framework, learn to help your dog heal and build positive behaviors.Episode 5: The New Science for Developing Impulse ControlDiscover the revolutionary “Something Better” technique and HLCPM for lasting impulse control.Episode 6: When Your Dog Bites: From Betrayal to UnderstandingUnderstand the real reasons behind biting and learn the path forward for you and your dog.Episode 7: How to Stop Behavioural Euthanasia: 6 Steps to Save Multi-Dog Families with Systems ThinkingDiscover 6 essential steps to decode conflict, manage resource guarding, and keep your dogs safe and balanced.

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