When Love Feels Hard: Understanding and Overcoming Blocked Care

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Includes a Live Web Event on 06/28/2025 at 9:30 AM (MDT)

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Parenting children with trauma histories or intense behavioral needs can take a real toll—emotionally, physically, and neurologically. If you’ve ever found yourself going through the motions without the warmth you wish you felt, you’re not alone. This is the invisible struggle of Blocked Care, a common and reversible state where a caregiver’s brain shifts out of connection mode and into protection.

In this eye-opening seminar, we’ll explore what Blocked Care looks like in daily life, why it develops, and how it affects both adult and child nervous systems. Through a brain-based, compassion-centered lens, we’ll normalize the experience, disrupt the guilt/shame spiral, and offer evidence-informed tools for reactivating the caregiving systems that support connection, empathy, and joy. Whether you’re a parent, relative caregiver, or professional supporting families, this session will leave you equipped and encouraged to take the next steps toward healing—starting with yourself.


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Melissa Corkum

Founder

Rise to Regulation

Melissa Corkum is a neurodevelopmental parenting coach, Safe and Sound Protocol Practitioner, and co-founder of Rise to Regulation. As an adoptive parent who has navigated the complexities of blocked care firsthand, Melissa equips caregivers with practical, brain-based strategies to move from chaos to connection.

Through her work at Rise to Regulation, Melissa helps parents understand the nervous system’s role in behavior, guiding them out of guilt and into grounded, regulated responses—even in the face of challenging behaviors. Her compassionate, relatable teaching style empowers caregivers to rediscover purpose and possibility when parenting feels impossibly hard.

Melissa lives in Maryland with her husband, their six children by birth and adoption, and a rotating cast of furry and scaly pets.

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