Chasing Excellence Raise | How to Build Emotional Immunity in Your Kids (w/ Jenna Cain)
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May 11, 2026 
Jenna Cain, a pediatric physical therapist and Level 3 Enlifted coach who helps parents and teachers build nervous-system regulation, discusses building emotional immunity in children. She explores why adult regulation sets the tone, practical movement and breath practices, soft-talk and questions over answers, mindset as story, and playful tools teachers and parents can use daily.
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Regulation Widens The Mental Lens
- Emotional regulation widens attention so kids and adults can see more options instead of reacting through a narrow 'straw' view.
- Jenna links regulation to accessing the prefrontal cortex and calls it the foundation for psychological and emotional immunity.
Do The Work Yourself Before Teaching Kids
- Do the personal work first so you can model regulation; test and retest to create buy-in for mindset practices.
- Jenna uses single-leg stance test and mindset journaling as small measurable experiments to show change.
Regulation Is Upstream Prevention
- Widening the aperture of attention could reduce extreme downstream harms like substance use, suicide, and risky teen choices.
- Jenna frames mindset and regulation as upstream prevention with broad societal impact beyond momentary calm.