Andrea Owen
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442 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2017
last heard Oct 2017
Andrea Owen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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nobody likes me or everybody hates me and he he did that in second grade, but it just and I don't even think that that was true, that everybody hated him.
I just think he was just struggling more.
But it's it's it's my stuff, and for I just have to remember.
And my husband gently reminds me too sometimes.
He just he lets me talk it out that, you know, this is their life to be lived.
And that, you know, whether he's differently wired or not, he's a human being who was born resilient.
And we all are.
You know, we are we are born for struggle to survive struggle.
And I try to remember too and be grateful that he has a mother that can't protect him from the pain.
But I am
I am definitely a soft place for him to land when he has pain.
Like both of my children know they can come to me when anything happens and I cannot fix it for them, but I can be there to
again, like just be there for them and
And be a witness to their pain as excruciating as that is
And it's I've had to work tremendously on my own stuff in order to get to a place where I can, you know, what we call in this business hold space for someone else.
And that's been a hard lesson to learn, but one that I've I've wanted from day one for them.
I take care of myself by a few different things.
You know, I for a while I was really sort of hell bent on
being in a an in person support group for other parents of differently wired kids and then I kind of felt like, you know what, I
don't want to talk about this all the time.
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