Jason Wachub

Like, how do you think about embracing discomfort?

What are some of the issues you're seeing more of or like common themes in 2026 that people are facing when they talk to you, when they're DMing you, people you see, like what's coming up?

On that note, what to do and if it's possible to change, what about when that relationship is with the parent?

Right.

And I definitely see there are some very strong opinions online about this, whether it's, you know, the kind of the let them the Mel Robbins approach.

Then there's the let's get in there and let's change and let's do family therapy and try to change grandpa or her dad or whoever it might be.

And then there's, I think, in my view, the more pragmatic approach, if possible, not always possible.

How do we just kind of accept who this person is and try to make the best of it?

Because at this stage, I'm speaking for people of older parents, like, you know, there may not be a lot of years left.

Like, how do we just work with what we have, try to love and accept them and try not to like, you know, to do any more damage?

It feels like acceptance is kind of the only, in my view, the only viable path forward in a situation like a lot of us are facing like yours, where there's an older parent and like, you know what?

It wasn't that great, but here we are.

Because I think, is it safe to say that most people end up in a lot more pain if they're not able to do that, if they carry the anger and the resentment and whatever it is to the grave?

I've come around to this idea, partly as a parent and talking to our kids, like it's good to be angry.

It's good to be anxious.

Like that means you care.

Like these are good things.

Like lean into it.

Acknowledge it.

You got to pivot.