Kennedy Ryan

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368 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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Fresh Air · Writer Kennedy Ryan uses romance novels as a vehicle for discourse · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

There was a gap for, you know, therapy, obviously.

And so one of the things that we did was we, a lot of it was like only the people, people are only getting speech and OT therapy.

in school.

And when it's summer, a lot of those kids weren't getting those services anymore.

So I raised money so that we could supplement and that we could pay for that.

And then we had a lot of couples were experiencing marital strain, whether it's at the very beginning or people who have been in this a really, really long time and are worn down.

We started doing marriage retreats.

We also started paying for

couples therapy.

And then I thought about, gosh, if it's this hard for me and I have a partner, how hard is it for people who are single parents?

And then we started programming that was specifically targeting single parents and their entire family, like all of their children.

So for me, it was just kind of like a reflection of the gaps that I was seeing.

You're like, how did we get here?

You know, my husband found a job and it took him away a lot at night.

And so it was just me and my son.

And this is when he was younger.

And a lot of kids who are on the spectrum are fascinated with water.

And my son was so fixated on water.

He and I would go to this river because we lived in Atlanta at the time.

We lived in Atlanta for 20 years.

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