Laura Dowling

This bite-sized moment from episode 55 with Dr. Mary Ryan is a powerful reflection on resilience.

From raising independent children through everyday habits to navigating the grief of losing her husband, it's an honest conversation about coping, accepting help and finding your way through life's hardest seasons.

I think it's really important that we do a little thing to pass it for themselves when you're not home.

It's just it's so very easy.

And you can teach children to make

sandwiches for themselves from a very young age my kids were emptying the dishwasher from the age of about like when they could start walking just to show them how to do it and just it's about those everyday little complaints that they get used to and remember you're too tired to be arguing with them and shouting them throat I just

Mary, you touched on your husband dying, so I can't brush over that.

So can you just tell me a little bit about that?

Because your children were very young.

You were a busy lady.

It came out of the blue.

How did you cope?

Look at you bring that back to menopause.

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