Melissa Wardy

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 083: A Conversation with Melissa Wardy About Raising Anxious Kids · 14 Nov 2017 podcast

uh being very public and doing a lot of media it was just sort of um a whirl run.

So when we moved to Texas I really pulled back from all of that 'cause this was when we started home schooling, um, due to my kids having a really hard time in school with anxiety and uh

Then just kind of really trying to embrace the fact that I was parenting two kids I wasn't very familiar with how they approached the world and uh

needed to learn a lot about myself in order to parent them well and really had to learn about anxiety.

and and how that works inside a child's head.

So decided I could do work well or I could do parenting well, but I couldn't do both well.

And so I decided to give up work for a short time, uh, in order to focus on the kids.

Yeah, you know, that's such a good uh synopsis of it.

It was hard to pull away from work because um I am very type A, um, very go getter, you know, had had a very public profile, um, really since hitting the ground running and

Essentially when I started I was a stay at home mom from this little town called Janesville, Wisconsin and had hit

you know, the international stage just by making connections and working hard and aggregating this passionate community online.

working from the corner of my dining room.

So I had built all of this just from nothing, just from a few ideas in the palm of my hand.

And uh it was very hard to walk away from.

But uh what

Uh you know, like I said earlier, it

I could do work well or I could do parenting well, but if you mess up your kids, it's you know Yeah.

There's no do over.

Yeah, you don't get that back and you can always return to work and it might never be the same.

But I think that that's a good thing.

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