Melissa Wardy
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664 appearances
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first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2017
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Or when she on the days or the moments that she is worried and sad, we now have the tools to say things or if she has a a scary thought or something like that, she'll tell me what it is and she'll be like, But that's irrational.
And so, you know, just with the the help of the therapist, we now have the words and the tools to communicate better to each other.
So instead of me saying like, Oh, Amelia, knock it off, you know that's you know, whatever and and just getting short with her and not having the patience for it and thinking it's ridiculous and, you know, I don't have the time for this 'cause I'm a very busy, uh important adult and you're a kid and this is, you know, ridiculous.
No, I can say to her in a more compassionate and respectful way.
You know, I understand that might be a worry for you, but
Do you really think that saber toothed tigers could come back to life?
And do you really think that like El Paso would be the first place they go?
And just um we've always talked about uh well, our our first therapist taught us about worry monsters and stuffing the worry monster down and and she and I always talked about um putting the right size worry in the right size jar.
So saber toothed tigers could probably go in a pretty small size jar, but maybe something bigger like not wearing your seat belt when you're driving or making sure you're not riding with somebody who's texting and driving.
Like the odds of getting hurt by that are, you know, hundreds of per well hundreds of thousands of percents larger than the saber toothed tiger fear, so
You know, like i and just kind of doing
Uh
risk analysis on on life and and things like that so that um
You know, I you know, I do see her be more cautious than other kids if we're hiking and stuff like that.
But at the same time, you know
She's the first one walking out into the dark at camp to leave the girls to the bathroom.
you know, being able to hear like coyotes or javelina in the background or something like that.
So
It it she has courage in ways that um it's interesting for me to see and uh
Um so I think she's in a good spot now.
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