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

Um, we spend a lot of time hiking down here, and so I've learned that

Sometimes taking a sharp right or a U turn in the trail actually leads you to a better place.

Uh so I just kinda had to

Let go and

And see where the winds took me.

Yeah, it was hard to walk away.

I was really proud of what I had built, but uh so many friends had messaged me over the three years that we were

Dealing with the anxiety um mostly with my older child Emilia.

And they would say in private message, they would say to me, Oh, I I wish I'd had a mom like you growing up who understood me and took time for me and and I could see

them through the other side or like on the other side of this childhood anxiety.

And the message was so clear that they really needed a parent to be present and really

Dedicated and devoted to them.

And, you know, of course, I had the luxury, I had the option to step away from work.

I didn't have to go to a

a nine to five job um that my family depended on for, you know, income to keep the electricity on and food on and stuff like that.

Um my husband was able to support the family.

So we've been very, very tight.

There have been times where it's been pennies between paychecks, but um

I think in the long run the investment in the kids has been worth it and uh

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