1 hr 11 min
On Parenting: Let Them Fall and Have the Bandaids Ready A Richer Life
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- Mental Health
During this episode of A Richer Life, host Rich Weingart speaks with Paige Rodgers, Marketing Communications Consultant for StubHub, Equinix, and Hotwire, Leader for Social and Environmental Impact, Parenting Speaker, and a mother of two daughters. Paige Rodgers talks about her life evolving into being a parent, parent and child detachment, her experience with helping her daughter cope with anxiety, depression, and dependency, and her upcoming TEDx Talk.
Episode Highlights:
Rich Weingart introduces Paige Rodgers. Page Rogers will be on a TEDx Talk on September 12th, 2020: tedxmarin.org/speaker/paige-rodgers Page’s daughter Cassidy dealt with depression and anxiety. How did Page create an environment that made Cassidy comfortable enough to ask for help? How was Paige Rodgers parented? How did Cassidy transition back to life when she returned back from Spain? What types of dependencies was Cassidy involved with overcoming? Paige talks about a wilderness program in Hawaii that Cassidy attended. What was Cassidy’s experience like in a therapeutic all-girls boarding school? Cassidy joined Marin Healthy Youth Organization. Paige talks about an extremely meaningful poem and a song. The perfection is in the imperfection. Where do things stand now with Cassidy? Perfection is an illusion.
3 Key Points:
We can’t run away from our issues. Wherever we go, there we are. Suffering with someone is codependency. Healing can come from helping others
Tweetable Quotes:
“There were times when I was the parent with my mom.” – Paige Rodgers “I remember my childhood very positively and I think I just learned this behavior of solve for it. If there is a problem, just solve it. I can take it. I can do it.” – Paige Rodgers “It wasn’t really until later in life that I repeated that pattern of ‘I got this,’ that it served me so many times. I think the reason I had some incredible experiences in my life is because I didn’t see a boundary." – Paige Rodgers “I’ve learned a lot about this idea of detachment where really your kids’ good days shouldn’t be your good days and their bad days shouldn’t be your bad days.” – Paige Rodgers “One of the many considerations for the rise in anxiety in adolescents in recent years is that they started putting warning labels on the SRI bottles.” – Paige Rodgers “We are in a culture of medicating, and so it is just being aware that it's not always going to be the solution.” – Paige Rodgers
Resources Mentioned:
Linkedin for Paige Rodgers
During this episode of A Richer Life, host Rich Weingart speaks with Paige Rodgers, Marketing Communications Consultant for StubHub, Equinix, and Hotwire, Leader for Social and Environmental Impact, Parenting Speaker, and a mother of two daughters. Paige Rodgers talks about her life evolving into being a parent, parent and child detachment, her experience with helping her daughter cope with anxiety, depression, and dependency, and her upcoming TEDx Talk.
Episode Highlights:
Rich Weingart introduces Paige Rodgers. Page Rogers will be on a TEDx Talk on September 12th, 2020: tedxmarin.org/speaker/paige-rodgers Page’s daughter Cassidy dealt with depression and anxiety. How did Page create an environment that made Cassidy comfortable enough to ask for help? How was Paige Rodgers parented? How did Cassidy transition back to life when she returned back from Spain? What types of dependencies was Cassidy involved with overcoming? Paige talks about a wilderness program in Hawaii that Cassidy attended. What was Cassidy’s experience like in a therapeutic all-girls boarding school? Cassidy joined Marin Healthy Youth Organization. Paige talks about an extremely meaningful poem and a song. The perfection is in the imperfection. Where do things stand now with Cassidy? Perfection is an illusion.
3 Key Points:
We can’t run away from our issues. Wherever we go, there we are. Suffering with someone is codependency. Healing can come from helping others
Tweetable Quotes:
“There were times when I was the parent with my mom.” – Paige Rodgers “I remember my childhood very positively and I think I just learned this behavior of solve for it. If there is a problem, just solve it. I can take it. I can do it.” – Paige Rodgers “It wasn’t really until later in life that I repeated that pattern of ‘I got this,’ that it served me so many times. I think the reason I had some incredible experiences in my life is because I didn’t see a boundary." – Paige Rodgers “I’ve learned a lot about this idea of detachment where really your kids’ good days shouldn’t be your good days and their bad days shouldn’t be your bad days.” – Paige Rodgers “One of the many considerations for the rise in anxiety in adolescents in recent years is that they started putting warning labels on the SRI bottles.” – Paige Rodgers “We are in a culture of medicating, and so it is just being aware that it's not always going to be the solution.” – Paige Rodgers
Resources Mentioned:
Linkedin for Paige Rodgers
1 hr 11 min