Latest / Beautifully Complex / 270: 3 Steps to Empower Confidence in Your Teen, with Kristi Simons
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- 0:03Those times when you're really feeling low. What small steps can I take to
- 0:08start to bring me back up to a place where you know, I feel
- 0:13better? And that for everybody who is going to look different, that's going
- 0:15to take time, but yeah, it's it's definitely really important just to take
- 0:19those small steps because every small step, I believe empowers our confidence because action
- 0:25is what empowers confidence. Welcome to the Beautifully Complex Podcast, where I share
- 0:33insights and strategies on parenting neurodivergent kids straight from the trenches. I'm your host,
- 0:39Penny Williams. I'm a parenting coach, author and mindset mama, honored
- 0:44to guide you on the journey of raising your atypical kid. Let's get started.
- 0:53Welcome back, friends. I am joined by Christy Simon's today, who
- 0:59is a Team life coach and host of the Confident Teen podcast, and we're
- 1:04going to talk all things teens and confidence. This applies to young adults too
- 1:11and pre teens even. You know, the more we know about building confidence
- 1:14in our teens earlier than the teen years, the petter off they're going to
- 1:18be when they do reach those teen years. So I hope everybody will listen
- 1:23it's going to be a really important conversation. But first, Christy, do
- 1:26you want to start by telling everybody a little more about who you are and
- 1:29what you do. Yes? Absolutely, Penny, thank you so much for
- 1:33having me today. It is such a pleasure to be here. You were
- 1:37just on my podcast. It actually just launched yesterday, so this is really
- 1:41exciting and I'm just really excited that we get to have another conversation because the
- 1:44last one was really really wonderful. So my name is Christy. As you
- 1:48said, I am a teen life coach. I'm actually a certified teacher.
- 1:51So I was a teacher for just over twelve years before I made the decision
- 1:55to step away from the classroom to pursue this passion of mine teaching teens how
- 1:59to lead their lives with more confidence. And the reason I chose this path
- 2:05is because I realized that it was really during those formative years, those teen
- 2:10years, that I had really lost a lot of my self confidence, my
- 2:15self worth, and looking back, I can see that there were so many
- 2:21essential life skills that had I known them, they could have significantly impacted my
- 2:24life for the better and helped me take steps more confidently. Towards adulthood and
- 2:30towards the things that I was truly desiring in my life. And this is
- 2:35why I have decided that, you know, these skills that I was noticing
- 2:38were not taught in the traditional school system, I was just going to branch
- 2:42out and teach them on my own. So this is the work that I
- 2:44do today, really just taking so much of that brokenness form my teen years
- 2:50and having that fuel me and lead me and guide me forward to helping teens,
- 2:54as I said, to feel more confident in their lives as well.
- 2:58Yeah, and why don't we teach that stuff in school? We send kids
- 3:02to school to prepare them for life, but we don't really prepare them for
- 3:06a life. It's so frustrating. I think so many teens have a really
- 3:10hard time where if we had more like social emotional learning, more confidence and
- 3:17just how to be a good human, I think it would make such a
- 3:21difference. Yeah, for sure. And as a confidence coach, team life
- 3:24coach, I feel like that word confidence can just be such a big word
- 3:29for people. I often have parents come to me and the first thing that
- 3:34they will say is just I want them to feel or I want them to
- 3:37have more confidence, but it's not something that just clicks and happens overnight.
- 3:40I definitely believe that we all have what I like to call it's almost like
- 3:45this, like soul spark, So our soul is able to spark our confidence
- 3:50when we are truly honestly surrounded by joy is where I feel like it's really
- 3:54cultivated. But confidence in itself, what I have noticed over the last four
- 4:00years on my own journey is that it is something that needs to be worked
- 4:03at and practiced every single day, And I feel like the source of the
- 4:09energy for your confidence within is really honestly fueled by just that taking actions in
- 4:15your life that really align with you and the desires that you have for yourself
- 4:18in the ways that you want to feel. So those are some of the
- 4:21practices and the skills that I work on teaching the teens that I lead through
- 4:27my business. I think it's so important for them to be able to show
- 4:31up authentically, and I think so many teens and young adults don't feel like
- 4:36they can do that, either out of fear or perceived that they might be
- 4:42rejected or something like that. How do we help them to be more confident
- 4:47in who they are even because I think that makes just such a difference in
- 4:51how we show up every day if we feel like we can be ourselves.
- 4:57So I absolutely love this question, and I love that you're asking this today.
- 5:00Before we jumped on, I did tell you that I'm kind of just
- 5:02moving through the waves of life and this podcast, podcasting in general, my
- 5:09podcast, and meeting with other people to connect and have these meaningful conversations.
- 5:13I know that this is a source of my joy and this is something,
- 5:15as I said, that it does fuel that confidence that I have inside of
- 5:18me, and it really helps that to shine and to grow. But this
- 5:23morning I definitely had thoughts around canceling and not showing up because anger and sadness
- 5:29are present currently in my life and I'm facing some struggles and some challenges,
- 5:33and honestly, thinking back to Team Me or even myself in my twenties and
- 5:38earlier thirties, that is something that would have been completely debilitating and I wouldn't
- 5:42have been able to show up for a conversation like this. But because I
- 5:46now have the skills and tools to help me manage and move through that,
- 5:50I feel like I can still show up for the things that I truly love
- 5:54and I truly enjoy knowing that, Yeah, like I'm confident in the way
- 5:58that I'm able to manage and move through To me, I think I always
- 6:01believe that somebody who was confident was somebody that had to feel good all the
- 6:05time and be their best all the time and look perfect all the time.
- 6:11And the more I do this work for myself and for others, I'm becoming
- 6:15more aware that really truly confidence is being able to show up to a situation
- 6:23and be in that situation feeling the way that fits that experience right, and
- 6:29it's just about learning how to manage and move through that. So this morning,
- 6:33before showing up for this conversation, I told myself, like I wanted
- 6:38to be here, So what can I do? What do I teach my
- 6:41clients that I can now put into practice to be able to show up and
- 6:44have this conversation and share value with the listeners. And it really all comes
- 6:48back to the skill of being able to hold center, to feel anchored and
- 6:54grounded within yourself. That connection with yourself is so so very important, and
- 6:59being able to trust your I trusted the little voice within this morning that was
- 7:02like Christy fear and sadness are going to come along for the ride. You've
- 7:06walked, you've moved through it, you've done the things, but you need
- 7:09to show up for this conversation because there's definitely going to be something there that
- 7:12you are able to share. And so something that I shared with you that
- 7:15I know that you'll be able to share with your audience afterwards is the my
- 7:18anchor activity. So when I talk about holding center or staying grounded within yourself,
- 7:25then my anchor activity, I feel has been such a game changer for
- 7:28some of my clients because they're actually able to put visually on paper the things
- 7:32in their life that mean a lot to them. So for me, podcasting
- 7:36and connecting with other people is something that means a lot to me. But
- 7:41because I was navigating life's challenges and life storms this week, I really had
- 7:46to anchor myself in and my anchors in my life are things like walking,
- 7:53running, I love to paint, I like to meditate, Like There's lots
- 7:56of things that I can do for myself to help me, as I said,
- 7:59manage those motions so that I'm able to show up for the things that
- 8:01I love and not completely miss out on my life so yeah, that is
- 8:05really I feel like where confidence is cultivated is trusting ourselves and knowing that we
- 8:09can move through things that are uncomfortable and come out on the other side with
- 8:15that as a learning experience. Yeah, and I think that's a huge struggle
- 8:18for most of our neurodivergent population. You know, my own kid, who
- 8:24is twenty one now, he is avoidant. He's very avoidant. I don't
- 8:30want to do uncomfortable things. I don't even want to think about the possibility
- 8:33of doing uncomfortable things, right, And so it's something that we've had to
- 8:37be much more mindful of and really purposeful around. You know, we've really
- 8:43had to sit down and think about, Okay, what sort of activities might
- 8:46be able to challenge that a little bit, to push in that direction.
- 8:52You know, he certainly has his safe spaces, what he considers his safe
- 8:56spaces, and he retreat to those often. But often we see, and
- 9:01this is true for you know a lot of neurodivergent kids, that they want
- 9:07to spend all their time there because that just feels safer, right, And
- 9:11so really helping kids to be able to take a risk to be uncomfortable can
- 9:20be really difficult. It can be really challenging. You know. We've been
- 9:22working on this for years. I wish I knew when he was younger to
- 9:26focus more on it. You know. I kind of thought, oh,
- 9:30well, with maturity and with working on skills and things, this will just
- 9:33get better, and it really doesn't. You really have to be very mindful,
- 9:37you know, as a person with anxiety. I've had to do the
- 9:41same thing for myself. It was something I actually wrote about in my weekly
- 9:45email today as we're recording this, that I let anxiety really hold me back
- 9:50in my life for a long time, and it still does to some extent.
- 9:54But I had to at some point say I want this to be different,
- 9:58and I'm going to be as uncomfortable as it takes for it to be
- 10:03different. And I forced myself to take a public speaking gig and I literally
- 10:07thought I was going to pass out. I thought I was coming out of
- 10:11my skin like it physically was the biggest challenge in the world. But I
- 10:16still did it, and after that it doesn't seem as scary right now.
- 10:22I'm like, oh, I could do that again. But I never thought
- 10:24I could for a long time. And it was that decision almost to be
- 10:28like, I'm not going to let this hold me back anymore. How do
- 10:31we help our teens kind of recognize when they're doing that and make those decisions
- 10:37for themselves. Yeah, And that's just it that right there to me,
- 10:41Like even just sitting here now, I mean definitely, I'm starting to feel
- 10:46a lot better because now we're connecting. And I knew that showing up this
- 10:48conversation would be the thing that would would also help, right because giving voice
- 10:54to some of those fears, those anxieties, those emotions that are coming up
- 10:58for you. I feel like once you actually speak your truth, that's what
- 11:03allows your confidence to shine through and help you navigate that. But that doesn't
- 11:09go without saying, like, I know how big of a challenge this was
- 11:11for me just to show up for this today, so you can only imagine,
- 11:15and this is something that I do practice, so I can totally understand
- 11:20from the lens of a teenager or putting myself in their shoes, how challenging
- 11:24it can truly be. And that it just makes me realize how much more
- 11:28empathy we need to have for just people in general. Yes, because everybody
- 11:35faces challenges, everybody, It's just I don't believe that they're talked about as
- 11:39much as maybe they could be or should be. And yeah, that's the
- 11:43reason why for me personally, I used to get really really stuck in my
- 11:48life and feel like there was something wrong with me, when in fact,
- 11:52there's nothing wrong. It's just about showing up, having the conversation, talking
- 11:54to somebody that you feel safe with and that you know that you can trust,
- 11:58or just taking that time and see, you know, some people may
- 12:01have not been able to show up for this conversation for example, like I
- 12:05did today, just pushing through and moving through so I was able to some
- 12:09people might need more time, and that's okay. I really just feel like
- 12:11it's about knowing yourself, really connecting with yourself and having a better understanding of
- 12:18who you are and what you need in those situations, those times when you're
- 12:22really feeling low. What small steps can I take to start to bring me
- 12:26back up to a place where you know, I feel better And that for
- 12:31everybody is going to look different. That's going to take time, but yeah,
- 12:33it's it's definitely really important just to take those small steps because every small
- 12:37step I believe empowers are confidence because action is what empowers confidence. So it
- 12:45doesn't even have to be like these macro actions. It can just be these
- 12:48little micro baby steps of things that we start to do promises that we keep
- 12:52to ourselves. I promise myself today I would show up for this conversation,
- 12:54and I am here, and I know that after I leave this conversation,
- 12:58that's only going to help move through what I have to move through in a
- 13:01more aligned way. As you were talking, and this comes up for me
- 13:13every day. We hide ourselves from each other culturally, I guess, or
- 13:22just the innate fear of being human. I don't know what it is specifically.
- 13:26I think it's a lot of things, but we tend to hide ourselves.
- 13:30And in the autism community we call it masking and we talk a lot
- 13:33about it. But what I have come to realize is that we all sort
- 13:39of mask, especially those of us who have anxiety, because we're pretending like
- 13:43everything's fine while inside it's all like falling apart and freaking out. But I
- 13:48think that we just are taught to show up to please others and to be
- 13:54what they expect instead of being taught to just be yourself, and that will
- 14:01help you surround yourself with people who accept that, who celebrate that right,
- 14:07who you fit with? Who are your people? We don't teach our kids
- 14:11that, we don't teach adults that. But I just think about how different
- 14:16would the world be if we all felt genuinely okay with who we were,
- 14:22and we could just walk completely authentically with never worrying about judgment from others.
- 14:28It would be a different world. And you know, I get called an
- 14:31idealist a lot. I know that's a very idealist thing to say. But
- 14:35if we just took a few steps there, right, if we just help
- 14:39our teens to feel okay with who they are, how do we support that
- 14:45as parents? I'm just imagining there's so many different like things we could do.
- 14:50You know. One way that I would show up with my own kid.
- 14:52He's very into music and he didn't like to talk after school when I
- 14:56picked him up. You know, I was always like, how was your
- 14:58day? Tell me? And he was like, no, not doing it
- 15:01right because he'd already lived the pain. He didn't want to go there again,
- 15:05right, And so I learned if I wanted him to talk to me,
- 15:09I had to meet him where he was. I had to you know,
- 15:13go with his interest and so I would say, hey, just hook
- 15:16up your phone and play you know something that you discovered recently that you think
- 15:22I might like because we're you know, our whole family's into music. My
- 15:26husband is a musician, and it's just a thing that he's really passionate about
- 15:31our son. And so it was a way for me to open the door
- 15:35with him, right, And I didn't have to then, you know,
- 15:39it wasn't to then drill him about his day. It was just to connect,
- 15:45but also to say, I see you, I see that you don't
- 15:48want to talk about this. I see that you're really into music and it
- 15:54really excites you, and so we're going to go there, right. What
- 15:58other sorts of things like that can we do? Yeah, I absolutely love
- 16:02that. What came up for me when you were saying that is just imagining
- 16:06like somebody standing on the other side of a door, right, and just
- 16:08allowing that individual to have their own human experience and to feel whatever needs to
- 16:15be felt, and to also learn that they are capable of moving through that
- 16:19on their own, like not trying to rescue so much, but just letting
- 16:23them know that you're going to be there on the other side of that door.
- 16:26When they're ready to come to you for any additional support. I feel
- 16:30like that's huge, right, like not trying to control that situation or that
- 16:33experience for them, but just allowing them to have it and knowing that on
- 16:37the other side of that, which is what I keep telling myself, I
- 16:38know these waves, they come and go, and once this passes on the
- 16:42other side of it, I'm going to be able to look back and say,
- 16:45Okay, this didn't happen to me, it happened for me, and
- 16:48what are the reasons. I think the most important thing that I would tell
- 16:52parents, because I know it's been one of the most significantly impactful things in
- 16:59my life that I've done for myself is just after a challenge, after you
- 17:03navigate one of life storms, it's just really reflecting and actually taking the time
- 17:07to be present with all of that and saying, Okay, what was that,
- 17:11what happened there, What did I do that worked? What could I
- 17:15have done differently? What other supports do I need to put in place the
- 17:18next time? If this happens, you start to learn more about yourself right
- 17:22and what works best for you. And I think that's truly where confidence is
- 17:26cultivated. I already had my own self care toolbox. I have had that
- 17:30in place for the last four years now, right, so every time I
- 17:34am faced with a challenge or a struggle, I know exactly where to turn,
- 17:37the people, the music, for example, the car ride that I
- 17:41might need, the walk that I might need. Again, it's going to
- 17:44look different person to person, but I think if you have that self care
- 17:47toolbox, that's something that's huge and then a big thing for me too,
- 17:51has just been an affirmation, a quote something again, just to keep me
- 17:55grounded in myself. And for the last four years, whenever I feel like
- 17:59quote unquote giving up on myself or giving up on that day or that task
- 18:02or whatever it was that I wanted to show up for, but I now
- 18:03feel like I can't because my emotions are getting in the way, I just
- 18:07make sure to repeat it to myself, and it's be brave, trust yourself
- 18:11and take action. And it's just this small little reminder, but being brave
- 18:17is just that reminder to be still to try and get to that root cause
- 18:22if you can. It's just about reflection, right, just about being aware
- 18:26of what's actually going on and then trusting that you have everything within you to
- 18:32move through and navigate this challenge, whether that means asking for help or using
- 18:37your toolkit that you have for yourself to be able to navigate that, and
- 18:41then taking action on that. So if it is I just need to go
- 18:45into my room and blast that song that I love so much to move this
- 18:48energy through me, then you're trusting yourself and you're taking action to do that.
- 18:52And you'd be surprised when you start actually listening to yourself and then showing
- 18:56up for yourself. That's where the magic happens. And this is a process
- 19:00we can teach our kids and our teens and our young adults. Right one
- 19:04hundred percent. I'm still working on it, but it's for me personally in
- 19:08my life. I know for sure if I would have had some of these
- 19:11tools as a teen, it would have impacted my life significantly. I don't
- 19:17know who would have taught them to me, how I would have learned them,
- 19:21how open and receptive I would have been, because I definitely know now
- 19:23in my mid thirties compared to when I was, you know, sixteen,
- 19:26seventeen eighteen. Yeah, I was a different person back then. But I
- 19:32know if it would have been like presented to me rather than you know,
- 19:36forced on me. I definitely think that I would have been accepting the support
- 19:40and the help. Yeah, that approaches everything right. And I think too,
- 19:44it's the relationship that you have that you've already set in place that then
- 19:49your teen is open to having conversations like this with you. If you don't
- 19:56have that relationship, then yeah, you're going to get shut down work that
- 20:00I do with parents. I'm like, look, relationship first, relationship first.
- 20:03Everything is different when your relationship is solid, when you have connection and
- 20:11bond. And I think that's where just getting your teens to talk to you
- 20:14about anything comes in. They have to feel safe doing that. And speaking
- 20:21of relationship, it's interesting how relationships can work right because like showing up here
- 20:26today, we've only spoken once, we met and we connected on my podcast,
- 20:30and I honestly, Penny, which I mean, this is just a
- 20:33testament to the person that you are from that last conversation that I had with
- 20:37you, Like I knew that I could show up here today and be completely
- 20:41open and vulnerable and honest with you because this feels like a safe space.
- 20:45So glod. Yeah, awesome. So I feel like that's another really important
- 20:49piece to this is just allowing for those conversations to happen and just understanding that.
- 20:59I person think that had my parents been more open with me and actually
- 21:03communicated some of the struggles, maybe not all the details. I definitely think
- 21:07there's you know, there's things that can be left out. Not everything needs
- 21:11to be said, But I do believe had they communicated the way that they
- 21:14move through challenges and struggles, it would have helped me significantly as an adult.
- 21:17But I feel like I almost felt, as a team like there was
- 21:19something wrong with me because everybody around me it's you know, you get the
- 21:22same standard question every time you cross somebody on the street, or you meet
- 21:26somebody in the supermarket, or you're talking with family friends, it's always how
- 21:30are you? And the default answer for most people is fine, fine,
- 21:34or good. Those are usually the two that we hear most often. Because
- 21:38who would show up to a conversation and start just you know, expressing everything
- 21:44that's on their heart and everything that's going on. It doesn't a lot of
- 21:47people don't feel safe to do that. Yeah, so yeah, that's it's
- 21:51a big place to start. Yeah, the more we have this conversation and
- 21:53the more I just think about how we're not doing ourselves justice. Any of
- 21:59us. Know my childhood example was much the same my parents, and I
- 22:04think, you know, it's generational, it's what they were taught. But
- 22:08they were never vulnerable in front of us ever. And I knew that one
- 22:17of my parents. I'm not gonna share too much detail in out anyone,
- 22:21but I knew that one of my parents struggled with anxiety. I could tell,
- 22:26but we didn't talk about it. We never talked about it. We
- 22:30just knew that they always had, you know, lots of toms with them
- 22:34for all those stomach aches from all that anxiety. And then I was struggling
- 22:38with anxiety myself, and I just thought, you know, I was a
- 22:41weirdo, and you know, something was wrong with me. Right if we
- 22:47had just had these conversations, But they didn't know to do that either.
- 22:51Like, we're not criticizing parents. We want things to change. We're here
- 22:57to help change it. You know, we've learned what we've learned as we
- 23:03grew up. Either we learned how to be a parent, or we learned
- 23:07exactly what we didn't want to do as a parent. You know, I'm
- 23:11going to be the opposite for my kids, right, But we don't,
- 23:15like, we don't teach parenting skills. You go to the hospital, you
- 23:18have a baby, and you take it home, like all you have to
- 23:21have is a car seat, yes, and off you go. Right.
- 23:25You just learn by doing and buy the experiences and the examples that you've had.
- 23:30So, you know, criticizing people doesn't help. You know, we
- 23:33all learned whatever we learned, but we can learn better and we can do
- 23:37better. And I think that's what we're talking about, is just being able
- 23:42to show up differently. But I so want us to show up differently for
- 23:48our teens and young adults. They need it so desperately now, I think
- 23:52more than ever. You know, when I was that age, thank goodness,
- 23:56we didn't have smartphones and social media, and you know, I didn't
- 24:00have to worry about people making fun of me and it going viral. All
- 24:06I worried about was like showing up to school and people talking about me behind
- 24:10my back, right or something like that. Now it's a whole another layer
- 24:15of fear and anxiety that goes along with causing us to just hide who we
- 24:23are, to not show up authentically. Yeah, I really hope we'll keep
- 24:27having these conversations and we'll help one teen and one family at a time,
- 24:33right, Yeah, that's it. One of the most important things too.
- 24:37I think that I've realized on my own journey. I mean, my kids
- 24:40are still young, they're only two and four, but I do know that
- 24:45if I want them truly to feel confident, or to show up in their
- 24:48lives confidently and take confident actions towards the desires that they have in the dreams
- 24:53and the goals that they want to set for themselves, I know that I
- 24:56also need to be showing up in that way as well. I need to
- 25:00model what I expect of them. So I feel like that is why I
- 25:03am so so connected to this work. And it's funny, as you were
- 25:08saying all that just about like parenting and stuff, I often think, I'm
- 25:11like, oh my goodness, I hope that they never start a podcast like
- 25:14twenty years down the road. Yeah, talking about all the same things,
- 25:18like the things that we maybe did that weren't and you know things are going
- 25:22to change. Then that's just it. I feel like we need to just
- 25:25give ourselves more grace. I feel like we need to just embrace the fact
- 25:29that This is a human experience that we are all experiencing, and it comes
- 25:33with just this beautiful mix of all of these emotions. I never want to
- 25:38show up here either with the intention of saying that any emotions are bad.
- 25:42I actually believe. I mean, I don't. I really don't like feeling
- 25:45sad and angry. I'm not gonna lie to you, but any right,
- 25:48however, it's normal. Without that contrast, you can't honestly feel like the
- 25:52depths of the joy and just how proud you are of yourself when you move
- 25:56through something like that's really challenging. So I had never thought about it that
- 26:02way. That is the message I wanted to share today. Yeah, I
- 26:06never thought about that contrast and how important that contrast is so that we really
- 26:11feel joy, Yeah, because otherwise everything would be kind of flat, right,
- 26:17Well, and thinking back to my teen years too, right, I
- 26:18don't even feel like that experience was a part of my life because to me,
- 26:22it was just oh gosh, fear sadness. You know, a breakup,
- 26:27a friendship that's gone wrong, somebody saying something behind your back, for
- 26:30example, and you start to dabble in things that help you to numb those
- 26:37feelings. So then that becomes your norm and you reach adulthood and you realize,
- 26:41oh my gosh, like I can't use those outlets anymore. I'm a
- 26:45mom. I need to be responsible. I can't just run away from my
- 26:48pain. I have to learn how to face it and feel it. Yeah,
- 26:52And I just feel like if I would have had those essential life skills
- 26:55and tools as a teenager, you know, maybe not like drilled into me,
- 26:59but just tiny little seeds planted, it would have made a world of
- 27:02a difference. So, yeah, this is why I'm so passionate about the
- 27:03work that I do. It's amazing, and I just want parents to know
- 27:07that not every kid is going to do the depth of reflection on their childhood
- 27:11that we have done. Right, Yeah, I'm not all going to be
- 27:15doing this work that causes you to really dissect a lot of things. No,
- 27:21So don't fear this just about taking the pressure off. Yeah, yeah,
- 27:25I you know, one of the biggest things that I have been passionate
- 27:29about lately is just being real in front of our kids, being totally human
- 27:34in front of our kids, because when we don't, we set an expectation
- 27:40of perfection that they can never attain and it's damaging and that's not what we
- 27:45want, right. We think we're doing the right thing, but actually it's
- 27:48not helpful, it can be harmful. So yeah, such a pleasure again,
- 27:53as always, Christy, I feel like we're walking a similar path and
- 28:00and similar ideals and ways that we want to advocate for kids and teens.
- 28:06And I really appreciate the work that you're doing and I want to make sure
- 28:10that everyone connects with you so they can learn more from you and the work
- 28:14that you're doing. As you said you had my InCor activity. I also
- 28:18have a link to one of your podcast episodes that I think aligns with that
- 28:22activity, and we're going to post that in the show notes so that you
- 28:26can do that activity and learn more about that. We will also have a
- 28:32link to Christie's website and social media all that good stuff there, and those
- 28:34show notes are at PARENTINGADHD and Autism dot com Slash two seven zero for episode
- 28:42two hundred and seventy, and I hope that you will go and connect and
- 28:48check out more of Christy's work. Thank you, Thank you for showing up
- 28:52as your real, true, authentic self and showing us what that looks like
- 28:56and how we can move through challenges and difficult times and still show up for
- 29:03ourselves. I really appreciate you. Thank you. I appreciate you too,
- 29:07and every meaningful conversation that we get to have. Yep, yeah, so
- 29:11much. Well, I we'll see everybody next time. Take good care.
- 29:15Thanks for joining me on the Beautifully Complex podcast. If you enjoyed this episode,
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