#139: Children and Mental Illness with Lynn Cowell
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Lynn and her husband, Greg, have been married for over 30 years and are the parents of three young adults. They enjoy spending time together, especially when it combines the mountains, well-worn sweatshirts, and anything with chocolate and peanut butter. Lynn, her family, and the occasional backyard deer, live near Charlotte, North Carolina. What we chat about: how being empty-nesters has affected Lynn's marriage seeking purpose outside of your children helping your kids find their identity in their pre-teens changing the expectations we often place on our children what to do when you receive conflicting advice protecting your children's privacy on your social media accounts advice for parents who think their child might suffer from a mental illness how Lynn's daughter's diagnosis has drawn her closer to Christ balancing your relationship with your kids after they've left home Links mentioned: Brave Beauty: Finding the Fearless YouCultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life 5 Days to Unshakable Confidence Grounded: Standing Firm in a Roller Coaster World Connect with Lynn: website // facebook // instagram // twitter // pinterest Episode Sponsors: An Intentional Life: A Life-Giving Invitation to Uncover Your Passions and Unlock Your Purpose Daily Harvest: 3 free cups using promo code MSW Tommy John: use the link and get 20% off your first order Teami Blends: get 15% off of orders of $29.99 or more using the promo code MSW15 Ways to support the show: Patreon Amazon Share the Struggle! Find me on Instagram because I want to hear YOUR thoughts!  If you've been encouraged, share the episode with another mom.  The struggle is real.  We might as well do this together!
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| 0:00.0 | Do you like cats? I don't like cats. Oh, you do, don't you? |
| 0:04.3 | Ugh. What? |
| 0:06.3 | I didn't even answer. |
| 0:07.3 | Well, I do think that they're cute. |
| 0:11.1 | I like the videos online, but I think I might be allergic or I just that just might be you and then I think that's me or it might be that I used to be allergic and I'm not anymore or it might be that I haven't been around a cat in a long time. |
| 0:24.4 | That's a lot of variables. So yeah but my son wants one a bad but I just say I'm allergic. |
| 0:30.8 | Okay so I was looking up somebody that I to possibly hire to help me with the |
| 0:34.7 | show and along the top menu bar the last thing said something about show me your cats and |
| 0:41.8 | it was just pictures of cats and I can't hire them. |
| 0:44.7 | What menu bar like when you were looking them up? |
| 0:47.2 | Like on the website. |
| 0:48.8 | That real estate they allotted it to pictures of cats. |
| 0:51.9 | Unrelated to everything that they do I can I think |
| 0:55.1 | that's illegal to not hire somebody because of cats it's I'm I'm a catist you're |
| 1:00.4 | going to jail you're prepared to go to jail over that statement? |
| 1:05.2 | I'm not. |
| 1:07.2 | Okay. |
| 1:08.2 | But there are no cats in jail, so I feel good about that aspect of it. |
| 1:11.9 | I don't know because I heard on a podcast. Are you kidding? |
| 1:15.9 | It's a good podcast and they were talking about how some people do have animals in jail. |
| 1:20.7 | Are you kidding me? No, I'm serious. I'm not safe anywhere. Nope. Just go to |
| 1:24.7 | jail. Just try it out. This is Emily Thomas and you are listening to the |
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