197 - How to Teach Kids Resilience With Actress Cobie Smulders

The Verywell Mind Podcast

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education

5 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Cobie Smulders is an actress who is known for her role as Robin Scherbatsky in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. She’s also starred in many movies, including her role as agent Maria Hill in Marvel movies. She also knows a thing or two about resilience. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 25. She underwent multiple surgeries while starring in How I Met Your Mother and did not make her diagnosis public until several years later. Now, she's teamed up with Colgate because she wants kids to learn skills that can help them be resilient. She's concerned about the mental health health of young people following the pandemic, and she's launched a campaign to ensure young people are learning the skills they need to thrive during uncertain times. Some of the things she talks about today are why hope is such an important part of resilience, how nature improves her mental health, and why she apologizes to her kids (even though her parents never apologized to her). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. We've interviewed over 100 authors, experts, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and others to help you learn strategies to care for your mental health.
0:22.9	This episode is hosted by psychotherapist and bestselling author Amy Morin. Now let's get into the episode.
0:48.9	Okay. Do you worry that your kids don't have the emotional skills they're going to need to succeed in life?
0:55.2	Do you struggle to know how to help them be more resilient? Do you worry about the impact that the events over the past couple of years have had on your kids? If you answered yes to any of those questions,
1:00.6	today's episode is for you. My guest is actress Kobe Smolders. You might know her from the show
1:07.2	How I Met Your Mother or from the Avengers movies. She also happens to be a parent
1:12.1	who's passionate about helping kids develop resilience during tough times. Some of the things
1:17.3	she talks about today are parenting strategies for uncertain times, why it's important to instill hope
1:22.7	in kids, and the steps she's taking to help her own kids build resilience.
1:31.0	Make sure to stick around until the end of the episode for the therapist take.
1:35.2	It's the part of the show where I'll break down Kobe's mental strength building strategies and share how you can apply them to your own line.
1:38.1	So here's Kobe Smolders on how you can raise resilient kids.
1:42.5	Kobe Smolders, welcome to the Very Well Mine podcast.
1:45.4	I'm so excited to be able to talk to you.
1:47.7	I was a huge fan of how I met your mother.
1:50.3	So for years, I've seen you on the big screen,
1:52.1	and then, of course, you were in The Avengers,
1:53.5	and you've appeared on Broadway.
1:55.4	But I'd love to know.
1:56.1	What are you up to right now?
1:58.5	Besides, like, I'm actually currently uh single moming it because my husband
2:03.7	is in europe shooting a film um so that's the immediate focus but i just um finished doing two
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