Episode 492: Am I Too Broken to Be Nice to Myself? with Susan Verde
One Bad Mother
Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Biz. I'm a working parent with a kid and a teen. |
| 0:03.6 | It's been 10 years since the show began and a lot has changed on the show and in the world. |
| 0:09.6 | But by elevating the voices of others, we have learned we are not alone and we are doing a good job. |
| 0:16.5 | This is still a show about life after giving life. This is One Bad Mother. |
| 0:24.8 | This week on One Bad Mother, am I too broken to be nice to myself? |
| 0:29.3 | We talk to Susan Birday about her new book, Say One Kind Thing. |
| 0:34.1 | Plus, Biz is. |
| 0:39.2 | Biz, I am calling with a check-in for you. I love you, Biz. I feel like I have grown as a mom |
| 0:48.8 | listening to you over the last 10 plus years. I love One Bad Mother and I love the whole |
| 0:57.4 | community that surrounds it and I just listened to the new episode from last week about how |
| 1:04.1 | your son, Alice, was diagnosed with autism. I have a son who was also diagnosed with autism |
| 1:12.0 | when he was young and I just want to say you're doing a great job. It can be so hard being a parent |
| 1:23.4 | to any child, especially one who is differently wired and kudos to you and Stefan for taking him to |
| 1:34.7 | get an assessment, for listening to that inner voice and saying, you know, what's going on? |
| 1:41.2 | How can we better help him? I personally love this quote that says, don't let the diagnosis |
| 1:50.9 | be a ceiling. Let it be a foundation. I truly believe that parents can best help their kids when |
| 2:03.0 | they understand what's going on and it's a very emotional journey but kudos to you for getting |
| 2:10.8 | the diagnosis and I hope that through all of the emotions and confusion that you are able to |
| 2:18.5 | better support him in the ways that he needs support and you're just doing a great job and I love |
| 2:25.9 | you. Bye. Okay, now I am going to be very upset. Thank you. First of all, you're doing a very |
| 2:36.8 | good job and I really appreciate the call. You're right. There's a lot of emotional navigation |
| 2:46.8 | happening and I think so many of you out there can appreciate and relate to trying to |
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