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Vibrant Happy Women

Happy Bit: Never Give Up! How to Stay Open to New Possibilities

Vibrant Happy Women

Jen Riday

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

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

I share the story of my 3-year-old daughter Cora's self destructive behavior (hair, stitches, scabs) and how we FINALLY stumbled onto a solution after weeks of thinking there WAS no solution. I relate this story to your life. Are their times you've given up? Well, don't. 99% of the time a solution will present itself IF you stay open. Learn how in this episode.

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0:00.0

Hey there, Jen here, and this is a happy bit. I have a story for you. As you know, my daughter,

0:06.3

Cora, who is three, cut her hair maybe about six weeks ago. It was horrific. We had no choice

0:13.5

but to shave it. It was that or a mullet. So that was devastating. And then maybe a few days

0:20.3

after that, she was playing outside with a little girl in our devastating. And then maybe a few days after that, she was playing outside with a little

0:23.2

girl in our neighborhood. And they had a dog, a black lab, Cora threw the ball. The dog brought

0:29.2

the ball back. And Cora turned abruptly and crashed right into this gnarly old tree trunk. And it

0:34.8

split her eyebrow. So she had to get stitches. Well, Gora is a person who

0:39.6

loves to use her hands. She touches everything and gets into everything. So she ended up picking

0:44.5

the stitches in her eyebrow. So we put on a bandage. And, you know, it's already sad enough. She's

0:50.8

bald and then she has the stitches and she used to be so cute and the whole house

0:55.7

sad, right? And she's my last child. So of course I want her to be really cute. Don't get me wrong.

1:01.4

She's still cute, but just in a different way. She picked the stitches. We put on the bandage and then

1:06.3

the next day her skin had reacted to the bandage with a rash on both sides. Her little fingers back to action

1:13.8

picking the rash. So she had the stitches and little sores that she kept picking. And this went on for

1:23.8

weeks and we kept saying, Cora, you can't touch it. If you stop touching it, we'll go to

1:28.3

the water park. If you don't touch it, we're going to go to Chuckie Cheese. We thought of everything.

1:34.3

And sure enough, she would wake up the next day with a little bit of blood. She had touched it and

1:39.6

it was never going to heal. So we practically gave up, but we just kept thinking and talking about it.

1:46.5

And it occurred to us that, it occurred to me actually, hey, I've heard of people duct taping

1:52.2

diapers onto their kids, especially for those kids who get their diapers off and get poop

1:57.6

everywhere. Well, it happens. Those of you who don't have kids, it does happen. So I thought, okay, let's tape some mittens on her at night. Well, it happens. Those of you who don't have kids, it does happen.

2:01.8

So I thought, okay, let's tape some mittens on her at night. We'll duct tape them around her wrists,

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