How can I find healing from the challenges of being a quadruplet?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this podcast episode, I talk with Natalie and address the question “How can I find healing from the challenges of being a quadruplet?” One of Natalie’s biggest challenges is comparison, both in comparing herself to her quadruplet siblings and to those around her.Natalie seems to have somehow decided that she doesn’t measure up. I ask her to turn inward and reflect on her definition of what is good enough. What makes someone a good mother? A good partner? A good sibling?When Natalie shares ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.2	With me today on the podcast is Natalie.
0:48.2	Welcome, Natalie.
0:49.5	Hi, thanks for having me.
0:51.1	So glad you're here.
0:52.6	What is your question for me today?
0:54.7	Yeah, my question is, how can I understand and find healing to the challenges of being a quadruplet?
1:02.2	Okay.
1:02.8	Tell me what that's been like.
1:05.4	Yeah, I guess a lot of people ask me, yeah, what is it like to be a quadruplit or it's hard to answer that because, you know, I don't know what it would be like not to be a quadruplit.
1:19.1	Yeah, but you said there's challenges and healing that needs to take place.
1:23.3	So tell me about the challenges.
1:25.4	Yeah, I've been more recently focusing on the challenges.
1:28.6	I feel like most of my life I've just focused on the positive, which there's an immense
1:32.9	amount of positive results of being a quadruplet.
1:36.4	So I want to say that is that there's, I mean, there's a lot of positive things.
1:40.2	But I think one of the biggest challenges is just comparison, comparing myself to others, feeling this need to compare, whether it's appearance or performance or talents, things like that.
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