It’s OK Not To Be OK
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2013
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We discuss how feeling “bad”, whether it’s emotional or physical, is actually not so bad.
Should grief be a diagnosable disorder or is it normal human emotion?
Movie quotes from Airplane, Talladega Nights, and Billy Madison
Talking about patience as a virtue and Todd Todd sings “Patience” (G n Roses a cappella)
Time Stamp
.30 Looking at your kids illness differently
1:58 11 Things I wish every parent knew by Stephen Cowan
2:24 A symptom is the body’s way of letting us know something has to change
9:30 The craziness of the temperature fluctuations of a pregnant woman
12:45 The gift of pain
15:30 Grief is a diagnosable disorder?
18:00 Free Parenting presentation on Monday, August 12th
21:10 Be Prepared and put your children in a position to succeed
24:15 Our daughters like to impersonate Cathy- our kids are absorbing everything (positive and negative) that’s going on around them
26:26 Anger is a second tier emotion
28:36 Gary Zukav interpretation on anger
31:53 Be prepared and be patient with your illness
33:20 Differences ways we can view physical and mental illness (NAMI)
39:20 Tournament of Bad
42:45 Bis Markie a capella via Todd
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here we go. This is Todd Adams. |
| 0:09.3 | This is Kathy Adams. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome back, Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:12.8 | We have a wonderful show planned. |
| 0:15.4 | Our theme this week, sweetie, healing and illness. |
| 0:19.0 | Or how to look at healing and illness in a different light. |
| 0:23.4 | Or how to heal yourself when you're ill. |
| 0:26.2 | Or to be ill. |
| 0:28.5 | What we're talking about is how I think sometimes when kids get sick or when we get sick, |
| 0:34.5 | we think that there's something wrong with us, wrong with our bodies. |
| 0:37.3 | It shouldn't be happening. |
| 0:39.8 | And even though nobody enjoys being sick, I do. |
| 0:43.0 | I love being sick. |
| 0:43.6 | No, you don't. |
| 0:44.3 | I love not having fun, too. |
| 0:45.5 | Well, it's funny because sometimes the girls will say, I just wish I was sick so I could |
| 0:49.9 | stay home from school. |
| 0:51.0 | And then if they do get sick and her home from school, they're like, oh, I just want to go to school. I'm like, see? It's grass is always greener. But I guess the point |
| 0:58.5 | is. I'm going to interrupt you. Okay. Sorry about that. Are you mad at me? No, but can I finish my |
| 1:03.2 | thought? Sure. Okay. All I wanted to say is that it's just about looking at illness through a different lens and realizing you don't need to be afraid. |
| 1:11.7 | I thought you're going to say, all I want to do is have some fun. |
| 1:15.4 | I got a feeling I'm not the only one. |
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