I think one of the themes of 2022 that's kind of crystallized for me is that we can never really change the hard, but we can always change the alone.

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As we look towards conversations you want to have in 2023, there are some things that we didn't quite finish in 2022.

So I was sitting talking with my podcast producer, Jessie, about kind of the topics that are still open-ended in my mind, are uncovered.

I haven't said as much about them as I would like to.

And I was about to jump into these topics with her, and she stopped me and just said, wait, let's have this conversation, and allow your listeners to hear what's going on for you, and also a little bit what's coming up next year.

So I'd love to start with some of the responses that we got from an episode a couple of weeks ago, which the episode was about what happens when you're parenting a kid who is nothing like you.

And we got the flip side of that. What happens when your kid is so much like you that it's triggering and that I don't know how to help myself, how can I help my kid?

Yeah, I got a lot of these responses too.

I got a lot of DMs saying, actually what's hardest for me is when I see something in my kid that I struggled with so much as a kid, and if I'm honest with myself, I actually really still struggle with as an adult.

So I see my kid, they're such a perfectionist. I watch them write words. They're only six years old. Of course, I don't know how to spell, but they write in their race.

They write in the erase and they cannot even get the sentence out for homework because they know something spelled and correctly, but they can't move on and it pains me because I actually don't really know how to help.

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