2025-05-05
37 分钟Pushkin.
Modern parenting has its challenges.
Lunches to prep, laundry to do, homework to help with, soccer drop-offs to shuttle.
There's just a baseline level of stress and busyness that comes with being a mom or dad today.
But life sometimes turns in ways that sends these usual parental burdens into stress overdrive,
like when there's a scary health diagnosis or a death in the family or a job loss.
What wisdom can moms and dads turn to during these extra-difficult parenting moments?
What can you do to find solace as a caregiver when it feels like you're the one that needs care?
Well, today's two guests have some answers.
As the power couple hosts of the hit podcast, We Can Do Hard Things,
best-selling author Glennon Doyle and soccer legend Abby Wombach are used to handling tough family situations.
Since getting married a few years ago,
the pair have navigated the typical challenges of raising three teenagers.
But recently, as Glennon explains, life decided to hurl a series of nasty plot twists their way.
A couple years ago, all within like a six-month period, I was diagnosed with anorexia.
Abby lost her beloved brother, Peter, and our sister, Amanda, was diagnosed with breast cancer.
And this weird thing happened was, you know how in your friend groups or in your family,
there's usually like one person who is okay?
And so when you lose your shit, you like...
you can go to somebody to remind you of who you are or what is true.