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I created Once Upon An Upset to share stories and conversations with kids who might be having difficulty coping with life’s challenges, expectations and disappointments.

Maybe they feel disconnected or misunderstood. Stuck or lost or afraid. Maybe they communicate differently or think differently or learn differently.

And I also created this podcast for parents who might have had very difficult childhoods and are learning to reparent themselves while also parenting their children with the kind of love and empathy they wish they’d grown up with.

My intention for Once Upon an Upset is to share some of the tools that have worked for me and also for my own son, to help us both learn to reframe our perspectives and try to understand the stuff we can’t control, rather than making it mean something negative about who we are.

Because no matter what any of us are going through, who we are, is a gift. Our perspective, and our ideas and concerns are not only valid but valuable.

And when we connect with each other just as we are and just as we aren’t, we get to understand each other, and the experience of being understood and connected is the stuff that makes life fulfilling.