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Hi, I'm Abigail Wald.
RESILIENCE.
This is a picture of my 6-month-old son playing with wires from his open heart surgery. Thank God, today he is a strong and happy 17-year-old who hikes and bikes, loves motorcycles, and wants to fly a plane someday!
Throughout these years, he, his brother, my husband and I have all had to learn a lot about what it takes to overcome adversity.
Once we were mostly out of the woods, I quickly learned that "regular" parenting was hard too! We had to learn how to work with anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, both of my kids' strong-willed and highly sensitive temperaments, and my own intergenerational trauma
It was not easy but I was determined to have our family rise up to the occasion. We all learned how to build resiliency, and cultivate a growth mindset. Today, each of these challenges has made us better, kinder, more whole humans.
I have spent the last 18 years researching how to transform adversity into JOY by cultivating resilience, and the last 11 years teaching other parents how to do this in their own families too.
Even when we weren't in a hospital, "regular" parenting was hard too! We had to learn how to work with anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, both of my kids' strong will and highly sensitive temperaments, and my own intergenerational trauma.
It was not easy but I was determined to have our family rise up to the occasion. We all learned how to build resiliency, and cultivate a growth mindset. Today, each of these challenges has made us better, kinder, more whole humans.
- A kid struggling with YEARS of potty training problems (that no neurologist they saw was able to fix) gets dry in just 2 weeks!
- A boy who says "no" to everything and spends his life hanging out on a screen takes up soccer and and now plays five nights a week
- And this Mom, who will tell you in her own words what this work has meant for HER RESILIENCE...
