Finding Your Way Back to Happiness with Robin Williams Evans [IEP 163]

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Among many other roles and accomplishments, our guest today, Robin Williams Evans, is a wife, a mother to a child with severe disabilities, an ordained minister, a coach to families with special-needs children, and author of the Washington Post best-seller,</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/3cxq4PG" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Living a Happy Life with a Special-Needs Child: A Parent’s Perspective</span></em></a><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. </span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Robin explains, for the first two years after the birth of her son, Wyatt, she was in an emotionally dark place because she wasn’t prepared for the journey of being a parent to a special-needs child.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen in to this inspiring conversation around the importance of self-care, and finding and keeping happiness and your peace of mind.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robin shares the circumstances surrounding the birth of her son, Wyatt.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both Robin and her husband went through the process of grief differently and on different time-tables.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no shame in seeking professional help when mourning the loss of your child’s abilities. As Robin attests, there is happiness to be found in the struggle, and she feels that she and her husband evolved into better people for it.</span></li> <li><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3m0DMO1" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">P<span style= "font-size: 12pt;">osttraumatic Growth</span></span></a></em> <span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;">by Richard G. Tedeschi, Jane Shakespeare-Finch, Kanako Taku, and Lawrence G. Calhoun, is a book in which this relatively new field of science (by the same name) details how positive change can come after traumatic experiences.</span></li> <