Sara Brown grew up with a mom who loved her deeply but suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia. Sara, a Marriage and Family therapist (LMAFT), shares her eye-opening story of how secrecy and misunderstanding caused shame and lies to embed into her soul at a young age. It wasn't until she suffered the first of five miscarriages as an adult that she began to process her anger with God. She elaborates on how we can notice and respond to shame in our children.
Key Moments:
03:33 Her path to become a family therapist
09:12 How she first noticed life was not normal
23:00 Coping strategies that developed as a result
29:00 Her first big trauma that made her wonder if God was for her
33:00 What shame looks like in kids
34:42 The stories kids tell themselves
37:17 Her “hope-holder-witnesses”
38:52 How we can parent well at times when our kids think “we’re the worst”
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