On Parenting: Let Them Fall and Have the Bandaids Ready

During this episode of A Richer Life, host Rich Weingart speaks with Paige Rodgers, Marketing Communications Consultant for StubHub, Equinix, and Hotwire, Leader for Social and Environmental Impact, Parenting Speaker, and a mother of two daughters. Paige Rodgers talks about her life evolving into being a parent, parent and child detachment, her experience with helping her daughter cope with anxiety, depression, and dependency, and her upcoming TEDx Talk. 

Episode Highlights: 

• Rich Weingart introduces Paige Rodgers. 
• Page Rogers will be on a TEDx Talk on September 12th, 2020: tedxmarin.org/speaker/paige-rodgers   
• Page’s daughter Cassidy dealt with depression and anxiety.  
• How did Page create an environment that made Cassidy comfortable enough to ask for help? 
• How was Paige Rodgers parented? 
• How did Cassidy transition back to life when she returned back from Spain?
• What types of dependencies was Cassidy involved with overcoming?
• Paige talks about a wilderness program in Hawaii that Cassidy attended.  
• What was Cassidy’s experience like in a therapeutic all-girls boarding school? 
• Cassidy joined Marin Healthy Youth Organization.
• Paige talks about an extremely meaningful poem and a song. 
• The perfection is in the imperfection. 
• Where do things stand now with Cassidy?
• Perfection is an illusion.

3 Key Points:

1. We can’t run away from our issues. Wherever we go, there we are. 
2. Suffering with someone is codependency.  
3. Healing can come from helping others

Tweetable Quotes:

• “There were times when I was the parent with my mom.” – Paige Rodgers
• “I remember my childhood very positively and I think I just learned this behavior of solve for it. If there is a problem, just solve it. I can take it. I can do it.” – Paige Rodgers
• “It wasn’t really until later in life that I repeated that pattern of ‘I got this,’ that it served me so many times. I think the reason I had some incredible experiences in my life is because I didn’t see a boundary." – Paige Rodgers
• “I’ve learned a lot about this idea of detachment where really your kids’ good days shouldn’t be your good days and their bad days shouldn’t be your bad days.” – Paige Rodgers
• “One of the many considerations for the rise in anxiety in adolescents in recent years is that they started putting warning labels on the SRI bottles.” – Paige Rodgers
• “We are in a culture of medicating, and so it is just being aware that it's not always going to be the solution.” – Paige Rodgers

Resources Mentioned:

• Linkedin for Paige Rodgers