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How do you take care of yourself when members of your family are constantly sick? What does it take to maintain a strong marriage when your children have suffered? Which mindsets empower you to keep moving forward when life seems out of control?
In the second episode of the How I Got Through It series, Joe Sanok speaks with Kate Pieper about her son’s seizure and daughter’s sexual assault.
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Meet Kate Pieper
Kate Pieper is a Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in trauma and PTSD. She has many years of experience working with women, men, and teens, and she is trained in evidence-based therapy (Gottman, EMDR, and CISM).
Kate knows that each person has their own unique journey. Life is full of highs and lows – heartaches and joys. Kate enjoys inspiring others to hang on to happiness as they take their own brave, compassionate journey. With her clients, she teaches resiliency skills, allowing them to move beyond trauma and into their unique Brave Compassionate Journey.
In this Podcast:
- Jacobs’s seizures
- Maintaining a strong marriage
- “I choose to stay”
- How Kate got through it
Jacob’s seizures
At a time, when Kate’s son Jacob was two years old, he was having 50 to 100 seizures a day.
Now at 26, he still has seizures and needs to be taken care of, and has to be under supervision almost 24 hours a day.
It really forced us to lean into each other and forced us to understand each other. (Kate Pieper)
Kate, her husband, and her family all had to be straightforward with one another about what they needed and how they could support one another.
Maintaining a strong marriage
Kate and her husband needed to buckle down on their marriage and relationship to be able to help their son while both working and running their lives.
It’s been an effort and it’s been hard work, but I think we’re probably humble enough and foolish enough that it’s all been worth it. We pursue each other as friends and were friends before we got married. (Kate Pieper)
They both know what they are not interested in doing in their lives as individuals, and therefore work at pursuing the things that they want to do – and want from one another – as a couple, together.
“I choose to stay”
I have freedom in the fact that I choose. I don’t feel like a prisoner. I choose to be there for my husband, for my children, and for myself. I don’t have to … I don’t have to do anything, [but] that gives me freedom and that gives me joy … and the freedom to be imperfect. (Kate Pieper)
The way that Kate frames the events of life helps her to feel empowered.
She is careful with her words and uses them wisely to help her feel and be in control of her responses and her actions when life seems to be out of control.
How Kate got through it
Kate studies and practices resiliency and this has helped her get through it:
- In heated moments, chooses to respond with kindness and chooses to affirm herself wherever possible.
- Writing in a gratitude journal every morning.
- Practicing some sort of spiritual grounding.
- Make sure to get physical exercise often.
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