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May 2023
28m 53s

#338: Creating Your Family Your Way with...

Erin Royer, MA Clinical Psychology, Child Development Specialist
About this episode

Family is what we make it. With so many different ideas and structures for family, planned or not, Julia shares with us how to embrace your idea of family, your values, your structure, your pivots, your unique children, and the unique ways you support and parent them through their childhood journey.

Julia is opening up an honest, funny, raw, and earnest conversation looking at what creating a family really means and how it might show up differently than expected. In this episode, Julia and I have an honest conversation about how we are each parenting differently than expected.

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