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Special Episode 14: Will and Kayli
Susie Gurley Susie Gurley

Special Episode 14: Will and Kayli

I am so excited to bring you this special edition of the Just A Mom podcast.  “The Brightest It’s Ever Been” is a play written by Kayli Slayden about living with anxiety.  It is based on Kayli’s personal experience with anxiety and is being directed and produced by my son, Will. Like the Just A Mom podcast, Kayli hopes that by sharing her story through the medium of a play people will know that they are not alone and there is hope.

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  • “I think we did do a pretty good job. Our kid was sick. Nobody looks at a family of a kid who has cancer and thinks 'Boy, I wonder what his mom did wrong'”

    • Dan G.

  • “Many times parents feel alone, feel judged—there’s actually a history in my field of psychiatry of pointing a finger at parents as the cause of problems and that is so not how I or my colleagues look at it today”

    • Dr. Shayla Sullivant

  • "...And there were nights when she would come home and she wouldn’t want to do her evening snack laying in the fetal position in my lap over a spoonful of peanut butter..."

    • Stacy M., mom

  • “I was actually ashamed to get professional help. I was like I can do this. Trust your instincts. If you think there’s something wrong there probably is”

    • Alice

  • "Being the parent of a child who struggles you have to reset the whole idea of what your story is going to be…because you just didn’t talk about it"

    • Melanie K.