Fresh Take: Nicole Walters on "Nothing Is Missing"

11/17/23 • 30 min

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What can we do when life seems to be falling down around our ears? Nicole Walters, author of the new book NOTHING IS MISSING: A MEMOIR OF LIVING BOLDLY, explains how to create our own fresh starts‒ and the joy that accompanies them.

Nicole Walters is the host of "The Nicole Walters Podcast", a motivational speaker, and the mother of three adopted daughters.

Nicole, Amy, and Margaret discuss:

How to pour into your community with gentleness, grace and honesty
How "fresh starts" can help you take control of your life
Why vulnerability is essential to connection

Here's where you can find Nicole:

https://nicolewalters.com
@nicolewalters (IG)
@MonetizeThyself (FB)
Listen to the Nicole Walters podcast
Buy NOTHING IS MISSING: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9781668000953

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Nicole Walters is the host of "The Nicole Walters Podcast", a motivational speaker, and the mother of three adopted daughters.

Nicole, Amy, and Margaret discuss:

How to pour into your community with gentleness, grace and honesty
How "fresh starts" can help you take control of your life
Why vulnerability is essential to connection

Here's where you can find Nicole:

https://nicolewalters.com
@nicolewalters (IG)
@MonetizeThyself (FB)
Listen to the Nicole Walters podcast
Buy NOTHING IS MISSING: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9781668000953

We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website:

https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/

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DEEP DIVE: Highly Sensitive (and Under-Sensitive) Kids

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We’re doing a Deep Dive into our best episodes around a single topic. Find the Spotify playlist for this “Deep Dive” here.

This group of episodes is about parenting kids who don’t fit the mold. This week, we’re revisiting this episode from 2021.

When a parent first hears about highly sensitive kids– or their opposite, sensory seekers– it can provide a profound moment of recognition, of connecting the dots for things about our kids that up until now have baffled us.

We think understanding these sensory tendencies can help us parent our kids more effectively and compassionately. Not every kid who shows hyper- or hypo-sensitivity will go on to require occupational therapy, struggle in school, or anything else. But as childmind.org explains, ""These problems can be tough on kids, and get in the way of them functioning effectively, learning, and making friends."

Every kid who displays these behaviors and preferences can benefit from a parent who understands and can therefore effectively support and address for the otherwise confusing behaviors that might ensue. We don't have to accommodate every dictate of an extremely picky eater, or messy playroom caused by a sensory seeker– but it's worth exploring, because it can really help us as parents to understand where these things might be coming from.

Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode:

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Michael Rosenthal, PhD for the Child Mind Institute: Sensory Processing FAQ
Amanda Morin for understood.org: Sensory seeking and sensory avoiding: What you need to know

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HOLIDAY BEST OF: The Holiday Creep

We’re in Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa Countdown! To keep you company while you slowly lose your mind, we’re re-running some of our favorite holiday episodes. This one is about the "holiday creep" which, if you're reading this, has already begun...

"Holiday Creep" is well on its way to being an entry in Merriam-Webster's dictionary. And with good reason. Amy and Margaret bemoan the fact the Christmas seems to start ever earlier, and weigh in on their strategies for managing the gift giving, decorating, and scheduling craziness at this time of year.

Amy and Margaret discuss:

Why Margaret is everyone's Christmas nightmare
The 3 best rules for holiday gift giving
When Christmas should REALLY start

The solution to all the madness? Let the laws of holiday attrition work in your favor! If something falls off the list of priorities or is just no longer fun, take it off the calendar. Ask for a no-gift-exchange policy amongst family, friends, and coworkers, and find your "no" when it comes to holiday events, tasks, or experiences that are nothing but drudge for everyone!

Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode:

Anne Helen Petersen, "A Theory of Sprawling Holidays"
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly, "Waiting By the Jesse Tree"
Eleanor Lees for Newsweek: "Why Does the Christmas Countdown Get Earlier Every Year?"

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