Annie
Appearances
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
Oh, not much. How are you?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
Good. Good. Well, not much advice from you.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
All right. So how can we manage our son's frustration while standing firm on our no sleepover rule?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
He is 12, almost 13. Okay.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
Yeah. Yeah. We've had those conversations where we are, we are totally open to the sleepovers at our house, but that kind of makes me feel a little hypocritical. Nope. Nope.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
Right. It's our values. That's right. Yeah.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
Yeah. I'm laughing because that's exactly, you know, we know the dangers. We know... So it's, yeah, it's a friend that comes over that we don't know who has a smartphone and we, you know, it's when the parents go to sleep at night, like does the smartphone get taken out? What's my kid being exposed to?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
Yeah. Yeah. We do have an exception where, you know, we don't have family close by. And so we have, you know, a family at church that we share the same values and we have let both of our boys. go over and stay at their house. And that's always, that's mostly for us. Like if there's ever an emergency where they need to stay somewhere, they feel comfortable there. Sure.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
Um, so we have that exception.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. we've compromised where we will let him go when it's a weekend and his buddies are together and we'll go and pick him up at, like you said, 11 o'clock at night. And he just gets frustrated that we're taking him from, and yeah, we're just, we're so firm and really wanting to stick to our guns on protecting him. So yeah.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Stepdad Had an Inappropriate Photo of Me on His Phone
Awesome. Thank you.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Annie, go ahead. Thanks so much. In the statement that you read, you referenced the president's interest in helping return Ukrainian children to their parents, to their families. There's an organization that provides intel and information about those children that their aid has been cut. It's a Yale University program that used foreign aid. And I'm curious if, as part of this,
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
and you're thinking with Ukraine, that aid might be unfrozen.
The Oprah Podcast
Dr. Bruce Perry
How do I forgive my parents for not showing up the way I needed them to show up for me?
The Oprah Podcast
Dr. Bruce Perry
Yeah, my childhood was, it felt very rough to me. There was a lot of neglect and emotional abuse. And I just never felt loved, safe, protected, specifically by my parents. And it's, it's made for some real struggles in my life.
The Oprah Podcast
Dr. Bruce Perry
I always felt so flawed, like something was wrong with me. Like I wasn't lovable. And after reading the book, I realized that the way my parents showed up for me really had nothing to do with me. It had to do with their own difficult upbringings, childhood challenges in their own lives, and that's how they showed up for me.
The Oprah Podcast
Dr. Bruce Perry
So it was just a relief for me in reading this book to understand that there's nothing wrong with me. I'm not unlovable. I've done a lot of work to heal from my childhood trauma. My question is, how do I forgive my parents for not showing up the way I needed them to show up for me? I feel like that's the one place where I'm just still kind of stuck in my healing.