Jim Owens Counseling

11/20/2025

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11/20/2025

11/20/2025

You spend so much time bracing for the worst that you forget something important:

The best-case scenario is just as possible.

And here’s another truth you need to remember:

You don’t control the outcome. But you do control the story you tell yourself on the way there.

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11/19/2025

Babies cry.
Toddlers melt down.
Kids push back.
Teenagers test edges.

None of this means you’re failing — it means they’re developing exactly the way humans do.

A lot of what we label “difficult” is simply growth in motion.

Their nervous systems are practicing.
Their emotions are stretching.
Their independence is waking up and trying to find its shape.

Our job isn’t to prevent these moments —
we couldn’t, even if we tried.

Our job is to stay steady enough to help them move through them, to notice when the behaviour is part of normal development and when it signals they need more support.

Because healthy children don’t avoid big feelings — they learn, over time and with us beside them, how to navigate them.

So let the noise, the mess, the friction remind you: this is not failure.
This is the work of becoming.
And you’re doing better than you think. ❤️

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