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Aven Alford

May 14, 2026

22:44
Mm-hmm.
22:44
So our oldest daughter was born with a really rare genetic mutation that has left her pretty, um, significantly cognitively and, um, physically delayed.
22:53
So at 12 years old, she has developed to about, like, a six-month-old, so she can't walk or talk or feed herself.
22:58
I mean, a sip of water has to be provided for her kinda thing.
23:01
And so our entry into parenthood was pretty rough and, you know, those first probably five or six years were, were, you know, a struggle.
23:12
But we also quickly learned that, like, we can't sit in this space forever.
23:18
We can't just live in the grief forever, and so we have to find a way to, to get through it, and the easiest way to do that, I mean, it's, like, clinically proven that when you sit down and think about what you're grateful for and you list it out and you remind yourself of all the good things that you have, it, it does a lot for your, for your mental health and for your psyche and for just your outlook on life in general.
24:26
Absolutely

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